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Synesthesia
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Common among artists, Synesthesia is a cross wiring of the senses that allows the Synesthete to experience one sense (for example colour) in conjuntion with another (such as taste or sound). For example, a Synesthete might describe the color red as being hot, brown as being slick, and blue as making a ringing sound akin to a telephone, another might describe the sound of C Sharp as "tasting salty". Various explanations exist for the condition.
Famous synesthetes include Vladimir Nabokov (see his autobiography "Speak Memory"), Duke Ellington , David Hockney and Richard Feynmann.
Further links and videos are listed below.
Brief definition with examples at: Absolute Astronomy
Website for Synesthetes: www.synesthete.org
YouTube clip explaining: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvwTSEwVBfc
Letter from Rexburg Bus Station
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Unsent Letters
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Tuesday - Oct 21. Another Shaw Bill
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Who's Your ISP?
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Yet another bill from Shaw today, still with all charges for their Digital Phone Service that I cancelled 2 months before. It's getting to be a large bill, last time I paid in person, requesting yet again that they remove the digital phone from my billing. The customer service agent looked perplexed that I was refusing to pay for services I had not recieved. Looking looked into it, she advised me it will be cancelled, all charges will be reversed. And yet another bill arrives, with all old charges and new ones too, ever hopeful that I slip up and pay without questioning.
There is not time today, but there will be a post on "Premeditated and Systematic Incompetence", wherein I discuss how companies exploit consumers reluctance to argue, complain or simply even notice the illegal charges companies place upon their customers accounts. Think of the impetus, the rewards Shaw offers to have direct debit? And why not, then they can simply help themselves to money from your bank account at a rate of billing determined by themselves? For every customer who complains 100 customers don't even notice.
Dream Logic
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- Category: Dreams
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There is a strange logic to dreams, "Dream Logic" I like to call it. It's where seemingly random associations become imbued with meaning. People, strangers become lovers and confidantes and you don't question it, it's part of the dream. Old neighborhoods become both strange and familiar, where you can become lost in your own house, or take a shortcut that leads you across the world. Distant friends and schoolmates will reunite, people long forgotten in conscious thought reappear in new guises, new relations. In dreams, the mind functions as a whole, disbelief is suspended, incredible events are accepted as ordinary and subservient to a twisted, twisting logic that perverts and recreates memory. One has a dream and in it one recognizes an almost instant familiarity, as if one has had this dream before, never the exact same dream, but the same dream nonetheless. And yet upon awakening it is brand new. And they have the ability to overwrite memory, I have woken from dreams of my childhood, of a childhood I never experienced in a house filled with strangers become relatives, in a town I have never visited become home, yet in the dream I recognized it all and awoke strangely saddened that this dream wasn't my childhood. And strangely disturbed.
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