Tasting Colors and Seeing Time: Synesthesia

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"Synesthesia is a condition in which one sense (for example, hearing) is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight. Another form of synesthesia joins objects such as letters, shapes, numbers or people's names with a sensory perception such as smell, color or flavor."

Olivier Messiaen had this, and used it as one of the techniques when composing music. I will link to a piece of music that he composed based on the colors he saw when reading The Book of Revelation.

The reason I bring it up is because in the ICD-10 it is listed as "RR44.8 Other and unspecified symptoms and signs involving general sensations and perceptions". RR44.0 is Auditory hallucinations, RR44.1 is Visual hallucinations. And so on.

So basically: If you went to a doctor in 1950 and told people that you were seeing colors when people spoke; you would have ended up with a lobotomy.
In the 70's you would have ended up in an institution.
In 1980 they would have prescribed anti-psychotic drugs to you.
But in the 90's, the research had evolved and if you told them that you were seeing colors when people spoke: they would have told you that you are perfectly fine and sent you home.

This is interesting to us within the occult because it means that some "weird" phenomenons aren't always a sign of mental problems. There might be a perfectly logical and biological reason to why somebody is seeing something, that others can't see.

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Talking on the phone with my mom the other day and she said she recently had an experience where she was hearing a radio station without there being any radio like it was completely in her head. She said she heard Lawrence Welk, some other guy, and some other guy, a bunch of old 50s/60s music. At least she was laughing about it and enjoyed it.

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Talking on the phone with my mom the other day and she said she recently had an experience where she was hearing a radio station without there being any radio like it was completely in her head. She said she heard Lawrence Welk, some other guy, and some other guy, a bunch of old 50s/60s music. At least she was laughing about it and enjoyed it.

"Other types of auditory hallucination include exploding head syndrome and musical ear syndrome. In the latter, people will hear music playing in their mind, usually songs they are familiar with. This can be caused by: lesions on the brain stem (often resulting from a stroke); also, sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, tumors, encephalitis, or abscesses. This should be distinguished from the commonly experienced phenomenon of getting a song stuck in one's head. Reports have also mentioned that it is also possible to get musical hallucinations from listening to music for long periods of time. Other reasons include hearing loss and epileptic activity."