Any Fellow Synesthetes?

[JoesshittyOs]

Being a white knight is an insult because it's obnoxious.

You're obnoxious

You can't be that well qualified if you haven't heard of depersonalisation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization

Edit: I feel I should expand. You claim it sounds like derealisation, but derealisation is more to do with a persons environment and their place in it than it is to do with their own identity. Depersonalisation is just that, the foggying of their own identity, removing themselves from it and viewing it as if from another's perspective. Most people describe what they can remember as them being almost in the third person. Viewing themselves.

Not them having to ask which personality they are in the morning.

Fair enough moving on

Don't make a ridiculous comment and I won't ignore it.

Ridiculous? I'm gonna cry. You have no soul.

And you cite yours. You have absolutely no room to demand that I cite my sources when you haven't cited any of your own. How arrogant are you that you think you can make rules and then not follow them?

Well you never asked me to. That was my response to your comment, cite your source. Mainly because I couldn't find it anywhere on the wikipedia, Zenu's gift to man. I just assumed you believed everything I said.

Uhh... let me check wikipedia real quick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder.

It's all there. I think.

I didn't check.

Edit: *Xenu.

 

[Sebass]

As for how the colors appear: Drum beats appear in paint splotches, guitar chords make firework formations, piano chords tend to make water ripples etc. The colors vary, and I can't really pin them down to specific musical notes.

This was a pretty awful explanation, but I hope this helped somehow haha

Any concert you go to must be some kind of amazing audiovisual spectacle to you ?

When you say 'piano chords tend to make water ripples' do you actually see a literal rippling effect occuring in your vision emanating from the piano ? Could your vision actually become 'obstructed' with colours and ripples and twirls etc from other stimuli such as music that it makes it harder for you to 'see' ? (I don't know how to phrase this accurately .. )

is it actually cool to have synethesia? from my perspective it sounds interesting, but what about the "normal" way of thought? to someone who doesnt have it wouldnt that be cool to have? as someone who has synethesia, do you ever want to know what it would be like to not associate colors with thoughts?

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[museofdoom]

As for how the colors appear: Drum beats appear in paint splotches, guitar chords make firework formations, piano chords tend to make water ripples etc. The colors vary, and I can't really pin them down to specific musical notes.

This was a pretty awful explanation, but I hope this helped somehow haha

Any concert you go to must be some kind of amazing audiovisual spectacle to you ?

When you say 'piano chords tend to make water ripples' do you actually see a literal rippling effect occuring in your vision emanating from the piano ? Could your vision actually become 'obstructed' with colours and ripples and twirls etc from other stimuli such as music that it makes it harder for you to 'see' ? (I don't know how to phrase this accurately .. )

is it actually cool to have synethesia? from my perspective it sounds interesting, but what about the "normal" way of thought? to someone who doesnt have it wouldnt that be cool to have? as someone who has synethesia, do you ever want to know what it would be like to not associate colors with thoughts?

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Yeah, concerts are pretty spectacular sensation-wise. There's a lot of different visuals with all the instruments, the singers voice, the crowds voices, etc so it creates dynamic visuals. When I hear piano chords, it's kind of like seeing colored water rippling in the air. My vision doesn't become impaired really. It can be a bit of a distraction, but I've never been blinded or anything by it. So having synesthesia can be pretty "cool" I suppose, but I don't really know anything different haha

 

[him over there]

Sounds interesting, I often think like this. In my eyes A's are always red, B's blue, C's yellow. D is purple for some reason. I usually visualize immaterial things like sound, so I don't know if I'm a synesthetes or if I just think strangely about specific things as I've never been diagnosed.

