#mental realm

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Difference Between Projective and Associative Synesthesia

Okay, this confuses the stuffing out of people sometimes (at least, it used to for me), so I decided to write a post on it.

There are two umbrellas that someone’s synesthesia can fall under: projective and associative.

Projective synesthesia is likely the first kind you’ll hear of when you stumble across the topic of synesthesia. This is where your pairings are projected outward into your peripheral vision. Someone with grapheme-color synesthesia (projective) would see words/letters/numbers/etc. in their “proper” colors. For example, if they saw the word “kite” as purple, the word “kite” would literally appear to be purple, even though it may be written in black text. For someone with ticker tape synesthesia (projective), they literally see “subtitles” in their peripheral vision spelling out everything that someone is saying. These subtitles can be located anywhere in their peripheral vision. Someone with lexical gustatory synesthesia (projective), which is sight to taste, will literally taste the words/numbers/letters they see/hear. 

Associative synesthesia is where you see your pairings only in your mind, rather than in your peripheral vision. You know how when you remember something--an event, a person, etc.--and you see it in your mind, but not in the world around you? That’s the same place that associative synesthetes see their pairings. For lack of a better term, I call this the mental realm. I believe I’m the only one that really uses that term to describe it, but I could be wrong. Regardless, people with associative synesthesia see their pairings in their mental realm or have a very strong association between two things. For someone with lexical-gustatory synesthesia (associative), the letter Y may very obviously taste like watermelon without them physically tasting watermelon. For those with chromesthesia/sound-color synesthesia, perhaps “Love Song” by Sara Bareilles is clearly blue and brown (which they see in their mental realm).

Every single type of synesthesia (as far as I know) has the capability of being either projective or associative in a synesthete. Associative synesthesia is every bit as legitimate as projective synesthesia, but tends to be a bit harder to discover since it’s more subtle.

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Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?

Nostalghia, Andrei Tarkovsky

[iy0v]

An Odyssey of the Mental Realm

Santiago Caruso, Poème Maudit

—

Too many sleepless nights

Too many howls at the moonlight

Here I witness my dark shadow at sight

Growing at every encounter bigger

Devouring wrath and might,

Wish I could pull the trigger

To end it all, perhaps set things right

—

But all those I once loved,

their anguish and despair

Shall never quench my anger,

nor make it fair

So rather than blowing it up with lead

I chose to swallow my tears instead

—

Seeking a new chance of redemption

My suffering brought me a sudden realization

For I may never be loved

as much as I could love

Thus in my left chest

is an empty hole, devoid

Growing heartless and cold,

Words did me no good

In a world capable of lies and deception

I wish I could feel you

In deeds, in action, in affection

For my capacity of loving,

surpasses my physicality,

Transcendental,

to an unreachable personal reality.

Bernardino Mei, Ghismonda with the heart of Guiscardo (1650).

—

A reality of agony and loneliness

One that I never chose

A bloodbath of tears,

childhood memories of old,

Ones I once chose to ignore

Now all my demons came haunting me

Every score must be settled

Every debt must be repaid

The walls are now painted red

A bloody battle for sure

but only one who truly bled

Had to keep my chin up,

with pride of a steep slope

Pursuing a vision of hope;

Was the remaining scrap of my shield,

Inner strength,

the force by which I strike and wield,

Resilience!

no matter what, never will I ever yield.

—

In memory of when I longed for love and connection

Longed for so long, my tears have dried in red,

Red were the drops that I drank, the one I bled,

Yet in solitude I found a light, a cure, a consoling bed

A resting sanctuary of mind, spirit and heart,

Empty no longer, I can sense glory ahead,

Longing no further,

I choose mighty will and fierce power instead!

Fiery might! an inner toughness forged like lead

I shall rise alive, from the ashes, from the dead,

Far away from this pit of decay

Cut off its rusty chains!

I shall hike up the steepest cliffs of life and her pain!

