Synesthesia - who has it?

What form of synesthesia do you have?

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lol... music colour and person-specific personification 4 me ha ha

:p
 
I guess I just don't understand that article...then again, I'm tired as hell, so I blame that.
 
Probably none, but I do get random tastes in my mouth for no particular reason.
 
I think if you're not quite sure whether you have synesthesia, you don't :P
 
Stigmata said:
I think if you're not quite sure whether you have synesthesia, you don't :P
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Fair assumption, but is it fair to say the entire scope of the condition is documented to all possible extents?
 
i don't believe a word of it. Anybody who doesn't trust the number 3 is a freak.
 
Ryuken: That's also a fair point. I guess you might have some very mild form of synesthesia?

xcellerate: They may be "freaks" (IMO they're not, but that's just me) but the condition still exists. :/
 
I don't think I have it even in a mild form because I do not associate taste with anything specific. I just recall them under certain conditions.

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A bit more on topic, I do tie dates that happened longer ago to spatial length.

(You can't believe how much hell it was to figure out how to say "dates that happened farther away" without literally saying it).

IE the eighth month is farther away than the second month.

Is that synesthesia?

(somehow I doubt it :()

EDIT: I also VIVIDLY remember, when I was younger, I used to tie different people and their personalities to the colors Blue and Red. I remember one day going over all my friends, in my head, and assigning them all into red and blue, just so I could get a basis of who was who.

Again, I won't lie to you or myself and say that I am synesthetic, but I figured it was semi ontopic and that i'd share.

I wants it soo bad. Looks like fun.

Stiggy, try that thing, draw a P, and tell us what color it is. Then, make it into an R by drawing a line at an angle from it, BUT, draw the line slowly, and tell us what happens.

At some point, does the letter suddenly change color? Does the letter contrast between the two colors as you make the line, until you've finally finished the R pattern? Is it possible for you, by slowly and forcefully going over these processes, make an R that is the P color? Is your brain going to explode when you try any of these?
 
If I do have this Synesthesia Thing, its the one where if someone mentions something about ronch farts or butt crack I get this really weird taste in my mouth... Might just be me though.

Wait... I think I just missed it, I have "Lexical → gustatory synesthesia", I guess its a rare form...hmm...I guess I'm special.:dork:
I pretty sure there must be a synesthesia where if someone says something like "I just want a spicy fish fajita"(w/improper pronunciation of fajita) then you smell this really gross rotten smell, because I have that too.
All these senses only come when really gross things are mentioned though. I have a feeling that I'm not alone in this category though... at least I don't want to be alone...somebody give me a hug!
 
Foxhound888 said:
If I do have this Synesthesia Thing, its the one where if someone mentions something about ronch farts or butt crack I get this really weird taste in my mouth... Might just be me though.

Wait... I think i just missed it, i have "Lexical → gustatory synesthesia", I guess its a rare form...hmm...i guess I'm special.:dork:
I pretty sure there must be a synesthesia where if someone says something like "I just want a spicy fish fajita"(w/improper pronunciation of fajita) then you smell this really gross rotten smell, because i have that too.
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Nah, I think that's just general imagination.
 
I do have the personification thing, ie, I don't like numbers such as 4 or 8, and I'm a bit wary of 3. It probably has to do with multiplication and the ease of multiplying certain numbers vs. others. In terms of number form, I don't do it to all numbers, but almost all dates I place in this type of calendar in my head, and the calendar kind of acts like the dock menu in Mac OS; you can zoom in on certain dates, and that slot gets bigger, revealing details. I do that a bit with numbers and values. Not sure if I even got the second one right tho...
 
Wouldn't the whole, "think of the food then taste it as well" work too?

I have this one problem, when I'll start to think of a specific place *a swimming pool in my old home town* I'd think about it hard enough...I'd begin to black out, and come to and I've have the smell of that place deep in my nose..like I was actually there...and it was a pretty unique smell tbh.

Would that count?
 
CyberPitz said:
I have this one problem, when I'll start to think of a specific place *a swimming pool in my old home town* I'd think about it hard enough...I'd begin to black out, and come to and I've have the smell of that place deep in my nose..like I was actually there...and it was a pretty unique smell tbh.

Would that count?
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Well i have something similar. For instance if I sense a particular smell i immediately recall some place that had that smell, example my grandparents' garden, or my friend's house. I don't know if linking smells with strong memories has anything to do with synesthesia though, or does it...:O
 
Remus said:
Well i have something similar. For instance if I sense a particular smell i immediately recall some place that had that smell, example my grandparents' garden, or my friend's house. I don't know if linking smells with strong memories has anything to do with synesthesia though, or does it...:O
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It did say 2 senses...if we look at a food and taste it without being close to it or something *IE pictures*..wouldn't that be the same case? Like I said, I don't understand it.
 
