indelibleface
Bluelight Crew
This popped up as a new trip report yesterday (16th of December, 2010), and I couldn't help but share it, because, in spite of its terse nature, the concept it describes is nothing short of beautiful to me, and it is worth sharing. I realize this isn't a "trip report" in the purest sense, but Erowid felt it relevant enough to publish it, so I feel it should be relevant enough to share here as well.
What a fascinating thing to experience on a daily basis, without any chemical aid whatsoever! I find things like this ridiculously interesting, because it's an experience so far removed from my own. This person lives a life I could not even imagine. His world seems so rich and beautiful, even in such dire circumstances, with all of his health problems.
It's just beautiful. I thought I'd share.
Link: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=88742Synesthesia
Endogenous
by Tunug
BODY WEIGHT: 94 lb
I just want to talk a little bit about SYNESTHESIA. WOW!!! What an amazing thing. Synesthesia is where I see colors when I taste, smell, or hear. Anything I taste smell or hear, has a color to it. I have this wonderful wonderful gift.
I cannot taste, smell, and am almost completely blind, am ventilator dependant 70% and have many many other health issues. I hear colors basically which means that ANY noise whatsoever has a color. The noise of my fingers on the keyboard has a color of purple. The heater going in my room has a color of whitesh. The noises sometimes have an array of colors like sometimes a classical piece like the Minuet in G Minor has a colors of whitesh, pink, blue, and green. The little one by Bach. And my monitors beeping and stuff have colors as well. My pulse oximeter which is the device I use to monitor my oxygen saturations and heart rate has a beep color of greyish, and my EKG machine I use to monitor my heart's rhythm has a color of blue. The beeping does. My ventilator's noise has a color of green blue, and white. Basically my life is a wide variety of audiable colors. Basically anything if it has noise, I see colors.
What a fascinating thing to experience on a daily basis, without any chemical aid whatsoever! I find things like this ridiculously interesting, because it's an experience so far removed from my own. This person lives a life I could not even imagine. His world seems so rich and beautiful, even in such dire circumstances, with all of his health problems.
It's just beautiful. I thought I'd share.
