Comments on: I got a dollar!, I got a dollar!… http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2006/01/i-got-a-dollar-i-got-a-dollar/ Thoughts, Projects, Happenings, Ideas Sun, 13 May 2012 20:56:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kate. http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2006/01/i-got-a-dollar-i-got-a-dollar/comment-page-1/#comment-38 kate. Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:26:00 +0000 http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2006/01/i-got-a-dollar-i-got-a-dollar/#comment-38 colin. synesthetics (or something close to that) is cool, because there's a woman who can "taste" sounds. they (unfortunately i don't know exactly who "they" are) did tests and it showed that she was actually TASTING beethoven's 3rd symphony as a ham sandwich, and schoenberg's 2nd string quartet as a cherry lollipop. in addition, people's brains can "hear" sounds without going through the ear. the neurons apparently shoot off in the same way when you use your "inner ear" to "hear" music as when you perceive it from the outside. <BR/><BR/>in short: yes. brain rocks. colin. synesthetics (or something close to that) is cool, because there’s a woman who can “taste” sounds. they (unfortunately i don’t know exactly who “they” are) did tests and it showed that she was actually TASTING beethoven’s 3rd symphony as a ham sandwich, and schoenberg’s 2nd string quartet as a cherry lollipop. in addition, people’s brains can “hear” sounds without going through the ear. the neurons apparently shoot off in the same way when you use your “inner ear” to “hear” music as when you perceive it from the outside.

in short: yes. brain rocks.

]]> By: Colin M http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2006/01/i-got-a-dollar-i-got-a-dollar/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Colin M Wed, 04 Jan 2006 06:21:00 +0000 http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2006/01/i-got-a-dollar-i-got-a-dollar/#comment-39 ha... no, as incoherent and/or disturbing as that post may have been, I never actually took the pain meds they gave me when I got my teeth pulled. I was knocked out during, and despite talking to my dad on the way home, don't remember a thing until waking up in the garage. I guess they gave me some initial pain med before I came home, but since then I've only taken ibuprofen. ha… no, as incoherent and/or disturbing as that post may have been, I never actually took the pain meds they gave me when I got my teeth pulled. I was knocked out during, and despite talking to my dad on the way home, don’t remember a thing until waking up in the garage. I guess they gave me some initial pain med before I came home, but since then I’ve only taken ibuprofen.

]]> By: lauren http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2006/01/i-got-a-dollar-i-got-a-dollar/comment-page-1/#comment-40 lauren Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:55:00 +0000 http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2006/01/i-got-a-dollar-i-got-a-dollar/#comment-40 are you still on pain medication from when you got your wisdom teeth pulled? are you still on pain medication from when you got your wisdom teeth pulled?

]]>