Can anyone hear in their nose and smell through their ears? ( Archived) (30)

Yes, it is kind of trippy in as much as it's neurological.

Think of it like your senses being train stations and your neurones being the tracks.

As adults we expect the tracks to go from the train stations to the right areas of the brain. The eyes have a track, the ears have a track, etc. and the trains carry the messages the same way every time.

When we take hallucinogens it acts like a point switch, so the train coming from the ear station gets redirected to the part of the brain that accepts visual signals, hence seeing sounds.

Babies' brains are sometimes described as not being 'hard wired' which in this simplfied analogy would mean they have lots of point switches on their tracks, trains go here there and everywhere and they can hear smells, smell sounds, etc.

The lack of 'hard wiring' happens again in adolescence, but on a more cognitive level which is why teenagers a prone to doing stupid things. It's an argument for not trying/convicting children in adult courts and not writing them off for the rest of their lives without further assessment.

And then of course, there's neurodiversity where not everyone's brain works in the same way.

It's not trippy in the sense that there is no loss of normal function. I can be unaware of my tinnitus sounds and colours because I'm busy doing something else, it's too noisy, or bright; sometimes I'm vaguely aware of the sounds/colours in the background; & sometimes I mindfully pay attention to the cacophony of noises and the pretty light show going off in my head.

People's brains can ignore all sorts of floaters in a bid to make comfortable sense of their worlds.

Try leaning forward.

lol it for some reason reminds me Picasso

I recognised your voice, so don't bother dressing up as Santa, eh?

I don't want to see your Santa sack and that's final, Mikey.