18 Burst results for "Synesthesia"
The Eric Metaxas Show
Filmmaker Allen Wolf Discusses Autism and 'The Sound of Violet'
"20% of autistic people have synesthesia. So explain this again because this is just amazing. When you look us up, it's completely fascinating, but basically what's happening is there's just some wiring in the brain. That's a little different. And people with synesthesia experience it in different ways. He looks at colors. He hears sounds. Other people associate colors with numbers. They see automatic numbers in their heads. Other people can be the opposite. They will, they will confuse colors with feelings. I've talked to friends about this, and I'm not joking. I've always associated the number 8 with green. Why? I don't know why. Maybe it's because the first gift I ever got was an $8 bill. No, that can't be it. Seriously, I don't know why, but I have always, you know, there are these bizarre. I mean, we're talking about we're fearfully and wonderfully made. I mean, crazy stuff. But so the name of the young woman who begins in the story as a prostitute and ends up as a non prostitute, and that's your only spoiler alerts there, but. Well, yeah. Who knows what happens? Who knows? Who knows? Where what do we know? What do we know? Only the father knows. Even Jesus doesn't know only the father. But the title of this movie is the sound of violet and violet is in fact the name of this young woman of her. Exactly. Yes, violet like the color. And you know, I think in some ways, Sean, his character is unconditional love toward her. And in some ways, violet represents all of us, where we're all of us are broken in different ways. We're all looking for love and different ways. And he pursues her with his love, it's transformative. But also her love is transformative to him because he's always had trouble connecting with others, picking up social cues. So for the first time that each finds someone that is actually interested in the other and that relationship is what the film is all about.
Broken Record
"synesthesia" Discussed on Broken Record
"Yeah, it's an interesting question because it comes back to that thing that we touched on in the last episode having to do with that period of time where I was seeing music very clearly in my head with synesthesia or some form of synesthesia. And even though I don't have that the way I did when I was in my early 20s, I do see things and I can see, for instance, if I'm playing live, the beginning of a guitar, so I'm not humming it. I just see it. Wow. When you say you see it, you don't see it like written music. No. Would you describe it as shape? How would you describe it? That's the funny thing about it is it's not visual, at least I don't think it is, but it's in an instant. I might see two bars of a guitar solo of the way I'm going to start the solo. I might see the first two bars in my head as a single picture. How would you describe a single instant? I see those two bars. But when you say see the two bars, tell me what you're like describe what you're seeing. What are the bars look like? I don't know how. It's for me because it's interesting. It's one of those things that because I could do this kind of thing so good when I was when I was like 20 and I was literally seeing everything as a movie that like you'd ask me like you'd have the idea like we would be working on so to squeeze and I remember you saying, you should write a guitar intro just a guitar only intro for this song. And I would just see a picture in my head like a visual picture like a movie of the song and I would think, okay, what would be the right movie for the intro? And then I would just see the movie and then play the feeling of that. Almost like the school, like you're scoring an image. But it's not an image that you could necessarily describe. Not necessarily, but it very well could have been in those days. There were things that were very clear, but they always, there was this interaction between the music and the visuals in my head to where if I was hearing music, I saw a visual that perfectly represented that music and it could be abstract shapes in black and white or it could be color just like a movie or it was. And so as time went by and I went California time, I started making music again, but without that clear visual Ness, I still had the same ability to see the feeling of music in my head, yet there was no picture to it, but I could see it. I can only describe it as seen because it's there in my head and it's clear and I see the connection between that and what I would play to do that feeling. But sometimes there's a visual thing, but it's more like spaces than it is like objects. Okay. And when you say spaces, do you mean spaces between things or a visual space, like a location? I'm not really saying that it's anything that I could expect anybody to be able to draw or something. Yeah. It's just the absence of objects. I see. As opposed to objects, it's something like you've seen what's missing. You don't have time. I'm curious. You're asking me these questions. You must have something like that. No, I don't know. I'm trying to I'm trying to visualize what you're experiencing. And I'm just looking for any clues to, I want to see it. I want to see it. Yeah. Pretty mysterious. I think I told you, I think I told you when I was gassed at the dentist's office, I told you. A long time ago, needle phobic. I got gas to have a blood test. And I was listening to music. Can they gas me? And I could see the music. I could see 3D images and I remember thinking, oh, now I know how to do this, because now that I've been exposed to it, I don't need laughing gas to do this. I see what this is. Right. And then I've never been able to do it again. Even not on laughing gas I have never been able to do it again. But in that first time, I was able to clearly see, and it was so cool. It was so cool to be able to see it. Yeah, that's how it was for me real consistently from 1990, 91, 92. It's mysterious to me that I was able to make music just as colorful and emotional and shapely and all these things without it. I can only say that even though I don't see the visuals, like I did, they must be there just below the level of consciousness because the effect of what that did remained with me. When you could see it, maybe it was almost like training wheels. Like it had to be that clear for whatever it was that was showing it to you for you to be able to see it and then once you built the ability to see it, you could still see it without the visual there. Right. Yeah, it seems to me that that is that that is what happened. And I'm sure there are people who just go on seeing at their whole lives, but it didn't work that way for me. But yeah, there are a lot of ideas. Don't you get it, say, for instance, you're looking through movies. You're thinking of watching a movie and you look through your DVD collection and there's nothing nothing's leaping out at you. All of a sudden, one DVD, that's the one you want to watch. What happens in your head at that moment? I would say it's a feeling of the energy in my body raises. It's similar to when we're playing in the studio and it goes from a okay take to a great take. There's this feeling of just like, I feel this lift of energy in my body that makes me want to sometimes makes me want to laugh, sometimes it makes me want to lean forward and listen closer. I would say it's interest. It's like you could be sitting around in like mindlessly not thinking and then something grabs my attention. Right. Nothing changed volumes are not any louder. You know, it's like it's not like the music came on. Music's been playing for hours, but all of a sudden, like my attention gets drawn to this thing. And it's this wave of energy, I guess, is the
WTOP
"synesthesia" Discussed on WTOP
