I "match", unbeknownst to me, most of the time. Great for doing puzzles - I can just reach across and grab a piece that I had no idea was a match, but somewhere my brain knew it. Not so great in that I can't anticipate or "control" it. Last month I was watching a movie with the kids and was happily beside myself when I saw the lead characters get on a motorcycle with red and green helmets. "I've seen that!! !! I've seen that!! !!" But I didn't know where. A week later I pulled out my daughter's artwork and in her collage she had included two "Among Us" characters --- red and green "helmets" with the same colors and in the same place relative to each other as the helmets in the movie. Not very useful there, but it did make my brain light up happily.
I was just reading about auditory apophenia this morning. I didn't find a correlation with auditory processing disorders, but wondered.
magz wrote:
I do a lot. Especially, I hear melodies, words or conversations in noises of falling water, engines etc.
... Guess I have some problem with scanning my environment for meaningful information, getting too much or too little at times.
I do it some times. Last week I had to turn the radio down to figure out where the male voice was coming from. I couldn't quite make out his words. It was the wind passing through the new car rack my husband recently installed. I remember when my ASD-like daughter asked if I heard a theme song and I did. We figured out that it was our interpretation of outdoor noise. Perhaps there was a particular bird or bug contributing to the effect.
My grandmother heard voices ---- now I wonder. She also "saw" spoken words. Not necessarily the color of them, but the form. Sadly, she was institutionalized and (likely) overmedicated. How would we answer "can you hear voices?" Well, yes, I can hear my kids talking. Well, yes, I can construe speech out of white noise. Well, yes, I've popped awake at night swearing somebody said something, I've heard my children cry when they are not. And to answer your question "no, I do not hear voices" (I'm not "crazy").
05 Sep 2021, 2:13 pm
