Exciting new form of synesthesia
May. 4th, 2018 02:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osewalrus https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/3/17304470/synesthesia-noisy-gifs-psychology-vear
I'm one of the people who has this weird sensory phenomena called synesthesia. It my case, it is "touch synesthesia." As I understand it, I have a sufficiently strong imagination and sense of empathy that when I observe other people being hit, slapped, touched it creates an "echo" phenomenon for me that my brain fires off the relevant neurons to feel like I was touched (although generally not with the same intensity as an actual physical contact). It also produces some other odd sensory effects -- notably taste but sometimes tactile -- when my brain is working on serious overload.
Now I can add vEAR.
I'm one of the people who has this weird sensory phenomena called synesthesia. It my case, it is "touch synesthesia." As I understand it, I have a sufficiently strong imagination and sense of empathy that when I observe other people being hit, slapped, touched it creates an "echo" phenomenon for me that my brain fires off the relevant neurons to feel like I was touched (although generally not with the same intensity as an actual physical contact). It also produces some other odd sensory effects -- notably taste but sometimes tactile -- when my brain is working on serious overload.
Now I can add vEAR.
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Date: 2018-05-05 08:58 am (UTC)I have that when I hear someone’s throat closing up when singing improperly at the high part of their vocal range — my throat strains right along with them.
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Date: 2018-05-08 05:40 pm (UTC)No illusion of sound from the videos, but I did feel impact when watching the jumping towers.