To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/12/11 00:13
Subject: [K-list] Request : More about Synaesthesia
From: Jacques de Schryver et Linda Steven
On 1999/12/11 00:13, Jacques de Schryver et Linda Steven posted thus to the K-list:
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:
>
> SugyPie asked more about synaesthesia...
> _____
>
>
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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