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fayte.m
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posted October 05, 2005 09:05 AM
 
Does anyone else here experience this?
The smelling of color or sound or emotion.
The tasting of those things.
The hearing of color.
The seeing of sound and emotion.
And other sensory variations!
Like tasting a color.
Or the smell of emotions or music.  IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
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posted October 05, 2005 10:59 AM
Yes.
It is overwhelming and yet simple all at once.
Transcending senses.IP: Logged |
angel_of_hope
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posted October 05, 2005 12:34 PM
OMG! And my family thought i was crazy when i used to say i could smell the taste of certain things. Also when i told them i could smell static electricity. Do you ever smell, see, or hear something and have it take you back in years to a specific time or event? One that always gets me is Aussie hairspray. Takes me back to sixth grade when i used to douche my head with that stuff. (not literaly, but you know what i mean)slightly off topic ... This is so bad to say, please forgive me when i tell you this ... My bestest friend in the whole wide world was my dear late kitty, Mugsy. She used to let me do ANYTHING with her. When i was young, I used to take her in my room, turn off all the lights and drag her back and forth on my bed sheets to see, smell and feel the static electricity. It was like a fireworks show. I know, looking back on it now, its pure animal cruelty. (but she didnt care) Something about static interested me. As does lightning storms. I feel energized after one rips thru. I was just down in Wisconsin for a few week vacation while one came tearing thru Sheboygan. My family was all paranoid and preparing candles and heading down to the basement. While i was enjoying the show. Anyhow, at the same time of discovering that cats create static, was when i discovered that if you rip a band-aid out of its package fast enough you also get static electricity & blue sparks. Needless to say when someone needed a band aid there werent any. My parents were quite upset that i wasted band-aids for entertainment purposes. LOL Ang- IP: Logged |
fayte.m
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posted October 05, 2005 01:08 PM
Slightly off topic?  A_OK!
I love taking a fluorescent light tube and in the dark rubbing it on my hair....
it actually makes it light up! Oh my! Lightning storms! I feel so alive and my hairs stand on end! I love "playing" with electricity! Freaked people out with my little experiments when younger! Blew a big hole in the field during one! Use to hook myself up to try to get myself to spark. Got zapped a few times! My husband does not like my fasination with homemade lightning and and playing with electricity! I am much more careful than when I was younger! But electricity is alot of fun! Fasinating stuff! And little motors! I take them apart and put them back together just because I can! Been doing that since like 4 years old! Yeah...I was a strange kid! IP: Logged |
sue g
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posted October 05, 2005 02:51 PM
And a very clever and cool one by the sound of it girl Great topic fayte.... I always tend to smell the energy when I walk into a room...if you get me....and sometimes it aint good...like in pubs and stuff..... And then I could walk into someones home and it tastes and smells wonderful.....even could move me to tears.....and I wanna stay there......"do you want a lodger" type of thing....LOL....... But the thing I love the most is I can often smell my husband when he isnt around.....get a whiff of him....he has a lovely natural smell......better than the cow **** you sometimes get living in the country ha ha !!! Love to all you witchy people......mmmm......I bet ye all smell lovely !!!!
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angel_of_hope
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posted October 05, 2005 03:41 PM
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angel_of_hope
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posted October 05, 2005 03:41 PM
Fayte - have you ever stared into a Fluorescent light bulb and seen all the gas molecules ( i think) floating around in them. I did it with a black light, fluorescent tube. The first time i did it i was under the influence and thought i was seeing things that werent there. Till i did it when i was sober. I was so amazed. Talk about easily amused. I too, used to love taking apart old appliances and putting them back together - just to see if i could. Most i could. But i remember taking apart a vaccume and not being able to get it back together. Thank god it was broke to begin with - or my butt woulda been in trouble. Sue - i always enojyed walking into other peoples houses and smelling thier scent. For some reason i couldnt smell the scent of my own house. But others houses were so strong. I know what you mean too about the smell of certain places, giving off a vibe. I love sun chids comment about colors and writting. As well as her sister composing music based off colors. Very cool indeed! IP: Logged |
fayte.m
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posted October 05, 2005 05:10 PM
Oh my yes! The smell of places and people and how they invoke in us so many images and emotions! Yes! And also how one most certainly can read or get psychic impressions just by the smell of a place...wether it be a psychic smell or an actual physical one!
When my grandpa died..I kept his old hat in a sealed container. It took 12 years for the physical smell of his cologne to leave the hat! But even afterwards...I could still get back very clear pictures by touching it and hear and see him in my memory much clearer.
