How You Can Make Your Senses Mingle To Improve Your Memory And Learning

Red is for love and black signifies mourning.  We use colours to express feelings, and most people easily understand their messages.  Colours can have both calming and stimulating effects.  

There is one aspect of color perception that is difficult to imagine, but it happens and is a fact.  Imagine you were standing by the sidewalk,  you see a passing fire engine and you experience a specific taste.  This happens to only a few people, but can also take the form of perceiving musical tones as colours,  or smells as patterns on the skin.  Researchers who study perception use the term ‘synaethesia’ for this phenomenon of mingled sensory perceptions.

Why some people perceived the world in such a manner is still a mystery to scientists.  Imagine the sensations experienced by a synaethesian when the doorbell rings, you might see a number of triangles all around you.  Then a car horns and in front of your eyes some patterns emerge from the top right of your field of vision, only to disappear as sudden as it appeared.  As soon as you hear your neighbor’s dog bark, a rainbow appears before your yes.  When you eat a toffee, you feel as if you are holding a balloon in your hands. 

Maybe this is the way we all perceive the world during the first four months when we were babies.  As a baby, you will have a completely different sense of reality than as an adult.  A baby interlinks sensory impulses into phenomenal perceptual patterns.  Thus when a baby is hungry, it produces a range of feelings like a raging storm.  A flood of sensory impressions takes over the child, and parents familiar with this will know they are in for a rough time.  It is only when we get older that our senses become separated and we can filter our sensations.

Have you ever seen a blue Ferrari?  A green fire truck?  Scientists have found out through experiments with children which have shown that red building blocks increase aggression and nervousness.  Adults who love red are more ready to take risks and have a greater sense of adventure. 

Without being a ‘synathesian’ you can use your mingled senses to improve your memory and enhance your learning?  You will find your concentration is  better and you are  less likely to daydream because you are engaging all the faculties of your mind and senses to learn.  It is fun and because you enjoy it, you stay focussed and your learning is accelerated.

Let’s say you are learning a foreign word like Spanish.  The word for wine in Spanish is ‘vino’.  Imagine yourself taking drink from  a bottle of wine straight from the bottle and as you take a mouthful, you hear someone shout “NO!”.  The wine has turn bad and taste like vinegar You have “Vin” from vinegar and “No” – Vino. 

Engage your senses for better memory and concentrationl today!