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Thanks for posting, this topic really interests me: Broadly speaking, the idea that one person may directly perceive a sensory object in completely different wa

Thanks for posting, this topic really interests me: Broadly speaking, the idea that one person may directly perceive a sensory object in completely different way as compared to another person. In the case of synaesthesia I understand it's more of an associative perception. I'm particularly interested in situations in which the perception differential between two people seems more volatile, as is seen with synaesthesia. E.g. seeing lines and shapes with less variance, and colors with more variance [1] --especially for example with objects/experiences like those in set A (maybe letters and numbers), and not so much variance either way with objects/experiences in set B (some other set of objects). I'd also be interested to know about situations which are less associative--a party involuntarily sees an entirely different object in direct terms. There are reported cases where this has happened, but I haven't seen any related back to synaesthesia for example. Finally, I have met some people who will more excitedly report being _able to_ experience synaesthesia, and I am interested in the way this subjective interest/energy-stoking activity may map onto other personality dynamics. To me there may be some energy to be captured by prompts to consciously make use of this perception. 1. See the first image example here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

_8j50 4y ago
You know what fascinates me? When I read about phenomena like The Hum [1], I wonder if those people have a sense nonody else knows about, perhaps they can sense radio waves like CMBR. But what if being able to natively sense any number of fundamental phenomema from gravitation to waves in the EM spectrum or non-linear time and what if some people were hyper-sensitive to it. Imagine feeling the sun's coronal ejections or perceive distant stars in the sky but by sensing infrared and red-shift. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

_8j50 4y ago

You know what fascinates me? When I read about phenomena like The Hum [1], I wonder if those people have a sense nonody else knows about, perhaps they can sense radio waves like CMBR. But what if being able to natively sense any number of fundamental phenomema from gravitation to waves in the EM spectrum or non-linear time and what if some people were hyper-sensitive to it. Imagine feeling the sun's coronal ejections or perceive distant stars in the sky but by sensing infrared and red-shift. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum