We need another thread where Gagh hallucinates sound coming out of text!

[The Dork Lord]

To idiots, perhaps...

 

[Loktar]

To idiots, perhaps...

 

[SSgt_Sniper]

The Southeast is more awesome in general, though it lacks one thing that makes the Northwest win.

Also, SEC college football is teh awesome.


One thing about the Southeast you have to remember: there's a lot of room to maneuver. Which means that if nothing is going on, you take a couple kegs and head to the open country and you can quickly MAKE something happen. As long as someone knows the person whose land you're on, your usually golden. Add one vehicle with a decent sound system for tunes, and a decent bonfire, and all the sudden 100 people show up to have a good time.

I will miss that part of it, we could always make fun happen. City life kinda shuts down that sort of spontaneous thing.

 

[Dual]

Synesthesia isn't really hallucination at all. Different letters and numbers have associations with certain colours. A is an apple red, B, a dark blue, C, turquoise, D, grey, E, orange, F, yellow, G, blue, H, white, I, green, J, orange-yellow, K, forest green, L, yellow, M, red, N, pink, P, baby blue, Q, amethyst, R, brown, S, blue-purple, T, brown, U, grey, V, violet, W, black, X, light grey, Y, yellow, Z, white.

 

[FBI parte due]

Part of me misses the Spanish moss and the giant fucking fire ant hills.

Virginia'll always be my favorite, though.

 

[The Dork Lord]

Synesthesia isn't really hallucination at all. Different letters and numbers have associations with certain colours. A is an apple red, B, a dark blue, C, turquoise, D, grey, E, orange, F, yellow, G, blue, H, white, I, green, J, orange-yellow, K, forest green, L, yellow, M, red, N, pink, P, baby blue, Q, amethyst, R, brown, S, blue-purple, T, brown, U, grey, V, violet, W, black, X, light grey, Y, yellow, Z, white.

From Wiki: so admittedly not 100% reliable.

Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesiae or synaesthesiae)—from the Ancient Greek σύν (syn), "together," and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), "sensation"—is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.[1][2][3][4] People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes. It is somewhat common among musicians and artists, who often feel multiple senses in their artwork.


In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored,[5][6] while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities.[7][8] In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a (three-dimensional) view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise).[9][10][11] Yet another recently identified type, visual motion → sound synesthesia, involves hearing sounds in response to visual motion and flicker.[12] Over 60 types of synesthesia have been reported by people,[13] but only a fraction have been evaluated by scientific research.[14] Even within one type, synesthetic perceptions vary in intensity [15] and people vary in awareness of their synesthetic perceptions.[16]
While cross-sensory metaphors (e.g., "loud shirt," "bitter wind" or "prickly laugh") are sometimes described as "synesthetic," true neurological synesthesia is involuntary. It is estimated that synesthesia could possibly be as prevalent as 1 in 23 persons across its range of variants.[17] Synesthesia runs strongly in families, but the precise mode of inheritance has yet to be ascertained. Synesthesia is also sometimes reported by individuals under the influence of psychedelic drugs, after a stroke, during a temporal lobe epilepsy seizure, or as a result of blindness or deafness. Synesthesia that arises from such non-genetic events is referred to as "adventitious synesthesia" to distinguish it from the more common congenital forms of synesthesia. Adventitious synesthesia involving drugs or stroke (but not blindness or deafness) apparently only involves sensory linkings such as sound → vision or touch → hearing; there are few, if any, reported cases involving culture-based, learned sets such as graphemes, lexemes, days of the week, or months of the year.
Although synesthesia was the topic of intensive scientific investigation in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was largely abandoned by scientific research in the mid-20th century, and has only recently been rediscovered by modern researchers.[18] Psychological research has demonstrated that synesthetic experiences can have measurable behavioral consequences, while functional neuroimaging studies have identified differences in patterns of brain activation.[6] Many people with synesthesia use their experiences to aid in their creative process, and many non-synesthetes have attempted to create works of art that may capture what it is like to experience synesthesia. Psychologists and neuroscientists study synesthesia not only for its inherent interest, but also for the insights it may give into cognitive and perceptual processes that occur in synesthetes and non-synesthetes alike.

I'd like to stress "automatic, involuntary experiences"

 

[Kitty]

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