I’ve always had a sick fascination with things like neurology, the nature of conciousness (which I believe to be omnipresent), and how subjective perception/misperception within conciousness can be effected by neurological conditions. So much so I used to read books like “the man who mistook his wife for a hat”, so I had heard about, and was vaguely aware of what Synesthesia is.
I’m sure most here have the same basic information as to what Synesthesia is as I do, but here’s a link to the Synesthesia wiki page, and a video for those who aren’t familiar with Synesthesia and are interested:
Well, I think I experience Synesthesia with pheromones, although I have no other form of Synesthesia what so ever. Oddly enough I have no Synesthesia reaction to the more popular, well known pheromones (like the nol’s, -none, rone, etc), so I never experienced any form of Synesthesia when I was new and playing with just the consumer products. It was when I started exploring the putatives I started noticing Synesthesia. I can still remember the first time I sprayed myself with p74, and instantly and vividly I had this mental image of a light green colour. I still get this consistently, every time I wear p74 or even when I just think about p74. I think I can pretty much tell if p74 is in, or not in a mix just by my Synesthesia reaction.
I thought at first because my Synesthesia seemed to be related to the putatives only, that I wasn’t experiencing pheromone Synesthesia, but the common from of Synesthesia, where numbers (or letter) are interpreted as a colour, i.e; I was interpreting the putative numbers as a colour. I changed my mind when I also experienced Synesthesia with the experimones. My most vivid, consistent reactions are:
p74 - light green
TAC - light blue
TAF - crystal clear, colourless
p86 - warm yellow
p94- the same warm yellow
TAA - a more crisp yellow
p78 - a deep, ugly purple
p93 - the same purple
p79 - similar blue to TAC but lighter still
I’m still not sure if I’m actually experiencing real pheromone Synesthesia, or if I’m actually experiencing Synesthesia from the feelings pheromones evoke in me, i.e; I’m seeing colours associated with feelings, rather than the pheromones themselves directly communicating with the brain. It would make sense, as generally the colours I see are similar to the emotions the pheromone evokes.
Having said that though, could it actually be possible that, some pheromones deliberately (as their evolutionary purpose) actually impose a mild form of Synesthesia upon everyone exposed. And we here are utilising their perception bending/amplifying/enhancing properties?
I’ve never really seen pheromone Synesthesia duiscussed much before, so I don’t know how common it is amongst us. Any other ‘suffers’? For me it is purely colours, I know evolver once mentioned sounds, anyone else with different experiences?