Number Form, I think.... I think....
 
sinkoman said:
A bit more on topic, I do tie dates that happened longer ago to spatial length.

(You can't believe how much hell it was to figure out how to say "dates that happened farther away" without literally saying it).

IE the eighth month is farther away than the second month.

Is that synesthesia?

(somehow I doubt it :()

EDIT: I also VIVIDLY remember, when I was younger, I used to tie different people and their personalities to the colors Blue and Red. I remember one day going over all my friends, in my head, and assigning them all into red and blue, just so I could get a basis of who was who.

Again, I won't lie to you or myself and say that I am synesthetic, but I figured it was semi ontopic and that i'd share.

I wants it soo bad. Looks like fun.

Stiggy, try that thing, draw a P, and tell us what color it is. Then, make it into an R by drawing a line at an angle from it, BUT, draw the line slowly, and tell us what happens.

At some point, does the letter suddenly change color? Does the letter contrast between the two colors as you make the line, until you've finally finished the R pattern? Is it possible for you, by slowly and forcefully going over these processes, make an R that is the P color? Is your brain going to explode when you try any of these?
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Yeah, you have pretty mild synesthesia then.

As for the grapheme -> color type, I don't have that. I have
Stigmata said:
Number-form synesthesia
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:P I'll explain it to you guys when I get back from school, it's actually insane how detailed my calendar is D:
 
Don't talk about 8 like that... I love him and he loves me! As for 3, you can have him... hes too eager and supercilious.
 
Someone who can see a numberline please tell me what it's like.
 
Random fact: People who are pitch-perfect usually have it. It allows them to tie specific notes with colours.

The closest I have is the way, like someone else mentioned, I tend to abstract time as physical space, in my mind. Each day of the week has a vague position in a shape I can't quite make out. Saturday and Sunday are somewhere on the left hand side, and the rest of the days ascend like a ladder on the right hand side.

-Angry Lawyer
 
When someone says something like vinegar, I get a taste of vinegar in my mouth. Or something vinegar like, anyway.
 
Stigmata said:
Yeah, you have pretty mild synesthesia then.
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Nah, I doubt I do, as I don't really do it too often anymore. It's probably just a behaviour that I picked up somewhere allong the line.

Like, today, while I was copying down definitions for one of my classes, I found myself tying wordforms to shapes, almost synesthetically (but I know it wasn't synesthesia). I'd write down the wordform on my paper, and instantly i'd visualize a shape in my head. Noun was a big triangle, adjective was a small blue triangle, verb was a medium orange triangle, etc etc. BUT, as subconcious as the behaviour was, I distinctly remember doing this as a child for school (IE I remember being taught to do this).

They'd make us tie a black triangle with the word "noun" in it to nouns, verbs to medium orange triangles, etc etc, and then we'd have to put the shapes in order to mimick simple sentence structure.

EDIT: I dunno, maybe you're right, and I do have a wierd mild form. I just looked around the room, and looked at this one guy sitting next to me and thought "I dunno about him, no clue what color", but then I looked at this guy that was standing up and I was instantly hit with "oh yeah, he's a blue, no doubt about it. No WAY he's a red, he's just... Blue".

And I remember, I never really told anybody about it because I never really knew how to. I'd start talking to them about it and would just stop, because I could have never explained it to them.

Either that or i'm a placebo freak D:

EDIT: Hehe, this is cool. I'm taking this test (which imo, seems like complete bullshit), and I never really noticed it before, but I remember that red is sort of sleek, and different. Rebelious for pleasure, not for purpouse. Blue is just rounded and smooth. Just normal, but fun.

I remember back when pokemon came out, I couldn't decide which version to get (red or blue), for that reason alone. I kind of wanted red, to be different from everybody else, but at the same time blue seemed powerful, as he just does what "works".

Angry Lawyer said:
Random fact: People who are pitch-perfect usually have it. It allows them to tie specific notes with colours.

The closest I have is the way, like someone else mentioned, I tend to abstract time as physical space, in my mind. Each day of the week has a vague position in a shape I can't quite make out. Saturday and Sunday are somewhere on the left hand side, and the rest of the days ascend like a ladder on the right hand side.

-Angry Lawyer
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For me, sunday is at the far left hand side, and saturday is at the far righthand side.

