Visualising the past
Feb. 19th, 2026 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vivdunstanMy brain sends me off to visualising long gone things just as I’m trying to drop off to sleep!
For example stepping down the stairs into the lower level of Armstrong’s shop in Hawick, as I go looking for knitting or sewing supplies.
Skipping along the path on the other side of the old railway line in Melrose - now the new bypass - from my home in Ormiston Grove. I was playing with friends, and glimpsing Chiefswood in the distance.
Or my many years fun, roller skating down the steps from the seaside path above the East Sands into Albany Park where we always stayed for summer holidays in St Andrews.
I’ve seemingly developed aphantasia since, and struggle to visualise new scenes, especially when reading. But it’s nice some old visuals are still clear.
For example stepping down the stairs into the lower level of Armstrong’s shop in Hawick, as I go looking for knitting or sewing supplies.
Skipping along the path on the other side of the old railway line in Melrose - now the new bypass - from my home in Ormiston Grove. I was playing with friends, and glimpsing Chiefswood in the distance.
Or my many years fun, roller skating down the steps from the seaside path above the East Sands into Albany Park where we always stayed for summer holidays in St Andrews.
I’ve seemingly developed aphantasia since, and struggle to visualise new scenes, especially when reading. But it’s nice some old visuals are still clear.
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Date: 2026-02-20 05:12 am (UTC)https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat/themes/neurology