2006-10-16 09:25:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
It's Synesthesia
a condition in which the real information of one sense is accompanied by a perception in another sense. A person may see colors when hearing a sound or may experience a smell when seeing a certain color.
2006-10-16 09:34:09 · answer #1 · answered by Michele 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Synesthesia refers to the process where an individual experiences "confusion" of senses. It's as if one or more sense merges with another. Sounds are seen, sights are heard, and tastes are touched.
2006-10-16 09:34:28 · answer #2 · answered by DanE 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Synesthaesia as the others have said.
Wasn`t `Purple Haze` alleged to be about it ? Or am I just a sad reject from the sixties ?
I will Limewire it and listen too it again.
Yes OK !!!
I know I`m sad....
2006-10-16 10:44:02 · answer #3 · answered by Robert Abuse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Synesthesia - where you perceive sounds as colours.
2006-10-16 09:42:32 · answer #4 · answered by creviazuk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Synaesthesia. This word came into popular use thanks to Rimbaud's poem
Vowels
A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels,
I shall tell, one day, of your mysterious origins:
A, black velvety jacket of brilliant flies
which buzz around cruel smells,
Gulfs of shadow; E, whiteness of vapours and of tents,
lances of proud glaciers, white kings, shivers of cow-parsley;
I, purples, spat blood, smile of beautiful lips
in anger or in the raptures of penitence;
U, waves, divine shudderings of viridian seas,
the peace of pastures dotted with animals, the peace of the furrows
which alchemy prints on broad studious foreheads;
O, sublime Trumpet full of strange piercing sounds,
silences crossed by [Worlds and by Angels]:
–O the Omega! the violet ray of [His] Eyes!
. . .
Voyelles
A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu: voyelles,
Je dirai quelque jour vos naissances latentes:
A, noir corset velu des mouches éclatantes
Qui bombinent autour des puanteurs cruelles,
Golfes d'ombre; E, candeurs des vapeurs et des tentes,
Lances des glaciers fiers, rois blancs, frissons d'ombelles;
I, pourpres, sang craché, rire des lèvres belles
Dans la colère ou les ivresses pénitentes;
U, cycles, vibrements divins des mers virides,
Paix des pâtis semés d'animaux, paix des rides
Que l'alchimie imprime aux grands fronts studieux;
O, suprême Clairon plein des strideurs étranges,
Silences traversés des [Mondes et des Anges]:
—O l'Oméga, rayon violet de [Ses] Yeux!
. . .
Arthur Rimbaud, (1854-1891) the anarchic visionary, precocious boy-poet of French symbolism, wrote some of the most remarkable poetry and prose of the 19th century. Especially in 'A Season in Hell' (1873), Rimbaud is the poet of crystallized attitudes, of flash-frozen poses. His highly suggestive, subtle work drew on subconscious sources, and its form was correspondingly supple and novel. Rimbaud has been identified as one of the creators of free verse because of the rhythmic experiments in his prose poems 'Illuminations' (1886). Paul Claudel, saw Rimbaud as "a mystic in the savage state". *Synesthesia: his Sonnet of the 'Vowels' (1871) in which each vowel is assigned a color, helped popularize synesthesia.
2006-10-16 09:39:12 · answer #5 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
do you mean like in the 60s when people took L.S.D. and they could HEAR colors? there is a word but I don't remember what it is. "....but listen to the color of your dream...it is not living..it is not living..."
2006-10-16 09:36:05 · answer #6 · answered by boxer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pseudochromaesthesia? http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pseudochromaesthesia&r=66
chromaesthesia?: http://www.onelook.com/?loc=rescb&w=chromaesthesia
Otherwise: http://www.onelook.com/?w=*&loc=revfp2&clue=linking+sound+to+colours
2006-10-16 09:29:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