"For the respiratory disease RSV can help apparently can apparently help unborn babies fight off the illness when their infants. That is coming from new research on pregnant mothers who received the shot. Pfizer says a large international study on its vaccine finds it is 82% effective at preventing severe cases of RSV in babies during the first months of life. And the vaccine still works months after that by being 69% effective at safely beating back the worst of the virus. Scientists plan to seek preliminary approval for the vaccine by the end of the year. Virginia native, David baldacci created the successful memory man book series and detective Amos decker returns in the 7th installment called long shadows. Amos decker was a professional football player, and then he suffered a traumatic brain injury on the field. It caused his brain to acquire two attributes. One is hyperthymesia, which is perfect recall. And the other one is synesthesia. It's a commingling of sensory pathways. So he sees dead bodies as an electric blue. David baldacci continues to follow Amos decker's journey from football player to policemen detective and FBI consultant. And this novel begins with a new partner out of the FBI office in Baltimore, and they butt heads immediately. The football backstory was inspired by his own Richmond, Virginia roots. The memories of Joe Gibbs and the hogs. I don't think even Amos decker was perfect memory could remember those. You are a full chat on my podcast beyond the fame. Jason fraley W two B news. If you're one of those dreaming of becoming a billionaire playing Powerball, it may be time to reconsider. You didn't win last night, but tomorrow's jackpot will be roughly $1.2 billion. The fourth largest in U.S. history, the new total is sky high because no one took home the behemoth prize. Halloween night last night. Massive lottery jackpots are more common these days because lottery officials have tweaked the game rules and ticket prices to pump up the top prices. Money news at 25 and 55. Here's Jeff claypot. Final two hours of trading for the day just to hit the dows down 88 points. Yes and P 500 is down 15. The NASDAQ is down 80 points, Uber drivers are busy again. Uber ended the quarter with a 124 million users up 14% from a year ago, it's still low lost $1.2 billion last quarter, a slowdown in home sales and a slowdown in new home construction hit Winchester, Virginia based treks, the maker of decking materials, cut production last quarter and laid off employees to adjust for falling sales, Delta Air Lines pilots have voted to strike if a contract talks don't lead to an agreement. There's no timeline for a potential strike. It would need federal national mediation board approval. American Airlines has offered pilots 12% raises, Jeff claypool, that will TLP news. One 56. Sarah, how many times have you
WTOP
"synesthesia" Discussed on WTOP
"Gigabytes of data usage. You're listening to WTO P and E. 6 53, many Ukrainians say their experiencing depression and mental health crises because of the horrific attacks Russian troops have unleashed since the war started. However, it's not just the war that's causing problems. It's the people behind the war as well. It's not just the bullets and the bombs that Ukrainians are facing. It's this. On a program at RT today, which is top Russian propaganda outlet. This guy comes on and he says without blinking his eyes. Oh, Ukrainian children should be drowned in rivers and burnt in wooden huts. Yuri sack is an adviser to Ukraine's minister of defense. He says it's very important for the rest of the world to know. This is just an illustration to who we are dealing with. We are dealing with subhuman with a subhuman enemy. And looking at the many atrocities that have taken place in Ukraine, it's clear many Russian troops feel the same way about them. JJ green, WTO news. Virginia native David baldacci is out with a new book called long shadows. It's the 7th installment of his memory man series about Amos decker. I read a book about a guy who had hypertension synesthesia, so he saw days of the week as colors. I thought you could have a traumatic brain injury and open up these parts of your brain. And then to use that in a new career as a detective. David baldacci continues to follow Amos decker's journey from football player to policemen detective and FBI consultant. In this novel, they have to fly it on the South Florida to investigate the murder of a federal judge and her bodyguard. When baldacci is not writing, he's running the wish you well foundation. Financing the creation of a literacy center in rural Virginia. It's not just about reading the next book on the bestseller list. This is about being a citizen of the democracy. Here are full chat on my podcast beyond the fame. Jason Farrell. This
Broken Record
"synesthesia" Discussed on Broken Record
"At least it wasn't in the pronounced way than it was when I had synesthesia, but boy, did Joy Division mean everything to me back then did like Nirvana, Bob Marley, Joy Division those three things in particular, like I was so crazy about those particular things. They meant so much to me and I didn't have that specific colorful reaction to them that I was describing that from the blood sugar time, but I don't think music had ever meant so much to me because life seemed so bleak. Otherwise, people didn't really enjoy being around me. People felt sorry for me a lot. The same sense of humor that used to be funny when I was like the young handsome cool guy now the same jokes didn't work anymore. Like the same sense of humor it wasn't working. I'm convinced that I was that when I was 2021, I could have been an actor at that time 27. I had the distinct feeling I could never be an actor again. After this experience of realizing how much of myself was on the surface that was the reason that my personality was what it was, it was very traumatic and so that year was tough and it ended with a few months of me making sure I avoided heroin addiction, but just doing whatever I wanted and going really off the deep end and having these crazy experiences where it was hallucinations but they were very real for me where people were in my house that weren't there and I spent hours talking to them and stuff. Marcel Duchamp flee and Clara like Perry Farrell, all kinds of people were there and I thought they were there. I would call them afterwards talking about what we had done yesterday.
WGN Radio
"synesthesia" Discussed on WGN Radio
"For suspects after a fatal shooting at a Gold Coast business WGN sports because the brewers two zero the angels pizza socks 6 to 5 WGN traffic no major problems to report at this hour Chicago police say at least 29 people have been shot 7 fatally and weekend violence across the city in one of the later shootings police say a man of an unknown age was discovered unresponsive at about 5 this morning at a hallway on the second floor of the synesthesia ES suites in the 200 block of east Walton The man mistaken of northwestern memorial hospital where he was pronounced dead no one in custody in that shooting Ukrainian officials say the evacuation of civilians from a steel planted Mary opal has been put on pause until tomorrow About a hundred people were able to evacuate before Russian shelling of that plant resumed It's believed hundreds of other people are still inside the factory And a new poll shows the overwhelming majority of Americans are worried about rising inflation The Washington Post ABC News poll indicates 44% of those who are responded are upset about inflation while the other 50% say that they are concerned but not necessarily upset The Federal Reserve kicks off a two day meeting on Tuesday It's widely expected short term interest rates will be boosted to fight inflation A look at the forecast now from the WGN Chicago weather center mostly cloudy and Chile overnight The.
