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Curious - does anybody else experience synesthesia?

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TBRS1

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Most people thing if synesthesia as something like "seeing colors," but there are far more types - for instance, to ME even numbers are "round," "friendly," and "blue," while odd numbers are "pointed," "harsh," and "red."

Also, I use the red coffee cups because "they like me," but the dark green drinking glass is "dangerous."

I never thought this was odd until I read about synesthesia types (sometimes a smell will start off as a color, then turn into a smell that reminds me of a color - "that smells like a light violet to me."), knew it was synesthesia, then read over a list of synesthesia types, and discovered that much of my internal world revolved around these strange perceptions.

Here is a long list of sundaes thesis types: TYPES OF SYNESTHESIA IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

...but here is a shorter, easier to manage list to get started: https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/synesthesia/the-many-types-of-synesthesia-explained/
 
I can`t say I do. Or at least I don`t think I do. But I am very curious to read about it. So thank you for sharing the links.
 
TBRS1 said:
Most people thing if synesthesia as something like "seeing colors," but there are far more types - for instance, to ME even numbers are "round," "friendly," and "blue," while odd numbers are "pointed," "harsh," and "red."

Also, I use the red coffee cups because "they like me," but the dark green drinking glass is "dangerous."

I never thought this was odd until I read about synesthesia types (sometimes a smell will start off as a color, then turn into a smell that reminds me of a color - "that smells like a light violet to me."), knew it was synesthesia, then read over a list of synesthesia types, and discovered that much of my internal world revolved around these strange perceptions.

Here is a long list of sundaes thesis types: TYPES OF SYNESTHESIA IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

...but here is a shorter, easier to manage list to get started: https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/synesthesia/the-many-types-of-synesthesia-explained/
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Yes I have this .
 
Yes, I have so many types I don't know what to call them all. Every letter and number has a colour and a personality but there's so, so much more involving spatial sense, smell, taste, random flashback associations, etc.
 
TBRS1 said:
Most people thing if synesthesia as something like "seeing colors," but there are far more types - for instance, to ME even numbers are "round," "friendly," and "blue," while odd numbers are "pointed," "harsh," and "red."

Also, I use the red coffee cups because "they like me," but the dark green drinking glass is "dangerous."

I never thought this was odd until I read about synesthesia types (sometimes a smell will start off as a color, then turn into a smell that reminds me of a color - "that smells like a light violet to me."), knew it was synesthesia, then read over a list of synesthesia types, and discovered that much of my internal world revolved around these strange perceptions.

Here is a long list of sundaes thesis types: TYPES OF SYNESTHESIA IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

...but here is a shorter, easier to manage list to get started: https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/synesthesia/the-many-types-of-synesthesia-explained/
Click to expand...
I have experienced synesthesia. I used to have things I saw like I was playing with a Barbie and I saw a while fantasy world in my head like it just came to life, I listened to a song about roses and I could smell them, I listened to a secret garden by Bruce Springsteen and I saw a garden with a bench and me in it.
And when I was reading I could envision things but sometimes I got tired of it.
I sometimes see flashes of heaven, I saw a beach and cherubim and butterflies.
 
If something startles me in the middle of the night, I usually see either a bright flash (with my eyes closed) or.a zigzag static texture for a few seconds. I'm not sure if that's synesthesia or not but it seems like a mild version.

Also, ever since I was young I would see weird colors in the darkness, usually pink and green with weird swirls. I don't know what it is, honestly but it sounds potentially similar.
 
AngelWitch said:
If something startles me in the middle of the night, I usually see either a bright flash (with my eyes closed) or.a zigzag static texture for a few seconds. I'm not sure if that's synesthesia or not but it seems like a mild version.

Also, ever since I was young I would see weird colors in the darkness, usually pink and green with weird swirls. I don't know what it is, honestly but it sounds potentially similar.
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You probably have it, some people may only have it mildly.
When I close my eyes I often see red.
And sometimes I notice all the colours in my eyes from the light that was on.
I used to see things in my eyes like floaties and specks, gosh it was weird. I can still do it now if you fixate on ur vision you see black little dots and floating things. I guess it is just your eyes.
 
I have synesthesia. When I listen to music with headphones, it makes me picture scenes to go along with the music. I can’t turn it off. I enjoy it though, for the most part.

I also have kind of a “visual” inner monologue in addition to an auditory one.

It makes life pretty interesting, to say the least.
 
Mine is mainly hearing music as colors and patterns . And with numbers . But I am not great at math , wish I could somehow use it for doing math better. When I do solve a math problem , or finding really nice chords in my mind they are gold colored .
 
Yup - I can relate to everything people have said.

Now I wonder how much these things affect your life?

For example - I use the friendly red cup, but my wife kindly bring me java in the yellow cup. I've been socialized, so I don't yell "Wrong cup!" I have to tell myself "she doesn't understand, she is being nice and helpful," so I take the yellow cup, say thanks!, and pour the coffee into the red cup when she's not looking.

I don't know if this is true for other people, but, for me, it seems like synesthesia explains some of my oddities.
 
330 said:
Mine is mainly hearing music as colors and patterns . And with numbers . But I am not great at math , wish I could somehow use it for doing math better. When I do solve a math problem , or finding really nice chords in my mind they are gold colored .
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It helped me with maths because I could remember the colour patterns for multiplication answers etc. Algebra was especially easy because there were letters and numbers so that meant more colours over all, and it was pretty. lol
 
my parents thought there was something wrong with me when I was young because I would sit in the dark in the den listening to our 8 tracks of Synergy and Wendy Carlos and Kraftwerk with the lights off and my eyes closed watching the laser light show in my head.

I wish they had pursued that.
Nevertheless, still freakin awesome to have my own entertainment, but it is distracting because I see it with all auditory sensations so in loud and busy environs it adds to the sensory overload.
But yeah: helps with memories too. When my brain worked i could memorise phone numbers so easily I never kept a phone book.

Now I can barely remember how to dial a phone.
 
I see numbers, letters and even some names and places in colours. It's a good thing really because I have dyscalculia so remembering numbers is hard for me, so I usually memorise how the colours are situated in my mind instead. For example if I have to remember a code like 534, 5 is always white, 3 is always yellow and 4 is always green so I remember it like that.
Sometimes I wish society would rely on colours more than numbers lol.
 
I see music as a 3d moving sculpture, each tune always has the same colours and shapes.
I see sounds, always the same "shape" "appearance"
I hear visual stimuli.
Some numbers, days, months have colours.
I taste colour, but I think that might be because I associated colours with things of that colour, for example orange.
 
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