Zara Lisbon
@ZLisbon · 3:27
My First Swell: Synesthesia
I also have a very vivid color experience, and even sometimes with tasting things, I'll have a color experience, and occasionally physical sensations on my body will translate into tastes. Yeah. So it's like very I always thought just happened to everyone until I learned that it was like, not everyone. But I also have this curiosity about what other people's experiences are like. If you listen to music, do you see colors? Do you not see any colors when you hear words?
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 2:08
And another thing I was kind of curious about was is this something that you externally express in your home decor or your study or things of that nature, or is this something merely a phenomena that you don't really share with too many people? Or if you do, it's not like you have these weird and crazy vibrant color clothes because of the mood you're feeling for the day. I'm just curious as to how that works and applies to you
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:21
So I feel like when I write, I use words that are kind of contrasty, like the blue cry of the child. That's exactly what you're saying when the child cries. Do you see the color blue or something like that? I've done it more as an artifice than as a true expression of what I experienced. And I really love that you do. And I want to pay more attention to what I experienced with my senses crossing wires
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
So I have that cool experience of being able to experience synesthesia in all these ways. And in fact, nowadays, sometimes if I'm just sitting in meditation, looking in nature or taking in sounds from nature, my senses intensify without any sort of intake of anything physically. Basically, I'm able to just induce synesthesia in some ways
Jessica McMillan
@JLMcMillan · 4:48
And I think it's just another example of where we can look at things in a more nonlinear way, and that if there's a little bit of synesthesia and all of us that we can cultivate that through our imaginations, even if we're not necessarily experiencing it in a really direct neurological way. But I'll be really interested to hear what everyone else has to say
Lianne Goldsmith
@lianneyael · 0:46
Hey, Zara, I just heard your swell about the Synesthesia. And my daughter Lennon has it and has always from a very young age, spoken about describing people like the Blue Boy in a musical term. And she's her whole life has described tastes in color and people in color. And she works stylist now. And I think that it has a very big part in the world that she works in. She obviously doesn't talk about it as much as an adult