Mysterious Universe
"synesthesia" Discussed on Mysterious Universe
"When you look at it though you see around the edges that some information can poke through with your initial remote viewing. And he says, all he got was this tank track, the color grain, a diesel exhaust smell, and a sense of flags or nationalism. It's like, this is kind of strange. And he later on found out because at first he had no comprehension as to what this was. And to sense nationalism was just all, you know, it's almost like this synesthesia that comes through. It's like it can be represented as a color or it was a form, but it's an idea. And he said that what it was is that the task he was given was that of the Tiananmen Square. So what he was viewing was the Tiananmen Square tragedy. Something quite horrible. So later on hands up working with prudence calibrates who is known as Peru and she worked with the far side institute. And she eventually was, I think she broke off her relationship with the far side institute because there was some controversy about I think it was the how bob comet. I can't recall the top of my head, but I think at some point the help bob comet was being remote viewed by the far site institute. And when it was being remote feud, I think they said there was something in the comment trail. And of course, we know that all the terrible things that happen surrounding that. So obviously it created this bad press. Whoops. I don't think that was directly linked to it. But it was enough that it created this bad image. I brood the Kool-Aid. Possibly. Yeah, so Bruce fascinating as well is that she's had a lot of experiences with strange groups. She claims that there's a small gray alien that she became known to call the gray dude and he was sharp and her bathroom at 2 o'clock in the morning. Maybe not true again. Peru is prudence calibrates who was with the far side of T'Challa. But she and she ends up working with John. She teams up with John. The reason why she teams up with John. Because she was mentioned in the dead cowboy experience. Cowboy wanted to get into her body. Yeah, she's integral to the work that's happened with John over the years. Because she ultimately runs these sessions, these remote viewing training sessions. And yeah, as I said, she's had this gray alien that was sharp and her bathroom at 2 o'clock every morning. And she said apparently she would be hypnotically pulled from her sleep to receive these mental messages from this great that show up in a bathroom. Okay. And funnily enough, because the thing is, later on, essentially when they're doing their remote viewing, they actually come to the attention of the media. And when that came to the attention of the media, I can understand why John became quite apprehensive because they were talking about their counter terrorism remote viewing. And this was getting very popular. I think CBS or another major news outlet was hovering among other British sources that were covering them as well. And John says that even Al-Qaeda was talking about them. And I'll call you, it was basically saying that they are of the gin and that they're evil..
WGN Radio
"synesthesia" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Us here at this little radio station of ours I am and actually the listeners just I had a weird moment yesterday where I was like I felt like I don't even know how to put it into words I was trying to tell someone yesterday what it was that I was going through in my mind And all of these really positive kind things that our listeners say to us has been one of the reasons why I've loved working here so much And it's just such a nice I have this thing called synesthesia and what I saw when I was thinking about it was like a fluffy piece of fabric For those of you who know if you know you know but synesthesia you've talked to us about that before but I think if you wanted to describe WGN radio listeners or the relationship we have with them as a textile or a tactile thing I'd say a fluffy piece of fabric might work Yeah It works for you doesn't it Yeah I don't know I don't know what people think about me and I mean over the past few years I've learned to care a lot less about that You should hear the things people say to our producers off the air Some of you have not been nice at times Yeah I'm gonna be honest That's very true And some of you have been delightful Yeah But it's just like giving me a lot of thinking to do about what my values are As of 29 year old I'm there it is I'm 29 So one note about Joe DiMaggio the reason why I knew that was because there's a song in the beginning of the song the singer says something like who's your favorite baseball player Joe DiMaggio Nicely done I thought you were going to reference Simon a Garfunkel where have you gone Joe DiMaggio Our nation turns its lonely ice to So producer elephant is leaving WGN radio and thanks to those of you who have done her kindnesses and cooperated with her we put our producers through a lot of pressure here at this radio station It may sound like fun of games on the air but I'm telling you getting it on the air is not always an easy task So I always say that our radio shows sound as good as the producers and as bad as the hosts I think we've had a pretty good show here the last few years because we've had a really good producer And Ella has done everything that a producer can do here but she also has other talents that she wants to pursue They don't include producing this show include music You talk about that a lot So you're going out to California You've got some family out there and you're going to try and make your Mark out there huh Yeah well first of all thank you so much for letting me trusting me with your show This is a really big deal to you and has been to me So just thank you Thank you so much You've been sure You have made a huge impact in my life You might not know maybe you do know it but you move my couch into my first book That was a huge impact in your life Griffin and I pushed this sofa up some stairs and put it in your apartment It was grant actually Griffin and you put my air conditioner in No Griffin and I were in there doing something Yeah we put the window unit in for you Yeah But yeah I have family in Los Angeles and I okay one more thing about leaving here Last night I said to my mom I said I feel like I'm betraying the younger me by leaving this post And she said well it's just a chapter that you've completed And now it's time to move on which is true And I've been wanting to do something big with my music for a really long time as well So I'm going to do both I'm going to see what I can do with media and also carry out my music career in California As a singer songwriter performer Exactly I really want to perform more and hopefully this COVID madness doesn't get in the way of that too much I know you've had some shows canceled here You still have one more gig after the first of the year that you hope to finish here before you head out there Are you going to join a band In LA Yeah would you want to be a singer in a band or a member of a group If I have to but I'm so territorial over my project Yes you certainly are You're with your stuff like I am with my life With your show yeah exactly Which has made it not always easy to work with me I might add So it is what it is you know When you have something that's your baby and it's not like it's not a human but when you have something that is that important to you you have to put your all into it and it doesn't matter what other people say as long as you're as long as you're respectful And you are Well I appreciate that And I think you know this is this may sound like a funny thing to say but I'm glad you're leaving I think it's time for you to go Thank you You know why I say that I mean if what else you have to offer is not being satisfied here And we're not a musical venue then it's time for you to pursue that as well So godspeed to you my friend Thank you my friend Okay Well we've got 13 more minutes of radio to do here Thanks to those of you who have also been sending in kind messages and saying we're going to miss aleph By the way I know one of the things that a lot of you are going to miss is when I say Ella I'm not going to miss that though What is the average temperature for this day in Chicago And then she looks at me you know like wide eyed like oh crap Really I whatever the thing is And then I send her down this rabbit hole to get some information And then I said come on get back Get back here Get it back here Get it back here Get it back here And then she's got to get her back here And then the bit doesn't work if you drop the line You got to deliver it perfectly And if you can personalize it that's great but it either works or it doesn't I'd say about 99.74% of the time in Right And if that may be the reason elephant's leaving because there's much fun as that's been for us it was just another like oh I got to do that now too while I'm doing three other things So thanks for doing that Okay one more thing You're welcome And one more thing is that people are texting in saying really nice things and I've been trying to respond to as many as I can And if I don't it's not because I don't love you It's because there's a lot of them and now I'm sounding really bad but lotte dobb but she doesn't have time for all the little things I'm sorry That's not what I meant Exactly what Maybe if a thousand people are sending in text yeah you can't get to all of them but we read them We hear them We appreciate them And thank you elephant.
