How vast is your synaesthesia?

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Daniel Tammet perceives probably thousands of numerals presented differently depending on their arrangement.

My own synaesthesia is, by comparison, quite simple. Though it involves perceiving visual and aural responses, it is triggered (sometimes) by my writing, reading or hearing the letters B, D and L, and the numeral 2. Certainly not the thousands of differences Tammet enjoys.

So, if you have synaesthesia, how complicated is it in its various presentations?

My synesthesia is pretty intensive.

Music is perceived as colors, shapes, and tastes.

Colors and shapes alternatively "sing" to me or make musical notes appear in the air.

Shapes, both in food and in the environment around food, have tastes. For example, once I had a green circular lollipop, and was eating it while looking at a green circular sticker on a chrome background. Everything was harmonized and the taste was sweet. Then I bit the lollipop, which became a jagged shape. The green circle sticker began buzzing, and the taste of the new shape of the lollipop was sour.

Mine are:

color-olfactory

spacial sequence

number form

auditory-tactile

mirror-tactile (a variation)

One time in my life, I saw the words "deja vu" written in cursive (script) writing when I was experiencing deja vu.

I have a touch/sound synesthesia - so when I hear a sound I feel it like touch on my skin. It's horrible to experience because I don't enjoy touch. Some music feels realy creepy. I also have a chronic neurological pain condition where my skin often feels like it's burned in patches. If the pain is bad then, although I could be sitting in silence, if my skin is hurting then I experience the internal feeling of too much sound. Any more (real) sound on top of that is very difficult for me to deal with. I use ear plugs and ear defenders to help with this.