Scientists are already starting to find new, innovative techniques to wake the visual systems after non-development.
The results are quite surprising. The classical view of the brain is arranged in several main sections, and smaller regions within those section. We got the occipital lobes which control vision, the temporal lobes which record sound and play a role in memorization, when accessed by the hipocampus, we got the parietal lobes which control motor and tactile sensory input and outputs, and we got the frontal lobes, which make us feel human.
According to a study, in blind people we see that their temporal and parietal lobes have a lot more development and a lot of neuron fire active in that are, but in the visual area it is rather quiet, hardly any disturbance. And as you know, the brain is made up of billions of neurons, similar to the number of stars in our universe. Imagine taking the possibility between one neuron. Two neurons have four possibilities. Three neurons have nine possibilities, and four neurons have sixteen possibilities.
Maybe we should focus on finding sensory substitution techniques to awaken the visual workform area, and think of the brain as a task machine, rather than a sensory machine. Tests show that our brains are very flexible in wiring and rewiring itself to other pathways.
Perhaps the use of sensory substitution might be very useful in developing the visual workform area, so that when invasive procedures roll around, the person would not have much of a overwhelming time interpreting the scenes. True, the inptu would be direct rather than indirect, but it would be worth it.
Sometimes, witout actually thinking, our games that we play which involve stereo thre-d panning might be a useful tool in stimulating the visual cortex to tell the difference between left, centre and right. But more work needs to be done.
Pitch and colour are both perceptual concepts, and although both these terms do have mathematical and scientific explanations its true perception can only occur within the animal tha tperceived it. Sir Isaac Newton proved that light itself is colourless, unless it had a way of colour perception. We can say that light itself is a set of frequencies in the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum, to the left, or lwer end is infra-red, and radio waves, and to the right, we have ultraviolet, X-ray, gamma, beta, and alpha. So what if we mapped out this spectrum and turned it into an audible spectrum? After all, our hearing age is somewhat in the middle, because to the right it can go up into infinity, but to the left there is zero.
WE must not talk about the skeptics, but think about the goodness it would be if everything was mathematically perfect. Why in the computer world, RGB are primary, whereas in other context it was some other setting? It has to do with the way the information was presented to the user, and again because of the certain wavelengths in light that play a role in that field.
Now of course, an observation was made where people, such as myself with way above-average perfect pitch and musical aptitude can wire our brain to recognize light in terms of tones and pitches.
Ever since I was little, I knew I had this remarkable ability to distinguish fine note changes, yet I did not know what each note was until a few years later. I had come up with a few theories ever since I
learned of my possible cure for sight, which never happened.
You see, I have light perception, and one of my theories is that light itself is a type of frequency, yet we can fluctuate the frequency to see
coloured light. The question then becomes, if one has light perception, what kind of light can one see? Every time I looked at a light, I heard notes that sounded like hums were being hummed in my head were
A4 A4, A#4 A#4, etc. If you are a proficient music enthusiast, then you will understand these notations. Sometimes I would hear drones that accompanied the notes, which would be in D3 and D#3. Now,
what I noticed was that D3 and A4 are overtone harmonics. After coming across a video called "The Colour of Sound - Documentary", it was revealed that science red, yellow, and green were G, Bb, and C
any octave, but the higher, the better. Can we not therefore say that I might have seen the colour yellow at different hues? That is a definite possibility. Now that was for science scale. They also found that
there is an emotional aspect as well. Certain colours make you have different emotions, and these emotions sometimes can be caused by musical chords and keys. Yellow gives one a feeling of joy, of
excitement, and that is the feel of D-major, which was recognized by Christian Schubert in 1806.
I also have this extraordinary ability to fit certain words with certain musical melodic intervals which may evoke
a specific mood or emotion. It is like one associating a word with a colour, in a sense. Except that I am taking a word, turning it into melodic conjunct intervals, and then turning that into colours. That term is
called chromesthesia, which strictly classifies having this unique ability.
When I was younger, I did not want to tell anyone that I had this interesting ability, because I was not sure if I was the only one who
had it. But after my twelfth grade in high school, when I took an anatomy class, I came upon an article that explained about such phenomenon, and I learned that what they were talking about is indeed what
I was experiencing. Now I must back you up a bit. Two years ago, a friend of mine, Bobbi Blood, came up with this piece called Northern Lights. The piece was based on her perspective by using the mode
that would bridge both major and minor chords in C. She used three glasses made of fine crystal, and she produced a fifth below G5, and a fourth below C5. The sopranino recorder was supposed to be an
ambient texture to the baseline foundation, which were those glasses. The vocal hums were supposed to represent colour changes. It made me think of red, blue, green, and yellow all together, and the
occasional G#4 made me think of orange. When I asked her about it, she told me they were working on converting light frequencies into sound. Then I was so excited because I found someone who had this
unique ability as I did. That was the first person I actually met in 2010 who had the same chromesthetic phenomenal perspective. Now, let me tell you another story. Sometimes when I have major significant
events occur in my life, like a homecoming parade, the morning before I would go to school, I would be standing in front of a mirror, and I would automatically hear a drone in C3, and a hum melodic interval in
G4-G#4, and a holding hum in C5. This was about a year ago. But after I listened to the video, and after doing a whole lot of searching, I came to realize that perhaps I could see colours when I was little,
but since I was still developing consciousness, those colours are therefore locked up in my subconscious mind, and cannot be accessed through normal ways. I never learned to memorize colours the
traditional method, which was to look at shapes and have someone tell me what colour it was. So I had to come up with my associations by using pitch changes in my mind and then express those changes.