Then I recieved an actual clairaudient message and he said he had been looking about and was coming back soon..and to pitch the old hat for gosh sakes! I laughed until I cried! So years after his passing I burned the hat! As the hat became a phoenix hat of flames...I smelled my grandpa again...but this time I smelled the smell of blueberries...like we used to pick together...then pine or fir...I used to go hunt and cut a few Christmas trees with him when I was little! Then I heard another laugh and as the ashes died down I smelled a faint oil lamp smell...and remembered the sitting by Oil Creek near Drake's Well(first oil well in the world..I believe) and eating circus peanuts in the light of old gas streetlights that were there when I was little with my grampie! 
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fayte.m
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posted October 05, 2005 05:17 PM
angel_of_hope! 
Yes I have done that! You can see the gases!
Swirling and all!
Heh heh..I have accidently reversed the suction on a vacuumn cleaner! Had to take it all apart and put it back together again!
I like to put a seashell in white vinegar and watch it slowly dissolve...or sit patiently and wait for a flower or a cocoon to burst open in that quick shuddering way they do!Yes.I have drawn and painted and written while listening to music...without words it tells me the words and colors!
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SunChild
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posted October 05, 2005 06:37 PM
There's a name for it?  I'll have a think about some more experiences and I'll come back. Thanks for starting this thread fayte.  ------------------
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fayte.m
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posted October 05, 2005 06:40 PM
Thank you SunChild! Would love to hear your experiences! 
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fayte.m
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posted October 05, 2005 06:45 PM
Pixie! 
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Yes.
It is overwhelming and yet simple all at once.
Transcending senses.
I would love to hear your experiences! They I suspect would be quite etherically beautiful!  IP: Logged |
Devilfish
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posted October 06, 2005 08:53 AM
the seeing of sound..........
its really neat that you posted that question Fayte, cause ive been thinking about posting about this too
when i was a little girl and i heard silence
(you know that faint high vibration sound)
i would get a image in my mind of an old woman in a plain turqouise dress sitting on a bench in a shoe store tryin on practical shoes.
WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?  IP: Logged |
fayte.m
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posted October 06, 2005 09:43 AM
Perhaps someone you knew in a past life or someone you have yet to meet!
Seriously...try to remember what the store was called or looked like...and GO there!IP: Logged |
Gemini Nymph
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posted October 07, 2005 01:30 AM
Being synesthesic is actually a neurological condition that can be confirmed by an MRI. I am synesthesic, although I haven't been tested. I always have been, but I didn't know what it was called until a couple years ago. I also have Asperger's Syndrome and eidetic memory (aka photographic memory). It's roughly estimated that people, especially women, with AS are over 20 times more likely to have synesthesia than the neurotypical population. In synesthesia, there's a crisscrossing of the nuerological network of the senses so that when you hear something, for example, your brain translates it into another sensory experience. It's involuntary and independent of memory. It's not about memory association at all. Completely different part of the brain. Some researchers suspect that what a synesthesic experiences is very close to what a neurotypical person would experience while tripping on LSD. I usually experience sounds as shapes and color. Some synesthesics experience color-association with pitch - like everytime they hear the pitch A they seem orange. I have a color/shape-timbre association. If I hear a bassoon it's always a violet-grey or blue-grey and is a broad, fuzzy shape. My dad's voice is usually red-orange and a clearly defined box. And so forth. Mine is mainly sound, I also have crisscrossing with vision and touching. Certain sights trigger smell, taste or tactile sensations. Certain textures/feels (including temperature) invoke color and more defined visionary exerpiences, I'll see patterns. Cold air tends to trigger the image of bright reflected white light (like light bouncing off a mirror), while hot air triggers the image of reddish-orangish, diffused light (kind of like that red light they use in zoos for nocturnal animals so you can see them in the dark). IP: Logged |
fayte.m
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posted October 07, 2005 07:43 AM
Gemini Nymph
Your experiences sound very much like some of mine!
Thank you! I have been tested. Encephalgrams
Show such things also. MRIs can show physical evidence..or damage..which can also trigger synesthesic episodes. Like the guy in the movie.."Phenomenom" in a way. There are so many causes!
Here is a link to a narrowed down to some specifics of causes at Google.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=SYNESTHESIA+causes+site%3Bedu&btnG=Search IP: Logged |
fayte.m
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posted April 18, 2007 09:09 PM
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posted April 19, 2007 01:39 AM
Never had that experience.Boring sober sane capricorn merc life here. It sounds interesting though. Famous composer Alexander Scryabin had it. IP: Logged |
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