The Senses Just All Kinds of Crazy
The Senses Just all Kinds of Crazy The ego-less state of euphoria page 66 page 67 Synesthesia The most Glorious of Disorders h Synesthesia, how I worship flavor of someone's voice, or music Right-left confusion (allochiria) (both you! A prime example of whose sound looks like "shards of of which I have), and a poor sense O the good side of cranial glass," a scintillation of jagged, colored of direction for vector rather than mishaps is the disorder Synesthesia. triangles moving in the visual field. network maps are common. A first- Actually, Syn is as much an unwanted Or, seeing the color red, a synesthete degree family history of dyslexia, thing as superpowers, and so is never might detect the "scent" of red as well. autism, and attention deficit is present really considered a disorder at all. It is The experience is frequently projected in about 15%. Very rarely, the sensual estimated that it effects 1/25,000 to outside the individual, rather than being experience is so intense as to interfere 1/100,000, making it relatively rare and an image in the mind's eye. I currently with rational thinking (e.g., writing a has been virtually unheard of since a estimate that 1/25,000 individuals is speech, memorizing formulae). I have quick spurt of interest between 1860 and born to a world where one sensation encountered no one whose synesthesia 1930, only to re-emerge lately thanks to a involuntarily conjures up others, was so markedly disruptive to rational neurologist named Dr. Richard Cytowic.
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