Request : More about Synaesthesia

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Hello,

 

Jenell authorized me to forward her post, which I find

exceptionnaly interesting. If any of you can add his or her

own experience, I'd be very glad.

 

Thanks,

 

Froggy Jacques

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Jacques de Schryver et Linda Steven wrote:

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> SugyPie asked more about synaesthesia...

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I'm finding this thread very interesting, as again one of

those things

I've experienced, but didn't have a 'name' to put to it.

Yes, I have

always very much had this 'abililty', though I think og it

less as that,

as just a 'quirk' in the manner in which I percieve the

world around me.

Now that I have spiritually awakend, added to are those

thing I percive

through my 'other set', spiritual set, of sense, which for

me, roughly

correspond to the ordinary physical ones. It adds a

dimension to my

perceptions I could never explain to anyone without it, that

has given

me an expanded awareness, sometimes pleasant and useful,

some times

otherwise, often benign, a 'just is'.

 

>

> For example when you see a lump of sugar, which is white,

> you may feel that the color white is linked to other senses

> and :

>

> - this white is smelling like smoke

> - it feels rounded

> - it sounds like a bell

>

> So the stimulation of one sense raises other sensations in

> other senses.

> to me, as to example the sugar cube, it is:

--very cold.

---sharp, 'feels cutting'

--brittle

--sounds-- like something between the crunch of snow when

you walk on

it, and shattering glass

 

Interstingly, a sugar cube is very different to my 'senses'

that loose,

free flowing sugar. They feel oddly 'uncomfortable' to me,

in a way

loose sugar does not, and seem to not even 'sweeten' in the

same way, I

can jst keep adding and adding them, and just can't get the

same

'sweetness' effect as with loose sugar. To me, they taste

'flat', as

compared to loose sugar. Like something of their 'sugar

essence' has

been lost.

 

 

> People who have synaesthesia have to face the difficulty of

> managing it : too much input at a time.

 

Yes, for me, very much so. It can contribute to both

distraction,

inablity to concentrate, too much to be trying to take in

and process at

once, and a state of sensory overload that makes one want to

just shut

down the senses, pull a cover over one's head, to shut it

all out for a

bit. Also, those 'other perceptions' can ruin what might be

otherwise

'good ones' that most people are aware of, or do the

reverse, make

something seem 'attractive' that others do not find

attractive, may even

find repulsive or disgusting through their 'normal' senses.

Other

people can use sugar cubes just like loose sugar, for

example, and not

know any difference.

 

 

Often they have an

> ideitic memory that is a kind of 'total recall' (this mater

> alone is believed to be 1 person out of 2 000). They

> generally dont speak of it because they think that

> 'everybody is like them'.

 

As a little child, I had to learn others weren't like this,

learned to

not speak of it because of negative reactions from oters

that thought I

wasn't making any sense! I have come to liken it as to being

born with

the kind of normal vision most of us have, into a world

where the 'norm'

is those that are lacking color perceptions, seing only in

black and

white, near sighted, and for seeing through only one eye,

completely

lacking in depth perception.

 

>

> It is most frequent in young children and they lose it at

> adolescence, most of the time.

>

> Some use it to express a 'super brain'. Among them, with the

> 'total recall', Gauss, Euler, Tesla, Von Neumann, etc.

>

The tota recall, being able to not only store 'photographic'

images, but

whole 'film clips', that I can play back with full detail,

complete with

associated emotions, smells, 'isten' to conversations,

complete with the

soundfs and inflections of the voices, other sensory

perceptions that I

experienced with it. And have done so for events that

occureed at VERY

early ages, I astounded, and proved this, with some

relatives, when I

described in incrediby minute detail, even then answering

specific

questions about details of the 'scene' and events from those

that had

been there, doing so by 'looking' into that as it played in

my minds

eye, to tell them where what objects were, etc, with

events/pkaces that

dated it to as early as less than 2 years old.

 

> I'd be glad to learn more about it if you have

> documentation.

 

Me too. i'd like to understand what this involves better. If

what areas

of the brain are involved, active in this, what other

'traits' in might

relate to, is known, etc.

>

> Jenell

 

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Jacques De Schryver et Linda Steven

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