Synesthesia - The taste of COLOR.

Mr. Pessimistic

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When Ingrid Carey says she feels colors, she does not mean she sees red, or feels blue, or is green with envy. She really does feel them.

She can also taste them, and hear them, and smell them.

The 20-year-old junior at the University of Maine has synesthesia, a rare neurological condition in which two or more of the senses entwine. Numbers and letters, sensations and emotions, days and months are all associated with colors for Carey.

Synesthesia

Interesting stuff. My wifes uncle is working on a technology that will enable the blind to see in infra-red. The guy is more amazing than I first realized...he was one of the creators of High Resolution visuals and has many other inventions to his credit. His technology is called "Viper Vision" tentatively.

He is also pre-occupied with the color Magenta, for reasons I cannot understand...his mind works on a much higher level than mine!

Anyway...this reminded me of that and has nothing to do with anything!

livescience.com is a site I just found.

Mr. P.

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"

I came to kick ass and chew Bubble Gum...and I am all out of Bubble Gum - They Live, Roddy Piper

Ken Hemingway

P. If you are interested in why Magenta is important you could look at:

www.rgbworld.com/color.html

Mr. Pessimistic

Thanks!

He explained why to me...but they way he communicates is...confusing (He is the butt of many jokes at family gatherings!). It is basically us average people picking on the smart kid!

His favorite statement is that Magenta "violates closure".

Mr. P.

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"

I came to kick ass and chew Bubble Gum...and I am all out of Bubble Gum - They Live, Roddy Piper

CSflim

It's a very interesting phenomenon.

I remember reading about a device for blind people. It consisted of a video camera, connected to a pair of ear phones. The visual information was converted into sound and played through the ear phones, enabling the blind person to hear the visual information.
What was most interesting was that after using the device for a few days, the blind person was no longer 'hearing' the visual information, but was actually seeing it. (The person in question had not been born blind, so knew what it was like to see).
He was perfectly able to carry on a normal conversation, completely oblivious to the fact that there was screeching sound being played into his ears (which he could no longer hear).

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Mr. Pessimistic

Wow! That is interesting! How could you tune out something right in your ear!?

The invention Uncle John is working on works with light/heat transfer through the forehead...he said something about the forehead having perfect properties to make this possible. It is above my head for the most part...especially when he talks...he uses much jargon.

Mr. P.

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"

I came to kick ass and chew Bubble Gum...and I am all out of Bubble Gum - They Live, Roddy Piper

Loricat

Cool ideas! (and a cool uncle...)

It's a creativity building/expanding exercise to play with what I guess you would call 'forced synesthesia': ask yourself questions like "What does blue taste like?"

I've had people tell me that baby blue tastes like grapefruit (I like neither, so that makes sense!), and red definitely tastes like fresh red peppers...

What does green taste like?

Lori

"All beings are the owners of their deeds, the heirs to their deeds."

Mr. Pessimistic

Green - Sour apple sweet-tarts.

Mr. P.

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"

I came to kick ass and chew Bubble Gum...and I am all out of Bubble Gum - They Live, Roddy Piper

CSflim

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Wow! That is interesting! How could you tune out something right in your ear!?

Happens all the time. I remember visiting the appartment of a friend when a train went by right above us creating a very loud rumble.
I asked him; "Does that not drive you mad?"
"Does what not drive me mad?"
:lol

I guess it's kinda something similar.

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Edited by: CSflim at: 4/1/05 9:16 pm

Mr. Pessimistic

I guess I can see your point...it works the same way with spouses!

Mr. P.

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"

I came to kick ass and chew Bubble Gum...and I am all out of Bubble Gum - They Live, Roddy Piper

marti1900

"Magenta violates closure". Sounds like a great book title. Ya gotta love people with minds like that.

I have had a number of experiences of sound and taste. When I listen to an exquisite chamber music group, I get a sweet taste at the back of my throat. Very strange.

But I think selective repression of sound is very common, or else we would all go mad from the excess stimulation.

Marti in Mexico

Kate Fremont

Do you suppose synesthesia is more common in artists than in the general population? I think it would enhance the visual arts, music composition, and writing.

MadArchitect

It's probably downright annoying to smell music...

With as much bad pop music as there is going around these days, I'd imagine it's a little like stepping in dog crap everytime you walk out the front door of your house.

On a serious note, I wonder how this sort of thing would effect a program to write a doctine of knowledge taking into account the nature of human sensation and cognition, like that of Kant and Jacob Bronowski.

Mr. Pessimistic

I imagine that this "phenomenon" in the right person would give us a totally different take on any philosophical work...but would us mundanes be able to comprehend it?

Mr .P.

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"

I came to kick ass and chew Bubble Gum...and I am all out of Bubble Gum - They Live, Roddy Piper

marti1900

OK, X-Men, I've got it! The word I wanted to use is manifestation or trait. The people who have this trait, ...or ...the people in whom this manifests itself...

Marti

Mr. Pessimistic

Trait works well!

Mr. P.

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"

I came to kick ass and chew Bubble Gum...and I am all out of Bubble Gum - They Live, Roddy Piper


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