Man Sees, Hears Words in Color

iWon News ^ | 03/18/2002 | PAUL RECER

[hole_n_one]

About 20 years ago, I dropped a sliver of paper in my mouth that was of a purplish color that had the same effect on me.

The colors on the pool table danced.......

[RFP]

"The man has synesthesia" - WRONG! - the man is on LSD. John Lennon and others already discovered this back in the 60s. Listen to the Revolver album.

[hole_n_one]

the man is on LSD.

So that's what that was!

[ErnBatavia]

Remember Brother Dave Gardner, the late southern comedian from the sixties....he'd have cut to the chase, and tossed in: "He's on dope"

[Interesting Times]

Here is a good article from Discover on the subject, if anyone is interested.

[scouse]

Famous quote: "I see red people".

[wimpycat]

Maybe one of his parents was on acid when he was conceived. Seriously, though, I don't think this has anything to do with LSD. Some people are just "different".

[rebdov]

The prof. has been taking hits of LSD.

[tubebender]

It won't surprise me if this were prevalent in the population. I know several artist (2 of them were on junkyard wars) and outwardly these people are no different than I am but their brains allow them to "see" differently. I have no concept what something will look like until it's finished.

[ProudGOP]

I wonder what curse words look like.

[sistergoldenhair]

Notes are colors are numbers.

[muggs]

I once experienced something (don't want to say what it was)in vivid colors, it's never happened before or since. I wasn't stoned but I was about 8-8 1/2 months pregnant.

[Robert_Paulson2]

tom daschale of course

[Robert_Paulson2]

synesthesians see colors when others see only black and white.

the difference between liberals and conservatives?

[reformed_dem]

I remember reading about this a couple years ago. It's fascinating the way some people's brains are wired. To them, this is normal and they are surprised that everyone doesn't experience the same thing.

[wimpycat]

What about foreign words and numbers? Do they remain black and white until you tell the person what the words and numbers stand for?

[monkeyshine]

Makes me think of CGEB's script.

[Moosilauke]

Thanks for the Discovery article. You may find this MIT site interesting as well.

[stayathomemom]

There was also an article about this in Smithsonian about a year ago.