Synesthesia anyone?

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Does anyone here have it? I've had it my whole life. Some info if you don't know what it is:

http://www.mixsig.net

i don't think I have it, but I know people who do.

If you don't mind me asking; is it cool? It sounds like a really cool condition to have

i do
and it looks like it is much more common in the AS and Autistic population than in the general public
it may also account for some of our so called special abilities as it can shortcut a long and complicated process to simple visions or tastes

the website says this:

how is that accurate? I really doubt that many people see sounds or give numbers personalities. I know I don't.

IIRC most people are slightly (insert word I have no hope of spelling even remotely correctly), hence the saying "bitter cold" and so. I can taste smell, that's normal I, for example garbage tastes like popcorn (to smell, not eat!), and sweat tastes like salt (as in when you can smell it, you can taste it too).

I think I have an incredibly, incredibly mild, subthreshold form of synesthesia. I do strongly associate the days of the week with a specific color when I think of them, and the way in which I perceive the days of the week is in a very specific visual-spatial outline. However, since I don't think of and/or see the color red when I read "Saturday" in a book or something, I don't feel that it's true synesthesia. I only think of the colors when I'm thinking of the days of the week in that visual-spatial outline, as in when I'm envisioning what's going to happen during the week.
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I seem to have a form of synesthesia. When I get into a meditative state of mind, I see the colors green and blue, sometimes others depending on my emotional state. I saw yellow and red bands once when I was feeling like an adrenaline rush with my heart beating fast, and white when I'm rushing, green and blue is when I'm happy and thinking, etc.

As for smell to taste ratio, I seem to be pretty good at connecting them. I can smell something and tell you the ingredients, or what needs to be added. Makes me a good cook I guess.

Then there's basic color association just because I was brought up with those colors representing those flavors. When I drink grape pop, it tastes purple, and watermelon gum tastes reddish-pink, but I don't actually see these, it's a mental idea of flavors being colors. Blueberry lollipop being blue, etc.

Add to that I also visualize movement in music, and I'm pretty synesthetic. It helps me when I want to dance to something, I just move the way my mind wants me to with the music.

oh. i think i see, a little. is that synesthesia, when you close your eyes and see colors? i do that.

i don't have the rest of it, but i wish i did. it sounds really fascinating. is it associated with creativity?

My boyfriend has synesthesia (he's also AS) -- he sees patterns of light when he hears sounds.

Loud sounds create bright flashes of light for him, and some high pitched frequencies are actually blinding -- they create a sort of white static over his visual field. This has been useful when he's worked in IT, since he can determine which computers are failing based on the visual effects he gets from the sounds they make.

Synesthesia is more common in people with AS/autism because of the way that our brains form -- the synapses in our brains don't go through the same level of neural pruning as in NT brains, meaning that we have relatively more connections in our brains. These extra connections can lead to Einstein-like creativity, as well as to more than one sensory system being triggered by a given stimulus.

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I have absolute pitch (supposedly also common among the autistic). While I don't literally see the color, I have a strong association of each key with color. F major, for instance, is undeniably medium green, while C major is yellow. Then again, it may be that a particular key evokes a certain emotion that the same color evokes, and hence it's an association and not true synesthesia.

Supposedly synesthesia in this form is sort of the mind's implementation of absolute pitch.

I also have photic sneeze reflex, if that means anything. I've read that might be caused by jumping signals from light sensory to physical sensations in the nose, so it would make it likely that I have other cross-wirings.

Most of the time, yes! It's really hard to explain to someone who doesn't have it though. My months, numbers, and letters have colors and textures. Colors have tastes. I see time, smell some names, and certain objects. Wet paint is "pink" to me. Yuck!

I'll 'see' sounds as coloured light, but I can turn this off, so it's supposedly not synesthasia.

I taste some words as I speak them, which is real synesthasia, and supposedly the rarest type. Yeah, it's kind of cool. Most of them taste good.

Yes, I do. I have letter-color syn, mostly. Can't see colors IRL anymore (am blind), but my syn colors are still there.

I hate to burst your bubble, but everyone with normal color vision experiences that. When you see an object, the image is temporary stored on your retina and closing your eyes quickly will result in what is called an "Afterimage", where you temporarily still see the object inside your eyes in distorted color.

As for the "static" that you see when you close your eyes in dim light, it is simply light around you passing through your eyelid and into your eye and simulating an image on the inside of your eyelid where the light came through. The more spots you see, the thinner your eyelids are (which isn't a bad thing).