an assignment for class I liked

I am an extremely visual person. My observations aren’t broad but extremely focused. I wouldn’t say that I am observant, my friends often criticize me for completely missing the obvious or for being a sort of space cadet at times. It’s usually because I actually did observe something a bit ago and am now playing with it in my head. I notice a room with a table and think of all the variants of the table, or scenes involving the table. What if the table could move? Would it hover or walk with its legs? Where is it heading and why? What kind of dinner would be placed on it next? What if three men in a barroom brawl slammed through the nearby door and one of them ended up being thrown on to the table, breaking it into pieces?
When I see words I play a mixture of scrabble and text-twist in my mind. Letters are rearranged, words are mispronounced, and letters become objects rather than pronounceable symbols. Sentences in books are zoomed in on and become terrains for tiny people to climb upon and attempt to conquer.
What is frustrating about all this is when you see a table, turn to your friend and say, “Hey dude, what if that table suddenly got really mad?” The friend looks at you like you’re an idiot. You try to explain that, obviously, the table would attack us and go on a rampage kind of like a mad horse but they still give you that blank stare. It’s no use trying to communicate these absurd visuals to others. When you find a particularly curvy object in the distance, an uneven fence for example, and begin to trace its curves with a pointed finger, making swooshing noises with acceleration and your friend asks you, “Bryce, what the heck are you doing?” What can you say? Do you try to explain that there could be an awesome snowmobile chase scene on that fence or just shake it off and say, “nothing?” It usually ends up being the “nothing.”
I want people to be able to imagine the same things I do. It all goes back to me playing with Legos, where I’d create wild flying vehicles, then recreate a scene for my mother to watch. I want to share my visuals. That’s why I’m here as a Cinema major and why I enroll in writing courses. When you don’t have the time or capabilities to shoot a movie you can write it out, or explain it. Whenever I want to explain a concept to people, such as “what I do at my job” I begin to act it out rather than just tell them. Others who know have to chime in and clarify.
Basically I want to be clear myself and eliminate the need for others to aid my communication, illustrate my imagination in whatever form best fits the image, and then share that image with others to see what they think of it.

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