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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:23 pm Post subject: Post a picture of your synesthesia
It would be really fun to see how everyone sees number sequences, the alphabet, a calendar year, a week...in their mind. Is it 3d? does it have colors? is it wavey or straight? does it have loops within loops, or just one big line/circle of sorts?
How do you see things? (I would prefer atleast a MS paint photo, but if that is impossible an accurate description would suffice)
If you are unsure what I mean, you are welcome to search google.com for pictures with the keyword "synesthesia".
Background info
Synesthesia is common in autism.
It takes various forms;
-Grapheme->Color Synesthesia (individual letters of the alphabet and numbers are "shaded" or "tinged" with a color) ;
-Spatial Sequence Synesthesia (numerical sequences come across as points in space) ;
-Sound->Color Synesthesia (voice, music, and assorted environmental sounds trigger color and firework shapes that arise, move around, and then fade when the sound ends) ;
-Number Form Synesthesia (a mental map of numbers, which automatically and involuntarily appears whenever the affected think of numbers) ;
-Personification (ordered sequences, such as ordinal numbers, days, months and letters are associated with personalities) ;
-Lexical->Gustatory Synesthesia (individual words and the phonemes of spoken language evoke taste sensations in the mouth)
I don't have time today, but I will most definitly make some pictures of how I see a calendar year, a number sequence, and the alphabet. My picture(s) will be a representation of Spatial Sequence- and Number Form- Synesthesia. _________________ AQ: 42/50 || SQ: 32/80 || IQ(RPM): 138 || IRI-empathytest(PT/EC/FS/PD): 10(-7)/16(-3)/19(+3)/19(+10) || Alexithymia: 148/185 || Aspie-quiz: AS 133/200, NT 56/200
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 4:21 pm Post subject:
I tried. I can't get MS Paint to work with me. Past 15, I need more than three dimensions anyway. Yeah, 16 is a b***h of a number... beautiful, but a b***h. It's like a flip-flopping hypercube and you can never get hold of all of it at once.
BTW, yes, my mental pictures of numbers come from their factors. That's why primes above 7 tend to be either wiggling strings or random bits of matter floating around the images of slightly smaller composites. I don't have pictures for all numbers; they tend to become less common around the 30s; there are none bigger than 150. _________________ Engineering & Psychology student. Gamer. Christian. Asexual. Information Addict. Deal with it!
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Joined: Mar 23, 2010 Age: 38 Posts: 3182 Location: chi town burbs
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 5:17 pm Post subject:
1-shy, but talkitive boy w/ friends
2-short jock, but not full of himself,guy
3-short w/ a chip on his shoulder,guy
4-tough chic(b***h)
5-all around good guy, lots of friends
6-4's b***h, he's a good guy but when 4 is near he is a slave to her, tall
7-the cute, and nice girl
8-a manish looking women, tall
9-the know it all guy, tall
10- shy girl
then all other numbers has there own too
i'm not saying i have it, but i've done this my whole life and the personalitys have never changed. it was wierd when i first started reading up on it? i like how some song writers see there music _________________ everything is funny if your looking at it right
Joined: Mar 23, 2010 Age: 38 Posts: 3182 Location: chi town burbs
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 5:25 pm Post subject:
i'll add that it's not always just personality
46-mean spirited, very evil, girl
64-guy,likes to screw w/ people in a playing sort of way
1046- the very evil girl(46) getting 6 to mess with 10 to the point she starts crying _________________ everything is funny if your looking at it right
letters,numbers,days of the week and months all have color.but numbers have color/personality/gender/textures. I can hear movement. Also, when I listen to music it has a specific movement called sound-kinetic.
a waving hand sounds like a 'wooosh'. If I look out a window in a moving car, the road going by sounds like running water. The song umbrella beach by owl city is like watching grey fireworks but the singers voice is like watching a slow moving line.
6 is my least fave number, she's a snob,dark red,and feels like cement.
3 is my fave, he's orange,shy and awkward,and feels sticky and bumpy.
s is yellow.h is orange.e is green.my name is yellow,red,indigo,green,and orange, but overall its a pinkish color cuz yellow and red kind of blend. _________________ --
I am a 14 year old girl.
I have synesthesia.
aspie quiz results: 172/200
I am suspected to have aspergers, but I'm not diagnosed.
For me music has a lot of information encoded through sound, it can be colours and shapes like a visualisation, but also evokes landscapes in my mind especially hills and forests, deserts, sand dunes and sometimes dark corridors and cities. It is like diving into a different world. It could also have a temperature and be very cold or warm and wet or have a texture like clay or metal or china.
