I woke up this morning...

...to seeing pictures in my mind. It lasted a few minutes, and one after the other these geometric 'paintings' came towards me, getting larger and larger until the next one appeared in the distance and again came larger and larger as it came directly at me. The colours were pale greens and yellows.

There were literally hundreds of different 'paintings'. It would take me more than all day to physically hand paint just one of these.

The best I could do was try on the iPad on an app, and this is my best effort. This is in the SketchesPro app. I tried several other apps and failed miserably. This is my 2nd try to use this app, and I don't know quite how to get what I need from it, or even if I can.

This doesn't even begin to approximate what I saw, because the lines in the pictures were also 3 dimensional also coming towards me.

Some were just rectangular lines, others were triangular shapes, some were cylindrical, and so on, but all individual pictures were 3D.

It is 10 hours since I woke up, and I can still replay a lot of those pictures in my mind.

It is a beautiful sunny afternoon and I should be out in the garden, but I am sitting on my bed in my potting shed with a certain black and white cat draped over me, and I am trying to figure out the the intricacies of half a dozen sketching apps, to see which best suits my purpose....

I took my cochlear processor out earlier, because the incoming sharp sounds of garden machinery and more in neighbouring gardens is NOT conducive to creativity or learning...

Since that drastic cochlear remapping, this is the first time I have seen bright vivid detailed pictures in my head in daylight again, and moving ones at that. So, I am hopeful my inner visual world will return again.

My inner visual world was always there as a child, and over the years obviously stuff added and changed many many times daily, but it was always playing every waking hour. It was very complex, and multifaceted. So, this morning, it seems to be starting again, and starting from scratch so maybe I am getting the grown up version now (albeit being in my late 60's).

So as well as my 'new' hearing with this new cochlear mapping changing slightly daily, it looks like my inner visual world will create itself again.

I can still recall my old inner visual world, but as I said in a previous blip post it is very greyed out and it is more as a memory now not as a 'living' entity, it is like a faded greyed out video playing constantly in the background.

I have tried to explain verbally all this, but I get total stunned incomprehension.

Do most people see nothing much in their heads in their waking hours?

I cannot imagine not having my inner visual world, and have been lost without it since the drastic cochlear remapping.

Anyway, this is my best attempt of one of those 'pictures' this morning. So this is my picture for today for my challenge to myself of a pic every day in 2017.