WABE 90.1 FM
"synesthesia" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"What urbina told him about the project I am doing this entire audio idea as a passion project so there is no upfront money That said there will be a lot of interest and thus online traffic royalties on it along with some of the details of the contract which included urban and getting riding credits for the music and the music rights belonging to urbina's record label synesthesia media Enough of it smelled funny to Jordan that he turned down the deal But then other artists who did participate saw the video and went wait a minute Because it felt like I had been seen like I felt like someone was finally talking about it That's Andrew hill from the group turning sound who did do an EP for the project Hill says the band started talking to other musicians and there was a sense of hey it's weird that urbina has ASCAP credit on these songs right And it's weird that he used a New York Times email for this project right And it's weird how the royalties are shaking out here right Here's hill's bandmate Jack Denny It never really felt very explicitly like something really wrong it's happening here It's always felt like it's riding that line where it may be something could be a little bit manipulative in this but also maybe it's just not necessarily working out The hubbub got so big that urbina apologized reworked the royalty structure and allowed any of the artists involved to take their music back Here's urbino All those things could have happened faster I think those were the right things to do He cops and not managing expectations Clearly enough But he says a vast majority of musicians do still believe in the original mission of the project and have chosen to stay on Urban has even got a second similarly structured music project in motion based on the works of philosopher and Noam Chomsky Ben Jordan says all of this the back and forth between urbina and the artists and the artists feeling misled and the response to his video it has less to do with urbina and this project and more to do with a bigger issue That's actually common ground between journalists and musicians At the end of the day it comes down to both of us creating something that's intangible and then trying to monetize it and trying to put value on it When nobody knows how to handle that still the Internet's been around for a long time and we still have no idea how much intangible things are supposed to cost And trying to figure that out is just the cost of doing business Andrew Limbaugh and pair news On January 1st some 400,000 songs speeches and sound effects entered the public domain The sounds were all recorded before 1923 and include.
WGN Radio
"synesthesia" Discussed on WGN Radio
"You're gonna miss people like that producer I left when you leave us here at this little radio station of ours I am And actually the listeners just I had a weird moment yesterday where I was like I felt like I don't even know how to put it into words I was trying to tell someone yesterday what it was that I was going through in my mind And all of these really positive kind things that our listeners say to us has been one of the reasons why I've loved working here so much and it's just such a nice thing called synesthesia and what I saw when I was thinking about it was like a fluffy piece of fabric For those of you who know if you know you know what's synesthesia you've talked to us about that before but I think if you wanted to describe WGN radio listeners or the relationship we have with them as a textile or a tactile thing I'd say a fluffy piece of fabric might work Yeah It works for you doesn't it Yeah I don't know I don't know what people think about me and I mean over the past few years I've learned to care a lot less about that You should hear the things people say to our producers off the air Some of you have not been nice at times Yeah I'm gonna be honest That's very true And some of you have been delightful Yeah But it's just like giving me a lot of thinking to do about what my values are as a 29 year old I'm there it is I'm 29 So one note about Joe DiMaggio the reason why I knew that was because there's a song in the beginning of the song the singer says something like who's your favorite baseball player Joe DiMaggio Nicely done I thought you were going to reference Simon the Garfunkel where have you gone Joe DiMaggio Our nation turns its lonely iced tea So producer I left is leaving WGN radio And thanks to those of you who have done her kindnesses and cooperated with her we put our producers through a lot of pressure here at this radio station It may sound like fun of games on the air but I'm telling you getting it on the air is not always an easy task So I always say that our radio shows sound as good as the producers and as bad as the hosts I think we've had a pretty good show here the last few years because we've had a really good producer And elif has done everything that a producer can do here but she also has other talents that she wants to pursue They don't include producing this show include music You talk about that a lot So you're going out to California You've got some family out there And you're going to try and make your Mark out there huh Yeah Well first of all thank you so much for letting me trusting me with your show This is a really big deal to you and has been to me So just thank you Thank you so much You've been sure You have made a huge impact in my life You might not know it maybe you do know it but you move my couch into my first a huge impact in your life Griffin and I pushed his sofa up some stairs and put it in your apartment It was grant actually Griffin and you put my air conditioner in No Griffin and I were under doing something Yeah we put the window unit in for you Yeah But yeah I have family in Los Angeles and I okay one more thing about leaving here Last night I said to my mom I said I feel like I'm betraying the younger me by leaving this post And she said well it's just a chapter that you've completed And now it's time to move on which is true And I've been wanting to do something big with my music for a really long time as well So I'm going to do both I'm going to see what I can do with media and also carry out my music career in California As a singer songwriter performer Exactly I really want to perform more and hopefully this COVID madness doesn't get in the way of that too much I know you've had some shows canceled here You still have one more gig after the first of the year that you hope to finish here before you head out there Are you going to join a band In LA Yeah would you want to be a singer in a band or a member of a group If I have to but I'm so territorial over my project Yes you certainly are You're with your stuff like I am with my life With your show yeah exactly So Which has made it not always easy to work with me I might add So it is what it is you know When you have something that's your baby and it's not like it's not a human but when you have something that is that important to you you have to put your all into it And it doesn't matter what other people say as long as you're as long as you're respectful And you are Well I appreciate that And I think this is this may sound like a funny thing to say but I'm glad you're leaving I think it's time for you to go Thank you You know why I say that I mean if what else you have to offer is not being satisfied here And we're not a musical venue Then it's time for you to pursue that as well So godspeed to you my friend Thank you my friend Okay Well we've got 13 more minutes of radio to do here Thanks to those of you who have also been sending in kind messages and saying we're going to miss out By the way I know one of the things that a lot of you are going to miss is when I say Ella I'm not going to.
