{"id":284,"date":"2011-12-22T23:55:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T23:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2012-06-03T23:12:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T23:12:21","slug":"taste-the-rainbow-reverb-broads-2011-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Taste the Rainbow: Reverb Broads 2011 #20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reverb Broads 2011, December 20: <\/em><\/strong>Life is a work of art, or so they say. What beauty do you regularly appreciate\/revere in your life? (courtesy of Neha at http:\/\/whereyouarehere.blogspot.com\/)<\/em><\/p>\n

I experience beauty differently than most people. See, I’m a synesthete. What the hell is that, you say? Never heard of synethesia? The World English Dictionary defines the term as “the subjective sensation of a sense other than the one being stimulated. For example, a sound may evoke sensations of colour.”<\/p>\n

I haven’t thought of myself as a synesthete until recently, when a discussion with another one ended with her saying, “Oh, no, you totally are.” And as I went into Research Mode, I discovered that synesthesia isn’t uncommon among neurodiverse people, especially those with Autism Spectrum Disorders<\/a>, because their sensory perceptions are already slightly bent.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

As I explore the interactions among my senses more consciously than ever before, I’m discovering that my favorite things are my favorites because they register on more than one sense. For example, I love Pantone color 2757. It’s the deep rich blue of the sky just before full dark, or a Marc Chagall painting. But it’s also the color that fills my mind when the Bass IIs of a choir dip down below the staff, like in Franz Biebl’s Ave Maria<\/em>. Those notes unfurl over me like a bolt of midnight velvet; I could just roll around in them, and an unbearably rich, creamy taste like foie gras fills my mouth.<\/p>\n

And the air right now, that keen winter smell that portends snow (but doesn’t yet freeze your boogers, if you know what I mean), blows up banks of fluffy cumulus clouds in my mind, airier than the leaden walls of vapor that hug so close to the northern sky these days. It’s a bright, fluffy smell, just a fraction bluer than powdered sugar, with a clean minty smell. I want to eat that smell like marshmallows.<\/p>\n

These associations dazzle me sometimes, and I know the distracted, mile-long stare that captures me when I fall into a whirl of sensations. I just wish you all could taste what I hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reverb Broads 2011, December 20: Life is a work of art, or so they say. What beauty do you regularly appreciate\/revere in your life? (courtesy of Neha at http:\/\/whereyouarehere.blogspot.com\/) I experience beauty differently than most people. See, I’m a synesthete. What the hell is that, you say? Never heard of synethesia? The World English Dictionary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[4,193,143,19,102,65,142],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","tag-aspergers","tag-autism","tag-color","tag-music","tag-reverb-broads-2011","tag-sensory","tag-synesthesia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}