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Is Daredevil a synesthete
« on: July 17, 2015, 01:36:44 am »
I ran out of things to watch and have started watching Marvels Daredevil.
At one point they were talking about how he manages to sense everything, and his response is how he ties all the sense together from small hints all his sense give him. He mentions that the world looks like its on fire. Metaphorically speaking.

However, I cant help but feel that his ability to "see" with his other senses is because he has synesthesia allowing him to actually process the sound and tactile information with his visual cortex.

Just a random thought, what are you opinions?

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Re: Is Daredevil a synesthete
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2015, 01:03:07 pm »
Ok so you're aware of the origin of Daredevil?  How he went blind when some chemicals splashed into his face while saving old man Stan Lee?  Ok so it's like this.  When a person loses a sense, the brain kinda overtunes the rest of them to hyperdrive.  So the chemicals he got splashed with, put his senses into plaid.  He "sees" by a form of echolocation due to how acute his sense of hearing is.  Kinda like bats in a way.

Ironbite-though I'm not sure what a synesthete is so I'm going with no.

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Re: Is Daredevil a synesthete
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2015, 03:34:56 pm »
He "sees" by a form of echolocation due to how acute his sense of hearing is.  Kinda like bats in a way.

Not exactly like that, in the Netflix version. There it's all his senses working together, smelling people and sensing small changes in air currents and the like, though I think there's all some echolocation going on.

The world on fire thing is sort of like synaesthesia, I guess? Not quite the same thing, but close enough.
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Re: Is Daredevil a synesthete
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2015, 09:46:58 pm »
Ok so you're aware of the origin of Daredevil?  How he went blind when some chemicals splashed into his face while saving old man Stan Lee?  Ok so it's like this.  When a person loses a sense, the brain kinda overtunes the rest of them to hyperdrive.  So the chemicals he got splashed with, put his senses into plaid.  He "sees" by a form of echolocation due to how acute his sense of hearing is.  Kinda like bats in a way.

Ironbite-though I'm not sure what a synesthete is so I'm going with no.

Synesthesia is, in a nutshell, your brain processing something in an alternate way.  A cook, for example, might taste something and think "this needs more green".  To them, it makes sense.  Someone else might find it weird that they're throwing in, say, blanched kale into a meat-heavy stir-fry.

A musician might parse the world in terms of music notes, or hear the hum of everyday life as a certain kind of sound.  A car horn sounds completely different to them.  A string being played on a cello makes the world sing to them.

That's the kinda thing you have to deal with as a synesthetic.
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Re: Is Daredevil a synesthete
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2015, 09:58:50 pm »
And you'd be astonished at how many famous people have it.

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Re: Is Daredevil a synesthete
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2015, 10:29:55 pm »
Personally, I find it absolutely fascinating.

That is to say, not in an 'oh, you're disabled, the world must be so strange to you' way, but a 'you percieve the world in a manner that is entirely different.  What must that be like?'.
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Re: Is Daredevil a synesthete
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2015, 04:35:06 pm »
No, he's not. He's a victim of the Red Bull Coffee mistake.

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