Synesthesia

	Duration: 06:05 minutes Upload Time: 2007-02-16 14:45:35 User: mro940 :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day
Description: Highlights the fascinating perceptual condition of synesthesia and the research being done on it in Dr. Eagleman's lab.
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gzmsr88 ::: Favorites at the end, when the guy is eating the chicken with the icecream he says he sees the color blue. Can he also taste what he is eating or does he only see the color? 07-10-03 00:44:26 __________________________________________________
CuteShoes101 ::: Favorites cool! 07-09-15 20:20:56 __________________________________________________
cybermecium ::: Favorites color is determined by the frequency of the light (many times higher than frequencies of sound our ears percieve.) If the frequency of a given color, happens to be a harmonic (multiple) of the frequency of a sound, to a synesthetic, the sound-percieving part of the brain picks up on the harmonic frequency in the light/color, which then induces the corresponding sensation of sound for that particular color (frequency) of light. 07-09-11 17:31:53 __________________________________________________
muskypuckers ::: Favorites I don't know if they have a 'term' for me, but I DO see sounds. Never realized it wasn't normal. Mostly, by closing my eyes I see different colors and sine waves depending on the sound/tone. They're magnified if I'm near sleep too. 07-08-31 00:26:29 __________________________________________________
sodapop239 ::: Favorites monday- light blue, tuesday- lime green, wednesday- red, thursday- light brown, friday- dark red, saturday- orange/yellow, sunday- very light yellow. its not that weird just something that ive always felt. i get it for numbers too but they have personalities as well such as young, old, angry, clever, happy- does anyone else get this? 07-08-29 13:21:33 __________________________________________________
thatgeekbronnie ::: Favorites That is so strange! I used to play insternments when I was in High school and every sound/tone/note/color had a shape! I just learned something new about myself! 07-08-28 19:18:06 __________________________________________________
crin28 ::: Favorites wow, really?!! Sounds like such a strange experience, but really unique and beautiful at the same time... :-) 07-08-23 15:26:56 __________________________________________________
brandybuck1984 ::: Favorites You are so right, sound/colour synesthesia isn't that annoying, and isn't about spinning and zooming in on colour at all, it's something more graceful and beautiful than that! I'm not a sound/taste synesthesiate but imagine that combination could be quite intrusive on ones life, I read something about a man who heard the name Derek and tasted earwax at the same time. 07-08-23 13:31:35 __________________________________________________
brandybuck1984 ::: Favorites I totally agree with you, about losing it, it would be awful. It's unique. I totally disagree with Thursday being turquoise though, it's alawys been dark/pomegranite orange to me! It's amazing how everybody's range of colours differ!!! 07-08-23 13:26:49 __________________________________________________
brandybuck1984 ::: Favorites Indeed they do. In my case very word's colour is usually determined by the colours of the letters that make it up, for instance words beginning with the letter T are green as the letter T is green to me. It's not the sound of the word that triggers off the colour, but the colours of the letters that make up the word, a word beginning with a T followed by a H would start of green and turn orange as H is orange. 07-08-23 13:22:20 __________________________________________________