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"Paul Stamler" <pstamlerhell@pobox.com> wrote in message news:<%JcWd.327961$w62.119992@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>...
> "Jim" <no@spam.com> wrote in message news:38sukfF5rsq63U1@individual.net...
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> > "db" <deanbowlus@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> > news:1109896541.130005.52230@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > >
http/www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/03/03/taste.sounds.reut/index.html
> > >
> > > A woman in England who has a neurological condition in which she has
> > > different sensations of tastes when musical notes are played.
> > > Pretty damn weird.
> > >
> >
> > In my Biology class we where talking about what Acid does to you and
> > basically it confuses your neurological signals. What inputs to your
> brain.
> > So you can feel colors, hear smells, smell what you would normally touch,
> > etc.. Its never a guarentee to work that way, but its been known to
> > happen on many occasions and has been experimented with in a controlled
> > setting.
> >
> > I was amazed just to hear about it.
>
> For many folks acid's not required; when I first started playing guitar, at
> age nine, I heard the subdominant chord as warmer in temperature than the
> others. Dominant 7 had a slightly hooked shape. Etc.
>
> Peace,
> Paul
as Rob rightly pointed out this condition is called synesthesia.
basically the senses taste, sight, hearing etc. become confused with
eachother. the painter Kandinsky suffered from this condition, for him
it manifested in him hearing the colours on the panitings he painted,
this was long before he could have contemplated an acid trip!
Hugh.