Hear the Pictures and Not the Words
To my surprise, he said, "Nothing."
"Really?" I asked. "Not even a story or anything?"
"Nope. I just like how it sounds. Why? What do you see?"
It still surprises me whenever I come across others who can be appreciating the same work before us but seeing nothing at all. It never really occurred to me until after college that others might only hear the sound or see the word, the notes, or the colors.
I still remember a conversation several years back where several coworkers were debating whether thought was organized based on what language one spoke. "Of course not," I wanted to say, "Otherwise what would you be thinking as a child before you knew any language?" But the debate simply moved towards whether children had any real thoughts...[More]