I too am too familiar with such whispers however neurohacking has still to fulfill its promise of recovering the intensity from childhood. I don't know if it ever reached synesthetic levels, if it did it was more of a tactile flavor. But it could just be normal psychosomatic responses of emotion, I'm using the same introspective skills (perhaps the only skill I consider myself somewhat good at ) which allowed me to click with the book and NH relatively quickly (I believe, but am probb wrong again ) ... to classify those and it seems to be helping recover them but still too subtle... (any suggestions from NH besides anxiety reduction?)

But images and sounds always invoked strong emotions and I've still got this at least at a declarative level (n5)? Though at this level I think most people do (however unconscious)? More like associations we have for each color or melodic pattern. Though I often remember/associate past places with the texture of particular images and smell. My sense of smell was also quite keen, i think i may be recovering that though... And I do hear bats (that was not part of the joke, lol, just the trigger)

More recently I was starting to describe flavors with geometric patterns, but it was too subtle to be sure. Also when reading, sometimes I see words with color, but it doesnt seem to provide more info so it could be just an eye thing cause i did try to pay closer attention and didnt find much correlation... but I'm still on the "look out", so to speak, on this one...


About the avatars:

Coincidentally, I planned to change my avatar last week, after reading your reply to CH which provided a nice comical hook, as I "excused" it on "acid" (I was waiting for a more appropriate time to post so as not to interrupt the conversation and I placed that reply today). Though I don't think mine had much problems with colors.. it was basically an orange/yellow against a neutral background (white in this case).. not to mention the sphinx is a product of culture? although the slaves would probably "beg" to differ? To me it just associates with sand, desert winds, maybe dryness, etc...

I was more concerned about the pose and the joke with the vader's head... then the egyptian motif came along a few days ago, which was the occasion I was expecting to implement the change =) and there you have it, an unbirthday present indeed (I posted that reply (on embedding stuff) before reading this! lol another coincidence, now it's not simply a thematic joke ^_^)

Hi, dude... I'm right here .. to your other left. I like plurals, but not that often.. (j/k)

I've seen those, but didnt seem to help.. and there were few (i remember only 1) or am I recalling incorrectly? im gonna check it again...

My priority would be emotion, I hope it has nothing to do with the knock in the head which made me pass out after rolling accelerating to full speed down a hill on my bicycle... LOL

edit: Oh, my metaphorization seems reasonably ok.. should it imply synesthesia?

That tutorial was exactly where I went =) thanks.

besides the chemical hack there is only the signs exercise (which I think is more related to the responses to color/melodic patterns I described above?)

Although.... passing by the diagnostic image I did see the triangle, so I guess I have synesthesia after all. I did not remember where the triangle was from when I first read the tutorial so it seems legit, unless the memory is unconscious...

Maybe mine is just not overt as you describe? Perhaps this may be for the better as I can appreciate the beauty of the poisonous frogs of Costa-Rica without risking throwing my lunch the wrong tube?

I actually had a big poster of one on my room while growing up. (plus the volcano and other exotic animals ^_^)

I say my priority is "emotion" not in the sense of "stability" but "intensity". If I can recover a fraction of the interest for programming I've once had, I'll be able to improve that skill enough to be able to offer it to scientists to help with finding answers more quickly.


Edit: Ps: Not to mention if I get any more "creative" my head will probably explode! That's probably why I can't get anything done in the first place! lol

Hey guys, short clip about synesthesia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBm4fvCwcGM

Btw Alex, i can "see" why synesthesia can help for example to have a better memory (remember something better) if more than one sense is activated when we read or hear something .. but there is something more on it?

I mean is worth the "trade off" to have thar particular improvement in memory and maybe taste/sense "no pleasent" sensations with it? (because it seems we can't control that?)

Edit: And can an "universal" exercise to develop overall synesthesia be listen to a lot of audiobooks? probably better to "connect" hearing with pictures but if you hear a lot of rich description audio (related to feelings, tastes, sensations etc) probably it helps with the others senses too?

And last one, did you read this book alex?

http://www.amazon.com/Wednesday-Indigo- … ynesthesia

Could photoptarmosis be considered a type of synethesia?

Hi dudes,
Robert Wrote: Could photoptarmosis be considered a type of synethesia?

...There are different opinions on this. On the face of it the brain is interpreting light with an additional tactile stimulus, so it's certainly crosswiring, but some think it's dysfunctional crosswiring in the Trigeminal nerve associated with a deviated septum.

Evidence against: I have a deviated septum, but never got photoptarmosis. My friend doesn't have a deviated septum, and she gets it all the time... she also does it both ways round (coming out of light into darkness is just as effective a trigger, implying it is sudden change of light level -and therefore pupil size- and not light itself that causes the response; in her at least.)
It may be connected to temperature -some people sneeze in sudden changes of temperature regardless of the light level; coming out of the cold wind into a hot room for example.

It would not appear to be an advantageous evolutionary strategy imparting extra data in the way that other synesthetic modulation does. There is also a form of uncontrolled sneezing triggered by emotional arousal mediating histamine release, and a possibility the two could be connected as both involve sudden changes of pupil size.

Anyone who has this could do some experiments for us to explore it. Get an extra box of tissues first  :  )
Best,
AR

Pseudo-Synesthesia through Reading Books with Colored Letters

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Ad … ne.0039799