Evidence that i'm either gifted or just straight weird

On an outing with my friend Jo we were listening to the radio(dj quik of course). And i asked her some questions like "Do you feel color when you listen to a song?" or "Is this song wavy to you?" and stuff like "This music is thick"...but anyway, being the smart UCLA bruin that she is, she read about some kinda disease that people have where different senses are cross wired and people sense another feeling when recepting another. For Example:

"When Matthew Blakeslee shapes hamburger patties with his hands, he experiences a vivid bitter taste in his mouth. Esmerelda Jones (a pseudonym) sees blue when she listens to the note C sharp played on the piano; other notes evoke different hues--so much so that the piano keys are actually color-coded, making it easier for her to remember and play musical scales. And when Jeff Coleman looks at printed black numbers, he sees them in color, each a different hue. Blakeslee, Jones and Coleman are among a handful of otherwise normal people who have synesthesia. They experience the ordinary world in extraordinary ways and seem to inhabit a mysterious no-man's-land between fantasy and reality. For them the senses--touch, taste, hearing, vision and smell--get mixed up instead of remaining separate"...Well yea anyway, i think i got this shizz. That's crazy, huh!? Like i explained it perfectly to her. I'm a freak(in more ways that one *wink wink*) i know...but anyway, here's the part that got most pertains to myself.
"…Another prevalent idea is that synesthetes are merely being metaphorical when they describe the note C flat as "red" or say that chicken tastes "pointy"--just as you and I might speak of a "loud" shirt or "sharp" cheddar cheese. Our ordinary language is replete with such sense-related metaphors, and perhaps synesthetes are just especially gifted in this regard. ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
We began trying to find out whether synesthesia is a genuine sensory experience in 1999. This deceptively simple question had plagued researchers in this field for decades. One natural approach is to start by asking the subjects outright: "Is this just a memory, or do you actually see the color as if it were right in front of you?" When we tried asking this question, we did not get very far. Some subjects did respond, "Oh, I see it perfectly clearly." But a more frequent reaction was, "I kind of see it, kind of don't" or "No, it is not like a memory. I see the number as being clearly red but I also know it isn't; it's black"

anyway...i got class in a little bit so here's the link http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=0003014B-9D06-1E8F-8EA5809EC5880000 tell me what you think(that rhymes!)

I know i know, you all may be thinking, "damn nate, i miss you, i haven't had a chance to talk to you in a while"...well fear not, baby. (<--how gay, huh?) i'll probably blog tonight.


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