Again though, this is probably a learned behaviour, as when I was younger, they taught me the days with the rhyme "SUNDAY monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday SATURDAY, and then we start again".
 
dekstar said:
When someone says something like vinegar, I get a taste of vinegar in my mouth. Or something vinegar like, anyway.
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Semen.




Anyways, I usually think of music as streams of color, although I am NOT pitch perfect.

I actually prefer music that is a cool blue / teal color.
 
wow, I thought everyone viewed numbers and calendars as shapes, I guess I have synesthisia.

I view the numberline as steep hills at the zeros that slope down to their fives and up again to the 10's. 100's have two slopes and 1000's have three and so on. I also see days and calendars as a very long line with different shades of grey, each weekend being two white squares along this line with varying shades of grey for each day, then each month is a different shade with two white squares on january and december, and then a sea of black until september. As the days go by, I visualise panning through this line.
 
When I think of variations in my schedule (for example, going to work at 3 instead of 4:30), I'll think of time by comparing it to what I'm used to.

So, say I leave my house at 2:30, I'll think "This is like leaving at 4" so I don't end up rushing. At 2:45 I'll think "this is like 4:15", etc.
 
Hoo boy, here comes the description of my number-line and calendar :D

Number Line
This line exists in a sort of pure-white space, like Purgatory, or that empty-space scene in The Matrix. It's nothing more than a flat, narrow, off-white surface, almost like an infinite strip of paper, extending off to infinity in both directions. The height doesn't vary, nor does the width, nor color. It's just a straight, flat, white surface with all integer values written on it (including negatives), each value existing in its own "square" on the line.

Calendar
This thing is far more extensive and unnecessarily detailed.

It starts in the same format as my number line - a narrow strip of numbers, except each number represents a year, and the calendar appears in 3D. From there, I can zoom in to a specific year (default is the current year), which then expands into a large loop. January is at the "base" of the loop, closest to the previous year's entry. The months are listed along the loop counter-clockwise, with June at the end closest to the next year. Each month takes up 1/12th of the loop.

From there, I can zoom in further to an individual month, which usually appears as a linear series of days, connecting the previous month with the next. I can also zoom in further to look at individual days and even individual hours. Saturdays and Sundays are raised higher than weekdays, and the Saturday and Sunday squares on the calendar-line are also darker, because I love night time, and I also like the weekend. Mondays are pure black though, because they suck, and pure darkness also sucks and scared me when I was a kid :P

When I zoom in to look at a single day, it becomes a series of hour-squares. Each hour-square is bordered with whatever weather phenomena I'm expecting, and each is also lit according to the time of day and the cloud cover.

Looking at this yearly calendar-loop at any previous level, the loop is bordered by seasonal weather and appropriately nostalgic objects. The winter months are bordered by snow and pine trees - Christmas has a Christmas tree on it. The spring months have a couple rainclouds, lots of nice grass, flowers, and May has a couple blue-ish mountains off to the side for some reason. The summer months are bordered by beaches, trees with sunlight filtering through the leaves, and there's also a lake/oceanfront where the beaches are. The fall months have cloud cover, fallen leaves, and trees with fall-leaf colours. Also, for some reason, August is also bordered by Pokemon videogame screenshots and videos of ReBoot.

Zooming back out to the year-line, and looking at past years, the line of years is bordered by historical events. 1939-1945 are bordered by a Howitzer, Hitler, Kamikaze pilots, Pearl Harbor, a Garand, a Sherman tank, and occasionally clips of Saving Private Ryan. The 60's are bordered by fields full of hippies listening to live concerts, and the Apollo missions. The 80's are bordered by blue suits, new-wave bands, and glitter. The early 90's are bordered by grunge bands. The late 90's and early 2000's are bordered by a dynamic collage of video-game screenshots and movies.

And in all of this, there is always the Sun casting light on my year. But this Sun bit is awesome, because it's all set up so that my calendar-loop/line exists where the Earth does in the solar system - the past years extending off towards Pluto, the future years extending towards the Sun. The background is filled with faint stars, and occasionally I can see the Moon, and the orbital paths of Mercury and Venus.
 
What the hell, when I think of a calendar I see a picture of a calender in my head.
 
this is how I see my calendar
calendar.jpg

The circles are the days of the week, with the light ones the weekend and the dark ones the weekdays. The vertical lines are the dates when the semesters of school start and end. The red line is my birthday. December has a line through it because its the "end" of the year, it just cycles through like that with the current month on the left hand.
 
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