How can you artificially simulate synaesthesia ?

Question

For those of you who don't know, synaesthesia (dunno if it's the correct spelling) is when you can smell colours or see sounds, etc

Answer 1

I'm not sure how practical it would be, but one way that you could do the things you could suggest (smell colours/see sounds) would to be to infuse the inks of everthing you use with scented oils, then when you experience these colours, you'd smell a mix of the scented oils, and the two experiences should, in theory, be catalogued in the same place in your mind. If this is continued, then your brain might begin to simulate the scents you've associated with particular colours itself, giving you a feel of synaesthesia.

For seeing sounds, a holographic projection of swirls of colour or shapes, created by a piece of software onto goggles or similar visual aids, depending on the pitch, volume and tempo of sounds heard could simulate that experience. However vast amounts of research would need to be done into the types of experiences encountered in these sorts of cases for such programs to be created and then incredible amounts of programming to be done for it to be 'intelligent' enough to create sensations for untested experineces or experiences it hasn't been programmed to react in a particular way to could be beyond what it is possible to currently do.

Either way, it would be amazing if someone was able to successfully achieve something like this...

Answer 2

Wow....as a synaesthesic myself (I percieve sounds as having shape), this is a tall order! The only way to do this, would be with some kind of virtual reality programme. Getting the information needed for your parameters would be interesting...sounds like a long-term research project. Many of us either aren't aware it's unusual (it can run in families) or are afraid to be called "weird" so they don't discuss it.
I don't see the shapes sounds make, but I percieve them, almost as a physical sensation. I thought it was just me until I met an older cousin and we discovered we both had the same thing.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

You may want to read Phantoms in the Brain by Ramachandran.

Answer 5

you could probably do it by stimulating particular areas of the brain with electrodes, would need to have your skull opened up though, so not very practical!

Answer 6

a concomitant sensation; especially : a subjective sensation or image of a sense (as of color) other than the one (as of sound) being stimulated..

Answer 7

I wish there was. It's one medical condition I'd love to have.

Answer 8

Short of mind expanding narcotics, I'm not sure you can!

Answer 9

with difficulty

Answer 10

you cant silly billy