I can attach a color to literally anything. For example, 2007 is yellow, July is a lighter shade of green than June, even numbers are (with a few exceptions) cool colors while odd numbers tend to be warm colors, and the 1700s are this strange hay color. Kind of odd, but hey, no one ever said that my brain is a totally normal place
Joined: Oct 26, 2011 Posts: 1377 Location: In the Workshop, with the Toolbox
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:43 pm Post subject:
I go the other way. I don't know if it still qualifies as synesthesia or not, but bitmap combos of a field of green and a field of blue that are adjacent or where one surrounds the other smell and taste like peanut butter. Combos I've tried that do this:
0, 255, 128 and 0, 128, 255
0, 255, 0 and 0, 0, 255
0, 128, 0 and 0, 0, 128
It gets stronger with the darker colors. The WP green and blue fields are too light to do it.
I need to re-post something from another synesthesia thread for a question I didn't get answered there. Can anyone tell me if any of the following is synesthesia or if I'm just experiencing my feelings really strongly?
When I listen to certain kinds of music, such as some of the songs off Annie Lennox's Diva album, the music itself gives me a particular experience, regardless of what the song's about or if the words are meant to be happy or sad. In my mind, it's as though I can see waves and waves of textured vibration and light pouring out of my chest. I get a feeling I can only call joy, and I can picture myself putting my open hands on my upper ribs and then throwing my arms outward from my body over and over again. I kind of feel an urge to do this, though the real physical movement actually seems to spoil it. Maybe that's because I get self-conscious about it, even when alone.
Some songs give me a sense of jerking my fists, wrapping my arms around something, falling, pushing, leaning, flying, or running. Some make me want to make certain kinds of vocalizations, though, again, actually making them might sometimes spoil it. I sometimes forget, though, what the feeling might have been for a particular song, so I couldn't always tell you if it's the same every time. From the ones I do remember, though, I think maybe it is.
Also, there was one time in my life, for at least a few weeks or months, when it seemed really clearly and strongly that my thoughts and memories about a few specific things appeared to be outside my head, in particular parts of the room. For example, one in particular was always up in the same corner of my apartment all the time. Then this either went away or became faint enough that I'm not sure if it's still happening or not. I didn't think I saw anything with my physical eyes. It was that the mental picture seemed to be up there. Maybe I was just so full of thinking that there wasn't enough room in my head for all of it. But if it has anything to do with synesthesia, I'd like to know. _________________ The world is a classroom for a mind without walls.
Joined: Feb 19, 2012 Age: 33 Posts: 823 Location: Norway
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:34 am Post subject:
I said I would post pictures of my visualizations, but when I try to get it down on paper, I realize its not static. It is a 3d rollercoaster with numbers/letters/words(depending on the sequence) with me in another rollercoaster looking at it from different angles based on what number/letter/word I focus on. To get an accurate description I would have to make a 3d animation with a moving camera on a seperate loop. Sometimes I am close to the sequence, other times I am far away.
One example is a number sequence(1 to 100 to infinity). When I think of 13, it's in the middle of a bend with a stretched out line towards 20, with another bend there, up towards 30, and I look at it all like from a plane looking down on earth. However, when I think of 30, I look at it from beside 45(which is above 30) and look down at it. It would be hard to make a quick static image of it.
Edit: Hmm, I found a video almost describing how I see number lines, only I dont see them in colors
"Doing math with my visual thing" she says, maybe thats why I didn't have to do math homework to keep up until I were 15-16 years old. _________________ AQ: 42/50 || SQ: 32/80 || IQ(RPM): 138 || IRI-empathytest(PT/EC/FS/PD): 10(-7)/16(-3)/19(+3)/19(+10) || Alexithymia: 148/185 || Aspie-quiz: AS 133/200, NT 56/200
Last edited by Blownmind on Wed Jul 04, 2012 3:17 am; edited 1 time in total
Hmm... I don't think I have synesthesia per say, unless it comes in different, not constant forms and stuff, but I don't think I have it because everything that would be considered isn't constant.
With sound, I see lines and colours.. But say with music, it doesn't have to be the same line and colour every time for the same note, and lines are either sharp and jagged like an ECG result paper or more erratic like scribbling, or smooth and flowing like a sound wave. Sometimes letters become two- toned, the top half being one colour, the bottom being another. The most common ones are with black letters, the top turns red, and with white letters the top turns blue kind of like this:
The letters USUALLY happen just before before or during times where my headache goes from it's typical 4 or 5 on the pain scale to a 9 or 10 (it's been constant for 2.5 years, yes I'm getting it checked out) but not always, sometimes it just happens.
I need to re-post something from another synesthesia thread for a question I didn't get answered there. Can anyone tell me if any of the following is synesthesia or if I'm just experiencing my feelings really strongly?
When I listen to certain kinds of music, such as some of the songs off Annie Lennox's Diva album, the music itself gives me a particular experience, regardless of what the song's about or if the words are meant to be happy or sad. In my mind, it's as though I can see waves and waves of textured vibration and light pouring out of my chest. I get a feeling I can only call joy, and I can picture myself putting my open hands on my upper ribs and then throwing my arms outward from my body over and over again. I kind of feel an urge to do this, though the real physical movement actually seems to spoil it. Maybe that's because I get self-conscious about it, even when alone.
