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kaniz
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Article on Synesthesia
#4948624 - 11/17/05 08:01 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Came across the above article today, and found it interesting. It's about an Autistic Savant, and it goes into a bit of how he expierences the world and the synesthesia he expiernces, like
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Tammet experiences things through a mixing of the senses that the rest of us can't imagine. For instance, when he does math, he said, "I see landscapes in my mind. The numbers turn to shapes.
"They knit together in a way that forms almost like hills and mountains in my mind," he added, "full of color and full of shape and full of movement."
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He loves silence, for instance. "I experience it as like a silvery texture around my head, like condensation running down a window," he said. "If there's a sudden noise, it's like a shattering of that feeling."
It's interesting, because on LSD - I find that I get things like that alot, the seeing what you feel, hearing what you taste, seeing what you feel kinda thing. The sensation of my head being wet.
and, another line I found interesting
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Researchers from around the world are studying Tammet. Some believe his case may show that there's a savant in all of us, a little Rain Man, you might say, if only we could find a chemical or other way to unlock those abilities.
Maybe if they'd change the laws to allow more research into pyschadelics - we can unlock those abilities.
His life isnt all neat trippy roses though, sounds as if he's also had a rather rough go of things.
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PhanTomCat
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Re: Article on Synesthesia [Re: kaniz]
#4951142 - 11/18/05 10:26 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wonder if his brain produces more natural DMT than a "normal" person....?
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redgreenvines
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Re: Article on Synesthesia [Re: PhanTomCat]
#4951333 - 11/18/05 11:32 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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i had to learn to walk a couple of times but never got around to icelandic
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Re: Article on Synesthesia [Re: kaniz]
#4951897 - 11/18/05 02:00 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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There's a documentary about this guy called "The Man With The Extraordinary Brain". If you google it i'm sure you'll find a torrent for it. Really fascinating.
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Bhairabas
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Re: Article on Synesthesia [Re: Revelation]
#4952565 - 11/18/05 04:59 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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I often think I might have some kind of synesthesia as I've seen really strange CEVs ever since I was a kid without even doing drugs..
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