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- simpleblob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21It's real. It's called Synesthesia. (a fusion of senses)
This condition happen because some nerves responsible for hearing and tasting signal.. got intertwined. The result is that what you receive in one sense will also get transmited to other sense.
This guy, for example, receiving hearing signal and have effect on taste. Some people have weirder abilitie than this, such as the ability to taste the object with there hand. (Smooth surface => sweet)
Amazingly, this strange condition has greatly aid the ability to memorizing thing.
One very famous mnemonist who had eidetic/photographic memory also had a "severe" form of synesthesia. (Ex. Sometimes he can't eat because he heard music that "taste" horrible.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.V._Shereshevskii
Another famous people who got synesthesia is the famous physicist, Dr. Richard Feynman. He got a mild form of it, which is seeing letter in colors.
Why do I know all this? Because I also got synesthesia. And people treat me like a freak when I said..
"Huh? Don't you see alphabet in color too?"
"Yes I know, The real color of the word is black (it's ink after all), but don't you FEEL that the "R" in red is bluish?"
"That sound feels very crumpled."
etc... - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Who's the jerk digging all these comments down? This is on-topic, correct information. LSD and other psychedelic drugs are known to temporarily trigger this neural condition.
- captainwtf, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17I read a book called "My Problem Child" by Albert Hoffman (guy who made acid) and he said that LSD can 'cause that to happen.
Cool stuff. - Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Digg tastes... Bitter. :(
- queefer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14when they listen to creed they must taste *****
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Does that mean Kevin Federline will now taste like dog poo too? dayumm..
- Moopy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9My friend has this, but she sees words and colors. Also, Octopuses taste with their suckers! Imagine tasting everything you touched, marketing in and of itself would be completely changed.
- oslointhesummer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8It would probably be hard to find people with this disorder, since I'm sure if anyone said they "tasted" words, people would think they were crazy, so they don't talk about it.
- JPOOPOO, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Its "Chocolate," FYI
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Of course you shouldn't dismiss it as fake. It's a widely documented condition.
It's not really about distinctly new abilities though, but the brain being confused and mixing together senses we all have and cross-activating regions of the brain. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I wonder what Nickelback songs taste like. The same?
- Mousse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Neuroscientist V. Ramachandran has done a series of lectures about curious oddities such as this if anyone's interested: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lectures.shtml
- Tayls, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You mean "eat" a sandwich? Idiot...
- kschaller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6My girlfriend actually has this. Strangely enough, right before this story showed up on Digg I asked her what the word "preen" tasted like. She said praline, which can't be so bad. Interesting to see that this is a documented condition.
- razishaban, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3and he wonders why he gets dugg down...
- Aziere, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7It's called memory.
- MadNuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hahaha
- plato1123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've definately experienced this on LSD. Different sounds will cause visual distortions and sites and sounds can be tasted. For example, if you're outside on a quiet day, you may suddenly hear the wind blowing and the sound will be accompanied by mild visual hallucinations.
- dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ simpleblob
nice to see someone else around here with Synesthesia.
i only found out about it last year, i have a case of Synesthesia where i can see colors when i hear sounds. low bass sounds are purple, and it goes through to spectrum to high pitched sounds that are white/yellow. its like tripping on LSD when i listen to music, only it isn't illegal ;)
peoples responses are great...
"hey you! what does this sound look like?"
*fart*
me: "hmm.. looks a lot like your voice" - Photoblog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4lol that happened to me when I was tripping once... very interesting to say the least.
the best was when I listened to classical music, tasted like a rainforest :) - asdfasdf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Positive effects of LSD:
* increase in energy (stimulation)
* increase in associative & creative thinking
* mood lift
* increased awareness & appreciation of music
* increased awareness of senses. (eating, drinking, smell)
* closed and open eye visuals
* profound life-changing spiritual experiences
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd.shtml
Scroll down and read some reports under 'Experiences.' - thereisnospoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Ray wasn't crazy after all! (Listen! Do you smell something?)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/quotes - kschaller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I see your point, but I was just giving the most recent example. Most of the time the word and taste seem to have nothing in common.
