Missionary journeys and synesthesia
For some people, words literally trigger physical senses or involuntary emotional reactions. It is called synesthesia and includes things like tasting, smelling, or physically "feeling" or experiencing a word. It's a neurological phenomenon that affects a small number of people naturally and a slightly larger number who have it triggered by outside variables. It might not be exactly the same thing, but certain words, names, or ideas have that kind of impact for me. Probably because some experiences in life coincided with other experiences, things got tied together in my mind. It's especially true for things that have to do with names, locations, and other situations described in the Bible. That's likely the case because whenever I heard certain words or stories on a repeated basis, I was probably around other stimuli that tied them together and left a feeling, a sense, or a word picture, imprinted in my mind. _______________ For example, whenever I heard the t...