Curious - does anybody else experience synesthesia?

[WhitewaterWoman]

I have no synesthesia at all. I've wanted to have it ever since reading about it in a novel about 40 years ago.

 

[Misty Avich]

Hmm, the synesthesia I have doesn't appear to be on the list (unless I somehow missed it?). I see numbers, letters, months, days of the week, and even names of some places, in colours. Like February is very green in my mind, and the number 6 is very red. Just two examples, but I've been seeing the same words or numbers in the same colours (as in unchanged) since I was about 4 years old.

I also see emotions and personalities in objects, which explains my attachment to objects.

I used to imagine music in shapes and swirls and stuff but I don't now for some reason. But when I was a kid, about age 11, in art class we had to all draw a piece of music that was played on a tape, and colour them how we saw them, and everyone did without difficulty. Amazingly some results were similar, even though we weren't allowed to copy each other's work. In fact the whole class enjoyed this exercise. So maybe more people can see shapes, patterns and colours in music than we think? Also dancing can express what music looks like. So maybe some things are normal in humans, although seeing words and numbers in colours ain't very common because I have asked a few people if they see that and they've said no. I might ask a few more people though, when I remember to (as my synesthesia isn't usually something that's on the top of my mind).

 

[TBRS1]

Hmm, the synesthesia I have doesn't appear to be on the list (unless I somehow missed it?). I see numbers, letters, months, days of the week, and even names of some places, in colours. Like February is very green in my mind, and the number 6 is very red. Just two examples, but I've been seeing the same words or numbers in the same colours (as in unchanged) since I was about 4 years old.

I also see emotions and personalities in objects, which explains my attachment to objects.

I used to imagine music in shapes and swirls and stuff but I don't now for some reason. But when I was a kid, about age 11, in art class we had to all draw a piece of music that was played on a tape, and colour them how we saw them, and everyone did without difficulty. Amazingly some results were similar, even though we weren't allowed to copy each other's work. In fact the whole class enjoyed this exercise. So maybe more people can see shapes, patterns and colours in music than we think? Also dancing can express what music looks like. So maybe some things are normal in humans, although seeing words and numbers in colours ain't very common because I have asked a few people if they see that and they've said no. I might ask a few more people though, when I remember to (as my synesthesia isn't usually something that's on the top of my mind).

Articles I've read suggest that it is more common than most people imagine. Often, people to whom it happens don't realize it isn't what other people experience, so why mention it?, and people who know they do it don't talk about it,' cause it's weird to say "Did you notice the weird taste of that door knob when you touched it?"

 

[Jumpinbare]

I don't have synesthesia, but I do taste copper when I am handling it. I just figured I was tasting copper vapor. Copper always gives off vapor (unless you get it REALLY cold).

I do have anomic aphasia, but that's another story. (It ends with -sia though)

 

[velociraptor]

TABLE OF SYNESTHESIA TYPES (by combinations of senses)

Basically, synesthesia is the combining of two senses out of the five. There are ten types as follows:
1. Touch-Sight=Feeling touch when watching fights. Feeling people as colors.
2. Touch-Sound=Feeling sounds on skin/ dancing in shapes to sounds
3. Touch-Smell=Smells hitting you or caressing you and smelling emotions
4. Touch-Taste=Tasting metal or wood when touching it.
5. Sight-Sound=Music that projects colors
6. Sight-Smell=Smells as colors or shapes
7. Sight-Taste=Tasting colors or shapes
8. Sound-Smell=Hearing colors as music
9. Sound-Taste=Tasting flavors when hearing words
10. Taste-Smell=Tasting what you smell.

Of these, Lily has 2,3,6,7,and 10. Of these I have 1,2,3,4, and 10. Mine are all related to touch but Lilys are distributed through all of her senses evenly. If you have synesthesia, do you also gave 5 kinds like us? Are they of one sense or distributed evenly?

I see sound as colours and shapes at the same time. I cannot understand how those without synethesia can enjoy music properly without experiencing what I do.