Unusual Perception Quotes

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Everything feels like you're in slow motion and everything you do seems like it's about two or three plays of what everybody else is doing.

What's weird is to hear someone else talking about your mannerisms.

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

I see songs in colors; I see days of the week. Each day of the week I relate to a gender, and it's very weird. I can taste words sometimes. It's very strange.

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

I just always hear music in my head. I thought that was normal. My wife said, 'Ramin, that's not normal.'

Those who see beauty almost too intensely can easily look mad to those who are functioning within the confines of so-called normal life.

I laugh, and it was amazing! I swear I could see my laughter floating around me like puffy things you blow off a dandelion, only instead of being white it was birthday-cake-frosting-blue. wow! Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun? I wonder if this was what it was like to be high.

I sometimes think that I might be slightly autistic. There might be a syndrome that hasn't been named. I don't seem to see the world in the same way that most people I know see it. They don't seem to be baffled by it.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

A curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees what others do not see, but a crazy observer sees perhaps the most, his observation is more intense and more persistent, just as the senses of certain animals are sharper than those of man.

The name Laurel is such a strange choice because I think when you look at me there's not one person that says 'Oh yeah, I could see you as a Laurel.'