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 Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject: Synesthesia |
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I experiance synesthesia as i have my whole life. It was more noticable as a child. Synesthesia is a blending of the senses so to speak. I remember as a child that the teacher would be talking and i would be very lost in thought. While in my daydream i would often picture the words the teacher was saying as being the object i was looking at at the time (a chair, desk, poster, etc). Not that i would hallucinate the desk actually turning into the word, but i pictured the word being the object. It's kinda hard to describe. Other times I would picture the words or sentences as being certain textures. I always associate letters as being certain colors ("A" is red, "P" is green, etc). Does anyone else experiance this or something like it?
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Electric_Kite
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Everyone does.
See the Schmidt Sting Pain Index for a startling example. The pain-descriptors are sublimely synesthesic, but people who've experienced those stings find them accurate. This is weird.
I once remarked to a very NT-acting co-worker, that a certain person had an orangish-brown voice. She was very startled, but agreed. He does. |
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McCann_Can_Triple
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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I never have really.
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sgrannel
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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I once remarked that a certain chemical smells "green". It turns out that same smell sometimes occurs in freshly cut grass! So that's where I got that association!
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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Or associate colors with numbers, letters and even songs. I happen to do that, and always have.
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Soma
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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I've got music/colour synthenesia. I consider it a gift, but i find myself having weird mental arguments with artists on the radio sometimes: "Why in heaven's name would you put khaki together with a deep red?!?"
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lionesss
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| Soma wrote: | | I've got music/colour synthenesia. I consider it a gift, but i find myself having weird mental arguments with artists on the radio sometimes: "Why in heaven's name would you put khaki together with a deep red?!?" |
I can relate
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Aurore
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| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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I have deep sound-color synesthesia. I also see pain, and when I hear words or numbers I see them in front of me. Songs have their own colors, as well as individual notes; I also have a more psychological, less physical synesthesia with smell, where I associate smells with colors.
Synesthesia is more common with those on the autism spectrum.
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Sir_Beefy
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I might have auditory synesthesia. If I see something whiz by on a mute TV screen for example, I hear a sound that isn't there. idk
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Jeyradan
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Chromographic synaesthesia? I think I remember that that's what it's called when letters and numbers are associated with colors?
"A" is red and "P" is green for me as well! (For instance, J is green, whereas C is a shade of yellow I don't particularly like.) Same with numbers - 9 is blue, whereas 2 is green.
I also feel what I see, so that the sight of someone being hurt (i.e., in a movie) is actually physically painful to me.
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criss
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:30 am Post subject: |
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I am a synesthete too. At school I was tottally unable to focus as my involuntary thinking process took be far from the classroom.
Nothing has changed, even in church I only recall 10% of the priest's homily as my mind drifts on a sea of poetic thought and fantacy
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earthmom
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:51 am Post subject: |
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I definitely have this with pain.
When something causes me pain I hear a sound (even if there is none) as well as a flash in my eyes - usually red. I just recently found out that not everyone does.
Glare is just glare to my NT husband but it's a sharp stabbing pain plus a sound to me.
I see words spelled out while hearing them auditorily. Not all, usually odd ones, ones I find interesting, or sometimes just random ones.
Colors and numbers have always had personalities and are male or female.
As I'm thinking through this to compose this post I realize how boring the world must be for NTs!  |
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Hector
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:41 am Post subject: |
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| I associate colours with some things, but I never thought it was synesthesia. More just a conscious process of memory and thought association. |
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nightbender
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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| My brain links my mood to my perception where as my mood changes so do i see things with a different tint. |
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zee
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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There was a thread a few months ago where lots of people posted which colours they associated with numbers/letters. I wonder if some NTs actually do this as well??
I'm not sure if this qualifies as synesthesia, but I am really sensitive to 'light' touches--so when I see other people touching themselves or objects in a 'light' manner my body reacts as if I was being touched in the same way. I feel overstimulated and need to look away, I know that I'm not actually being touched, but I can still 'feel' it.
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