“I can’t be subtle with my reaction. I cover my face or hide away.” — Helen, Autistic InnerSpace Comic No.146 Contents Selected Reads Sensory Entrancement Sensory Resources Chuckles + Daydreams Sources Discussion Comments
Doritos flavoring fools your senses into thinking they’re nutritious, rhythm perception may help stuttering, and cake icing videos to rest your mind
“We think we experience the aroma of food when we smell it, but it’s actually a bit more complex than that. When you bite into the food, the aroma goes into the back of your throat and through a small hole up into your nose. This is called retronasal olfaction, and is actually a more powerful form of smelling than normal smelling. This is what allows you to experience the richness and nuance of food.
Brain scans reveal the experience of flavor takes up more gray matter than any other sensory experience. Additionally, the largest portion of the human genome involves the creation of your nose. So, from an evolutionary perspective, this chemical-sensing ability appears to be particularly important.”
Hearing silent images is the most common synesthesia, UCLA transferred snail memories, and I hear “Yanny”
“Up to one in five people may show signs of a synesthesia-like phenomenon in which they ‘hear’ silent flashes or movement, according to a new study from City, University of London.
While the effect is barely known to science, the researchers found that this ‘visually-evoked auditory response’ (vEAR) is far more common than other types of synesthesia – such when certain sounds elicit a specific colour – with flashing lights and motion evoking vivid sounds.
The survival of this association may also explain other links between sound and vision, such as why we like to listen to music synchronised with flashing lights or dance.
…While other typical synesthesias are estimated to have an overall prevalence of 4.4 per cent, the vEAR effect has recently gained some prominence on social media following the rise of ‘noisy GIFs’, and in particular the ‘thudding pylon’ GIF which received thousands of retweets.”
A reading of a theological poem about the unspoken: “Truth” written by George William Russell
#poem #poetryreading #devotion #motivationmonday #duluth #asmr #asmrreading #asmrvideo #truth #georgewilliamrussell THE hero first thought it To him ’twas a deed: To those who retaught it, A chain on their speed. The fire that we kindled, A beacon by night, When darkness has dwindled Grows pale in the light. For life has no glory Stays long in one dwelling, And time has no story That’s true twice in telling. And only the teaching That never was spoken Is worthy thy reaching, […]
A reading of a rhythmic poem about the power of a song: “The Music-Makers” written by Arthur O’Shaughnessy
#poem #poetryreading #music #musicmakers #mondaymotivation #asmr #asmrreading #asmrvideo #themusicmakers #arthuroshaughnessy WE are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the world’s great cities, And out of a fabulous story We fashion an empire’s glory: One man with a dream, […]
Reading helps with anxiety, 50 fourth grade level book recommendations from teachers, and dyslexia makes great designers
SENSORY NEWS REPORT Sylvester, C. (1922) Journeys Through Bookland : a New and Original Plan for Reading Applied to the World’s Best Literature for Children, p.226 [photograph]. Retrieved from The Commons on Flickr (Public Domain) , https://flic.kr/p/oeRmRM. #thursdaymorning #sensoryreaders #sensorynews #multisensory #stimtoys Contents Selected Reads + Buzz Book + Stim Tool Halcyon Entrancement Chuckles Sources
A reading of a quirky poem about curiosity and devotion: “I Saw a Man” written by Stephen Crane
Watch this video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/wRV4oxmeoyk #poem #poetryreading #devotion #motivationmonday #duluth #asmr #asmrreading #asmrvideo #isawaman #stephencrane I SAW a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. “It is futile,” I said, “You can never” — “You lie,” he cried, And ran on. Reading Selection: I Saw a Man by Stephen Crane. (1955). In E. Markham (Ed.), Anthology of the World’s Best Poems (Memorial Ed., Vol. I, p. 404). New […]
A reading of a hushed poem about the wind: “Susurro” written by William Sharp
#poem #poetryreading #motivationmonday #lawrenceville #whisper #lawrenceville #asmr #asmrreading #asmrvideo #susurro #williamsharp BREATH o’ the grass, Ripple of wandering wind, Murmur of tremulous leaves: A moonbeam moving white Like a ghost across the plain: A shadow on the road; And high up, high, From the cypress-bough A long sweet melancholy note. Silence. And the topmost spray Of the cypress-bough is still As a wavelet in a pool; The road lies duskily bare: The plain is a misty gloom: Still are the […]