Location Synesthesia

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This poor kid asked what I've been meaning to ask and got, I think, an ignorant answer. He describes exactly one of the things that's always going on in my head and I think he's right that it is synesthesia. Along with my many other types,I too get instantaneous automatic flashes of locations with specific camera angles always related to the same "topics" (i guess). He's right about things like wikipedia articles connecting to certain locations, like for example reading about a certain videogame for me always triggers a view of the front door of my uncle's ex-girlfriends house from the living room, looking down. Every time. Hearing or saying my first name always shows a view of the front door of my childhood home from the inside, while my last name triggers a view from a similar standpoint but towards the kitchen. There's even the relation to numbers (Number 9, while being pink, happy, naive and curious, is standing in the field in front of my Junior High School.)

I know they say synesthetic images are simple, not pictoral, when related to hearing music and seeing shapes for example (and my music-shape/color images are very simple) but given that I experience multiple types of synesthesia and this thing behaves in exactly the same way, I really believe this is just a less talked-about form of it. It happens to me just as often as the other types, I rarely even acknowledge it's happening. At any given time if I'm thinking, reading or hearing someone talk there's probably a little arbitrary "setting" for most of the different thoughts. Like the other synesthesias(?) I just accepted it as part of the human thought process. Has this been discussed before? I searched for it, but "Location" unfortunately is part of every single post.

I agree with you, the answer he got is crapola.

I'm not an expert in this subject, ut I understand it to a certain degree.

I think that as it is not mentioned directly in any synesthesia sources, that it may be a lesser form, or something that happens rarely.

I know someone who, I believe, tastes the days of the week. This is not linked to your viewing of locatgions or places when you hear certain words or think of places (in ther case of this other bloke), but I think that in some ways it is very like our memory, and most obviously be linked.

Like when many people hear a name, they see a face or a place, that links them together, as they met that person there etc.

This applys to many with music/sound as some hear music/sound and see a picture in their mind which links them together. It may be random or it may actaully be from their memory, but this still exists.

"current statistics by the National Autistic Society UK put the incidence of ASD around 1 person in 100 has an Autism Spectrum Disorder and that up to 60%-65%[citation needed] of the population think in pictures, it cannot be concluded that visual thinking has any necessary connection with autism. However, unless those with autism have sensory-perceptual disorders limiting their capacity to develop visual thinking, such as visual agnosias or blindness since infancy, many people with autism, just as many non-autistic people, are equally likely to think in pictures. As visual thinking is the most common mode of thought, it might be expected that the incidence of visual thinking in the autistic community may be reflective of that in the general population"this could be a certain couple of letters which makes a sound that triggers a visual picture/location

I think that sometimes something you view in your maid maynot be linked from memory exactly, but could be because of a certain sound(a whole word, seen or heard) or phonetic link (a word said by another) this could be a certain couple of letters which makes a sound that triggers a visual picture/location which connects it.

God, this is like an essay!

Juli

most stuff on syn is quite basic basic- concentrating on the old 'confusion of the senses'. but-as above- many people can have really weird aspects- days of the week, rather than just- i touch a shoe, see orange or smell violets.

i can have specific item synesthesia- eg- in trying to explain something recently, i could only think that it was like a particular, dull pale blue towel being wet. i thought of this event, and saw and felt that item.

i know its not location, but its similar- random, unrelated item. you might also try looking into flashbacks or PTSD- seeing locations in this way might cross over to resources on those two..

there have been a lot of posts about synesthesia, since its so common in a.s.

So far as I have figured out I have the following types

Number/Letter/Word -->Personality, Colour, Location in memory (and sometimes visuals of amorphous faces...!?)
Sound/Music --> Colour, texture, shape
Shapes --> Personality (like I see inanimate objects and instantly know their personality and intentions)
Numbers/Dates ---> space (the usual, like days of the week have a specific arrangement in front of you)

Maybe what you need to do is contact an expert on this subject, and ask about their validity, and if what you are experiencing is normal/rare, it may help you understand it a little more.

Mixed Signals seems to be a good site, or you could try Wiki, but I hate using it for research, its a crap source.

J

Mixed Signals

What about Global Positioning System?