Synaesthesia-hearing colors and eating sounds

i know someone who thinks this certin brand of bread tastes like green
 
It'd be awesome to taste candy by looking at it.
It's low in fat and practically theft. :)
 
Originally posted by Mechagodzilla
It'd be awesome to taste candy by looking at it.
It's low in fat and practically theft. :)
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Don't look at the fat man's ass crack!
 
Ewww when i look at ass crack i taste chocolate lmao. I wondere what it would be like to have everything react like you see the color blue and you feel, hear, smell, and taste it wow that would be like a non stop mush trip.
 
damnit...i refuse to download realplayer...why do people use it? it's terrible and it rapes your computer with flashing systray icons and useless processes that run in the background.

cool concept though...i feel like i've experienced that before...especially with the taste/color thing...though i can't think of an example right now.
 
I've experienced lots of things like that before.

Only one that I can remember off the top of my head is when I used to play the piano, I played the Gilligan's Island theme song... for some reason it ALWAYS reminded of evergreen trees by a dock (mental image)... never could figure out why.
 
Err i dont think its like remembering things when you do something. Thats word/action association. Its actually where you may feel, see(dont believe its refering to mental image), smell, taste or hear something. Like if you were to look at the color green and all the sudden as soon as you saw the color you got the taste of rasberries in your mouth. Heres another site with more info:
http://www.macalester.edu/~psych/whathap/UBNRP/synesthesia/main.html
 
Yeah, I know it's not exactly the same thing, heh. Kinda' alike, though. :)
 
Originally posted by mchammer75040
Hmm me wonders what kind of trip these guys have on shrooms...
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No change except a light headed feeling maybe, haah.
 
Had this all my life, only about 10 years ago did I realize that I had something not everyone else did. I see numbers - and remember numbers, dates, multiplication tables, etc - as colors. Years, months, the days of the week, are all ribbons of color as well. Names, words, same thing. Different types of synethesias exist.

Theories are that hallucinogenic drugs (LSD being most thoroughly researched) give many synthesthesia - seeing sounds, hearing colors; this is well-established as an effect. Some people have this all the time!

Many artists & musicians (Russian composers seem to be heavily weighted towards synthethesias) have this condition and use it in their daily lives. As a musician myself, I remember chord changes and notes/chops with my ears, but as a back-up I have mental "ribbons" of color that help me remember parts that aren't completely integrated.
 
Yeah, I'm completely fascinated by this condition as well!

I seem to remember that (certain) hallucinogens can produce synaesthesia with some people. Probably only at doses where they'll be generally hallucinating, but interesting nonetheless.

Also, I think many artists/musicians are synaesthetics. Bach or Beethoven was one, I think.

I suspect, though, that severe cases might not be able to live a remotely normal life.

EDIT: Owned by Soldarinosi

EDIT2: Soldarnosi: The similarities between our posts is just uncanny, but I swear I started writing mine before you posted yours. Creepy.
 
Acid


Hear pain...

Sense chaos...

Taste death....


I died, and my friends became the Devil, Angels, and God. I was judged.....


If you want to know what it is like to be insane, taste the chaos that is halucinogens... DON'T DO DRUGS KIDS! STAY IN SCHOOL!
 
That sounds awesome Solidarnosi, are there any adverse effects? Are subjects like mathematics and physics particularly hard or easy for you?
 
Originally posted by Solidarnosi
Had this all my life, only about 10 years ago did I realize that I had something not everyone else did. I see numbers - and remember numbers, dates, multiplication tables, etc - as colors. Years, months, the days of the week, are all ribbons of color as well. Names, words, same thing. Different types of synethesias exist.

Theories are that hallucinogenic drugs (LSD being most thoroughly researched) give many synthesthesia - seeing sounds, hearing colors; this is well-established as an effect. Some people have this all the time!

Many artists & musicians (Russian composers seem to be heavily weighted towards synthethesias) have this condition and use it in their daily lives. As a musician myself, I remember chord changes and notes/chops with my ears, but as a back-up I have mental "ribbons" of color that help me remember parts that aren't completely integrated.
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I can only relate to the numbers, numbers have always been colors for me.

Such as:

1. Grey
2. Orange
3. Blue
4. Red
5. Green
6. Reddish Orangish Mix

etc.
 
this is probably gonna sound weird lol, but stale dorritos taste like the smell of frogs in a bucket hahaha. I just remember this from a long time ago when we de-winterized our pool, and i caught a bunch of frogs out of it and put it in a bucket. Needless to say, after several days, the bucket began to emmm stink? Anywho, its a very disctinct and unpleasant smell haha. In the next few days i tried some very very stale dorritos, and voila! the taste was that of the smell of frogs in a bucket. Odd, no?
 
MrMethane: Yah that's crazy, similar thoughts there.
iamironsam: I'm a pretty good student all around, but as I've gotten older I've taken more notice of how others learn & process information. I believe that, although I can do math just fine, I process the equations much slower than someone who would be called a 'whiz kid' in math. I'm really looking at the mechanics of math, in my mind, as I work the problem. I don't think everyone needs to do this - a good example for me is, someone asks me "What is 8 X 7?" I don't have this memorized as a sum, but rather as a color that brings me into an approximate range of answers (darkish blue/green to be exact), which is in the high forties, but I know the answer is further up than that...really weird I know, when I try to explain it but it feels natural to me, and takes much less time to accomplish than it does to explain in any case. Did help in spelling bees during my formal edumacation, tho - words are colors, they are also built upon letters that each have a color, so seeing the word in my mind as a series of colored letters helped to spell it. I want to point out that if I sit around trying to rationalize all this, it all kind of disappears - like closing your eyes and trying to see the spots & colors that aren't directly in front of your eyes, but rather on the fringes; it all gets chased away, like phantoms.

What it really comes down to, for me, is how amazingly different we all are - how our brains remember, process, etc. I know that the longer I work in the psychiatric nursing profession, the more I see of differences in us - not just from the patients but from staff too! For example, some people are difficult to work with, it seems that they cannot discriminate between sensory input that is 'garbage' versus more important stuff - all input has the same value, and it makes them prone to react in unpredictable ways (e.g., might answer the telephone instead of intervening in a fight between two patients), also makes it difficult for them to learn new tasks (everything the same, distractions are input too). We have a clinical term for this when a patient shows it: Concrete thinking. I'm sure many or most of you know someone like this.
 
Originally posted by JonTheCanuck
this is probably gonna sound weird lol, but stale dorritos taste like the smell of frogs in a bucket hahaha. I just remember this from a long time ago when we de-winterized our pool, and i caught a bunch of frogs out of it and put it in a bucket. Needless to say, after several days, the bucket began to emmm stink? Anywho, its a very disctinct and unpleasant smell haha. In the next few days i tried some very very stale dorritos, and voila! the taste was that of the smell of frogs in a bucket. Odd, no?
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Great story, Jon! I have one too: I can't eat sour cream & onion potato chips, because one night long ago I ate some with a turkey sandwhich that turned out to be, um, not good, with all the expected gastronomic consequences. Now when I even smell sour cream & onion chips, it throws me for a huge loop, can't stand them, I can still taste the sickness from the spoiled turkey. Only potato chips, though - sour cream & onion doritos would be fine! or maybe not...
 
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