Ben Greenfield Fitness
"synesthesia" Discussed on Ben Greenfield Fitness
"Meditation, prayer, scripture reading, you know, we already know they're wonderful for things like personal and professional breakthroughs and sexual intercourse and things like that. But in terms of weaving these into like, you know, burning this type of incense during a morning prayer session or sprinkle a little bit of frankincense on cannabis flower and smoking that before you go deep into prayer. I mean, there's actually some very, very interesting use cases for this type of approach. It just seems like not a lot of people are talking about it because in Christianity, you kind of get your hand slapped if you mentioned plant medicines, AKA, you know, drugs and reefer madness and all that just because of the associations. Yeah, well, that's an unfortunate path that I wouldn't say, yeah, so fortunate parts that certain priests and certain people who are a little bit too comfortable with their power have taken because the Bible you know is very clear. It says God made grass for the well got God made all things for purpose and made all things good. Indeed. So the cashew, the laws on kosher. There's no drugs that all kinds of things are not kosher, but none of the plant drugs are. The only drug that you might think of as uncased is the toad because you're not going to link codes and toads are not kosher. But there's this wonderful line. This is from exit this as well. And this is from the scene where the Israelites are looking at Mount Sinai. And Moses has gone up, right? And the rest of them are down there. And they have all Eton manor at this particular scene. And this is the only time in the Bible where you see a collective vision. You often see visions, but they don't happen to a lot of people at the same time. So for example, Daniel sees the writing on the wall, right? Not everybody else these are writing on the wall. So the argument there, I would say that the writing in the wall was what Daniel was saying. And you could say that it was in his head or you could say he was seeing some other level of reality or whatever you might want to say. But the point I'm making is that not everyone gets to see the writing on the wall. And in some scenes, for example, you'll get someone who will see something and someone will hear something. But you don't, but you never have a collective vision except in one point of the book. And that is the vision of Sinai, which is another one. And this is the line that says, and all the people are seeing the voices and the flames and the sound of the trumpet, right? Now, I've never seen a voice. I've never seen the sound of a trumpet, because you don't see sounds unless you can aesthetic or under the influence of something. Yeah, so as synesthesia is where you mix, sinister, yeah, that's what I meant. So this is the only example of synesthesia in the Bible and it's the only example of collective vision and it's the time when all the Israelites are eating manor. So I think that's rather a rather interesting an interesting addition to the argument that manna is ergo. Yeah, yeah. And by the way, when it comes to these altered states of consciousness, you know, it's not as a plant medicines are the only route to achieve these states. I read a couple of books two months ago, one called meditation in the Bible. Another one called Jewish meditation by this guy named Arya Kaplan, who's like a rabbi and an author and he has this whole series of different meditations that apparently were used by the prophets to attain altered states of consciousness. These meditative practices were widespread among the Jews throughout Jewish history and these ancient secret forms of attaining an altered state of consciousness. You know, it's something that apparently has been lost. That particular vocabulary of meditation to a large degree during the last century, but these books reveal some really interesting meditative practices that can be combined with these medicines or even used on their own to achieve an altered set of consciousness, kind of like, you know, one could instead of using LSD take stanislav graphs approach of using something like holotropic breathwork instead. So it's not as though you have to have again like a drug or medicine or something like that to achieve these states, but combining some of these things with other elements such as meditation or breathwork or using them on their own or not using them and using meditation and breathwork and things like that are all things that I think, I guess a lot of people, you know, especially, for example, like the average Christian person might be listening in, you know, who just sits down with their Bible every morning and read the Bible and absolutely nothing wrong with that, but I've found that that at certain times of the year, certain times of the month, like taking a deeper dive and incorporating a lot of these strategies that God is a little of the old in scripture. It's super interesting, but again, I get some backlash, you know, for being like a hippie hippie patchouli smelling Christian for doing some of this stuff too. Have you seen some backlash from the Christian community as far as like some of the things that you've written or video recorded like do people get upset about some of this stuff? I remember once I was doing a tour of Irish universities and these guys were giving out flyers and there was a university professor. He wasn't even my theologist. He was a Professor of something else. And the talk was drugs in the Bible. And then there was this literally professor university saying, ah, there's no drugs in the Bible. And yeah, I mean, that kind of ignorance got quite astonishing from someone who's teaching university. But I haven't had a lot of backlash. No, I mean, no one's come and hassled me about it in particular. I think Christians certainly English Christians tend to be generalized, but they tend to be quite quiet. The Anglican faith is quite a quiet vibe to it, really. No, I haven't really dealt with touch backlash. I just want to add something to what you said there. Yeah, there's no reason why you need to take drugs to get closer to God. But there is every reason why you should leave other people alone who want to do that because it's certainly not your place to go against what it says in the Bible. If you're a Christian and the Bible it says, the plants are good. And that's really, really simple. In terms of your books that you've written and I've actually seen your videos and read some of your articles and papers all of which I'll link to in the show notes, but these books that you've written neuro apocalypse and science revealed that both of those take deeper dives into this particular topic or those books have a different thing. The one which looks at this closely is neuro apocalypse. And the drugs in the Bible is one chapter of it. The rest of it is part of it's about linguistics. The overall theme is what can we do to our heads to give us access to revelation? And when I'm talking about revelation, I'm not necessarily talking only in the spiritual sense of spiritual secrets, but for example, there's a famous old experiment with psilocybin where people are looking at parallel lines on a screen and parallel lines are slightly moving. And the subjects in the experiment asked to say when the line, when they can see that the lines aren't parallel anymore. And if you get so on psilocybin before they do that, lo and behold, they spot it quicker. And I think the head researcher of that his comment was that this compound undoes, what is it?.
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"And the ones who had knowledge first, no, no, no. No, it's only Apple because it's Apple. No, no, sorry. I didn't mean like, you know, Big Macs. Yes. I just found out. They ordered the tablet. What's called Apple TV for the iPad for for everything? Apple everything. It's it's one subscription. Yeah. With you games that are only on the subscription. So it's not quite like game pass because game best titles. You can also buy regularly. This one is subscription-only. I get one thing goes on the subscription. You have to get the subscription. Judah of a full new game that's going to be weird to see how that rolls out. Hopefully, it's I mean, they did Elder Scrolls blades for Apple first right, wasn't it? I saw one screenshot of it and I looked very much like a classic. Oh, gotcha. You mean like a 2d classic? Yes. I see. Okay, that makes a little bit more sense. Okay. You You never care. That would be my assumption as well. It's like then you often those apple arcade games are like exclusive for a year or so, right? So in certain or later rained out from, they're coming off. All right, what else we got? Let's see. I think that was about it for the things. We wanted to mention. For me. It's actually been a calm week. I mean, you got like the page Activision, guys. All getting fired because of guys, but yeah, please go back to. Yeah, like to resume music, whatever. Super had a comment. Sorry, super had a comment about Nine Inch Nails guitarist in spec ops. Oh, yeah, what was that? Not dead guitarist for Nine Inch Nails? Who was also a guitarist for Guns and Roses for a while. He replaced /. Robin finck has teamed together with Corey Davis, who was the creative director on spec, Ops the Line to make a set up their own game studio. And their first game is going to be a cosmic horror game and that's about all we know. They talk about a concept called synesthesia with the combination of Music narrative and interactive experience home for for the foundation of the horror. So wait, so synesthesia, was that the one where people see sounds as colors. Yeah, like in the direction, senses overlap, right? I didn't read it. Where, where was the guy who did? That game, where was he prior to this? So he's joined up with this guy. Where what was he doing after he made the.
