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I remembered the other day how, as a child, I had emotion-color synethesia that went away with puberty.I am starting to see words in colors again.My entire twitter web lighting up like christmas lights. Using the color tones from diablo 2's rare items to highlight excitement. https://t.co/13LOqBc597
Feeling emotion as a pulse or an aura. My brain projecting meaning onto term, a feeling. Describing anger as an energy radiating out of wrists. Or Pain as the sun flashing between trees as we drive and making you have to squint or you'll get a headache.Association patterns.
When terms light up part of my brain around the idea that i'm interested in, the colors of text shimmer and transition. For a moment I see gold, blue, yellow, orange. Years of excitment over a rare drop in a video game training my emotions. Now it's running in reverse.
Teaching myself to see again.https://t.co/shLH8wqgMD
Seeing a reflection in the mirror and recognizing myself.What are auras anyway? Can I program my self to reocognize emotion in faces, and fully unlock my scent memory to learn to see an aura?Breadcrumbs.https://t.co/SYw2GZdpBO https://t.co/Z4mw9qKFCw
@gwern Thoughts on time as a Synesthesia component of episodic memory?I tried to use scent dissipation like dogs & realized I haven't had smell for a number of years and it seemed to coincide w/ depression. I think it was this: https://t.co/oBJYEgN6uK and https://t.co/9VOzpYIWJ9
"smell better" -> unique gold text.https://t.co/RphtYSz9fb
@drethelin @whitequark @diviacaroline @eevee Dogs don't want you to know that (well actually) pigs are better at smelling out human edible mushrooms due to having similar olfactory bias. It turns out they can also probably smell bodies better than dogs too, but the dog lobby's social cultural branding is stronk.
Learning to map scents as an associative layer.https://t.co/lNrZxqHk3s
What is the default mode network anyway?Why does it deactivate during odor–visual association?https://t.co/n82qMnmqlRI wonder how W.E.I.R.D. this is.Does 'healthy' mean no individuals who may exhibit stronger tendances for Synesthesia?https://t.co/VCGL1djb9k https://t.co/AmFohM21nO
Dancing in the iohttps://t.co/mRdXtChWB8
Richard feynman had a parlor trick where he could tell someone what they had touched even tho he wasn't in the room.He was using scent.Does this pass the sniff test?https://t.co/yT1zMcoiaM https://t.co/cZC1YXdbcY
How many people simply can't smell, and so never taught it to their children, much less thought it was possible?https://t.co/dC7v5pWuKJhttps://t.co/ILtFqVZl9B https://t.co/roZgh3wlMO
Thiamine Metabolism linked to sleep apnea"very likely that many of the poorly understood symptomatology seen today that responds to nutrient therapy is caused by a mixture of marginal classic nutritional diseases, including beriberi, pellagra and scurvy."https://t.co/z3hWW7rvvJ
Our culture is broken. We forgot how to smell.I forgot how to see.https://t.co/wXLkfZH3GW
You are what you eat.https://t.co/5A3G0kbIRY
Scientists Seeing Patterns by embedding thought in an external medium.What is Stigmergy anyway?https://t.co/zBVNmxUyfO
Oh look, here's one now.https://t.co/fddgUaZxIe
I can tell my Girlfriend is doing better because she smells better.https://t.co/21kLXYD1Qa
Since my girlfriend is using this platform now, I want to add the caveat that she never smelled 'bad', just that I noticed a difference that impacts in my sense of her. My brain pulled 'better' up as a synonym for healthier (opposite of worse/sick).
User "FuckButtons" on Hackernews describes their experience with dyslexia. I have this experience too, and the experience is identical to Synesthesia.https://t.co/9osIbtHUSshttps://t.co/3ezPEx31gU
However, I learned to speed read early.Seems that might be protective? https://t.co/UVKt4jyAE6I also had something akin to hyperlexia - was way above my grade level for being able to read.https://t.co/QgnsprhQE8For me, my issue was Dysgraphia.
My handwriting is shit, and my letter soemtiems coem out jumbeld. Similar thing happens when I type, usually as a coordination problem between left and right hand.But because I remember the word I was trying to write, my brain hallucinates what was in my memory.
Like, I read my resume over and over like 20 times, (and even had my ex-wife and other people I know read it), but it still had spelling errors.Turns out most people I know IRL have some kind of language disorder. Ex could write perfectly with both hands... perfectly mirrored.
But I can read the example from the HackerNews website at full speed, excepting a couple large words I didn't know and so couldn't 'project' into my internal model. (like 'Typoglycemia') https://t.co/OAJwLZPm2N
An added weirdness is that I'll constantly mispronounce things. It's like instead of remembering how things sound, I instead read off a mental picture of a word and say it how my mind interprets it phonetically. (Sometimes the memoized copy is misspelled!)https://t.co/7ejp444sGr
Why do we call it 'spelling' anyway? Do words bewitch people and influence them into doing things like some kind of magick?I can't even spell my true name.https://t.co/TTG7ibRoiy
Hah, someone figured out you could reverse word-associations (word2vec) + attention, to glean underlying language structures and narrow down on the roots of inferential distance, and predict schizophrenia.https://t.co/8GDefNenP9https://t.co/WE265uIcUH
I suspect I use spatial language more than sound based ones. I am an artist, not a muziktion.https://t.co/HjDQ5x8ilj
I wonder what is filling up my music memory.https://t.co/wwUaEixzOO
"offers a phenomenological or hermeneutic reading—employing Heidegger's notion of the ‘ontological difference‘—of certain central aspects of schizophrenic experience." https://t.co/TvuFQOcNyyTalk to me about my solar anus.
I feel things when I read writing. Empathy?"Larger negative emotion vocabularies correlate with more psychological distress and poorer physical health. Larger positive emotion vocabularies correlate with higher well-being and better physical health."https://t.co/znawzDWHTg
"As a speech-language pathologist, I knew these observations were consistent with autism, but I resisted the diagnosis. I had a hard time reconciling my son’s social and caring nature with how autistic individuals were depicted"https://t.co/lsKtNpsAU5
Is it possible to trigger a feeling in someone without writing a story? Could an AI reverse engineer emotional communication and write things that make no sense, but we want to read anyway? A sort of computational emotional poetry?
"I absolutely did not understand why this was a thing. Until I watched it. For like 30 minutes. It's pretty cool. I'm impressed that someone found such a loophole in the human mind. [...] we just live in that kinda world." https://t.co/gDfFA9X9az {infohazard warning}
Huh."We conclude that emotional impairments in ASD may be broader than just a mere consequence of social impairments, and should receive more attention in future research." [2014]https://t.co/uZ2OfW3Anb
Found a consistant W.E.I.R.D. bias in Synesthesia studies, lmao."Participants in the study were recruited through advertisements on the Emory campus and screened with an online test called the Synesthesia Battery." https://t.co/VckcCmKuEy
I wonder how many other synesthesia studies are W.E.I.R.D. and interestingly biased by dietary norms stemming from modern western education system's control over food such as we see in the UK and the States?https://t.co/fYjO6iuuGB
Teaching myself to see/hear/feel/taste/touch/dance again.https://t.co/zN6ltruXzr