8 - Cassandra Salvador: I Guess I'm A Visual Person

 

I am the person that sees the world in a different shade. I have the eyes of a violinist, composer, singer, and a painter; the eyes of an artist. 

Where you may see dark blueish purple, I see perfectly placed indigo. Where you may see a scramble or jumble of trash or random things, I see art and a pattern.

I’ve always had a knack for making these pleasing to the eyes. It’s always been therapeutic in an odd way where I could get lost in decorating a water bottle with stickers or a slideshow with random virtual ones. It was very very enjoyable for me to find that organization within the chaos that my eyes saw.

It seems like such a stupid thing to think, but I believe I experience the world through my eyes. When writing books, I write through mostly visuals along with the different senses as a secondary thing from touch, taste, etc. I also am very quiet, observing the places and people around me through my sense of sight. 

I never really think about sound in the moment. When I need to remember something quickly, I rely on my sense of sight to send a “photo” to the front of my brain so I can read it off the “page.”

Also, when I process, to make sure I stay focused on the words being said to me, I translate what is being said to “text” within my brain as if I’m writing a transcript live in my head that I can go back to later in my head when I’m trying to remember everything. I do forget most of it after a bit, but it still helps me focus during the time so I process the majority of what’s being said.

I didn’t even realize that I’m a very visual person until I wrote this. The more you know!

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