Just add senses and stir!

I figured out recently that in my time-space synaesthesia, I am always oriented within October. For example, if I hear that someone's birthday is in June, it takes me a minute to think "is that in the near future or recently past?" and then I find myself placed in October, and have to move the "time strip" backwards-and-to-the-right in order to figure out what month it is currently. (Complicated!) This usually means that my "October orientation" is situated in the past October, not any specific year and not usually in the future. (I don't find myself sliding the time strip forward-and-to-the-left which would tell me that I was looking into the past from my October orientation.) haha, very complicated to explain synaesthesia in words! And it still doesn't capture it.

Does anyone else with time/space synaesthesia find that "now" is a somewhat stagnant orientation like that? I can't think of a logical reason for October, either. (Not that "A" should logically be red or "N" blue, but there they are.)

"Got Synesthesia?: Hong Kong Artist Lio Yeung Lets Viewers See Like a Butterfly, or a Baby, in New Show

Do you ever wonder whether the red you see is the same as another person sees it, or if there is any literal truth in the adage about beauty being in the eye of the beholder? It was questions like these that inspired artist and designer Lio Yeung’s exhibition, “A Is Green, R Is Red,” now showing at agnès b.’s LIBRAIRIE GALERIE in Hong Kong.

Yeung's show is all about playing with the different ways you can see the world and was originally inspired by the phenomenon of synesthesia, the condition whereby some people can perceive one kind of stimulus (say, sound) as another (say, color). For most people reading this story, the background to these words would look white and the letters would all look black (or perhaps a bit gray,) but for people with synesthesia the letters of the alphabet would each have their own separate color. Intrigued by this discovery, Yeong went on to explore all the other differences that exist in the way different people — and animals — see the world.

Particularly influenced by scientific research into visual disorders, and by artists whose work he came to know during his recent travels in Europe, Yeung’s “A Is Green R Is Red” project is full of exaggeration and unexpected juxtapositions. Highlights include “Magritte,” a neon installation interpreting how babies begin to see objects by tracking their motion, and a photographic collage inspired by the work of the inventor of the electronic flash, Harold Edgerton. In this latter piece every image is overlapped, one over another, like a flip book that doesn’t quite work properly. Most stunning of all, however, is an ultraviolet light drawing in the exhibition called "Blossom," which shows how a flower looks through the eyes of a butterfly."

(Pictures from the show are in the slide show) http://artinfo.com/news/story/754708/got-synesthesia-hong-kong-artist-lio-yeung-lets-viewers-see-like-a-butterfly-or-a-baby-in-new-show

You might enjoy ( the video under this cut, showing how one person made it so he can literally taste words in a cocktail. )

There's a fascinating (to me, anyway) description of how he made this contraption on a post over at his website, morskoiboy.com.

(Description of video/image: a cocktail drink mixer made to look like a typewriter, where pressing a key allows colored and flavored syrups to mix with the alcohol, which causes a display to show the letter in the color of the syrup for that letter and then that flavored syrup to be deposited into the drink with the alcohol.)

Hi all! I'm new here. My synesthesia types, for anyone curious:

- Grapheme→color synesthesia

- What I'm currently calling "song→color synesthesia". ( (elaboration) )

- Grapheme→personality synesthesia with highly varied degrees of vividness. ( (elaboration) )

- VERY limited music→taste synesthesia. ( (elaboration) )

A few questions:

( My grapheme→color synesthesia seemingly inspired by letter magnets, etc., yet with the colors ending up almost completely different? )

( Grapheme→color synesthesia, but not a savant? (this is a lot of LJ-cuts!) )

3) Is it common to have synesthesia with varying degrees of vividness, such as the grapheme→personality synesthesia I describe above?

Answers would be appreciated, and since I'm infamous for not making sense, I apologize if this doesn't make sense either.

How are Christians to understand their synesthesia in the context of their Christianity? Is there any biblical example of people (not necessarily with synesthesia) but with other unusual perceptions (un-related to spiritual ones? If so, were these approved of, disapproved of, or reacted to indifferently either th bye writer of a given book or by the "characters" within it? Should Christians understand their perceptual situation as a "disability" or as a "blessing"?

 Hi everyone,

I'm a London-based student  currently starting a film project on synaesthesia, focusing on ways to convey multisensory experiences purely through visual techniques.

I need a few subjects that have synaesthesia to talk about their experience with it and how it affects them on a daily basis. Initially it would only need to be via email or phone, but ultimately I'd be wanting to film or record audio interviews.

If anyone is interested in this project or would just like to know a bit more about it, please let me know and email me at steph.beeston@gmail.com

Thanks a lot!

Hey all,

aki_no_kaze kindly told me how to turn on the anti-spam feature that requires all posters to solve a captcha before posting. Thanks Aki!

Sorry for the tiny inconvenience to the community, but I know how much you all hate spam, so I felt this would be a small price to pay for a little peace and quiet. :)

Please send all your flowers of gratitude to aki_no_kaze. :) I just pushed the buttons.

Edit: Actually, apparently aki told me how to do this SEVEN WEEKS AGO according to the timestamp on the email. I only now saw it because I got a new spam notification and dealt with it, then noticed an unread email that explained this.

I'm terribly sorry for not turning this feature on immediately. I'll try to be a better moderator from now on. :)

I'm sorry if this isn't allowed!

I have synesthesia, and in the next few weeks I'm going to drop acid for the first time. My friends are nervous about me doing it BECAUSE I have synesthesia. When I smoke weed it's always enhanced and I tell them about it, and so they think acid will be too much and I'll freak out. I think I'll be fine. My question is: if you have synesthesia and have taken LSD, is your synesthesia enhanced that much? Does it do anything weird at all?

Thanks, and again I'm sorry if this is against the rules!

Hey guys, thanks for contacting me about the recent spam.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to actually FIND the spam in some cases, so it would be really helpful to me if you'd include links to the spam posts so I can be sure to kill them right away.

I suspect that in some cases the livejournal spam detection robots are removing the spam before I get to it, which may explain why I can't always find the posts. But if you include links to the specific spam post you see, it will help me determine if I'm just blind, or if the livejournal spam killing bots already took care of it.

Of course, just telling me "hey! there's new spam!" is MUCH better than not saying anything at all, so I still obviously welcome a quick note without links but keep in mind that if I can't find the spam, I can't remove it. :) So, including links is always going to be helpful.

Thanks muchly.

- Your friendly invisible community admin.

Hi everyone,

I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who experiences number-related synaesthesia. I have a character who lives with a particularly overt form of this condition, and have a few questions I feel could lend a deeper understanding of her perspectives.

Feel free to email me at

junonite AT gmail DOT com

http://lynnejamneckdiaries.blogspot.com/