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"Sounds with more pleasant responses. Some approaches combine therapy gently exposure on. It's there it's still quite a young science still quite young science. There isn't really an outstanding a treatment that emerging bubble elvis. We just trying to just trying different options at the moment but nothing. Some of them are affected but not exclude not across the board. I tell you usually interesting one People aren't really trying to improve imagery at the moment. Deny fanti antibiotics. I mean i know personally. I found out i had a fantasia around ten years sobbing interesting chat with a colleague about And i said to him. These mistakes all reporting that they can see pitches in them them. So i so we fight say pig literally. See an image of a pig. I was speaking to my colleague. Bob logie who said well. That's what everybody does isn't it. I said no. You don't understand cleveland. They see a picture in their mind. Said yet that's everybody does. From that moment. Ten years ago. I have tried personally speaking. Try to construct images. It haven't had a great success to be honest. Well that's the end of one. So who knows you so maybe we might try but really the the difference between fantasia. Mr phonier is that people with fantasia getting falling it just getting on fine with their life. They really have no idea that different they understand. Visual imagery is a metaphor. you know they. It's really not to deal in my life. I'm not very good interior decorating. I find that quite hard We're gonna look like against that wall media that's fine. This has been just amazingly interesting. I've really enjoyed talking to you. I appreciate your taking the time. Thank you thanks so much. It's been it's been a pleasure. Thank you you can find. Previous episodes of speaking of psychology at www dot speaking of psychology dot. Org or on apple stitcher or wherever. You get your podcasts. If you have comments or ideas for future podcast you can email us at speaking of psychology at a p a dot work that speaking of psychology all one word at apa dot org speaking of psychology is produced by lee. Herman our sound editor chris. Diane thank you for listening for the american psychological association..
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"Been looking at the same phenomenon in dokes so research in collaboration with my colleague david rigby and our student. Anna scuff Who's leading this research. We have taken domestic dokes into the lab and we show them different objects so they're either objects of different size over elevated differently in space and we play sounds and we train the dogs in advance to go to the object. That's making a sound. I'm what we find is much more likely to target the small object when the sound is high pitched on the law joke in the sound is low pitch and similarly when the sound is high pitched cop to an object in space on the sound is low pitch they down to object on the ground so this shows associations between on the one hand sound and the only other hand the visual property of size or the visual property of elevation space. And that's really exciting work. That's been really fun to to conduct. Wow that's amazing so let me change gears a little bit. Because in addition to says these you study a variety of other brain and sensory differences for example as i said earlier phony which is an extreme version to specifics ounce anna fantasia which is the inability to picture things in your mind's eye these seem like really disparate concepts. But how do they tie together. That's such a good question. Because or do they yeah. That's a really good question because I found myself what he instances you. A couple of decades and then being introduced to other sensory differences finding them fascinating be writing myself for not having focused for for effectively coming away from sinister asia and then finding out over time that these different conditions tied by kind of invisible threat so all of them a sensory differences and they own share certain traits in common for example in terms of wellbeing. So we find that people with these sensory differences even stage. That sometimes considered a gift can have impairments in the well-being inappropriate in their wellbeing. So for example We found that people with citizens with verified sinister asia a significantly more likely to experience anxiety disorder than other people. Maybe ready surprised about this. We want looking at particularly troubling variants. We were looking at college letters and numbers higher rates ninety disorder. We've just finished a similar study in child. Sin estate and thirty percent of our child sinister seats on the ten qualify full on to the category of anxiety disorder which is really high usually Now controls we found it at around less than ten cintas takes at thirty percents and similarly in these other disciplines in these other similarly in these sensory differences. Mr funnier itself So much defined by difficulties in well-being so mystifying can give rise to great anxiety as well. As missile phonier is an extreme hatred of certain. Sounds a no sounds tend to be. Broadly sounds like coughing chewing or crunching swallowing and it can really give rice. Incredible differences in well-being anxiety rage on uncontrollable feedings. Really that we know who so linked to brain structure on what we found in children as young as ten is that children We've been able to recognize his having missing Showing serious differences in there will being a gain elevated anxiety as she locked expect but also poor quality of life poorer satisfaction in life. And then there's also the link with autistic like traits so the movie look at these sensory differences the more we see parallels with and overlaps with autism. Now it's not the case that having sinister asian means your autistic but it does mean that you're elevated on tests of autism in certain in certain areas so we mystifying for example significantly more likely to be diagnosed as or recognizes having autism than the average person in centerstage. You're elevated on the trade solve attention to detail citizens show elevated on Attention to detail and a missa fonje now and in a fantasia your elevated in the autistic traits of social difficulties and imagination and so yes of autistic traits as overlapping wellbeing. Were being so the more. I look at many different set. Three conditions the more. I'm convinced they will really fit together in khandaker here in hall. But here's one. I'll throw at you so we had a guest on a few months back. Did an episode on face blindness and one of the people is someone. I know who has been diagnosed with face blindness. She recently also learned that she has fantasia. Have you looked at those connections. We have we have. And we all actually so i think in self report people in fantasia report being aura faces on average on a very nice study conducting here at sussex led by my phd. Student called dawn. Sending in collaboration with my colleague. Graham hold. he's he's a witness recognition face recognition experts on. We've been able to give identikit to people with atlanta and we showed them face and then we also to reconstruct the face using these identikits. Which are then. We give a reconstructed face to repay controls an awesome. How similar is this reconstructed face with the original. We do that once people with a fantasy off and once for controls and we're in the middle of doing that study right now and i can see trends in the direction that we'd expect but we need to finish not study to find out exactly whether it's significant but it it does look at the moment is if is trending in the direction would expect which is poor face recall for people they fantasia although i need to add something. This is only a billion a typical typically the average fantastic. They so what we actually find is a real spread. And it's quite interesting. Because i have a fantasia myself but i'm almost a super recognizer. So i when i performed tests a face recognition. I'm almost good enough to work for the police. How am i doing that. I have i have on my doing now. I have no mental imagery. But i just know ari just able to pick out face in the crowd very well. So there you go. It's the spread. And and but the average person is is is less good than controls so just wondering if particularly missa phony and fantasia debilitating to the people who have these syndromes and is it possible to help someone learn to diminish say an aversion to sounds or to teach people how to see things in their minds. I yes definitely. And i think that's Is definitely happening a lot. More for mischief odia so phonier is defined as kind of most is chronic condition and misogyny is also really a topic of focus for clinicians allows. Clinicians are trying to find out exactly how we can How we can fix how we can fix this problem. They're all on some long term. Can equal treatment options are cognitive. Behavioral therapies dried a. Tonight is retraining. Therapy a counter conditioning therapy. They aim to reconceptualise individuals relationship with sound. All repair unpleasant.
