What do you see in this photo? How do you feel? Any hidden meaning?
“Art Meets Science” has introduced many ideas as well as many people. In a recent lecture by Lisa Freinkel, she introduced to the class a new way to begin the journey of discovery. Understand one’s own world first. She emphasized how each person has their own way of perceiving life or the content within it. People see the same objects or events, but the way it is interpreted is either a tad bit different or entirely different from each other. I found this lecture captivating because I felt that I could connect to this main focus.
In the class lecture, Freinkel had the students partake in some activities. One of these activities, as a type of an ice breaker, was to say the first thing that pops up in a person’s head. Some people mentioned about certain things they were waiting for to come such as seasons of shows or upcoming events they were to attend. I chose to mention my younger brother’s birthday since it had recently passed. As the lecture continued on, she gave each person a packet of optical illusions with different images on it. Some of the students, including myself, could catch the images being represented right away, but others had a harder time and had to be talked through seeing to seeing the second image. An activity that was pretty fun to “revisit” was the “Dress that broke the Internet”. The blue-black or white-gold dress. Everyone knew of this dress, but the colors they all saw were different. One of the students could switch between seeing blue-black and white-gold. Others just saw blue-black, and the rest saw white-gold. The class talked about their thoughts or experiences they had due to this dress, all being different.
Freikel’s lecture connected with me because I knew what she was talking about. I knew that the way I thought was very different from everyone else in the entire world. I’d say that the person who could ever think closest to me would be my younger brother. But even if we have almost similar thoughts, that “almost” is quite a gap. I have the brain of an artist, as my mom would put it. I think up of ideas on the fly and can express them quite easily. I give a lot of detail when explaining things because I think that every single detail counts, which is a downfall of mine when writing essays or telling a story. I cannot focus on something for a long period of time unless my brain believes that it is “worth” to retain. Other than that, my brain would wander, and I would not be able to stay on topic, especially in school. The list of how my mind and view of the world works could go on and on, but this is pretty much the basic. I am unique in my thinking no matter who I am compared to.
The lecture by Lisa Freikel really gave an insight of how the students in class worked in their heads. Each person had their own unique thoughts about the activities given even if they were just simply looking at pictures. No matter what, the minds of each other could never align correctly. It may become extremely close, but there will always be that one little bump that sends the thoughts in many directions.