synesthesia

[Guest guest]

A question for the group:

 

Does anyone treat any patients who have synesthesia? If you do I would love

to speak with you either on or off list. This is not about treatment - but

rather the synesthesiac's experience of acupuncture. Any feedback would be

appreciated.

thanks in advance

robbee

tashidelay

@

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[Guest guest]

Dear Robee, this is a fascinating topic. In an earlier post long ago, I

mentioned how the Tables of Correspondences of the Five Elements looks like a

highly developed and intuitive human perspective of naturalist science, not only

for medical diagnosis and treatment guides, but as an synesthesiac experience of

knowledge and conciousness. (eg, the element or phase of earth and it's color,

sound, note, emotion, direction, weather, taste etc). Because, it seems to

me that when the being clearly experiences 'things', all the being experiences

it, throughout the mental content, and sensorial abilities too. All together

(syn-together, aisthanesthai-percieve).

In treatment, some people have I guess, unusual reactions, things that seem

in a way to be synesthesia, such as, emotional releases and pleasant states of

mind that may or may not correlate to the element that is rebalancing, or

specific memories, or quiet orgasm or relaxation, or little and longer

overlapping sensorial dreams and experiences of musical nature, or tastes,

vision etc.

Sometimes during treatment sometimes after. Some people have experience or

portray thier main complaints in a synesthesia way. One gentleman described his

'sciatica' as a ball of orange electricity, the size of a grapefruit. I was

allowed to take his 'grapefruit' away, sorry.

For a fun read, the book 'A Natural History of the Senses', by Diane

Ackerman, ISBN 0-394-57335-8, has a chapter starting on page 287, called

Synesthesia. It gives a great deal of info about the subject, and great

anecdotal stuff like, Rimski-Korsakov saying C-major is white, Scraibin saying

it is green.

Thanks for bringing this idea up. Hope my thoughts weren't boring or

low-level.

 

TashiDelay wrote:A question for the group:

Does anyone treat any patients who have synesthesia? If you do I would love to

speak with you either on or off list. This is not about treatment - but rather

the synesthesiac's experience of acupuncture. Any feedback would be

appreciated.

thanks in advance robbee tashidelay