Synaesthesia is a neurological phenomenon where the activation of one sense, such as hearing, triggers the activation of another, usually unrelated sense, such as sight. This means people with synaesthesia often experience additional sensations compared to the rest of us.
People with synaesthesia don't have any control over how their senses collide. Instead, these are spontaneous, vivid experiences that usually stay the same over time.
For example, today, a person with grapheme-color synaesthesia may perceive the letter "A" as being red. And they'll most likely see it as being the same shade even years later.
I've never had such an experience, nor have I heard of anyone who has it.
One person told me the barnyard smell he associated with the color green, but didn't say he actually saw green.
Weird.
That might be because cow poop is green,,,, just saying.
ReplyDeleteLOLOL, Chalky White, smells like a milking parlor to me. Cow manure actually smells good to me... guess where I grew up! LOL Silage is fermented corn, seeing those cows relax, getting drunk & letting down the milk - it's an addictive smell in those places.
DeleteI have grapheme-color synethesia as well as several others ("see time", e.g.). I didn't realize this until well into my 40s. I thought everyone did the same.
ReplyDelete90%+ of psychology studies can't be replicated.
ReplyDelete90%+ of psychologists exaggerate the significance of rare conditions.
90% of statistics are bullshit
DeleteThere's a certain smell I associate with the color brown. Do I have it?
ReplyDeleteI know a woman who has olfactory-tactile synesthesia. For her, smells are “felt.” For example, she won’t like certain perfumes because they feel “pointy” and the sharp points are uncomfortable to her.
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot going on where we don't know enough to ask the right questions about it yet!
ReplyDeleteMost human experiences are a range. Some people will be at one end of the range, some people will be at the other end of the range and most will be in the middle.
ReplyDeleteThe important part is to understand that the range is how it naturally is and there is nothing wrong with it. We are more willing to accept this range of possibilities with things that we are more accustomed to perceive (hair color, height, etc.) but it becomes harder to accept when the difference is not visible or culturally acceptable.
People love to say there are 2 genders XX (female) and XY (male) not realizing that there are many other combinations that occur naturally and with certain frequency (many 1 in a 1000). There are at east 7 viable viable sex chromosome variations (X, XX, XY, XXY, XYY, XXX, XXXY, XXYY, XXXXY) and most people agree that more combinations will be identified as time goes by.
Take out all the many's, more's, and most's and there's nothing left but hot air.
DeleteIn a country the size of the USA 1 in 1000 translates to 350,000 people. That is the population of Honolulu or New Orleans. Not an insignificant number
DeleteThere are precisely two sexes. There are many possible birth defects. Gender is a grammatical term misused by crazy people to describe their disorders.
DeleteThat's the same stuff that comes out of the south end of a north bound bull when we get all this multi gender nonsense stuffed down our throats.
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Might be something to it. If you can 'duplicate' a great restaurant dish, days, weeks or months later, not by taste alone, but colors sensed while eating ... wow, is that it?
ReplyDeleteSomehow, great food, flavors, tastes, smells, imprint on my memory... odd.
I took Acid a few times, and had the same experience.
ReplyDeleteNo, really, I researched it, that's how hallucinagenics work. They are able to cross the blood-brain barrier, and get in between our neurons, and send signals when there shouldn't be, so your brain gets confused, and tries to make the best of it. E.g. you are looking at a green tree, but your tongue neurons are firing (b/c of the LSD), so your brain looks at the signals coming in and tries to figure it out - you end up assigning a taste-profile to the ocular stimulus.
I have that same olfactory and gustatory response when I hear the word pussy.
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