Thinking in shapes?

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A BIG HUG for olympiadis!! We think VERY much alike! I understood completely what you had to say, and plain and simply put, after feeling like commiting suicide all day, I'm actually beginning to feel better, so THANKS!
I will need to try to figure out my shapes and consistencies better. That should help somewhat. I just know I need to feel true hope for my future, or it's......KABOOM!
Thanks sincerely for helping to make my day better, and my future feel a bit brighter, olympiadis. I know I REALLY need that, right now.

By the way, have you noticed my signature update? I was given a diagnosis of have "a sprinkling of Synesthesia to go with my Autism Spectrum Disorder level 1, mild".

You're welcome.
Your age says 46, so I wanted to ask how long you have experienced the shapes thing?

I wonder if it is a recent change due to some event, like Tammet's seizure.

I didn't realize that I thought in binary logic gates until the age of about 15 when I learned what binary and logic gates were. It all started to click then, and I developed a love for programming in machine language, - one of the few practical applications for how I think. Unfortunately I never made it into a career.

I'm pretty sure I don't have any synesthesia.
I'm thinking that most textbook synesthesia is a condition of unusual crosstalk between parts of the brain such that it affects how consciously memorized data is associated stored and later referenced. I think what Tammet does goes a bit beyond the textbook synesthesia.
His subconscious thinking seems to bleed over into his conscious awareness as well.
He is able to utilize the abilities of both conscious and subconscious, along with the synesthesia.

I am speculating, but I would like to know more as this is a fascinating subject.
Most people I have been around have very little metacognition and so they cannot explain what is happening.

I had always tried to think "correctly" all my life, and have only been actually aware of this type of thinking for a short time, now.
As far as seizures go, I don't think I've ever had them, but sometimes I do experience something in my brain kinda like "Zzzt, zzt, zzzt", especially when I'm really tired. I don't know if that's seizure activity, or not....
I find the different kinds of thought processes or "something like" thought processes to be really interesting! I'm sure I don't have the same complicated Synesthesia Daniel Tammet has, but thinking partially in shapes does seem to be somewhere in that realm, anyway...
I think we oughtta talk though PMs, too, if that's all right with you. You are quite interesting to talk to!

If the zzzt, zzzt happens just at the edge of falling asleep, - the cusp between conscious and subconscious, then the same thing happens to me, but it only started just a few months ago due to an accident which involved a type of seizure. I don't like it and hope it goes away.

I will pm you.

No, my sensation of zzt often happens when I turn my head, or am trying to think about something or get something done. Never as I am about to fall sleep. That's curious....