taste what you see?

[user28]

My grandma used to live in a cottage. In her living room there was a shelf near the ceiling that she used to keep plates and ornaments etc. As a child, I used to look up at these objects and instantly knew how they would taste. When I say taste, it is like how it feels to bite it.
Heard it something to do with crossed senses? Any body else got this?
A few weeks ago, i woke up and tried to sit up. My head felt really heavy. I thought maybe I had woken before my body and was in some kind of semi-sleeping state. As I raised my head further, I got the shock of my life. A CAT FELL ON MY CHEST. The cat had had only gone to sleep on top of my head!! Anyone else had that ??

[dingo]

It's called synaesthesia, and it's used as one explanation for aura vision.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaesthesia

I'm sure the cat had a greater shock!

[MisterJingo]

Yup dingo is right. There was a fantastic documentary on about this recently (UK TV) where they discovered that everyone has synaesthesia, it's how our brains are wired to work. But some people experience an exaggerated form of it i.e. where the general populace uses the unconscious manifestations of this phenomenon as a basis of our numerical systems, visualisation skills and language skills. In some people the effects 'bleed' into conscious perception, so they really see sounds, hear colours, taste tactile sensation etc.
There's evidence pointing towards this ability of our brains (synaesthesia) could have been the first building block of language and might be one of the key driving forces behind imagination.
Concerning the language hypothesis, a scientist had made up two imaginary shapes one with jaged edges and one with smooth rounded edges. He then asked random people which shape was "kiki" and which "bolbous" (or something similar) and 99%+ named the sharped edged shape "kiki". "Kiki" sounds sharp, and it shows how us normal people who are unaware of our synaesthesia can translate visual input to a corresponding aural pattern etc.

[user28]

Thanks for the info. I`m not surprised that my senses are mixed up in my mind. It must be in a right state! Loads of clutter everywhere

[dingo]

Concerning the language hypothesis, a scientist had made up two imaginary shapes one with jaged edges and one with smooth rounded edges. He then asked random people which shape was "kiki" and which "bolbous" (or something similar) and 99%+ named the sharped edged shape "kiki". "Kiki" sounds sharp, and it shows how us normal people who are unaware of our synaesthesia can translate visual input to a corresponding aural pattern etc.

It was kiki and booba, it says about it in the wikipedia article.
Very interesting!

[MisterJingo]

Concerning the language hypothesis, a scientist had made up two imaginary shapes one with jaged edges and one with smooth rounded edges. He then asked random people which shape was "kiki" and which "bolbous" (or something similar) and 99%+ named the sharped edged shape "kiki". "Kiki" sounds sharp, and it shows how us normal people who are unaware of our synaesthesia can translate visual input to a corresponding aural pattern etc.

It was kiki and booba, it says about it in the wikipedia article.
Very interesting!

AH, that'll teach me not to read links . But I agree, very interesting