[vannrox]

Cool. I can see some pretty amazing designer recreational drugs or medicines that can help with those with learning disiabilities.

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[StriperSniper]

an artifact of drug use (LSD and mescaline can produce similar effects)

Damn! How come I never found the good stuff that did that?!?!;-)

[Walnut]

disabilaties? I like it!

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Bump to read later.

[Billthedrill]

I did have synesthesia a few times in the 70s but I don't do acid anymore.

[Jorge]

But most have brushed it aside as fakery, an artifact of drug use (LSD and mescaline can produce similar effects) or a mere curiosity.

I remember being able to taste colors and see sounds when I was on LSD. I really thought it was fascinating at the time.

I also had some very radical spiritual and rather disturbing demonic experiences while taking these drugs.

Acid, mescaline, mushrooms etc. started to cause hallucinations that took years to go away after I stopped taking these things.

[Age of Reason]

Go to this link, scroll down page, click "Listen" button to hear interview.

"Patricia Lynne Duffy explains the neurological phenomenon of synesthesia, an actual crossing of the senses, and its link to some of the world’s most famous artists, Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens":
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/02072003

[cynicom]

very interesting.

[Arthur McGowan]

I can remember exactly when I first heard the word "synesthesia." I was ten years old, and had come back from seeing "How the West Was Won"--which was in true, three-camera Cinerama. I told my brother how, near the end, the entire theater felt as though it tilted and rotated, during an overhead shot of the Los Angeles freeways. He said, "That's call 'synesthesia.'"

[Arthur McGowan]

I should have said, "I felt as though the entire theater tilted and rotated." I don't know how the theater itself felt.

[muggs]

Bump to finish reading tomorrow.

chicken tastes "pointy"--

Everything I have eaten for the last week feels pointy anyway. Last night I even dreamed I was eating thumbtacks.

[wideminded]

There is an incredibly interesting book on this subject: The Mind of a Mnemonist by Aleksandr R. Luria. This book is actually about a man with an almost infinite memory who was a patient of Luria, a Russian psychologist, over a period of many years. It becomes clear that the source of his powerful memory are the strong associations formed by synesthesia involving all his senses. A more recent book that is also good: The Man Who Tasted Shapes by Richard E. Cytowic.

[TrexDogs]

Interesting article. One of the magazine shows (dateline or 60 minutes?) did a segment on synesthesia last year, and it was fascinating. One fellow tasted many, many words. I remember he said "New York" tasted like runny eggs, something else tasted like Spam. But the real kicker was that he had to break up with his girlfriend Tracy because her name tasted like flaky pastry and it was way too strong for him.

[muggs]

Like I said earlier, I haven't read the whole article yet so maybe this was answered, do these people experience this their entire life or just during certain periods? It seems like I experienced something like this during pregnancy. I could feel certain things in color at times. It was quite a strange thing.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Anyone interested in this post should read Sensory Inhibition, which describes a lot of similiar weirdness. In particular, I remember something about experiments where the taste buds on the tongue were inhibited in a certain manner (along a half-plane?), producing a sensation of the taste coming from a distant point in space.

[facedown]

bump this:

Must there be all the colors-uh

Without names, without sound, baby?

[longtermmemmory]

bump for later reader

[Hank Rearden]

I thought your comment at the end was delicious. Tasted just like chicken.

[thatdewd]

I don't remember the synesthesia (did they look like the Fantasia ones?) sheets, but I remember watching the music notes come out of George Harrison's guitar. That was pretty cool, and they tasted blue...

[piasa]

I must have some form of this ...

When I see most liberals they look red.