[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Synesthesia (Was: Oliver Sacks / Brain peculiarities )

[Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner]

> There was one woman who saw jagged yellow lightning every time a
> pager buzzed in her vicinity, and a friend of Sacks made an offhand
> remark about the dinner he was cooking... that the flavor of
> the chicken didn't have enough "points," and then sheepishly
> explained that when he tasted the chicken, he could see a field of
> cone-shaped objects when the chicken was cooked just right. Another
> person said that he could feel a cool marble pillar against his
> fingers every time he tasted a certain food.

Ooh!  Ooh!  (sticks hand in air and waves it around in hysterical Rorshach
fashion)

You may be interested in my story "Touching Indigo" at
http://www.fanfiction.net/index.fic?action=story-read&storyid=2344 .  It
isn't HP fic, so no fear of "tainting the canon", and it deals with this
very subject.  And although it falls under the heading of fanfic, it can be
understood by people who have no familiarity with or interest in the parent
work -- or so I've been told.  It's also been published, so I think it's
safe to say that it is also fairly readable.

I'll stop begging shamelessly for reviews now,
--
Rebecca J. Bohner
rebeccaj at pobox.com
http://home.golden.net/~rebeccaj