Synesthesia
As I listen to my French music, I initially find it frustrating that I don't really know what they're saying. But then, the mind starts working. Its not imagination, more like foresight. I find myself being transported in a train through the lush French countryside. The feeling and sight lasts for a second, but the memory will stay for much longer.
When it comes to the scent, especially perfume, it can be annoying when it reminds one of less happy, more confusing times. Then there are the scents that prick up your eyes, ears and nose - eager to find who its owner is. The memory of such stimulation can last, but remembering the scent, it will only appear when you smell it again. You will find yourself in the same time and place as when you caught the first whiff.
Then there is the sight. When a person is dressed in the same clothes as when you first met them, it is like you are experiencing first impressions of them all over again. Or so they say.
Any excitement of the senses, mixed with memory, can lead to a double entendre of stimulation. Experiencing synesthesia is proof of youth not having gone to waste.
Then again, maybe it is wasted youth that allows one to experience synesthesia. Although it can lead to sentimentality, it does not especially mean you have experienced that which is worth having sentiment for. But to experience something without ever having seen or felt it in reality?
I believe it is something worth fighting for.
When it comes to the scent, especially perfume, it can be annoying when it reminds one of less happy, more confusing times. Then there are the scents that prick up your eyes, ears and nose - eager to find who its owner is. The memory of such stimulation can last, but remembering the scent, it will only appear when you smell it again. You will find yourself in the same time and place as when you caught the first whiff.
Then there is the sight. When a person is dressed in the same clothes as when you first met them, it is like you are experiencing first impressions of them all over again. Or so they say.
Any excitement of the senses, mixed with memory, can lead to a double entendre of stimulation. Experiencing synesthesia is proof of youth not having gone to waste.
Then again, maybe it is wasted youth that allows one to experience synesthesia. Although it can lead to sentimentality, it does not especially mean you have experienced that which is worth having sentiment for. But to experience something without ever having seen or felt it in reality?
I believe it is something worth fighting for.
