rebbieh
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| Ddddd wrote: | I don't have it, BUT I have these things:
-When I have my eyes closed and hear a sudden loud noise, everything goes white, like the flash of a camera |
This. I wonder what causes it. |
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NarcissusSavage
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| kirayng wrote: | Bump because I have some weird synesthesia!  I have sound/tactile and sometimes sound/visual. Music has textures as well as visuals at times. |
It cannot be too weird, I'm the same way! (Ok, that doesn't mean much...lol)
I feel sounds, and see them too. neither is universal, and seeing them is more "real" than feeling them. But both are clearly not "real", I can always differentiate them from actual perceptions. Both are often rather pleasant too. There are a few sounds that cause me pain, but they are mostly rare and avoidable.
I also have grapheme color, where you see letters in color. This is rather continuous, it doesn't distract me or anything...and it doesn't apply to every font. Some fonts are more colorful than others, and peoples handwriting rarely is colored to any noticeable degree.
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UnLoser
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| I don't have synesthesia, but I do have this weird thing where I subconsciously create mental "maps" of individual songs, represented by a line on a 2D plane that goes up and down as the song changes intensity, curves around, and loops or jumps back when the song repeats itself. It's not intentional- I usually aren't even aware that I've made a map of a song until well after my brain made it. |
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finallyFoundOutWhy
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| UnLoser wrote: | | I don't have synesthesia, but I do have this weird thing where I subconsciously create mental "maps" of individual songs, represented by a line on a 2D plane that goes up and down as the song changes intensity, curves around, and loops or jumps back when the song repeats itself. It's not intentional- I usually aren't even aware that I've made a map of a song until well after my brain made it. |
um - yeah
you've got synesthesia
i get oscillating patterns like windows media player and stuff like that sometimes with music
the affect is different for everyone
the key element is sensory crossover - the brain interpretive element of making vsual maps is just your way of sorting out what the crossover has done
it is like dreams being a way to sort out issues in the waking world
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conan
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| like many things i think it is a spectrum. for me i think it is only occasional and not very strong. I do often smell things imagine or perhaps they are olfactory hallucinations. either way it is great fun. I have to agree, synaesthesia is amazing and i think it really indicates the diversity of realities between individuals |
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| NarcissusSavage wrote: | | kirayng wrote: | | Bump because I have some weird synesthesia! I have sound/tactile and sometimes sound/visual. Music has textures as well as visuals at times. |
It cannot be too weird, I'm the same way! (Ok, that doesn't mean much...lol)
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HA! Actually, it is weird! Meaning, it's rare! There's even a name for those of us that have it.. well, those of us that have it have a name, ha! Sonitiles! From "sonic tactile" It is one of the rarest, and hardest to diagnose. Unlike some of the more common fusions in which a person can say, "I see colour when I hear music", a Sonitile that says, "I feel sound" often gets dismissed and simply responding to natural wave-physics. ha!
Also, most people don't know they're synesthesic until someone tells them  It's like growing up colour blind... you just naturally believe that's the way everyone sees the world. I had no idea the rest of the world couldn't feel the world around them with their ears. *wiffles her ears*
Keep in mind that synesthesia is *easy* to diagnose today, though expensive.
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jamieevren1210
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I don't but it sounds really cool. I'd like to have it 
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anneurysm
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Had pretty heavy synesthesia as a kid but this faded away with age. I remember having all sorts of combinations...two ones I can think of are sounds evoking random visuals in my head, and smells, tastes and colours blending together. The taste/colour was a very strong one. I would get obsessed with certain books, objects and toys because their colours were grouped together in a way that I found pleasing.
The only ones I still have are colour/number, colour/month of the year, and colour/personality (every person I know seems to have one or more colours associated with them)
While my mom is completely NT, she tells me that she has always had it too. As a kid, I realized this when my mom bought a book called "The Man Who Tasted Shapes" about synesthesia...and I told her that I could taste the shapes on the front cover. For the longest time, I thought everyone experienced their senses in the same way I did.
The only times I really get it back is when I`m really stoned or there`s a huge change in the weather...it`s like my mind travels back to an earlier time when the world seemed more interesting, fascinating and brighter. |
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finallyFoundOutWhy
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| anneurysm wrote: | | As a kid, I realized this when my mom bought a book called "The Man Who Tasted Shapes" about synesthesia...and I told her that I could taste the shapes on the front cover. For the longest time, I thought everyone experienced their senses in the same way I did. |
I work at a medical clinic (computer guy) and one of the doctors gave me that book a couple of years ago when i first started talking about it again
i learned early in childhood to not talk about it because of the bad responses i got from others/adults e.g. "You're being stupid", "Don't be silly"
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mglosenger
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I have mild synesthesia all the time.. mostly if not entirely produced by taking various hallucinogenic substances. I liked some of the effects while on those subtances, so I decided to keep them.
I can mostly consciously control it, and compared to other peoples', it's rather minor.. mostly seeing certain colors with certain music.. but I enjoy it..
I also have rainbows and patterns appearing/bubbling and other things.. I wanted them |
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I do not have it, but I always associate the feeling of headaches with swiss cheese...  |
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DJFester
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| finallyFoundOutWhy wrote: | My synesthesia alters depending on my mood and how much stress i am under (like most of my aspie traits).
My most common form is to see patterns sort of overlaid on my vision that look like the visualisations on microsoft media player.
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That very closely describes what I experience when listening to music - it's like having a built-in visualizer.
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| sometimes when i see things there it a word next to it,but that is it |
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Verdandi
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I have color -> taste synesthesia. Colors have all kinds of flavors to me.
I have sound (mostly music) -> color synesthesia. The louder/more intense the music is the stronger the colors are. Hard rock tends to look like exploding fireworks.
I think I have some degree of mirror touch synesthesia. Sometimes when I see someone touch someone else, I feel it. Some things prompt this more strongly than others - one animated gif that showed someone stroking the top of someone else's head was really intense and is difficult for me to look at.
Human voices have textures. Like you know when someone's voice is described as gravelly? I literally get that, except gravel is not common. Ice, stone, water, the surface of a balloon, wood, metal, knives, sometimes combinations. Deeper voices tend to be more dense materials.
I tend to associate words with colors, images, and flavors, as well, although I do not literally see the words as those colors, so I am not sure if this is synesthesia. "Asperger" for example is fairly sour and white. "Schizoid" is yellow and somehow brings beetles to mind. |
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Feline1982
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I don't have this and I don't fully understand how it works or whats the use for it.
Some say that it's a great gift for a musician to be able to see music in colours and shapes. I don't understand this. For me it's enough, and sometimes even too much, to hear these sounds separately. Like if I listen to some classical music, it makes me a bit anxious to hear separately all the sounds, so what if there would be colours and shapes too! That would be so stressful!
How do you experince this synesthesia? What's the use for it? I'm also really interested how those musicians with this ability rely to it while doing music?
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