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Muriel Palmer-Rhea's avatar

Thanks, Ted! By the time I was a college Sophomore, I’d gotten so used to the scorning comments from my classmates,to wit: “oh Muriel!” To the condescending remarks from professors along the lines of “that’s very interesting, dear.” The lines of my pronouncements ran along the lines of : That I could look at a tree outside the classroom window, and, in wanting to be out side climbing that tree, FEEL the bark in the nerves of my fingertips, or call up the scent of a horse or a rose at will. I was told that what I was asserting was impossible. Hard to prove something like this. Is there a scientific name for being able to call up the sense “replay” at will? So much of my writing seems to benefit from this “sense memory”, or is it vivid imagination? Yeah, I was a triple major by the time I graduated after dropping out for 17 years: English Lit, Studio Art+Commercial Art, and Psychology (concentration on Maslow ( for Commercial Art link).

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