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13 Comments to "6 Mind Bending Ailments"
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James
January 18th, 2008 at
3:34 am
Wow, I’m glad I have none of those ……..
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nach
January 18th, 2008 at
5:37 am
Synesthesia is not a “problem”. It doesn’t make my life difficult or anything.
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Robin
January 18th, 2008 at
10:01 am
Synesthesia doesn’t present a problem for me. I think it’s kinda cool. Hard to explain to people, tho. I associate things with colors. My name is red and white, Like a candy cane. My middle name is light blue. But I don’t literally *see* the colors.
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z
January 18th, 2008 at
11:32 am
I have all of those —and more.
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Michelle
January 18th, 2008 at
12:44 pm
Synethesia should not be a “problem” unless it is so strong that it’s crippling. to my understanding, most people think of it as a helpful and unique characteristic. My synesthesia helps me read quickly and I love it.
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TMB
January 18th, 2008 at
12:58 pm
Two important things that they failed to menetion about synesthesia:
It’s not very uncommon, especially among children.
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There is a very high correlation between synesthesia and artistic accomplishment (I believe it was Stravinski who when he was a child thought that they turned the lights down during concerts so that he could see the colors better.) -
ferrocyanide
January 19th, 2008 at
5:17 pm
Synethesia sounds cool. I used to associate days of the week with different colors and shapes when I was younger, but I can’t remember any of it now.
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Ben
January 20th, 2008 at
1:43 am
Synethesia is also a common component of an LSD trip. It is very interesting. But what this tells us is that at least one thing that causes it can be reproduced with drugs, so it would be useful to run a cat scan and other diagnostics on someone undergoing the experience, see what kinds of changes go on. Of course, the perception of the cat scan would interfere, but who knows what that would do.
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mindlessmunkey
January 20th, 2008 at
9:48 pm
Most of this information seems to have been pilfered from the masterful writing of Oliver Sacks. I do hope Dr Sacks was given his due credit in the original article.
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MoonCake
January 23rd, 2008 at
8:09 am
hey ben– if you run the CATscan machine, i’ll be the test subject.
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Mishele
January 24th, 2008 at
8:04 pm
Yeah, mindlessmunkey, I was going to mention that. In fact, one of his books is titled “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat”. He’s written compassionately about autism, Tourrette’s, color-blindness, and all sorts of other brain problems. In fact, he was the MD that Robin Williams’ played in “Awakenings”. I saw him speak once, he’s shy and charming and if anything happens to my brain I wanna see him!
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Liz
February 16th, 2008 at
2:32 am
There’s a man in England who forgets every 30 seconds. He says he’s waking up for the first time in years, as if nothing was before that; just blackness. He remembers his wife, etc, but he doesn’t know that the Berlin Wall came down.
What they’ve found is that he has some form of “unconscious memory” where he’s forming new memories, but doesn’t consciously remember them. For example, he’ll watch a movie and then when he watches it again, he’ll say he’s never seen the movie before in his life but he’ll be able to “guess” the ending, just like someone with this condition can improve their tennis game but just attribute it to “beginner’s luck.” -
Jemma
March 14th, 2008 at
4:22 pm
I’m a Prosopagnosic, and until about a year ago I didn’t know there was anything wrong, I just assumed nobody could recognise people.
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