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"Sesia libby onto this by telling you. How very feisty. The cj festival so we have a very nice tests in the sesia that seems right and has been used since nineteen ninety nine point. Early nineties guy in this was a very nice tested on band. Cohen was able to a pioneer so we test sinister leads by looking for a trite cooled consistency over time. So what we do is we ask Tell us their associations and in fact we do this more sophisticated way so for example we have tests that show the letters and numbers in random boorda every time. A graphic appears the senate seats required to choose the specific aesthetic colorful really fine grain. Color pilot has like sixteen million colors so an a will appear sinister. Chooser executive read a seven will appear the steve will choose exact shade of green on and wants to get to the end of the test. We surprised in the seats. We repeated so they do the whole thing over and over again and they can do this anything from twice two. Maybe three times a movie right. What we have at the end is each letter number with the colors given to it over time by the same city state and then we can use a technique that allows us to colonists. So when i ask you for the color avai the first time and the second time i plot those colors in space and i say how close they in spice now if you are consistent those colors will be very close in color space. You'll have said the same shade of red twice. If you all's control will be inventing it making it up. Very inconsistent very large distances So we can quantify the consistency of a sinister In terms of decision color space initials is the sinister very very very consistent. You're not going to fool them if you say what color is seven. That always gotta tell you exactly the same shade of no subtle lime green. They're going to they're going to be spot. On i control is going to be inconsistent. And so we have a threshold of consistency. Citizens have to be off the threshold in order to be validated as a city state. So when we run these tests we usually stop by saying first of all. This isn't a sesia. have you seen stage. I knew that everybody who says she goes on to be consistent in everybody who says goes on to be inconsistent but actually what we find is every shrew consistent Who says they have seen a sesia. Their afam known sin estate saying they have similar sesia and the reasons all actually not too surprising. There's a tiny bit over social desirability. Quite nice to say you have something interesting. But actually there are lots of artists who say have sinister asia because what they have is a really fine grain appreciation for color and that's quite easy to confuse so lots of the nonsense estates reports. Seizure are artists on images. Some of them are just mistaken. Some of them are just not concentrating. But all in all if i ever now review. Pipe was on seizure whether it's no consistency tested. It's dead in the water because you were talking about Artists and creative types. Is it more likely that a person who is creative and isn't artist would have Is there actually some association. So yes this seems to be so on festival. If you look within creative disciplines. You're more likely to find sin estates now that makes it difficult because autism more likely to accurately say there have similar sesia but still more among autistic people. So you have to really use these cafo tests. But yes you find sixties. More likely to come into artistic professions and those professions More musicians with colored music sinister asia for example We can also find evidence of high of creativity with lab tests so on the so for example. A creativity is quite well. Known is remote associates test on in that test. You'll given three words as you'll give three words and you have to provide the false word that links the mole and i have to think about this. Why don't reveal the linke would but an example might be. This is tough round summer. Now those three words linked by one other word and that other would is camp so bootcamp some camp campground and this is a test of creativity incident Very well in this test We also have evidence. This creativity is starting quite early. Some we have recently finished large. Elc funded project. So european be such council funded us to look in a segement children for five years on. We can even see that creativity traits emerging early in children. Some when we find children From the general population. So we're not relying on people to come forward with screened thousands of children. We've found the senate states among them. We look at their personality and the children don't realize the special. The parents don't know that they have that you'll have seen a sesia but everybody concurs these sinister these a higher in the Experiences which is linked to intellectual curiosity boost creativity so children themselves feel that they're more creative in their personalities that parents feel more creative personalities. I'm we can see this really young age around. I think to we tested with between six and ten can see these effects By if not by six than by inner seventy eight so yeah it's creative population you've done research that's found that even though most people do not have since these they do have cross sensory experiences or associations for example associating higher pitched tones with brighter collars Can you tell us about that research and how it relates to send a sesia sure this is a ways air research that can really played with my head because we look at many different sensory domains and we look at how they crossover in many different ways. So i'm going to think the one that you just described actually a great finding by among other people michael j. b. board. He has shown that people systematically associate the pitch of music with colors in several ways so for example higher pitch so. Imagine a test where i play. You sounds To choose colors. And you feel like you're randomly picking because i pay you a high pitch sound like each sounded a stern instrument piano and i just ask you to You're willing to do these talks that you suspend disbelief because you think you're going to be random and actually people very very consistent higher pitch sound maps to more luminescent colors so imagine a piano. Imagine i'm only piano. Tinkling on the high notes crashing on the low nights. And i say which one of those is pale yellow and you are much more likely to say that. The pale yellow is the pitch Maybe deep dot per police the light pitch nights this da da association but there are many many many of these associations so we have shown that if you give people identical sweetie identical candy and either has a rough surface or a smooth surface. They will think that the candy is more sour with the rough surface even though he has the identical ingredients. So and. here's something quite fun. We have.
