Noticing Patterns

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Their was a time when I was driving down the freeway only to lookup and see my name spelled out clear as day in the clouds. The individual clouds were the letters. In the technical sense this was just an unlikely pattern, though anyone who was looking up at that moment from a similar angle would have seen the same thing. I wish I had posessed a camera at that moment.

I often experience the same myself, and I am always offended by it - It is as though people think I am blind, while it is them who are the blind ones

I do artwork, flat/2-D only, and rely on symmetry to help guide me, otherwise I'm stuck with too many possibilities & I can't get started or keep going. I draw mandalas (colored pencil or marker) with geometric & organic shapes, they look abstract yet floral. I create mazes freehand on paper. I weave friendship bracelets bc. I like choosing the colors & making up the pattern as I go along.

I had fun when tripping, going through magazines & drawing triangles all over the ads, diagramming the patterns that made up the images. I would see intricate patterns on a blank piece of paper, it was quite entertaining. Only tried 'shrooms once bc. it was way too intense, overwhelming & nausea-inducing for me. Ever since I first saw fractals & Mandlebrot sets I thought they were super-cool.

oh yes i used to make plenty of friendship bracelets as well, i figured out a better way to do it myself, could do alphabets, make hearts, etc all kinds. it's just macrame on a smaller scale....

do you have pics of some of your work? i would love to view them! (maybe in another thread or something?)

my symmetry is very odd too. if i scratch my face on the right side, i will feel the urge to scratch it on the other to 'balance' things out. like if i step onto tiles i will try to avoid the sides and stick to one colour at a time. this used to be my fave thing to do as a kid and drove my mom crazy. i still do it now though.....when not too many people are around :X

i observe patterns very often, wallpaper (special fascination since i'm very young, my son has that too, i remember him watching my clothes with stripes or dots with a lot of interest when i was breastfeeding him) , ceilings, walls, clouds, curtains, clothes, paint, stiches.

and drawing/peinting them, patterns are a part of almost every painting.

Patterns? All. The. Time.
Acid/mescaline/shrooms make it even more pronounced.

when i was first learning to talk, i would point out at trees and say things like "look, a lion" and my mom would have no clue what i was talking about. it wasn't until i was older that i could explain that i saw shapes in the foliage and other things. I think this is common amongst creative people. Leonardo daVinci wrote in his diaries that to stretch your mind, you should look at stone walls and cobbles streets and find faces, animals, and such. I tried to find the exact quote but i couldn't.

i too have always wanted to do an inkblot test. When i got my neuropsych evaluation done, i asked her if i would get to do that and she said no. One of the only disapointments of psychology breaking free from archaic psychoanalsis.

there is a natural pattern reacurring in nature, actually, it is called the fibbonaci code. it is the first number plus theprevious number = next #...
0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13...

just stating fact.

I find the fibonacci thing very exciting!

Has anyone ever tried tuning a tv slightly off a station, so that the colour remains, but the image is noisy? I find you can see all sorts of beautiful fast-changing kalaedoscopic patterns in the noise if you relax your eyes, and zone out slightly. I find that the image behind dissappears, and all you see are the patterns your mind makes with the chaos of dots and fuzz.

definately!! ! pattern mad....think its the only decent ability i have

agreeing with diseased....shrooms....woo that does open up the unexpected

I often study the patterns in bathroom floor tile. The house I grew up in had linolium in the bathromm that was embossed to look like hexagon tiles and I allways would study the patterns I could make with the hexagons.

I also prefer things to be symetrical. I think it looks more neat.

I just thought of something. In Italy this summer, the school had this old bathroom linoleum that had sort of whirling patterns which to me, were blatantly obvious aliens and fetuses. It was so intricate and interesting i'd sometimes just stay there looking at the floor. I mentioned the fetus floor tile one day in conversation, assuming it was obvious to everyone else. Haha I got laughed at! No one else could see it, even though we were all artists.

I like symmetrical things. In games like The Sims, I always build perfectly symmetrical houses, or they just... annoy/bother me.

I think the symmetry thing might be why I prefer odd numbers to even numbers. If you lay out an odd number of objects, you can choose which one's the dead center.

Even numbers always seem 'incomplete'.

I know exactly what you mean!

I love seeing patterns too. I like to stare at interference or moiré patterns in overlapping fences and fences with shadows.