A student presents himself to Dr. P, but Dr. P does not recognize his face, until he hears his voice.
A student presents himself to Dr. P, but Dr. P does not recognize his face, until he hears his voice.
Dr. P pats the head of a water-hydrant, thinking it’s a kid’s head.
Dr. P pats the head of a parking-meter, thinking it’s a kid’s head.
Dr. P addresses carved knobs on furniture, thinking they are faces.
Dr. P was certain that his foot was his shoe and that his shoe was his foot.
Dr. P fails to see the whole picture. He is bad with landscapes, it’s like he is watching over the whole thing, and the absence of any detail makes him imagine some in the picture.
Dr. P looks for his hat, reaches out, takes a hold of his wife’s head, and tries to lift it off to put it on. He mistook his wife for a hat!
Dr. P wants to greet Dr. Sacks into his home, but actually reaches his hand to the grandfather clock before hearing Sacks voice and correcting himself.
In the absence of obvious markers, characteristics, Dr. P is utterly lost, when trying to identify people.
Dr. P got handed a red rose. Without smelling it, he was not able to identify it as a rose. For him, it is just a six inch thing, with a convoluted red form and a linear green stem!
Dr. P was asked to imagine entering a local street and describe what he sees. He listed the buildings on his right but none of those on his left! Then he was asked to do the same thing but imagine arriving from the other direction. Once again he only described the ones on his right, but they were the same, like he had erased what he had seen before!