- 3dom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Although quite an unusual occurence for the majority of the population, synaesthasia has been noted as relatively common by users of psychedelic substances such as LSD and 2C-B. Apparently its like the line between your different senses is blurred and sometimes outright swapped around, i.e. smelling noises etc. I knew someone with it
- nusblog, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5direct link to print version
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/science/23taste.html?ei=5088&en=5147a6e6c6f44cd7&ex=1321938000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print - Cronyx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6It's called "synesthesia", and it can happen to any sense. I hear that sound and sight signals getting crossed is particularly interesting.
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Negro.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I read the title literally. I thought that article was about people who had taste buds on their ears. I lose.
- dragon76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It was named by my friend Richard Cytowic. He's going to be on a 20/20 special soon talking about it. This is nothing new, he wrote "The Man Who Tasted Shapes" in the 80's.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Not at all, I volunteered at a physical therapy center and the brain can do some crazy stuff. One woman had a slightly itchy arm even though she was missing a limb and one man with brain damage from a stroke couldn't say more than one word but would speak that one work in different tones as if he was using a full vocabulary.
My only question is whether this is psychosomatic or neurological. - arter2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i dont think its only ten my ex girl friend had this its called cynastatia its pretty cool she judged alot of people on what they sounded/tasted like. the cool thing was she was usually spot on
- converge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I wonder if this has anything to do with "perfect pitch", or the ability to identify musical notes by hearing them. A lot of people with perfect pitch claim they identify notes with colors
- metacoola, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Acid can lead to a lot of these things, which is why many bands and their fans such as the grateful dead usually have a lot of vibrant colors on their artwork, which is very cool if youve ever seen a Grateful Dead shirt.
- azizaziza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dr. Nick: Well, isn't it Mr. McGreg! With a leg for an arm, and an arm for a leg!
- Aino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have something like this, I smell colors, which is kind of funny, because for the longest time I thought everyone could! But tasting sounds is much cooler.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8I can smell with my butt.
- SIDSI, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2One time I took some lsd and could taste music.
- t4k3n, on 10/12/2007, -13/+13this tastes a bit far fetched!
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Back in my delinquent stage, I dropped a heavy dose of blotter one time. It was at night when things picked up, and I was taking a walk down a street when I came upon a person sitting in their car, parked against the sidewalk and warming up the engine. The car had a slight yellow glowing halo surrounding it, and whenever the engine revved up, the intensity and size of the halo would increase. I stood there and watched. When he finally took off and drove down the street, the halo grew and shrank as the car shifted through gears. Every other car I saw that night had the same kind of halo around it, and anything that made some kind of ominous mechanical noise (HVAC units, transformers, etc.) had some kind of glowing field coming from them.
Now imagine seeing the world like this every day. Holy crap. - ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2uhhh, yeah, way to quote the last article on synesthesia that made it to the front page of digg.
- int19h, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Aha, sweet words literally do exist!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Say vagina!" What, why?" "Just say it!" "Vagina!" "Mmmmm!"
- banteron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4that's nuthin' ... I have tongue that is ten inches long, and I've learned to breathe through my ears !
- ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1most of what you describe is not the same. the visual-auditory pathway crossover hallucinations you describe has nothing to do with synesthesia. when the wall you're looking at tastes like ice cream -- and your tongue isn't actually ON the wall -- that's synesthesia.
- RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Suddenly everyone and their grandmother has this "Ultra Rare" ability...**sigh**
- MusicalGenius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hasn't everyone thought they could almost taste with their sense of smell?
- adolfojp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It was in an episode of House. Dr. House took some LSD and started seeing music.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It must be awful when all you can taste is earwax.
- SarahC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0People apparently have this in a subtle way - intrinsically part of language.
A scientist drew two shapes - one all pointy, and the other curvy and round.
He then asked people, from lots of different languages, which shape was "kaka", and which was "bowbo". about 80% chose what you would expect...
I can't remember the actual descriptive words to search for the experiment to provide a reference. But there's some other research here : http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/2/21/144256/437 - SuckMyDigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Man... if I had that form of synaesthesia I wouldn't tell anyone about it. Imagine if someone found a word that tasted like dog ***** or worse.... You could be tormented horribly...
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