What the... how many names do you need on a forum?!Originally Posted by Quinter Wonderland
What the... how many names do you need on a forum?!
I've always wished I had synesthesia. There are a couple of sounds I have found to make me physically feel something, but I think that mostly has to do with learned associations at this point. It's really only a couple of sounds that do it, and it is not really consistent enough to be synesthesia.
That being said, roughly a third of my friends have synesthesia for some weird reason. I have one friend that sounds create smell or taste for him (I can't remember which). I have another friend who sees shapes and colors when he tastes things. A good number of my friends see shapes and colors when they hear sounds; a couple of those people have developed perfect pitch because of it. A good number of my friends have the grapheme-color synesthesia where letters and numbers have specific colors (and genders and basic personalities actually...) I believe one friend has spatial sequence synesthesia. I have always found the topic fascinating.
That's interesting you bring up the perfect pitch, thing. I'm not sure I have perfect pitch, but it has probably certainly helped.
Also, one advantage: I remember quite a bit of what I read. Because words have colours and patterns, it makes memorization extremely easy. I honestly attribute that to why I have never studied for anything, yet always get top marks.
That's interesting you bring up the perfect pitch, thing. I'm not sure I have perfect pitch, but it has probably certainly helped.
Also, one advantage: I remember quite a bit of what I read. Because words have colours and patterns, it makes memorization extremely easy. I honestly attribute that to why I have never studied for anything, yet always get top marks.
Remembering what's been read has been a common thing most of my synesthete friends have told me about. I can relate to not having to study, but only because I've always been able to remember exactly where things were written on the page (either in text books or in my notes). I can generally reconstruct the my notebook or the text book in my head to help me "find" information. Not that anyone cares about that bit of information.
Edit: The perfect pitch thing was always a big help in chamber choir back in high school. We could get some of our friends to help write out some of the music we didn't actually have sheet music for at times.
The closed-eye hallucination thing is interesting. I never really knew the name of it. I feel that I tended to get to "level 4" on a nightly basis during a period of my childhood that I also got big into lucid dreaming and such. At least, I think what I experienced seems to match that. I know that I experience the "level 3" thing anytime all the lights are off in my room and my eyes are closed. I think it's kind of annoying really. You all have sucked me into the internet wormhole that is Wikipedia. I can't stop looking at random pages each page seems to link me to, haha.
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Me neither, just thought it was odd that the eye doctor asked me if I could like it was unique or something.I can do that voluntarily, but I didn't know it was considered a thing. I still don't consider it a thing.
shrug.
No, it pretty much is : Phosphene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaI honestly didn't even know it was a thing until this thread prompted me to Google about it. I just assumed it's something everyone experiences and was due to light penetrating through the eyelid in a diffused form but apparently it's not.I also thought this happened with everyone. It doesn't?I didn't realize THIS was a thing, either.
I thought this was just what happened.
I feel like everyone has them in some capacity.
I have aural synesthesia and it is awesome.
Do my name, please.
Since I can remember I have thought of certain words with colours, but definitely not all the time. Generally, it begins with the starting letter that leads me on. For instance, when I would think of the name Gary, I would automatically think of the colour grey.
To be honest, I would more-so get visions in my head more than anything else. Say a word and I would think of a picture of something in my head that wouldn't directly have anything to do with said word. I dunno.
Julian Rivera
Rivera is actually more of a speckled, blue and white mixture, but it sort of looks like that.
White, and the song plays in my head. Not sure if that's synesthesia or just it causing me to think about it. xD So, yeah, white.
Quin
Arthur
Holy trout, I'm Iron Man.
So, do the words look like that regardless of font and actual coloration? If I color a word red, can you see the color, or do you just see the word the same color you always see it? Or do the color mix together?
Also, since I'm curious, what do the two most common words in videogaming look like to you?
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