[POLL] Mystery MangoesFollow

The courses are pretty good. They go by faster than a speeding bullet.

That's okay, some people just Kent think of anything good to post.

Thanks, Ari!

Any clue when mangoes are seasonal?
I mean, more local ones.

No, no, it's not eveything. Just a lot of things. Several of them being foodstuffs. Good strawberries also do this, but they have to be really good ones, not these overlarge super supermarket ones with all the taste and juice bred out of them.

One of my two most notable food encounters was getting highly turned on by a slice of banana cake, from, of all places, a McCafe.

I was with a gay guy at the time, and obviously I wasn't concealing what it was doing to me very well, because he called my name across the table in the way that you do to a child who is doing something naughty. As in: "Behave yourself! We're in public! What do you think you're doing?" I had no idea the bliss was showing so much. I just thought I was eating my banana cake with a smile. And half closed eyes.

The MOST notable food experience of course was eating the rice pudding that, in combination with running Mozart's Requiem through my mind, gave me an actual small ******, back when I was a 15 or 16 year old virgin and very sensitive.

It's probably got something to do with my hypoglycemia. Sugar is like an opiod to us hypoglycemics.

Edited, May 7th 2009 10:07am by Aripyanfar

Obvious question incoming--

Ari, are you a synaesthesist?

Doesn't that usually come from severe head trauma, for example you fall off a ladder and start tasting purple?

Very, very, VERY occasionally.

And, "funnily" enough, the most long-lasting, complete and thorough synaesthetic experiences I've had were during orgasms. It's only happened three or four times, but they were amazing and unique experiences.

The first one was The colour blue, diagonally crossed by a perforated pure white long shape, like a stylised bone. The blue was a most gorgous light to medium turquoise, not quite green, not quite pure blue. It filled up my entire visual space, even though my eyes were open.

The second one was shadowed shades of gold. It was in right-angled layers, sort of shaped as if I was looking up into the interior corner of a heavily corniced guilded temple where the roof met the wall. The gold was very beautiful, but somehow the turquoise and the peach ones were even better than the gold.

The last was a completely flat field of a pale orange peach, but such a lovely colour that there was no diminishment in it's delicacy and intricacy for being a single colour. Again it filled my field of view even with my eyes open.

I don't remember having anything much else in the way of synaesthesia, but "good" music definitely gets me "high" in a way that I think not everyone else does. I know everyone gets a lift from music they love, but after a long time I think I've realised my reaction to music is a little more extreme than most. I've told the forum before how in the end people I clubbed with let me know they were sure I was on party-mixes all the time, when in fact I was on nothing. They would guess I'd be on mixes of Ecstasy, Speed, and/or LSD, and in the end they were asking me who my dealer was, because they wanted what I was on.

It's just the ideosyncratic body system again. Pseudoephidrine cold and flu tablets make me literally pass out cold within 30 seconds, and a quarter of the time I can't drink alcohol at all, because it makes me feel horrible within seconds of my first mouthful.

Wow, I can't imagine tasting your own hair colour.

But then again, I can't describe to you how I was seeing my physiological ******, instead of just imagining or hallucinating a colour while it was going on. I imagine things all the time, and I've had hallucinations. Both those things are different from my synaesthetic experiences.

Edited, May 7th 2009 10:36am by Aripyanfar

Ari, I know the feeling of drugs not working as intended. The first time I took Valium, I tried to commit suicide and beat my mother. Large amounts of amphetamine as well as small amounts of MDMA make me fall asleep. Small amounts of fluoxetine have the same effect as ~90mg of MDMA. 30mg of DXM (that' the dosage they give you for coughing) warp me to an different dimension. Two bottles of beer, and I feel so drunk I stop drinking, and I'm not drunk I just feel overwhelmed.




Let's not start talking about what happened the one time I took cocaine.

How lovely to have hair that tastes so nice.

Wow, your system is even more out of whack than mine.

(Mindfulness eating/drinking can be amazing and lots of fun. But I have to be forced into doing it properly.)

Oh yeah, and Ash, that was awesome. Before you leave Evil Inc, you must create it.

Edited, May 7th 2009 11:12am by Aripyanfar

I think it could be made as a candy.

Pomegranates