What is this called? Describing things using shapes?!
Question: What is this called? Describing things using shapes?
I describe things using shapes (which is apparently uncommon). If I have lemon tea it tastes 'triangular' or if I have chocolate it tastes like an octagon. It is also with things I smell or feel, anything really.
I never knew this was uncommon until recently.
What is the name of this?
Thanks!
Answers:
Kristin
You have a rare and interesting way of experiencing the world
It is a form of synethesia
synesthesia is not a disorder per se, but a perceptual curiosity occurring in roughly 1 in 25,000 individuals.
synesthesia means "joined sensation" (Greek, syn = together + aisthesis = perception)
Although the five senses yield 20 possible pair-wise combinations, some synesthetic combinations are much more common than others. Yoking of sight with sound is by far most frequent, touch and taste less so, and smell is least often involved. Color, movement, and geometric shape are typical properties of the parallel sensation(s). Replication and symmetry of the percepts are usual. In colored hearing synesthesia, words, voices, environmental sounds, or music trigger the perception of an involuntary photism that is seen outside the body. In a case I called geometric taste (i.e., taste-touch synesthesia) the taste of mint caused subject MW to feel, but not see, a cold, smooth, curved shape in front of him.
The legendary maestro of California wine Andre Tchelistcheff is said to have experienced wines in bigger shapes after he stopped smoking.
When I taste wine I experience it as smooth or angular, rough or soft. My language lacks poetic descriptions yet my photography shows shapes in wine and the chemicals of taste that are intriguing to those of us lost in our senses. The first wine I ever photographed “looked like it tasted” according to its winemaker Theo Rosenbrand.
I hope this helps answer your question
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Simon
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl…
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-improve…
http://cytowic.net/_Books/_More-Shapes/_…
http://sondrabarrett.com/2011/01/04/syne…
http://wearcam.org/synesthesia/synesthes…
It's AMAZING I found it at http://u96.info/lemon-tea
http://u96.info/lemon-tea