Synesthesia

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I experiance synesthesia as i have my whole life. It was more noticable as a child. Synesthesia is a blending of the senses so to speak. I remember as a child that the teacher would be talking and i would be very lost in thought. While in my daydream i would often picture the words the teacher was saying as being the object i was looking at at the time (a chair, desk, poster, etc). Not that i would hallucinate the desk actually turning into the word, but i pictured the word being the object. It's kinda hard to describe. Other times I would picture the words or sentences as being certain textures. I always associate letters as being certain colors ("A" is red, "P" is green, etc). Does anyone else experiance this or something like it?

Everyone does.

See the Schmidt Sting Pain Index for a startling example. The pain-descriptors are sublimely synesthesic, but people who've experienced those stings find them accurate. This is weird.

I once remarked to a very NT-acting co-worker, that a certain person had an orangish-brown voice. She was very startled, but agreed. He does.

I never have really.

I once remarked that a certain chemical smells "green". It turns out that same smell sometimes occurs in freshly cut grass! So that's where I got that association!

Or associate colors with numbers, letters and even songs. I happen to do that, and always have.

I've got music/colour synthenesia. I consider it a gift, but i find myself having weird mental arguments with artists on the radio sometimes: "Why in heaven's name would you put khaki together with a deep red?!?"

I have deep sound-color synesthesia. I also see pain, and when I hear words or numbers I see them in front of me. Songs have their own colors, as well as individual notes; I also have a more psychological, less physical synesthesia with smell, where I associate smells with colors.
Synesthesia is more common with those on the autism spectrum.

I might have auditory synesthesia. If I see something whiz by on a mute TV screen for example, I hear a sound that isn't there. idk

Chromographic synaesthesia? I think I remember that that's what it's called when letters and numbers are associated with colors?
"A" is red and "P" is green for me as well! (For instance, J is green, whereas C is a shade of yellow I don't particularly like.) Same with numbers - 9 is blue, whereas 2 is green.

I also feel what I see, so that the sight of someone being hurt (i.e., in a movie) is actually physically painful to me.

I am a synesthete too. At school I was tottally unable to focus as my involuntary thinking process took be far from the classroom.

Nothing has changed, even in church I only recall 10% of the priest's homily as my mind drifts on a sea of poetic thought and fantacy

I definitely have this with pain.

When something causes me pain I hear a sound (even if there is none) as well as a flash in my eyes - usually red. I just recently found out that not everyone does.

Glare is just glare to my NT husband but it's a sharp stabbing pain plus a sound to me.

I see words spelled out while hearing them auditorily. Not all, usually odd ones, ones I find interesting, or sometimes just random ones.

Colors and numbers have always had personalities and are male or female.

As I'm thinking through this to compose this post I realize how boring the world must be for NTs!

I associate colours with some things, but I never thought it was synesthesia. More just a conscious process of memory and thought association.

My brain links my mood to my perception where as my mood changes so do i see things with a different tint.

There was a thread a few months ago where lots of people posted which colours they associated with numbers/letters. I wonder if some NTs actually do this as well??

I'm not sure if this qualifies as synesthesia, but I am really sensitive to 'light' touches--so when I see other people touching themselves or objects in a 'light' manner my body reacts as if I was being touched in the same way. I feel overstimulated and need to look away, I know that I'm not actually being touched, but I can still 'feel' it.

I've questioned several NTs who say they do not associate colors with numbers/letters. They also don't see color/hear sound along with pain. I started asking this fairly recently after realizing that not everyone does share these things - I thought they (we) all did.

I have an odd thing with the middle of the bridge of my nose. If anything in the room is pointing directly at it, I can feel it without even looking. It annoys me and I have to rub the nose and move away from the pointy object. I think of it as intuitive feng shui.

I have mentioned this to one person - my husband - and he has had great fun testing me. I close my eyes and sometimes move around a bit or turn my chair, etc and at some point he will point directly at my nose. I always feel it. I have no idea why but it does confirm to me that energy exists and all things give some kind of energy off. That spot on the outer edge/near the top/bridge of my nose seems to be my sensor for that kind of energy.

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