What are your personal experiences with 4d (or more) sensory experiences? Have you ever, under any circumstances, found yourself in a state of imaging where you explicitly noted that what you were experiencing was not geometrically possible without a surplus axis? Please elaborate.
If this has ever happened, did you notice any extra colours? As in, ones not found on the rainbow’s spectrum. What about an elevated feeling of electrical charge in and around your body?
Describe any such anomalies. I’m sure it’s common.
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Ah, no.
No. This is getting a bit wacky. Topics related to audio would be more relevant.
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Only with Federally approved hallucinogens.
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What a load of crap…
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Someone has too much time in their hands.
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It’s not. Did you know that some autistic savants actually have the capability to render 4d complex dimensional geometry? It’s a form of synaesthesia as far as I understand. Einstein obviously had a natural understanding of this, though I doubt he actually rendered in 4d acutely.
Understanding more than 3 dimensions, even infinitely many, is very much possible through learning but it’ll be limited to conceptual understanding.
I consider the possibility to realize first-hand experiences in complex dimensions as very important for mathematicians and physicists. I just don’t know how to do that, I swear I don’t.
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I believe you, but wouldn’t this sort of speculation be better on one of the Internet forums which welcome such topics, rather than one dedicated to audio?
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Well, so and so. I could speculate this anywhere.
There’s lots of intelligent people here, some of them perhaps even versed in… this.
Paul McGowan has probably experienced this thoroughly, from what I gathered from not hints, but actual statements regarding his past.
I don’t know and will never know if he utilized that as a tool, but at least he seems to have gained eternal mental youth.
Kindly don’t take this too seriously. I posted on “Everything Else” at least.
@Arenith, you appear to have a lively and speculative mind, which is undoubtedly a good thing, but can be a little wearing for those of us older and more set in our ways. For the moment I am bowing out of responding to this, or any other topic you may raise.
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I understand.
I thank you kindly for your oftentimes humorously expressed informative input. I really appreciated your making the effort to measure millivolts between your opposing fingers.
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Now let’s drink a glass of schnaps and listen to some Mose Allison (suggested: fools paradise) 
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I have been able to catch my hand, but that was 40 years ago. Purple and yellow pinwheels on the ceiling… again 40 years ago. You know, flying my astral plane, taking trips around the bay…
… but no more.
I think you mean 5th dimension… the 4th is time (per Einstein)
Emotions… I find the triggered emotions are unique to the music experience and nothing like happy/sad/etc. Totally unique as far as I can tell. So if the 5th dimension is wholly unique emotional experience, then YES.
Remember, an emotional experience is qualia that defies explanation nor understandable through a materialists view of the mind-brain problem. So, heck, let’s call that the 5th dimension. The qualia related to music, its perception, the unique emotions that it evokes… are not of these 4 dimensions… at least no one has connected them… yet.
Peace
Bruce in Philly
Introduction to the 5th dimension:
And a peek into that dimension and why it is so hard to understand:
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I know a person who, like you, relates the 4th dimension (as per him as an individual) to emotion. He doesn’t use the term 4th dimension when expressing this, rather he talks about reality. I relate reality, be it human or not, to dimensions, at base level. I think his fourth must be mainly emotion, because there’s no escaping the fact that the first three are spatial… Not to say even those’re constant.
My fourth would be an elevated sense of electromagnetic fields, especially magnetic. So I’d hear my music as high-freq electric bursts or flux field deviations… I’d imagine.
***sorry, meant the “5th”
Can’t escape the 4th being time… unless our brains decide to change the rules.
Ooops I forgot! I have experienced the 5th dimension, directly, and on demand! You can too!
(Better grab a barf bag…)
Peace
Bruce in Philly
Thanks for the laugh!
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Chris J is definitely a master of subtle humoristic expression while simply saying what he has to say.
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The closest I can claim is a life spent with a very slight tendency to synesthesia, but almost always limited to numerals and letters of the alphabet, and the colors are always within the visible spectrum.
The French horn player in one of the chamber groups I play in experiences music/color synesthesia.
Most amusingly, she asked me once to “play more orange.”
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From Miles this would have been extensive instruction