To conquer this void, to begin my new reign!

—

Even if I had to crawl back

Knees broken and mudded through the tracks

Woe be to all that stands in my way

For my soul is unbroken, nor shall it ever crack

Resiliently I shall make my way through the storm

For my eyes picture a distant home,

One that one day will rise firm and tall,

From the ruins & the ashes like the eternal Rome!

To write down my destiny with sweat, tears & blood

An odyssey to strive for, a gamble to rise

A timeline paved above the swallowing mud

Yet strength will always be rewarded

At the doorstep of Hell, hidden lies a prize

To the outrageously wise

and the courageously untroubled

Gifted shall be thy wings,

Elevated shall be the warrior to the highest skies.

—

A scenic view overlooking the end of a hellish tunnel

Back to earth, wholly reborn and alive are my senses,

Now I can march amidst this holy pyre that cleanses

Silently embracing its burning breeze, all at ease

Completely purified within me feels every wound,

Now I see it, my reward was always a warrior within

My undying phoenix, the blaze of my hidden djinn,

Bewildering fury of a tornado that spins

When the world falls apart, yet thicker gets my skin

Resiliently within I find a way striving to win

The eternal flame, to which I’m delightfully attuned,

The core of my soul is built of an unbroken breed

Gracefully traveling my mental realm at a lively speed

—

My rage is of Ares, my fire is of Hades!

My morning star is of the North, enlightening breeze

Praise be the Lord that destroys and creates,

The Source that torments and the Spring that heals,

The eternal struggle, what a delightful battle,

Light and its Darkness, Yin and its Yang

In servitude of the Creator and of its Creation,

Aspiring towards supreme inspiration,

The Almighty has granted me a blazing blade

At last, Lord of the Heavens has come to my aid.

—

A burning passion in fulfillment of the mission,

The pit is no more, divine connection is the vision,

To reach the peak of that mountain throne

Of that distant dream of Babylon

To climb that tower, not in defiance,

Rather in appreciation, in good faith and in alliance

Of intangible spirituality and tangible science

Of the Dionysian heart & the Apollonian mind

At the doorstep of Babel, the gate of the Divine,

The crowning chance for mankind,

At its entrance, however, lies my final challenger

A Serpent from the primordial waters,

The antithesis of my phoenix, the Basilisk within

Roams Chaos, disarray’s crawling under my skin

Since the beginning of times, ever an adversary

Sublime blessings upon whoever fearlessly confronts

the Devourer of Worlds, a path essentially solitary

An ultimate battle, a clash of order and disorder,

The longly awaited clash of opposites, what a tale.

—

Coming full circle, the Leviathan bites its tail,

Cycle of immortality, the undying can only be tamed

Dancing to its rhythm, mimicking its trail,

Mounting the Ouroboros, illusions that start to fade

Fear no more, enlightening peace beyond this veil

Reaching for the unreachable, what a magnum opus

A Singularity at last, yet I feel heartless and ferocious

A point of no return, set to be irrevocably catalyzed,

A dream and its awakening, beautifully synchronized

My inner muse & her witnessing, fully rhapsodized!

—

Join me in this vision, and with me visualize,

All we’ve ever wanted, striving for survival no more

Thriving in existing, beyond this Holy door,

Promised is the day when the gates will open,

But for now, I must journey through Hell on my own

To rightfully set the world, my world, not in vain,

But as it should be, where visions are no more torn,

One day, under the bright light of the moon,

Or by the middle sea on a soothing afternoon

Someplace, sometime, together we could all rejoice,

Upon Babel’s Tower highest gate,

we may finally cherish our joys.

—

Now I initiate my journey, immersed in ice and fire

The calling of Aries, to fight for the rise of an empire

Engulfed in his flames, enlightening golden dawn

My heart is awakened, reflecting the rise of Aragorn

Unifying sun & moon, a divinely empowering eclipse,

Now begins my odyssean voyage towards the abyss.

- Iyov

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