[311/365] here's a piece of grit
Nov. 7th, 2022 01:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistI don't read stuff written about blind people directed for a general audience very often, and when I do it's only when I feel like seeing how terrible it is.
This is such a terrible article. It's very binarist about blindness/sightedness, it's very sighted-gaze, it's very dull.
Until the last few sentences, which I wish had citations so I could use them for my work, which is trying to make transport and streets better for blind people.
Research has found that blind people have more dreams about travel that involve unfortunate circumstances. Some of these dreams could potentially be considered nightmares. One hypothesis is that the nightmare content may mirror the difficulties blind people face while getting around in their waking life.
Huh. Until the pandemic, most of my nightmares were about travel, usually on planes. But I'm only one person, one data point.
I wonder if there's any truth to the barriers we experience in our journeys are so profound that they populate our nightmares.
I've been thinking about this for many days, since I first saw this terrible article.
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Date: 2022-11-07 09:45 pm (UTC)In the past I've had pedestrian nightmares, full of too-steep curb ramps and right-turn-on-red monsters.
At the top of the list of why I love my psych meds: I don't remember my dreams. I do have dreams, and they fade instantly. I don't have sleep terrors anymore, and I sure don't miss them.
(BTW, I had three pointless "hlepy" interactions today and each time I thought, I wish Eric was here to lay snappy comebacks on these clueless non-disabled people!)
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Date: 2022-11-07 09:54 pm (UTC)Haha I love that I'm like a talisman of this in your brain.
(I'm not being sarcastic, I do really love this.)
And we'd sure have a fun time if we were hanging out together, I am sure.
Your "hlepy" frame
Date: 2022-11-07 10:14 pm (UTC)Made sense out of decades of annoying interactions, so of course you're the avatar of disabled snark!
Although I'd love to meet you sometime when you're proximal, I'm at my best in text.