Anyone here have synethesia?

[LamaGT]

Its not really a illness since many synesthetes don't experiace much or any problems caused by their experiances. While my sister claims that it causes her to have visual overload i've never felt impaired in anyway. Though the mirror-touch synethesia does cause uncomfortable feelings when watching people get hacked up on something shows like the "deadliest warrior". The sensation of sharing the experiance of being hacked up is minor (Then again i've never been hacked up so my mind can hardly mirror the sensation.) And even when watching such hacking imagery i only experiance mirror-touch sensations about a quarter of the time. Only more so i'f i'm chronically sleep deprived.



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For me touch-see synethesia. If i'm looking at what i'm touching then i'll see a vague gassy image projected between what i'm touching and my finger. But if i'm not looking at what i'm touching then my mind will pretend that i have a extra eye looking at whatever i'm touching.

Sounds pretty awesome!

I never heard of it, but it sounds like something I might have: Certain sounds are almost always bound to evoke a color. Especially large banging sounds tend to evoke yellow, red and orange (the explosion colors), even when it isn't caused by an explosion. And I tend to liken things to personalities.

That's probably a learned association, the same way you associate a smell to a place or person.

 

[Arakhor]

I was wondering who would be the first to point out that xkcd strip. I don't have synaesthesia, but I do have strong feelings about words, as to whether or not I like them, sometimes to the point of simply not using them at all.

 

[Slobadog]

For mirror-touch synethesia: My mind will temporary (for a few seconds create the illusion that i have additional flesh in front of my body. SO when i feel the sensation of being stabbed i don't truly feel in my actual body. Thus much of the reason why its far less unpleasent than how it intially seems.

 

[AdamCrock]

I don't have it but I wish I could have it It would be easier to perform calculations for me (for example something like (blue - red) * purple^2 / (cyan^3*red) = green or something like that - wayyyy cool ! ^^ colors feel somehow nicer to me than numbers but I don't associate them together (wish I could) I wonder if synesthesia people are mostly scientific minds or humanists

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I don't have it but I wish I could have it It would be easier to perform calculations for me (for example something like (blue - red) * purple^2 / (cyan^3*red) = green or something like that - wayyyy cool ! ^^ colors feel somehow nicer to me than numbers but I don't associate them together (wish I could) I wonder if synesthesia people are mostly scientific minds or humanists

But what if your calculation involved a really disgusting color combination?

Add artistic minds to the mix of science and humanists. I've been browsing filk music sites tonight, looking for music to listen to while doing my artistic hobbies (I do 2D and 3D needlepoint, coloring [it's not just for kids, y'know!], rug hooking, cross-stitch, and painting).

It's hard to explain how music can also be perceived as color. As I said, the key of B flat major is purple to me. I perceive other keys as other colors and combinations thereof.

Any Dragonlance fans here? If so, do you remember the song "Est Sularus"? I have the sheet music for that, and it's the most beautiful midnight blue with streaks of amber, purple, and other yellow-tinged tendrils (kinda ironic considering that in-universe those are actually the colors associated with the followers of Takhisis, but whatever... ).

(of course I mean that I perceive the song itself as those colors, not that the paper the song is written on is anything but plain white with black-inked words and musical notation )