Synesthesia: Can you taste words, shapes, hear colors? Thought I was the only one

[gR33nDav3l0l]

Only on acid, with sounds and colors and light. Once I thought I could feel the sound of the ocean.

 

[Singlemalt]

I think we repulse Hookah sometimes.
only because we love ya.

I missed her...didn't say anything when she popped back in cuz she might think I'm stalking her....which I will if she even looks half of Bette Page

 

[AltarNation]

I used to see abstract visual representations of non-visual words when I was a boy...

The word "because" looked like one of those NBC-logo-shaped windows that they put over doors sometimes. That's the only one I can remember now as an adult. There were a handful of others but that's the one that stuck with me. I think this is a form of it.

Nowadays I only get synesthesia when I ingest holy chemicals, generally.

 

[AltarNation]

But honestly the idea of being able to TASTE words, that trips me out way more than the visualization stuff because visualizing is sort of a skill I've practiced a lot whereas "imagining tastes" is something I don't do very often at all... so I'd imagine it would be quite a trip to have them summoned from outside stimuli. I do get very strange taste associations (Chardonnay tastes like roast beef that's gone bad to me, for example) that those around me tend to overlook... I usually just chalk it up to having a refined palette but some of them are really weird.

There's also a certain french bread we get from the bakery in hannafords sometimes that tastes strongly of grape juice to me. Girlfriend doesn't notice it at all. I think this one is some sort of weird burned in association from going to church when I was a kid though... body of Christ and some grape juice to wash it down because Christ's real blood had too much alcohol content for these Flanders-esque fuckers...

...

But I digress.

Back to your normally scheduled thread.

 

[Singlemalt]

In serious context with op...I don't taste much, but I smell stuff where it shouldn't be...diff smells ,too

 

[AltarNation]

In serious context with op...I don't taste much, but I smell stuff where it shouldn't be...diff smells ,too

Sometimes I catch a whiff of the unholy bastardized portions of my own sinuses that are clogged with the corpses of the millions of cellular relatives who's remains lie lodged in the corpse-souping swamp of bong resin and vapor condensate that no doubt lies in the bottom of what has become the very physical manifestation of denial.

That should not be.

 

[lahadaextranjera]

I had a very acute sense of smell a while back. Not always a good thing!

 

[oldtimer54]

For me I kinda think that jimmi Hendrix had that ability .......I damn sure could taste what he was singing about. !

 

[charface]

Can you smell what the Rocks been cookin.

 

[charface]

Have you figured out a way to make it work for you.
like those savantes who see images for numbers n stuff like that?

 

[charface]

If we took hookah to vegas it would be like this.

Black jack dealer:
I "trust" the lady will stay at 19?

Hookah:
Peanut butter, definantly peanut butter!.

Blackjack Dealer:

 

[Hookabelly]

In serious context with op...I don't taste much, but I smell stuff where it shouldn't be...diff smells ,too

Do tell…

I think we repulse Hookah sometimes.
only because we love ya.

Not at all. I've been dealing with a bunch of shit that's just been dumped in my lap. Not as much time for internet stuff lately

 

[Hookabelly]

Have you figured out a way to make it work for you.
like those savantes who see images for numbers n stuff like that?

Well I've got the idiot part pretty down pat, the savant part and the making a living part still elude me...

 

[Pinworm]

 

[tytheguy111]

This thread is vary

Oh how do I put it

Distasteful

 

[Yessica...]

I can't smell colours or hear shapes or anything.

But, some of the new weeds I have been smoking make me smell things that aren't there. For example, one kind, I always smell toast. Like every time. And there's NO TOAST in my house.

Another different kind, and I can smell bad smells, like mildew on a towel or something gross in the refrigerator that my boyfriend can't smell.

So - I think weed has given me periodically heightened senses. Like a superhero. A very LAME superhero.

"You have some yogurt that is not passed its date, but may be past it's best? Yessica... will sniff out the problem for you."



I should probably travel around by way of fish too...