a new color

isn't that what he's saying?

 

Yes you can and it is REAL. Many famous artists and musicians have this gift all over the world. Also an interesting thing is that this special phenomenom occurs quite often when people take psychedelics.

Its called synaesthesia. I reccomend that you look into it.

 

I think you can imagine a color you've never seen before. I think that our color vocabulary has an effect on the colors we see. For example, you might go around for years and not know what "mauve" means. Then you learn the word and associate it with something in that color, and it seems like you're seeing it everywhere. The point is not that you were unable to see it before. You are finally noticing it even though it's been there all along. You start perceiving it as a "new" color.

 

Colors are combinations of wavelengths of different frequencies striking the transducers (rods + cones) in your eye and then interpreted by the occipital lobe of your brain. There are over 100 million different colors that can be distinguished by the human eye, though the English vocabulary only has names for about 200,000 of them. Anyone with a bachelor's degree in Psychology or Physiology/Pre-med can tell you that.

It's entirely possible for the OP to have envisioned a "new" color, i.e. a combination of wave lengths that his brain had never interpreted before.

 

thats unrelated to this, since you never didnt see the mouve, you just didnt consider it as a seperate shade with a name.

it is impossible to imagine a colour youve not experienced before.

 

some people have known to be possessing the ability to smell colors, to see sounds, to feel the texture of abstract forms.....i have forgotten the exact name of such a condition...but it is well-recognised in the field of psychiatry and neurology.

 

ah yes....thaat's it....synaesthesia

 

synaesthesia is when a colour is stimulated by a sound, or a smell by a touch or something like that. it is not the case of seeing the sound or smelling the touch, whereby a totally new sensation is apparently experienced.

ie.

if the sound of a chainsaw lead to a perception of the colour red coming from wherever the sound was

vs

seeing the colour that IS the sound of a chainsaw

 

I think your all tripping on acid and you just wont admit it.

 

yeah one out of 150000 people can taste see sometimes feel music because of there nerves are combined into the brain weird i seen it on the discovery channal when i was stoned

 

Exactly. I once experienced this on mushrooms. I saw colour spots formed by
words I was hearing, from the TV. I also watched the strings on my guitar
light up with colours, as I played different notes.

 

If you want to learn more about synesthesia, there are many websites you can check out. Just type the word into a search engine. Also, There is a book that just recently came out called "A Mango Shaped Space" By Wendy Mass. It is a young adult fiction, however it gives a lot of good info on synesthesia. Also check out "The Man Who Tasted Shapes" by Richard E. Cytowic.

 

There is a disorder where you confuse your senses, and smell colors or taste shapes. I've read about it some while researching autism.

 

Yeah it's synesthesia. I'm sure it's already been mintioned hundreds of times in this thread already though. I get it when i'm on acid sometimes. Not those damn rc's though. I think it is a fucking awsome experience to have!