Not Ordinary..just Extraordinary
Imagine Vivaldi's Concerto No 1 in E 'La Primavera' (Spring to us earthy folks) from the album Four Seasons. Now imagine, in addition to listening to the music, you "see" this brilliant piece as dazzling flashes of light. Or, maybe you can "smell" the music, or you are unlucky enough to feel like somethings creeping up all over your skin...
If your imagination turned into vivid reality, and you are indeed experiencing such sensations, you are Synesthetic or have synesthesia. Being researched to get a better understanding of how our senses really work in conjunction with the brain, it is a fascinating look into the perception of perception.
Yet, at the same time, unless the person dealing with such a condition trains themselves to deal with it, it can get pretty tough to deal with daily life. But, as some accounts put it, synesthesia actually gives the person an extra way of enjoying a beautiful sensation...the above link actually has a virtual synesthesia demo with colors associated to letters, and it did get pretty interesting trying to read.
From the article of above link...(http://psyche.csse.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-27-baron_cohen.html)
Interesting paradox...evolution threw up modularity in our brains....that implies dysmodularity is maladaptive, yet examples of people with dysmodularity having no troubles with their lives suggest adaptiveness...
As is typical with most biological conditions though, synesthesia has thrown up examples of people with the ability to adapt and live with their conditions vs people who, due to their condition, become socialy withdrawn or become passive or try to avoid certain situations. Click above link, scroll down to #5...
2 comments:
Hi Daph,
There is an old saying “What cannot be cured, has to be endured”. Tough people are the ones who endure it and many a times cure it in the process of endurance. I had once been to a Rotary Club Seminar and an eminent Cardiologist there was saying that about 87% of our health problems are due to our mental state of affairs and not relatable to any disease, hence does not require treatment. Out of the remaining 13%, about 7% are incurable diseases and he finally said that the whole medical fraternity with so many hospitals are there only to treat about 6% of our health problems.
I have seen people with lot of handicaps and diseases living a long and astonishingly successful life. There are in fact many who with the mental strength convert handicaps into strengths to capitalize and make out a better life. So ultimately as you said it is the state of mind and how our mind is able to adapt to a particular state of affairs thereby making it our strength or weakness.
You have a very deeply analysed posts in your blog. A lot of lateral thinking is visible. Keep it up. with your permission I would like to add you to my links.
Daph. Thanks for adding my blog to your links.
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