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Creativity and Insanity - discuss
onewheelwizzard:
I had drug-induced synaethesia once. It wasn't quite what you'd expect.
Basically I was on some incredibly clean and powerful acid (possibly still the cleanest I've ever taken) and I was lying down on a bed in a dark room, listening to the Grateful Dead for the first time. I started twitching muscles in time with the music and after delving into that sensation for a while I found myself translating the music directly into movement, and then I started to see it all happening. 15 minutes later, the music was playing video games on the backs of my eyeballs using my thigh muscles as controllers. It was pretty awesome.
sean:
my friend has synaethesia and he is always describing to me what color music is! however, the most fascinating thing about it is whenever he is stoned, it goes beyond colors and it starts becoming shapes and moving patterns. its pretty crazy when he describes what he sees, and once or twice i've almost understood what synaethesia feels like via his descriptions and an altered mind. its crazy shit!
snalin:
I have never ever had any mental problems. Hell, my weirdest side is that I have to check if the bathroom door is closed. I have no artistic creative talent outside of a mediocre writing skill, and I can't play any instrument or sing. Yup, I guess it counts as true for me.
EDIT: I agree with Jens on the rant.
Lines:
--- Quote from: Lunchbox on 01 May 2009, 19:38 ---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.
--- End quote ---
That study is really interesting. I always wondered what it would be like to do this, but I don't want to touch the stuff. This made me giggle:
--- Quote ---Upon completing the drawing the patient starts laughing, then becomes startled by something on the floor.
--- End quote ---
Sox:
is synethesia trendy now? like, is it cool to say you're experienced it?
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