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Post by q8 on Jan 24, 2006 12:00:18 GMT
Just watched a programme on TV in which people with a strange affliction [synesthesia] were featured. These poor folk can TASTE words. By that I mean when they see/hear a word a taste of something comes into the mouth.
The guy was standing looking at a tube map and said that one station tasted of sausages. Another tasted of chocolate.
I myself have an association of a sort whereby if I hear a certain song I always think of a freind. 'Love Train' reminds me of one mate, 'My Sentimental Friend' of another. I suppose it's all in the mind.
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Post by CSLR on Jan 24, 2006 12:50:37 GMT
Just watched a programme on TV in which people with a strange affliction [synesthesia] were featured. These poor folk can TASTE words. By that I mean when they see/hear a word a taste of something comes into the mouth. The guy was standing looking at a tube map and said that one station tasted of sausages. Another tasted of chocolate. I myself have an association of a sort whereby if I hear a certain song I always think of a freind. 'Love Train' reminds me of one mate, 'My Sentimental Friend' of another. I suppose it's all in the mind. There is also an associated condition called chromasthesia where individuals visualise colours and/or shapes in place of numbers. Such people do not usually excel at mathematics, but there are apparently instances where it works in their favour and they can work out the square root of minus one by picturing something like a map of the Circle Line. |
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Post by CSLR on Jan 24, 2006 12:57:36 GMT
The guy was standing looking at a tube map and said that one station tasted of sausages. Another tasted of chocolate. I know one station that always smells of curry. |
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Post by Chris M on Jan 24, 2006 12:57:51 GMT
I'd be interested to know which tube station tasted of what  Songs to memories is not uncommon - I get it particularly in relation to what I was reading. There was one album I listened to quite a lot while I was reading The Stand by Stephen King, and even several years later the two are very entwined in my mind. Chris |
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Post by q8 on Jan 24, 2006 14:24:04 GMT
Well according to the guy on TV when he looked at the tube map and saw Russell Square he got the taste of chocolate in the mouth. Edgware Road was sausages.
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Post by q8 on Jan 24, 2006 14:29:08 GMT
There is also another condition where people associate individuals with something. I forget what it is called but if they hear a name mentioned they get a association that has nothing to do with the person. For instance 'Fred' is associated with earwax apparently
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Post by CSLR on Jan 24, 2006 14:47:35 GMT
There is also another condition where people associate individuals with something. I forget what it is called.... There is also a name for people who forget what things are called, but I have forgotten it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2006 17:54:24 GMT
Dalston Kingsland cunjours up a distinct smell of sewage and brown stuff...
Hold on... ;D ;D
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Post by q8 on Jan 24, 2006 18:41:17 GMT
There is also another condition where people associate individuals with something. I forget what it is called.... There is also a name for people who forget what things are called, but I have forgotten it. HEE HEE HEE!! ;D ;D Good'un CSLR [ It's unnoficially called 'Q8itis'] |
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Post by q8 on Jan 24, 2006 18:48:14 GMT
Wapping always smells of Gas and winkles
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2006 19:36:08 GMT
Well according to the guy on TV when he looked at the tube map and saw Russell Square he got the taste of chocolate in the mouth. Edgware Road was sausages. Did Great Portland Street taste of mash then? |
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Post by q8 on Jan 24, 2006 20:15:02 GMT
Nah but Northampton might taste of knuckles if I get down there. ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2006 20:34:41 GMT
Heathrow SMELLS of Kerosene...can't quite remember why...!
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Post by Colin on Jan 25, 2006 2:22:59 GMT
Hmm, the Dagenham's.......................
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