Think of a concept, taste it on your tongue


	Think of a concept, taste it on your tongue

Octane

11-22-2006 6:48 PM

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synaesthesia, taste, neuroscience, science

Octane says:

Maybe all of us have synaesthesia to some degree.

Or why else does the very mention of certain things leave us feeling sick, or with a bitter taste in our mouths?

Subjects such as tax for example?

Tastes like a dirty ashtray to me...

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11-22-2006 7:56 PM

fleuree

Maybe all of us have synaesthesia to some degree.

The fact that odors and fragrances evoke memories and vice versa seems to indicate this may be so.

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