Do people experience different realities? | INNER COSMOS WITH DAVID EAGLEMAN

[@drambikajawalkar7094]

“Reality is not one size fits all”. The humbleness in this phrase is of the next level! I have always admired your work sir. Thank you for this podcast.

[@dravmo3479]

Love you david ... from kanyakumari. Tamilnadu. India . Thanks 😅😅😅

[@aneeshamid1063]

When I first went through the book The brain which was a whistle-stop journey, that journey unraveled me a tangle of knots and made me think of life with a different perspective.Now I'm in love with neuroscience, and now I always seek a professional scientific logic-behind reasons of the brain to limit it's derailment. All thanks to you my all time favourite neuroscientist and author The David Eagleman.

[@aliciajj986]

Mr. Eaglemen, YOU taught me what synesthesia was probably over a decade ago! I appreciate you 😊😊😊. I'm also jealous of the people that have a musical form that helps them create music! Lol

[@SuperDuperGodspeed]

I have synesthesia; I can hear colour and music is colour or often different textures, sometimes words are colours

[@DaveNarn]

Okay, you win. I’ll stop saying the Northern Lights snap and sizzle. Standing outdoors on cold nights in Eagle River Alaska I ‘thought’ I could hear them.

[@aderitosilvachannel]

I always "seen" sound with their own colors. I'm a music producer, and I use color internally to "visualize" a sound in my head. When I was younger, I thought that was the norm for everyone, but later I found out that was not the norm.

[@houseofhigherself]

Short answer to the question is: Yes Every life is a unique reality. Just like animals sense things beyond human perception, so can other humans. Babies can see/hear energy that adults may not. I can see your aura in this video, but other viewers may not be able to. Clairaudience is definitely a thing for both humans & other beings in nature😊

[@SuperDuperGodspeed]

I ❤ these videos!

[@thearamsay9578]

I am totally blind from birth, so no colour in an anaesthesia for me. I have the extra strength form of all the anaesthesia that I do have. The easiest one to describe is tactile hearing. When I hear somebody say the word Monday, I often feel like I’m touching a glass bulb of some sort. Or around glass table or something round and made of glass. Wednesday is the word Wednesday the sound of the word as plastic hard plastic and kind of wedge shaped. The word that feels like a very fuzzy long pipe cleaner. Because the length is provided by this, the a sound, and the fuzziness is provided by the TH sound. The word for FUR causes sometimes a cascading sensation of furry fluffy hands touching my skin. Oh, I’ve never seen purple, but the word purple has made out of velvet so soft. I want to rub my face on it. But the softest sounds are the TH sounds. They’re all feathery and I’d love to roll in that. That is so soft I’d like to roll in it. Damn you Siri. I said synaesthesia not Anastasia. God these iPhones are less and less accessible every year. Rheumatoid arthritis has stolen my hands and in any case I can’t write on a smooth, glassy keyboard with no knobs or dials on it. Or keys. And the dictation is much worse on iPhone 16. But that’s another subject. The dictation program is much worse in these newer iPhone software, which was pioneer by Steve Jobs, who made the damn thing accessible for the blind. Honestly… That’s for another subject I guess.

[@alancotterell9207]

My reality is different from that of most other people. I find it difficult to learn by rote - everything needs to be in context. When I think about anything, it always has its place in the bigger picture, and has uncertainty associated with it. There is very little which I believe without reservation.

[@phoenixdavida8987]

Me too!!! I was always terrible at mental math because i needed 🎉 contextual associations with the numbers. I see how everything relates to everything else, and everything is connected to everything else and i see this as massively pulsating breathing eternal process/being.

[@JimSky]

Synesthesia might not be the only explanation It isn't just light that the aurora observer is bathed in. It is the entire electromagnetic spectrum. So how could this be manifested as sound waves? In the radio spectrum auroral noise is generally a crackling sound (when listened to through a radio receiver of course) . In the days of metal dental fillings, it was not uncommon to hear complaints that patients heard nearby radio stations in their teeth, caused by the signal detecting properties of these fillings. Another idea I consider plausible is that they could be hearing ground to air or clothing static discharges that might correlate with the light show to some extent. Were any of the sound observers wearing any sort of electronic gear that might be triggered? That would suspect number one, I propose.

[@jennifermcnally8611]

It seems that our brain automatically associates with any sequence to memorize our experience whenever we encounter our environment. Maybe our emotion works mechanically using the sequence as a long term memory as a subconscious reaction for further to predict and prepare.

[@LeoGatenadze]

You are best. Go on please

[@aderitosilvachannel]

Here's something I find curious: To me, there are certain sounds that look like they have the color violet+gold. However, in real life, if you mix violet and golden colors, you have something in between, which is redish. But, in my mind, that is not the actual color of the sound, and redish would be a very different sound. The sound looks to have a color that is just violet and golden simultaneously. It's hard to explain, because that specific sound "has" a color that doesn't really exist.

[@THELionQueen90]

Or sound tones with numbers cause of exposure to dialing on a phone

[@mmechrizma]

My daughter used to say fizzy drinks tasted holographic. I totally knew what she meant.

[@Sarah-JaneR32]

must be difficult seperating synesthesia from word association, being autistic I do this a lot

[@michelles9897]

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[@RobinCrusoe1952]

Auditory images like a permanent acid trip

[@ranwittlinguitar]

💫💯💫

[@simhgamedev]

At 6 I could not remember the Alphabet, but understood it is a Datadtructure

[@biglu323]

Jupiter’s aurora can produce sound, why wouldn’t the ones on Earth do the same?

[@BushyVanEck-xi3qe]

We all experience the exact same reality, the same sound photons food smells etc. The world is not different for every person, it's just that our senses can slightly dilute or intensify a specific experience such as taste vision and so on. It's that simple, and by the way, the brain don't make things up in the real world we live in. It evolved to interact with nature and not getting involved in a world of virtual reality.

[@ecyranot]

Yes, but some people do have brains that are different from the majority, due to illness or genetic mutation, etc. Of course the physical world is the same for that person as for you and me, but the experience through the brain can be quite different. A schizophrenic does hear voices not being spoken by a person in the "real" world, but the voices in his head are very real, just produced by the brain rather than someone's vocal cords.

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[@dravmo3479]

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