To: K-list
Recieved: 2001/05/28 10:48
Subject: [K-list] Synesthesia
From: Druout

Dear List,

Here's an interesting article on synesthesia.

http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-10-cytowic.html

There seem to be quite a few similarities with K-type phenomena (see below
for an excerpt!)

Love, Hillary

2.10 As a group, synesthetes seem more prone to "unusual experiences" than
one might expect (17% in my 1989 study, though if anyone knows what the
general-population baseline for unusual experiences is, I should like to
know). Qualitatively, one thinks of the personality constellation said to be
typical of temporal-limbic epileptics. Deja vu, clairvoyance, precognitive
dreams, a sense of portentousness, and the feeling of a presence are
encountered often enough. Singular instances in my experience include
empathic healing, and an explanans of psychokinesis for what was probably an
explanandrum of episodic metamorphopsia. Unparalleled among my collection of
other-worldly experiences is that of a woman who claimed to have been
abducted by aliens, and to have enjoyed sexual congress aboard their space
craft. Having experienced aliens, she confided, human males could no longer
satisfy her. (My thanks to Larry Marks for this gem.)

2.11 From the above, it seems that for most people synesthesia is ineffable,
that which by definition cannot be imparted to others or adequately put into
words. It might seem impossible at first for science to scrutinize a
phenomenon whose "quality" must be experienced first-hand.

...

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