Please Participate In This Thought Experiment And Answer This Question…

The opposite day on my Addicted 2 Decorating Facebook web page, I posted this side-by-side image of a light-weight that I noticed on the Wayfair web site and my studio pendant gentle. As quickly as I noticed that Wayfair gentle, I assumed, “Oh, that jogs my memory of my studio gentle! And wow! Have a look at that worth!“

And within the description of that publish, I began with “That is why I DIY…” and talked in regards to the worth distinction, and many others. Now, after all, I’ve a bonus in that DIYing is actually my full-time job. So for me, time isn’t a problem. I understand that for individuals who work a full-time job, spending hours and hours making one thing may not repay, so that you’d be higher off saving up cash to buy the merchandise you need. However I in contrast not solely the worth distinction, but additionally that by DIYing, you find yourself with one thing that’s fully custom-made to your private home — dimension, colours, and many others. — and fairly often wind up with one thing that’s fully distinctive and one-of-a-kind. Plus, there’s the satisfaction of having the ability to take a look at that factor and say, “I made that with my very own arms!” For folks like me, that’s one of the satisfying emotions on this planet, however I understand it’s not essential for lots of different folks.

Anyway, you get the purpose. The publish has 630 feedback, and a lot of these feedback had been a really small share. I’d say I acquired not more than 10 feedback from individuals who stated there have been NO similarities between the 2 lights. However these feedback astound me, nonetheless.

I need to impress upon you that this has nothing to do with “imply feedback” or something like that. These feedback weren’t imply. They didn’t make me offended. That’s not the purpose of this publish. The entire level is that I’m really and genuinely fascinated by the truth that some folks can take a look at these two lights and see NO similarities in any respect. It’s like I need to examine their brains. I need to spend per week shadowing them and see how they course of data from the world round them after which evaluate notes on the finish of the week to see how otherwise we each course of the identical data.

In truth, after I acquired the primary remark about there being NO similarities in any respect, I simply wrote it off as coming from somebody who most likely likes being a contrarian on-line. However then I acquired one other. And one other. And one other. I assumed, “How is that even attainable?“

As a result of I take a look at these two lights and I see nothing however similarities. They each make the most of a number of rings hung collectively on totally different ranges in descending order of diameter. They each create visible curiosity with one merchandise used a whole bunch of occasions in repetition. Sure, there are variations. The Wayfair gentle solely has 4 rings, and mine has 13. The Wayfair gentle solely has one coloration, and mine has 13. However the total idea is identical. Not less than it’s to my mind and the way in which that my mind processes data.

I’m so curious to know if you happen to can see that or not. If you see these two lights side-by-side, does your mind let you know these are comparable lights which are primarily based on the same design idea? Or does your mind let you know that there are completely NO similarities in these two lights?

Once more, I ask for no different purpose apart from sheer curiosity. I do know there’s no approach to do a scientific ballot on my weblog, however I’m so interested by how the numbers are break up. Will it’s 50/50? Or 90/10? And if you happen to see no similarities in any respect, how would you describe your self? Would you describe your self as a artistic? Not artistic? Do you take pleasure in doing artistic issues?

Perhaps I’m not even asking the fitting questions. I simply need to know extra. I need to know extra in regards to the individuals who take a look at these and say, “Nope. Not comparable in any respect.” I need to examine your brains. 🤣 I need to perceive how your mind processes data from the world round you.

Apparently, the sunshine that basically impressed my studio gentle was the one which hangs in our music room.

That was my major inspiration. Once more, I take a look at these two lights and I see many similarities. Are they the identical? In fact not. That music room gentle has all the rings on the identical stage and makes use of strings to connect multiples of the identical merchandise (capiz shells, particularly) on one string to create the visible of various ranges, with the shorter strings across the outer ring, and progressively getting longer as they go in direction of the middle of the sunshine.

However that’s the principle gentle that impressed my design on the fitting. So how about these two? Do you see the similarities in these?

I’m guessing if you happen to answered “No” to the primary comparability of the Wayfair gentle and my studio gentle, then this can be a “Heck no!”. However if you happen to answered “Sure” to the primary comparability, is that this a “Sure” additionally? Or is that this one a “No”?

Anyway, I hope you’ll indulge me as I delve again into my psychology previous for one publish. I’m genuinely fascinated with this, and I’ve been interested by it for days now. I’m fascinated with how totally different folks course of data and course of the world round them. I’ll get again to the closet tomorrow, as my plan is to spend right now engaged on the island. 🙂

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.