declaring that almost 1 in 2000 are synesthetes and that as many as 1 in 300 have a variation of it. This article also starts by giving some wonderful examples on how synesthesia impacts individuals. One of the examples was of a women’s perception of music, a violin caresses her face, and trumpets send chills down her spine, whereas another of the examples says that he can taste steak as a rich blue, and that "Mango sherbet appears as a wall…
The hippie movement was the common title Americans used to define the out casted individuals and their actions that began to take place in the early 1960s and continued on through the 1970s. The movement started as vocal opposition to the United States taking part in the Vietnam War. Soon after, this generation ultimately transformed into a liberal counterculture. A counterculture is a subculture that has values and behavioral norms that are substantially different from those of the mainstream…
almost-identical particle to serotonin, structurally and effectiveness, that psilocybin converts to instantly when it finishes metabolizing, but not as much as Psilocybe sp. Looking more in depth of this genus, the most popular and commonly available natural psychedelic currently is the species Psilocybe cubensis (other names could be Stropharia cubensis, Stropharia cyanescens or Stropharia caerulescens) due to being relatively easy to grow; also given the street name “magic mushrooms” due to…
Synesthesia: Crossed Responses to Inducers and Who is Affected Sylveria McCue Red Rocks Community College Abstract Synesthesia is a condition where the brain crosses the signals from the five senses resulting in letters, numbers, and words having colors, tastes having the feeling or vision of shapes in a synaesthetes mind, and sounds including physical responses of pain or pleasure. Acute studies on grapheme-color synesthesia provides the most research on who has this condition. Once believed…
of the younger generation. Hippies are youngsters that wanted a new way of life, a new begging, and a new turn over. The developing new ways of living in which they believed that money was the root of all evil. Sharing peace and love listing to the music, smoking marijuana and taken LSD. The hippie’s dreams developed into misinterpretation by middle-class Americans and rebellious adolescents. San Francisco population started to increase with non-working young people who lived in the Haigh’s…
doses of LSD to a poverty-stricken research volunteer that saw images of a Hindu God with many spiraling arms during his psychedelic experience. He found out because the young man, who was in his mid-twenties, pointed it out in a magazine he was looking through some time after the experiment at Richards office and it was exactly that, a Hindu rendition of the God Shiva. “Psychedelic research, however, does suggest that there are heaven and hells within each of us, often populated with…
From the eclecticism and psychedelic experimentalism of the Sixties, a large range of musicals styles appeared and grew throughout the Seventies. In many instances, these styles refined the stylistic features of psychedelia which usually coexisted but now heralded new styles within rock. The unifying factor between music of the late Sixties and Seventies rock is the hippie aesthetic, not only in terms of the perspective of the audience but also the artists themselves. It goes on to show how…
and popular recreational use of LSD created new forms of rock music. This music was referred to as acid or psychedelic rock, and some of the important players in this industry included the Grateful Dead and the Doors. As the counterculture movement ended, the popular music genres changed. The music shifted from the intense rock music to more calming forms to meet the needs of the post-counterculture age. More personal, established music became more popular. After the 1960s and the end of the…
that there is a much deeper history the led to the actions involved in the Hippie Movement. Hippies of the 1960s and 1970s had a very untraditional lifestyle, but they had an immense amount of passion with every part of their life. Whether is was music or silence, loving or hating, hippies always pursued their actions to the fullest fury, and felt everything in life to the extreme. Fran proved to me that being a hippie is a lifestyle one chooses for themselves when they feel passionate about…
A hallucinogen is a drug that causes hallucinations. K2/Spice would be considered a hallucinogen. K2/Spice is a drug that portray the same similarities to marijuana. However, K2 is known as ‘synthetic marijuana’ and ‘fake weed’. Spice is made of a mixture of herbs, spices or shredded plant material that is sprayed with a synthetic compound similar to THC, an ingredient in marijuana. To the body Spice would make your eyes red, it would allow your mind to seen things that’s not there, basically…