Thread: Synesthesia.

I have a weak form of letter/number-colour synesthesia, but I hardly even notice it now. It was stronger when I was a kid.

I also see shapes sometimes when I listen to music. It's even helped me remember a tune a few times, but that's rare. Usually it neither helps me nor hinders me.

Yes. Yes I do.

Dreaming in black and white means you have bad recall.

No but I remember another member on this thread talking about it. Could of been "A Roxxor" I'm not entirely sure. But it sounds rather amazing and beneficial.

I don't.. sucks...

No. It does not suck that you do not have synesthesia. It can be very uncomfortable at times, or even interfere with your life.

In waking life, I occasionally have mild sound-sight and, depending on your definition, sound-touch synesthesia. If I hear a sound that is very loud, or of any one of several particular ttones, I see flashes of the sound or, depending of the sound, like a colr filter placed over my vision. Bright white light, if it's pure enough, causes a high-pitched whine, only instead of stressing my ears, it stresses my eyes in a similar way. It's weird. And if there's a particularly loud noise, or again certsain tones, I can feel it across my skin and in certain joints, although that probably doesn't count, as I likely am feeling the sound directly through touch sensory nerves rather than confusing sound for feeling.

It's not much of a problem, I have no trouble functioning as a result (except when teachers used to decide to yell at me when I had a migraine).

Edit: as for synesthesia in dreams, I've never really noticed. I don't think it's happened in any but the most surreal dreams.

Ok, it doesn't neccesserily have to be a good thing.

But the people I talked to so far were rather glad to have it. And personally I like things interfering with my life! I also don't mind seeing or feeling things, nobody else does. Not my problem

That wasn't just some dumbass comment of mine.
But sure, I wouldn't know...

Meh, I'm just touchy about people wanting to be cursed with awesome, or blessed with suck depending on your point of view. Sorry for getting bothered at you.

I do. It correspond to numbers, letters, shapes, colors of the rainbow and colors of the sky.

Umm.. I can kind of taste music and it makes me feel colours I can't describe it..

I'm extremely sensitive to smells and tastes I relate them to colours and sensations as well.

I think that might be a form of it.... but who knows.

I have a lot of it, but it's never too much.

I associate colors with days of the week, months, years, places, etc. Other things, like numbers, get to have colors, sex and personalities. (1 is white and much like a selfless leader; 4 is yellow/orange, and is like an innocent young girl, possibly a child even.)

Sound (music) and smell is what gives me the strongest reactions though. Some songs make me feel in detail like I'm in some other place and time. It's really amazing.

Also, when I'm with my eyes closed and close to falling assleep, a sudden sound breaking the silence causes a quick white flash in my vision.

I have quite a few forms of it, but most arent very strong. I have colours for days/months/letters/numbers etc. I also see sound, though quite faintly. I can hear absoloutely any movement that I see- those little animated smilies at the side are annoying me with their constant rattle

Originally Posted by marcc

Also, dreaming in black and white removes you from the synesthete list pretty much instantaneously.

Why is that?

Is red really red?

I wish I had it!

Originally Posted by Bonsay

Why is that?

There was an experiment to find out whether synesthetes dream in black and white. None of them said yes to this, and some people were shocked, really shocked, to find out about this. I, in fact, was one of those people. I mean, dreaming in black and white seems like losing part of the dream to me!

So if you see letters in colour and if I convince you that some squiggly lines are a K, then it should become coloured?

Numbers are strongly linked with colours for me, and some letters.

*raises hand*

I've got the kind where things have a location, 'spatial-sequence' (aka Number-Form? It's really got nothing to do with numbers though...). Like, music has a location, depending on the loudness and its pitch, and days of the week, and years, and months all have positions in relation to my body. I just thought it was a weird quirk I'd made up until I learned that it's pretty typical for people to come up with the exact same arrangements or not to come up with them at all Very strange.

Originally Posted by Shift

*raises hand*

I've got the kind where things have a location, 'spatial-sequence' (aka Number-Form? It's really got nothing to do with numbers though...). Like, music has a location, depending on the loudness and its pitch, and days of the week, and years, and months all have positions in relation to my body. I just thought it was a weird quirk I'd made up until I learned that it's pretty typical for people to come up with the exact same arrangements or not to come up with them at all Very strange.

Makes for a great science fair project
I think I'm one of the few (elitists ftw ) people at my school doing anything related to psychology.

Originally Posted by marcc

Makes for a great science fair project
I think I'm one of the few (elitists ftw ) people at my school doing anything related to psychology.

Lmao science fair projects, I wish my life were that easy