Re:One in five of us may 'hear' flashes of light
by werdnapk on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @07:02PM
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Those are floaters and flashes... https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-are-floaters-fl...
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Re:One in five of us may 'hear' flashes of light
by nom on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @07:06PM
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No that's something completely different. travisl12 is talking about the 'exploding head syndrome'.
edit: no he's isn't, I mixed it up. He's talking about something related to the coupling of visual and auditory senses, e.g. the floor creaks and it causes the sensation of light.
Re:One in five of us may 'hear' flashes of light
by anigbrowl on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @09:03PM
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No they're not. Why would you think that people would not be able to correlate the visual phenomena with the auditory stimulus? The article you link to doesn't even mention auditory phenomena so I don't know why you thought it would support your claim.
Also, please consider that it's extremely rude to just invalidate peoples' experiential claims, although I'm sure you didn't intend your comment in that spirit. Synaesthesia is a well-documented neurological phenomenon and you've just made yourself seem ignorant rather than clever.