Joined: Dec 08, 2010 Posts: 10165 Location: University of California Sunnydale (fictional location - Real location Olympia, WA)
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:46 pm Post subject:
The emoticons here have a shade of yellow that prompts another flavor that I've never encountered in life. It's sort of a meat-like flavor, but not precisely. It's not a bad taste at all, just something I am not sure anything actually really tastes like.
Also, re: studies. That's an interesting idea. There's a site with a synesthesia test that I've never been able to sit all the way through. I tried a few times as far back as 2008 (although at the time I was seriously unsure whether I had synesthesia, and then dismissed the idea for some reason).
Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 2:10 am Post subject: Re: Synesthesia: ANNOYING.
Verdandi wrote:
Specifically, my old monitor (Flatscreen I've used for the past 5-6 years) burned out yesterday, and I temporarily replaced it with an older-but-still-functional CRT I borrowed from my brother-in-law.
However, this is the problem: The forum colors now taste wrong. I mean, it was mildly distracting that the green tasted like Mountain Dew and the blue tasted kind of berryish. But now the blue tastes like a kind of mint-like flavor that clashes with the citrusesque green flavor that is not Mt. Dew.
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 4:03 am Post subject:
Verdandi wrote:
There's a site with a synesthesia test that I've never been able to sit all the way through. I tried a few times as far back as 2008
I could never complete that test too! I think I did 10% of it until I gave up. Pre-ADHD diagnosis.
But now I think it's pointless to go back. Epilepsy makes my synaesthesia very strong.
The taste/scent memory is very strong and it's usually of food I like to ingest. Then there are the scents that are too horrible to even mention. Once I name them, either in thought or through type, I will experience them. _________________ My autism blog - http://latedx.wordpress.com
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Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 6:57 pm Post subject: Re: Synesthesia: ANNOYING.
Verdandi wrote:
Eloa wrote:
How do you manage this color-taste synesthesia leaving your house?
Two years ago I watched a documentary about a man with a strong color-taste synesthesia and his wife painted the kitchen blue, but it made him feel ill each time he was entering the kitchen and she hang up curtains which did not get along with the taste of the blue and made it worse for the man.
I don't think it's as strong for me as it is for the man in that documentary, although it is fairly present. I always thought it was normal to "associate taste with color" because I've always done so. I tend to focus on specific things - if I'm in a vehicle, I usually read a book or zone out. If I'm going for a walk I tend to focus on things like trees or specific automobiles or houses.
I cannot compare, but if the color of a screen distracts you because of the taste you get from the colors, it seems rather strong. I can dislike colors of websites for example or an exaggerated use of animated smilies used in a text, because they distract me and I do not understand the coherence of a text anymore, but I have no taste-sensation at all.
It really sounds quite unique.
Do you know any statistics for color-taste synesthesia?
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I have a color-sound and color-letter synesthesia and I feel like I perceive sound very tactile, which can also only be due to auditory overload, but when I hear ie a car approaching, I "feel" like a "rolling-tornado-on-the-side-like"-form (in a certain color) approaching and my body reacts with a lot of stress.
That's sounds pretty overloading.
Yes, it is.
I prefer doing my shoppings in the wintertime, because the shops are still open when it is dark outside and the darkness is reducing the amount of visual overload going to a shop, so that I am less overloaded entering a shop.
It happens, that I need to go somewhere or get something and I leave my house and turn back very quickly, because everything is too overloading, especially when it is light outside and many moving objects (cars, people etc.)
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I also have visual processing issues leading to overload, which prevents me from leaving my home most, I guess.
When I was a child we had family living close to a factory making chocolate and jam and other things containing sugar and each time I had to pass there I got ill only from the smell and taste in the air, and I dislike sugar because it makes me ill and my skin hurts and it causes some "weird" feeling in my brain.
Are there tastes which make you feel ill?
How do you manage in an enviroment with many different colors?
Is it additional causing sensory overload?
There are colors that cause tastes that make me feel ill. One I remember from early childhood was this shade of brown that, I guess the best way to describe it would be like a vinyl cupcake. It was only one object that prompted that, and for some reason I kept stumbling across it in the house and car.
Several years later - in middle school - there was a shade of yellow/green that tasted awful and made me feel nauseous every time I saw it.
It can contribute to sensory overload, and is one of the issues I have with video games, although most video game colors are fairly palatable - although the first Diablo game had monsters of the same color that made me ill. I don't think Diablo II reused that color, though. In City of Heroes, I made a fire-based hero with blue fire (I like most shades of blue, flavor-wise), but the blue flavor clashed with the orange glow from her superspeed, leaving an awful taste.
I tend to focus on a few colors when there are too many. It can get a bit strange with a lot of them at once, and not generally very pleasant.
One thing I find interesting is that some colors have flavors I can't easily describe or pin down. I am not sure I've ever eaten anything that tasted like that. There's a different yellowish shade of green that is sort of like really spicy citrus, but not specifically lemon, lime, orange, or grapefruit. And the spicy part is a bit confusing as well.
The man in the documentary also had an awful taste from blue and orange, as the kitchen was blue, but the curtains orange.
Thank you for your detailled answer, it is very interesting. _________________ English is not my native language, so I will very likely do mistakes in writing or understanding. My edits are due to corrections of mistakes, which I sometimes recognize just after submitting a text.
Joined: Dec 08, 2010 Posts: 10165 Location: University of California Sunnydale (fictional location - Real location Olympia, WA)
Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 11:26 pm Post subject: Re: Synesthesia: ANNOYING.
Eloa wrote:
I cannot compare, but if the color of a screen distracts you because of the taste you get from the colors, it seems rather strong. I can dislike colors of websites for example or an exaggerated use of animated smilies used in a text, because they distract me and I do not understand the coherence of a text anymore, but I have no taste-sensation at all.
It really sounds quite unique.
Do you know any statistics for color-taste synesthesia?
I do not know the statistics for it. All I know is what OddDuckNash said about it being very rare.
As for its strength, I was out today and yesterday, but today I was actually thinking of your question. I wear rose-colored sunglasses and they somehow seem to mitigate the synesthesia a bit. When I wear them, the impressions are faint, and when I take them off they're much stronger. Also, where I live and go has a lot of greenery, and that's generally pleasant for me.
Whenever I go without my sunglasses during the daytime or inside a lit store, I get a lot of visual overload, to the point of headaches and actual migraines, and difficulty filtering out the overall brightness around me. I've seen people talk about everything looking washed out, and it's not quite that bright, but it is far too intense.
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Yes, it is.
I prefer doing my shoppings in the wintertime, because the shops are still open when it is dark outside and the darkness is reducing the amount of visual overload going to a shop, so that I am less overloaded entering a shop.
It happens, that I need to go somewhere or get something and I leave my house and turn back very quickly, because everything is too overloading, especially when it is light outside and many moving objects (cars, people etc.)
I am pretty nocturnal and prefer to go out at night. I'd say a lot of the time when I am able to get out of the house, I go out any time from early evening or later. When I last lived with housemates instead of family, I'd do most of my stuff after midnight. I can go out in daytime, but it's more of a problem (light, noise, moving objects, too much heat in the summer, etc). I know I am far more likely to have a meltdown and leave a store when I'm doing shopping during the day instead of the night.
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The man in the documentary also had an awful taste from blue and orange, as the kitchen was blue, but the curtains orange.
Thank you for your detailled answer, it is very interesting.
