23 Jul 2016, 2:51 pm
auntblabby wrote:
saxgeek wrote:
I notice that in language, there's a tendency to use words from one sense to describe a different sense. Like "tone color", "a bitter remark", "sweet and kind", "loud colors". Could this be the result of synesthesia?
it could just be, that it is not a matter of yes/no in terms of having synesthesia or not, but of %. IOW we all have it but most of us have only a small mostly inconspicuous % of it, enough to be able to grok the concepts of synesthesia, only a few lucky gifted ones actually have major crosstalk between the senses that lets them experience the quasi-acid trip senses.Yes I think that most humans have some degree of synesthesia. Else why would the lead singer of The Miracles be referred to as "Smokey Robinson", or Mel Torme be knicknamed "the Velvet Fog"?
In the first case vision is used a metaphor for sound, and in the second a combination of visual AND tactile stimuli is used as a metaphor for sound.
The sport of boxing is called "the sweet science". Explain THAT! That term is beyond synesthesian to being almost delusional Lol!
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23 Jul 2016, 3:03 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
The sport of boxing is called "the sweet science". Explain THAT! That term is beyond synesthesian to being almost delusional Lol!
that warps my brain