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"The pain of the headache. How common is cynthia. And what's the prevalence in the population. Do we know. Well yes so. This is something. I've spent the last twenty years looking into first estimates for communists were based on awesome citizens to come forward so there was a very nice study by simon baron cohen and his colleagues nine hundred ninety six and they placed an advert in the newspaper in cambridge. Uk and it describes sinister. You added all syntheses to come forward. And he found that the prevalence of this season was one in two thousand from that study now of cools. Unfortunately and of course. They knew this they would be radically underestimating because they were relying on citizens to read the newspaper that day to to read the article to come forward with your lots of things that filter out people through that process so in two thousand and In nearly two. Thousands a michalik jamie ward and i decided to instead of relying on sinister come forward. We started to go out into the gym reputation. We would gather large groups of people together and screen every single one of them on. This gave us a better estimate. Really of the prevalence of citizens asia and since then. I've individually screened. Almost twenty thousand people facilities your and from that. We have a quite a good idea. Bats is at least four point four percent in the population so at least one in twenty three people have sinister in that study. We were looking at around one hundred forty different types of citizens but we had missed out some quite crucial types so we also know independently. This around ten percent of people see time or numbers or letters out in space. Now that would add another ten percent to that figure that i gave earlier. We also know that at least one to two percent of the population have personalities full lettuce numbers days of the week of the year. So we would have to ask data owners well siree but it does really come down to what you think. Steve is if you think these numbers are getting quite high they are but you might want to question where the numbers mapped out in space. Where the time. Touting spice is ministy asia because ten percent of the population experiencing that makes start to well. Is this really sinister Toll but a very simple answer is at least or percent of the population. Now that's an interesting prevalence not feel small. Four point four percent field small but it's actually equivalent entire population of the united states in the world. So if you were to gather sixties together that would be three hundred seven million sinister worldwide. Which is you know similar plating. Usa population service of rare condition but not insignificant. And do you know. Is it more common in men or women or is it equally distributed. Do not so very nice question again. Because it speaks to methodologies so this early study of prevalence could hit by placing advert in the newspaper and asking sinister to come forward. Gave the very very strong impression that it was a female trait. Because i think something like eight times as many females indices found as miles so it put across the message Who was a was a female trae to not stayed with us for about decade however it turns out that that was a trick of the methodology found in the methodology because in fact we know from many other studies that women with unusual conditions are simply more likely to come forward so what we actually have is a condition which is balanced across the sentences. When you go out and screen people through allowed cooperation you find the same numbers might same number of male and female sinister but when you ask them to come forward. The men hold back in the women reach out to scientists. I i mentioned in the introduction than in the past couple of decades scientists have begun using brain scanned understand. What's happening in the brains of people with cynthia. What have they found the brains of people with cynicism look different or function differently from the brains of people who don't have it. yeah. I think brian imaging Has been the most important scientific step forward in two hundred years. I remember giving sesia lectures Talks before the advent of these brain imaging findings and i would spent the entire tool trying to persuade people. Decision was real now somewhere around two thousand five. We got a sudden proliferation of imaging studies and that was wonderful because now when i give sinister tools the first thing i do is show the brain of sinister in an image for example and the brain of control. And they're so very different. That i no longer have to struggle to persuade people on genuineness. So what do they show these. These brain imaging studies show very nicely that the brains of cynicism different to those of people without sinister asia. The different functionalities ephemera. We can see that collective regions or regions close to Areas in the visual cortex will help in response to reading black and white numbers facilities when obviously foot controls. They've same legions would only tell if they were exposed to color in the real world and also some very nice Data from our dutch colleagues showed that have different structural qualities in a brian so differences in that white mataco hurons in different parts of the brain. So right to white matter. Connectivity nikola selective regions for example also interesting differences differences in frontal areas different parietal areas that might be linked to a Binding said finding is where we bring together different features of the world so for example. If i look at a green apple the greenest is in one part of my brain. The shape of the apple is in another part of my brain. The binding region helps to bring those pieces of information together and syntheses have differences in parietal areas that deal with binding almost as if ova binding features that no tiny binding the colors of apples to the shapes of apple. Step finding the color letters and numbers and.
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"But it's only in recent decades that scientists have been able to use brain imaging and other modern research methods to gain a better understanding of house. This leisure works and white. mind kirk. So what is it like to have cynthia. What might cause it. And how did the brains of people with cinna sesia differ from those people without it. What can we learn about the human mind more generally from studying cinecitta and other sensory differences. Welcome to speaking of psychology. The flagship podcast of the american psychological association that examines the links between psychological science and everyday life. Our guest today is dr. Jill sim there. A professor of neuropsychologist at the university of sussex in the united kingdom who specializes in multi sensory research. She has studied. Since these young adults and children for nearly two decades she also has other sensory differences including mischief omnia and extreme aversion to certain sounds and fantasia the inability to see pictures. In your mind's eye we'll discuss these today to and talk about what links these threads of research together. Thank you for joining us today. Dr similar. Thanks very much for the invitation. So some of our listeners have probably heard of cynicism or at least the most common forms of it like people seeing colors when they hear music but sissies a lot more varied than people may realize. And you've written and tested for one hundred twenty eight different types. What types are out there. What are the differences in the commonalities. It's quite hard to estimate. Exactly how many types of sinister they're all because some could be quite well hidden but the ones we know most about the ones that people can realize most readily. I'm report to us most easily. And i think for that reason we tend to think of the most common types of citizens here is being the ones that trigger unusual perceptions so experiencing colors when you are reading words looking at numbers listening to music And then perhaps more obscurely swimming so different swimming strokes causing different color perceptions. Perhaps even reading rail will also and watching signers in sign language or these are known to trigger colors. But as i said i'm older people talk about colors. Most often in the context I think it may be. That color suggests the easiest to report because there are many different opposite aesthetic sensation. So you could experience flavors that flood the mouse. So you'll reading. Annual mouth is being bombarded with sensations of yorkshire pudding. Prices peas obita lemon all nice. Orange fruit sweets. Which is what. Julia tastes of mine. Julia all pass less pleasant taste. So the taste of earwax. All of the things that you wouldn't want in your mouth may be So that that's also another type of citizenry number about your question. There are many different kinds of citizens they can trigger colors tastes smells textures bodily feelings and the compulsion even to put your body into certain shapes all formation so i remember very rare case for many years ago of a professor who had an urge to form shapes with his body in response to different words that he had so many types. So you said your name has a flavor is that universal How does your name have flavor. Yeah that's a good point. So what i described to you. I think he wouldn't mind me mentioning this tool what i described to. You was the taste of the taste of the nine julia as experienced by James warburton james wanted ten as a particularly State of for me not under. I studied james for the last twenty years. But james has been an amazing advocate for the Community he is the president of the uk. Say the seizure association and he has taken part in so much outreach himself to help people to understand the condition and for james. The name julia taste of a orange fruits weeks. It's actually a branded fruit. Sweet The interesting thing is most people who may jewels samna. They use my name nickname jewels but with james. We don't do that. Because jules does not taste as nice as julia. Joe's has been of unpleasant taste. James politely tells me it takes. I think it may actually a taste of drool saliva because we know that there are links between the word that triggers soonest asia on the type taste experienced and from my twenty years of research. I rather suspect that joel's tastes drool. Which is why. We use the nigeria. Do to people with music and collars sesia actually see colors in the world around them when they hear music or is it more like just something in their minds. I said the answer to that depends on the sinister gyo speaking to because there are several different ways that sinister Can experience color so this was captured quite nicely by our colleagues mike dixon and daniel smack and their team in canada. They were able to name project too soon. The states versus associated estates so associated Experienced that colors somewhere in the minds. I like a kind of strong internal mental imagery to soon. The state will see that colors projected out in the outside world so a couple of examples if you have colored lettuce numbers and our project in a state you may see those colors superimposed onto the texts that you'll reading all. I'm sure he wouldn't mind me describing a all as described to me by a sinister scientists. Julian asha those colors can be projected out there in the world. I'm floating in space. So julian asher is geneticist. Who helped us to understand the genetics asia and. He told me that when he was a young boy his parents take him to the symphony and he assumed that the house lights dimmed so that people could see the colors better because for him the orchestra has colors floating above it. He actually thought why else would anybody didn't house lights apart from to see the sadistic That's in your mind or in the outside world. Yeah and sometimes experienced in unusual ways. I remember a student of mine for twenty years ago. Who experienced pain as collars and for her. The colors were cone that projected from her head in color and if she thought very hard about the shape of the cone she could moderate.