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Do you experience synesthesia and what type are you?

  • SJ: yes

    Votes: 1 2.1%
  • SJ: no

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • SP: yes

    Votes: 6 12.8%
  • SP: no

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • NJ: yes

    Votes: 9 19.1%
  • NJ: no

    Votes: 9 19.1%
  • NP: yes

    Votes: 11 23.4%
  • NP: no

    Votes: 11 23.4%

synesthesia

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#1 · (Edited)
Do you have any form of synesthesia?

There are different kinds, both in what senses are combined, and in if you actually for example see colourful shapes when listening to music(more rare), or that it is more sensed, so to speak, either way, if you do, then answer yes.

If you want to tell us about it it would be cool :)

(I just have the letter-colour kind, which is perhaps the most common, and I sense the colours, don't see them as a hallucination. My guess is that it is mainly just a brainlanguage for abstract stuff, to make it easier to handle, something tangible, visible)

The reason I also ask about type, is that I read some theories as to why some people think like this, and was curious to see if it corresponds with types. My hypothesis is that it might be more common among intuitives and perceivers, in that order, but please prove me wrong if so.
 
#7 ·
I associate numbers with colours but it's less as thinking about the colour, it's more like feeling the colour. If i picture a number in my mind it's black (like words) but if i have to choose between numbers i get that colour/sensation difference. I have different sensations with different colours and have different sensations when thinking about stuff with a particular colour. And music makes me think about colours like a mix of them and also about situations. Sometimes i associate activities with the weather and the feeling/mood i get. I get a feeling for things i know but i can't explain. And food with colours (not necessarily the colour of the food itself). Activities with shapes. People with colours. Materials and surfaces with colours and feelings.
 
#8 ·
Everyone has some synesthesia he has to learn in life.

Red stopping lights is a good example.

But real synesthesia, sadly no.

Ow yes, i tasted cars while i look to them.

So was a particular design from Volkswagen associated by a pea.

And everything - numbers / letters has a gender in my opinion (but idk it's synesthesia, but it is not what i think, it is intuitive that i feel genders in everything)
 
#14 · (Edited)
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And everything - numbers / letters has a gender in my opinion (but idk it's synesthesia, but it is not what i think, it is intuitive that i feel genders in everything)
That is actually interesting, thinking about that so many languages have genered words, or something similar (we have... neutrum and something? haha, don't know really, but historically aslo feminin and masculin). Does your language have feminin and masculin nouns?

One hypothesis could be that this kind of mind-association-thing, is part of how humans all think, that some are just a bit more aware of it.


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this was interesting too: http://nautil.us/issue/26/color/what-color-is-this-song
 
#22 ·
Wow. I did the test, and i pick always the more common colours. Does this mean something? And i choose without doubting something. I just choose with feeling

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Do i have synethesis?
I interpreted that test and the results they wrote about, as that all people have this way of associating sound and colour, but to different degrees perhaps, and that synesthetes are more aware of it. There was a text I read, that made me make this poll in the first place, that I remember poorly now, but I think it said something like that the difference when making osme kind of brainscan, was that in non-synesthetes, there was some kind of supression going on that was largely lacking in synesthetes. My guess from this is that the brain largely work this way, associating different things(like colour and sound), but that it usually happen more subconsciously. This is nothing proven though, I want to stress, just speculations so far.
(I had the popular colour for the first two, but not at all the last three... don't know what that means. But then approximately half of the people seem to answer a more unusual colour for each song, so perhaps that is just within the norm still.)
 
#17 ·
I can convince myself I have the color one, but I guess that doesn't count? It's almost like a superpower.

I do have some form of misophonia, however. Gonna blame the stress for cranking my senses to 11. It might be interesting if there was a correlation between Si and forms of synesthesia, because strong Si makes you experience the world in your own way.
 
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#18 ·
I have one type of synesthesia. I cannot recall its name. It is when numbers, letters, and in some cases, months and days have their own personalities. I have always experienced this very strongly with especially numbers in particular. An example I can give is that to me, 5 and 8 used to be best friends and very close, but 9 hates 5, so 9 stole 8 from 5. 5 does not hate 9, but is a bit intimated by 9, and 9 thinks 8 was stupid for being friends with 8. That is just one of many situations I have in my mind that has been there for years. All the numbers have their own personalities, same with colours, letters of the alphabet, days of the week and months. But I experience it the strongest with numbers.

I did smell and taste words once, but it has not happened often and I am not sure what that was. Maybe not even related to synesthesia at all.
 
#20 ·
Thanks to a random clown from my childhood, I also genuinely believe that 6 is afraid of 7:

[video=dailymotion;x3gp8an]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3gp8an[/video]

But that should be common knowledge.
 
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#21 ·
Technically, everybody has synesthesia because the basic concept of language depends on combining

*the shapes of letters/words/numbers
*the sounds of letters/words/numbers
*the shapes, sounds, smells ... of any objects that words represent

But no, I don't have any of the extra types that some people hog to themselves instead of sharing with the rest of us. Very selfish of them, somebody should talk to them about that :wink:
 
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