A Synesthetic World
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I have sound-touch synesthesia, too. (: It's usually more pleasant in songs and other... what would I call it, constant sounds or something? They feel better than voices and sudden noises. Clanging and tapping pens and the like are the worst, as they sort of feel like being hit in the head a lot, but string instruments are the best. (: They kind of feel like wind or water going over my skin in lines. It's relaxing.
I looked up on how common sound-touch is, and 0.10% of synnies have it :)
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Is it common/possible for synesthetes with less types to get chain reactions? O: I've been meaning to ask that, but didn't know if it was a silly question. I know that if a color of a song is particularly bright, I'll taste it, but I thought it might just be me imagining things. (Sorry for slightly derailing the conversation about your girlfriend's synesthesia, by the way. That's really impressive. o_______o How does something like that happen, if you don't mind me asking?)
No problem. It’s very possible to have chain reactions. She just have more reactions than the rest. For example, when you close your eyes, your senses get a bit stronger. If you smell gas from a car, your ears prick up and you can hear a truck pass by .You can start to feel the ground shaking as it passes and “feel” where it is.
It happens to me sometimes. When I’m listening to a song REALLY loud, my sound-color/color-sound create a feedback and I blank out visually and I get this static sound in my mind. Also when I cut my finger I taste grape and the taste creates a green color to me. :)
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What colors do you most often see while listening to music and which colors do you see the least?
The ones I see the most are green, red (think watermelon), pink, and yellow; and the ones I see the least are black, brown and purple. :)
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Hey, I hope you don't mind if I ask you about this - you seem pretty good at telling when something is just one's imagination. I've been wondering for a while if I have pain->sight synesthesia. I do see a large, usually white flash when experiencing pain, and the size, shape, and location is often consistent with the area in pain and the amount/type of pain, but for some reason I'm reluctant to believe I have any more types than I already know of. ^^; How would you suggest I figure this out?
Well there is such a thing as pain-color synesthesia. 5.20% of synesthetes have it. I also have it, so I know what you mean; and I think I have pain-taste too, but I’m not sure to say it’s a type yet since it’s not yet classified as a type of synesthesia but the reactions are different depending on where the source of pain is.
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Do you know if other synesthetes have trouble seeing/feeling/etc. their own voice? I can't seem to see the color of my own voice well, it's so dull and drained - almost gray. I can see the shapes it makes, though.
Well actually I’ve been thinking of doing a question about it in the near future; but from what I understand, we have trouble experiencing our own voices because we’re always listening to it. We grown accustomed to it. Has anybody else noticed this?
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I always really liked how the pulses in the 'click the squares' thing actually look like the shapes my synesthesia makes for most of those sounds. It's kind of hard to line them up on the screen in the same locations that they wind up in my mind's eye, as some show up lower (in my mind's eye, that is), but it's really a neat effect. XD Sorry for the vague wording, I've always been a little bad with terms and I feel off today.
No problem! Glad you liked it! :)
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