Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Introduction

So...how many of you actually know what Synesthesia is? According to wikipedia.com it is "is a neurologically-based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway."



Up until about 2 months ago I had no clue what that was...or that I was a synesthete. I thought that the colors, movements and feelings that songs and some sounds cause me to experience was just my imagniation...that something was wrong with me. In fact...I'd never told anyone about it before. Imagine my surprise when I found out that a) there *are* other people who experience the same kind of thing I do (1 in 23 people according to wikipedia.com) and that b) it was a scientific thing...and not a deases or problem.

Anyway I've been trying to find out more about it but there not alot out there that I can find...I did find this site http://www.synesthete.org/index.php there you can sign up and take "battery" tests if you think you have a form of synesthia. Pretty cool site. :-) You can also read this if you want more info... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Sound_.E2.86.92_color_synesthesia

So anyway the purpose of this blog is for the drawings/paintings/writings/obverations/whatever else I want to post about synesthesia.