Synesthesia-Trick of the senses. Part 3

Documentary about the rare neurological condition called synesthesia

Category:

Education

Tags:

• synesthesia
• music
• colour

[fdmoc]

I am willing to know whether i have synesthesia or not. I really have to know that. if you know synesthesia well, let me know. music creates shapes and images for me. instantly, thats for sure. flute sounds usually creates the same types of images, and piano as well. Mostly abstract shapes and images. most of the time with colours - white, yellow, orange, brown and black. Different instruments create different colours and shapes. high notes - lighter clours, low notes - darker colours. opinion?

[thetreeleprechaun]

@iaestia

Not to completely disagree with you. I do believe that a non-synesthetic scientist will never understand the experience itself, but that doesn't mean they can't understand how the condition works.

[thetreeleprechaun]

@iaestia

You're talking about a vivid, explicative scene. Synesthesia is fundamental and synesthetic experiences cannot be broken down. To say that only synesthetes should study synesthesia would mean that a lot of ingenuous scientists would not be allowed to make breakthroughs and it would also mean that it would continue to be overlooked and disregarded. We'd be in the 1800s. It's akin to saying only schizophrenics should study schizophrenia, only people with amnesia should study dementia etc

[MillionDollarComp]

I was thinking of something in the ground, and I didn't know what colour to imagine the leaves being, but I had no idea they would look that much like butterflies.

[iaestia]

I am sorry for the inverted order of my posts. So this is 3rd post. So here the description goes. "...Distinctive butterfly-shaped leaves and strange seeds. A shrub.The compound leaves are divided in two so that the leaflets resemble butterfly wings or a camel's foot. There is a tiny point at the join of the two leaflets which is the remnant of a third, terminal leaflet." So the name of the plant is "Colophospermum mopane". And if you are interested, just google it.

[iaestia]

I will try to explain it using a simple example. Say, you have never been to Africa and you have no idea of what some African plants look like. Please see below a description of an African plant. While reading the description try to imagine the plant. After you have read it, go to the web site where the picture of the plant is and check yourself, see the real picture and compare your imaginary picture to the real picture.

[iaestia]

Good job. But a synesthete's world should be described researchers who are synesthetes themselves. Because non-synesthetes might not have a true idea. Like blind people who have never seen the world but who were told some things about the world (by people who can see) and now the blind people are trying to explain to other blind people what the world looks like. What I want to say is that the real experiences and the descriptions of those experiences might be somewhat different.