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Joseph:
Vladimir Nabokov also had synesthesia, which he talks about at some length in Speak, Memory.  Synesthesia is pretty far from insanity though.

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: WriterofAllWrongs on 01 May 2009, 16:34 ---Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov... had a form of synesthesia which translated musical keys and intervals into colors.
--- End quote ---

Messiaen had this too.  As a church organist he was surrounded by brilliantly coloured stained glass windows, and these influenced his composition to a great extent.  But it's not insanity, of course.

ViolentDove:
I wish I could have synaesthesia some times, it actually sounds like a pretty amazing thing to experience. I guess I could just take a shitload of acid, but it's not really the same.

Lunchbox:
Now drugs and creativity, that is a different thing entirely.

I have always been interested by this study where an artist is given acid and then documents the changes his mind makes through drawing.

Some of the last ones look a lot like Brett Whiteley's stuff, which I am quite fond of, but we all know what the drugs did to him.

Zingoleb:
I am easily, very mentally unbalanced. Crazy. People say I'm not crazy, but...they don't really see things my way.

I love the sound of the colour blue!

Sounds a bit psychedelic, but it's true. Sounds a bit like bad poetry, but it's not. I don't necessarily *hear* the colour, but I have a sense of what it would sound like. If that makes sense. The way I describe things as they make sense to me makes no sense to other people. My father wanted to name the dog Brandy, which I was radically against. He kept asking me why I didn't like the name, and I kept telling him I just didn't. He kept pushing it, and finally I told him the reason why: The name sounds like brown and yellow in my mind. He gave me an odd look and didn't press the issue again.

I see eyes. I'm very open with my mental imbalances, I have no reason to hide them. I understand that it's all in my head, and I can use logic and rationality to explain to myself what's wrong with me, though it's not always so simple (that is, sometimes I actually lose my mind). I believe people are following me, I see eyes in every window. There's a demon hiding in the rafters and watching me. When I was a child, I believed there were angels whispering to me all the time, and that cameras were following my every move. Thankfully, I never really told anyone about this.

And, I'd like to think of myself as highly creative in what I do. I don't know if there is a correlation or only a coincidence, but my story's open to be discussed.

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