Some songs give me a sense of jerking my fists, wrapping my arms around something, falling, pushing, leaning, flying, or running. Some make me want to make certain kinds of vocalizations, though, again, actually making them might sometimes spoil it. I sometimes forget, though, what the feeling might have been for a particular song, so I couldn't always tell you if it's the same every time. From the ones I do remember, though, I think maybe it is.
Also, there was one time in my life, for at least a few weeks or months, when it seemed really clearly and strongly that my thoughts and memories about a few specific things appeared to be outside my head, in particular parts of the room. For example, one in particular was always up in the same corner of my apartment all the time. Then this either went away or became faint enough that I'm not sure if it's still happening or not. I didn't think I saw anything with my physical eyes. It was that the mental picture seemed to be up there. Maybe I was just so full of thinking that there wasn't enough room in my head for all of it. But if it has anything to do with synesthesia, I'd like to know.
the first one sounds like a more 'severe' sound-kinetic synesthesia (one of the types I have).
the second one doesn't sound like synesthesia because one of the requirements for it is it has to be consistent. Meaning, you should have had it for as long as you remember, and it never changes.. It could be just a way you remembered stuff. I read somewhere that people that memorize large chunks of information assign each chunk of whatever there memorizing to something in a room there familiar with. So mabie you just did that, but to a lesser extent. _________________ --
I am a 14 year old girl.
I have synesthesia.
aspie quiz results: 172/200
I am suspected to have aspergers, but I'm not diagnosed.
I need to re-post something from another synesthesia thread for a question I didn't get answered there. Can anyone tell me if any of the following is synesthesia or if I'm just experiencing my feelings really strongly?
When I listen to certain kinds of music, such as some of the songs off Annie Lennox's Diva album, the music itself gives me a particular experience, regardless of what the song's about or if the words are meant to be happy or sad. In my mind, it's as though I can see waves and waves of textured vibration and light pouring out of my chest. I get a feeling I can only call joy, and I can picture myself putting my open hands on my upper ribs and then throwing my arms outward from my body over and over again. I kind of feel an urge to do this, though the real physical movement actually seems to spoil it. Maybe that's because I get self-conscious about it, even when alone.
Some songs give me a sense of jerking my fists, wrapping my arms around something, falling, pushing, leaning, flying, or running. Some make me want to make certain kinds of vocalizations, though, again, actually making them might sometimes spoil it. I sometimes forget, though, what the feeling might have been for a particular song, so I couldn't always tell you if it's the same every time. From the ones I do remember, though, I think maybe it is.
Also, there was one time in my life, for at least a few weeks or months, when it seemed really clearly and strongly that my thoughts and memories about a few specific things appeared to be outside my head, in particular parts of the room. For example, one in particular was always up in the same corner of my apartment all the time. Then this either went away or became faint enough that I'm not sure if it's still happening or not. I didn't think I saw anything with my physical eyes. It was that the mental picture seemed to be up there. Maybe I was just so full of thinking that there wasn't enough room in my head for all of it. But if it has anything to do with synesthesia, I'd like to know.
the first one sounds like a more 'severe' sound-kinetic synesthesia (one of the types I have).
the second one doesn't sound like synesthesia because one of the requirements for it is it has to be consistent. Meaning, you should have had it for as long as you remember, and it never changes.. It could be just a way you remembered stuff. I read somewhere that people that memorize large chunks of information assign each chunk of whatever there memorizing to something in a room there familiar with. So mabie you just did that, but to a lesser extent. _________________ --
I am a 14 year old girl.
I have synesthesia.
aspie quiz results: 172/200
I am suspected to have aspergers, but I'm not diagnosed.
Hmm... I don't think I have synesthesia per say, unless it comes in different, not constant forms and stuff, but I don't think I have it because everything that would be considered isn't constant.
With sound, I see lines and colours.. But say with music, it doesn't have to be the same line and colour every time for the same note, and lines are either sharp and jagged like an ECG result paper or more erratic like scribbling, or smooth and flowing like a sound wave. Sometimes letters become two- toned, the top half being one colour, the bottom being another. The most common ones are with black letters, the top turns red, and with white letters the top turns blue kind of like this:
The letters USUALLY happen just before before or during times where my headache goes from it's typical 4 or 5 on the pain scale to a 9 or 10 (it's been constant for 2.5 years, yes I'm getting it checked out) but not always, sometimes it just happens.
I have mild synesthesia and I also experience what you're describing with the letters .... a shimmering red (with yellow and orange) on black text? You're right, they're likely different things. I think what you're experiencing may have a more direct physical cause, like you're able to see the blood flowing through the capillaries in your eyes under certain conditions. If you look at the sky on a sunny day do you sometimes see what looks like bits of dust, little clearish or light brown colored specks? Those are called floaters and that's what causes them, I've always theorized the shimmering text was related to that.
Yeah, 16 is a b***h of a number... beautiful, but a b***h. It's like a flip-flopping hypercube and you can never get hold of all of it at once.
