Synesthesia Archives - TettyBetty TettyBetty Sun, 03 Feb 2019 14:21:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 This Woman Can “Taste” Names https://tettybetty.com/this-woman-can-taste-names/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:20:50 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=19669 Synesthesia is a rare condition that happens when one of the senses is understood by another sense or senses. For Julie McDowall, she can “taste” words and recently she encouraged people to ask her the flavor of their names. Her tweet flickered the curiosity of many and it quickly went viral as people wanted to […]

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Synesthesia is a rare condition that happens when one of the senses is understood by another sense or senses. For Julie McDowall, she can “taste” words and recently she encouraged people to ask her the flavor of their names.

Her tweet flickered the curiosity of many and it quickly went viral as people wanted to know what their names taste like. Her synesthesia is not only limited to identifying flavors. “I put ‘taste’ in inverted commas,” she shared. “90% is taste. Some sensations or images get through.”

The thread led to interesting answers. According to McDowall, Aaron is a stale chocolate bar, Charlotte is like raspberry lollipop and Keith is minty chewing gum. Unfortunately not all monikers have taste. There are some that can be described through an object or feeling, like her name, Julie, is a watery eyeball and Barbara is a colored plastic ring. Scroll down to see if your name is there.

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This is What Music Would Look Like as Paintings https://tettybetty.com/this-is-what-music-would-look-like-as-paintings/ Sun, 12 Aug 2018 06:00:37 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=9650 Artist Melissa McCracken has a bit different approach to painting – she paints what she hears. Each of her oil paintings is titled after the song that inspired it. McCracken actually has a neurological condition Synesthesia, which triggers her to imagine songs and musical genres as different colorful settings. She sees jazz as a combination […]

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Artist Melissa McCracken has a bit different approach to painting – she paints what she hears. Each of her oil paintings is titled after the song that inspired it.

McCracken actually has a neurological condition Synesthesia, which triggers her to imagine songs and musical genres as different colorful settings.

She sees jazz as a combination of blues, golds, and whites, while pop, for example, is colored bright pink and purple.

See her interpretations below and more on her website and social media.

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ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Synesthesia Archives - TettyBetty TettyBetty Sun, 03 Feb 2019 14:21:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 This Woman Can “Taste” Names https://tettybetty.com/this-woman-can-taste-names/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:20:50 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=19669 Synesthesia is a rare condition that happens when one of the senses is understood by another sense or senses. For Julie McDowall, she can “taste” words and recently she encouraged people to ask her the flavor of their names. Her tweet flickered the curiosity of many and it quickly went viral as people wanted to […]

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Synesthesia is a rare condition that happens when one of the senses is understood by another sense or senses. For Julie McDowall, she can “taste” words and recently she encouraged people to ask her the flavor of their names.

Her tweet flickered the curiosity of many and it quickly went viral as people wanted to know what their names taste like. Her synesthesia is not only limited to identifying flavors. “I put ‘taste’ in inverted commas,” she shared. “90% is taste. Some sensations or images get through.”

The thread led to interesting answers. According to McDowall, Aaron is a stale chocolate bar, Charlotte is like raspberry lollipop and Keith is minty chewing gum. Unfortunately not all monikers have taste. There are some that can be described through an object or feeling, like her name, Julie, is a watery eyeball and Barbara is a colored plastic ring. Scroll down to see if your name is there.

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This is What Music Would Look Like as Paintings https://tettybetty.com/this-is-what-music-would-look-like-as-paintings/ Sun, 12 Aug 2018 06:00:37 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=9650 Artist Melissa McCracken has a bit different approach to painting – she paints what she hears. Each of her oil paintings is titled after the song that inspired it. McCracken actually has a neurological condition Synesthesia, which triggers her to imagine songs and musical genres as different colorful settings. She sees jazz as a combination […]

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Artist Melissa McCracken has a bit different approach to painting – she paints what she hears. Each of her oil paintings is titled after the song that inspired it.

McCracken actually has a neurological condition Synesthesia, which triggers her to imagine songs and musical genres as different colorful settings.

She sees jazz as a combination of blues, golds, and whites, while pop, for example, is colored bright pink and purple.

See her interpretations below and more on her website and social media.

View this post on Instagram

Little softy Fly Too High 12” x 12” Sold

A post shared by Melissa McCracken (@melissamccrack) on

https://www.instagram.com/p/BiC4h-nnot3/?taken-by=melissamccrack

View this post on Instagram

The In-Between 96” x 74” oil on canvas sold

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