And since I have incredible eidetic memory, I can hear these notes very clearly, and I can hear them in my mind, so I can associate them with the right note name and value. Need I mention that my school
colour was crimsoned?
Another story. When I was four, I had this dream where I was in an indoor swimming area, and I was gliding above the ground until I came upon a set of ragged stairs. I started to climb
down, and then I felt the warm-lapping of the water on my knees. When I looked up, I saw that same light, and I heard a drone in D3 and D#3, and the hums were in A4 A4, A#4, A#4, and back again. Then
the texture changed. It was now Bb2+F3, and the hums were F4+C5 F4+C5, G4+D5 G4+D5, and back again. I wonder if I saw the combination yellow purple combination. I did not give that dream much
thought when I woke up. And yet, every time I look outside, when it is daylight, I always hear something in F-major, and a drone in low C. Is it possible I saw the colour blue or green? Also, there was this
time in the summer of 2002, one morning when I was awakened by a leaf blower. For some reason, the blower droned in a pitch of about one hundred twenty-eight cycles per second. It also had high static,
which really made it seem as if I was seeing the colour blue or green, maybe a hint of yellow in my mind. I think it was the fact that my window was open, and I had excellent hearing back then.
Each and
every event that occurred in my life gave me proof that I had an above-average musical aptitude, perfect, absolute, and relative pitch. Why, did you know that for each major there is a relative minor? Well,
out of instinct, I was able to find that the relative minor for F-major was D-minor, and that was only when I was four! Now I did that all by listening. I did not learn my note values until I was like eight or nine.
And I did not start learning music theory principles till I was fifteen or so. But each new concept convinces me that I could literally map out an auditory spectrum with disembodied colours in my mind's eye, and
based on the light perception I have.
Another theory I have, is where we measure the electrical impulse of each colour that is received by the eye, and the electrical impulse that is received by the ear. I know
there has to be some sort of a match, because they both use a different set of frequencies, yet they have some sort of a relevant correlation by using mathematics.
How I came to be interested was based
on another circumstance that happened on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012. You see, if this was never brought up, I could have gone into the web development business or music arrangement, and nothing
would have been done about my true passion. My mother and I were talking about the possibility of my gaining vision in 1996. At that time, we were in Mexico, and someone told me that it would have been
possible to remove cataracts from my eyes, before my retinas degenerated completely. The reason it was never done to me was because of some kind of objection. When my mum asked me that if someone
ever asked me the question, would I be willing to do so? To my surprise, I said yes. The reason can be very-well be seen. I want to prove that we can associate colours using sound. After that confrontation,
which took place at roughly around one thirty-five in the afternoon, Pacific Daylight Time, I felt that I was defrauded of my rights. But then again, I would not be here on this list if I did have vision a long time
ago. Or maybe I would have, but the period it would have taken would be delayed by an x-number of years. The thing is, I do not want to change history. I want to make history.
So I started working on a
plan. I started working on my own project which focuses on a lot of things. It first focuses on finding a relevant correlation between light and sound, and then making a high-quality sensory substitution
device that will map out anything you wanted to know. This would be a nice temporary method while I look into stem cell, cell, and gene therapy, restorative neurology, and other types of regenerative
medicine. I want to work on a cure for anything we are faced with today. Blindness, deafness, cancer, cerebral palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Diabetes, and even the regrowth of limbs, bones, ligaments, tendons,
etc. I am so determined to make this happen, that I have developed a one-gigabyte zip archive with a big boatload of information which is very valuable, and which I constantly keep updating. I want to start
opening up my business, called the Multisensory and Motor Research Institute. I want to accommodate to everyone's desires and wishes. If they want to be able to see, but they do not want to have
surgery, we can use sensory substitution devices.
After spending several months contacting universities and doing research, I built this large archive of valuable information and resource.
So, as you can see
by my long history, it has made me into who I want to be later in life.
If you have any more questions about my prolonged history, feel free to ask.
Ulysses, KJ7ERC
She/theyReedsy