 

[The Pinray]

Yeah, concerts are pretty spectacular sensation-wise. There's a lot of different visuals with all the instruments, the singers voice, the crowds voices, etc so it creates dynamic visuals. When I hear piano chords, it's kind of like seeing colored water rippling in the air. My vision doesn't become impaired really. It can be a bit of a distraction, but I've never been blinded or anything by it. So having synesthesia can be pretty "cool" I suppose, but I don't really know anything different haha

Seem to be different than I when it comes to concerts. Too much/loud sound tends to "overload" me, if you will. I've never walked out of a concert without a killer headache. Gotta say, I'm a tad envious.

Now, in my earlier post I mentioned the how each person has their own color. I've grown a bit curious after reading some of your answers to these guy's questions-- Is this the same with you? People having their own color? I've actually never met anyone like me before. Then again, I'm not really open about my "condition". I thought it was normal until junior high when I tried to explain who someone was with their color. Embarrassing, to say the least. Then I thought I was a freak, an oddity.

I've been really sort of set aback to "see" someone else with it. In a good way, though. My old doctor said it was more common than I thought, but I never believed him. Seems I'm wrong.

 

[Yellow Scarf]

Me, my mother and my sister are all synasthetic to various degrees. We have had very long (and quite heated) discussions as to the colour of the days of the week, numbers and letters. There is little agreement between us on any of these, though.
My synesthesia plays mostly on my sense of touch, such as the keys i'm typing with now feeling blue with an orange overglow (The blue only appears when I press the keys, just touching them without actually pressing the key only gets the orange glow).
I do get colours from sounds, but the colours often come with with shapes. Sometimes it's just the shapes, without colour. Deeper notes tend to be circular, higher notes are angular.
Perhaps the "abstract concepts" area of my brain is crossed into my senses? Anyone else get that?

Also, I present for the discussion the first piece of music that I remember firing off my synasthesing, when I was about 4. I suggest listening to it without headphones, it seems to lose something with them.
Oh yes: It's quite long, and if you are quite sound-sensitive it may completely freak you out.


Please share what various bits of this track give you. For example, the initial 11 seconds give me green overlaying blue, egg shapes, point facing away from me. And at about 1 minute, a pulsing two-tone sound appears, and that comes out to me as a seriously vivid blue (yellow highlights), 2d regtangular ovals. (I can't describe that one very well).
This one should be interesting!

 

[museofdoom]

Seem to be different than I when it comes to concerts. Too much/loud sound tends to "overload" me, if you will. I've never walked out of a concert without a killer headache. Gotta say, I'm a tad envious.

Now, in my earlier post I mentioned the how each person has their own color. I've grown a bit curious after reading some of your answers to these guy's questions-- Is this the same with you? People having their own color? I've actually never met anyone like me before. Then again, I'm not really open about my "condition". I thought it was normal until junior high when I tried to explain who someone was with their color. Embarrassing, to say the least. Then I thought I was a freak, an oddity.

I've been really sort of set aback to "see" someone else with it. In a good way, though. My old doctor said it was more common than I thought, but I never believed him. Seems I'm wrong.

People themselves don't really have colors to me, but their voices do. I also see voices with a distinct shape or pattern. So even though people don't have colors, I kind of assign the color of their voice as their color.

More people have it than you would think! I know three other people at my school that have it to varying degrees. I probably have it most intensely though. The way I see it, it's not something freakish to be ashamed about, it's just an odd quirk!

 

[Palademon]

Would you get a seziure if you played Child of Eden?
TONS OF COLOURS WITH MORE TONS OF COLOURS!

I like interesting things about people and this one is definately one of my favourites.

 

[BrotherSurplice]

I have a mental condition (although the word condition has kind of a negative connotation)called Synesthesia. So to me, every letter and number appears to be a specific color, sounds also have colors, and I find that I see people's voices as shapes as well as colors. Also, in my mind, days of the week have very specific personalities. I don't really like calling it a condition because I feel like that makes it a bad thing, when it really isn't. It doesn't affect how I function at all, I just see things in odd ways.

It's a funny thing to have because I wasn't even aware it wasn't normal until like 2nd grade when I was talking to my mom about how I remembered how to spell "create" on a spelling test because the colors of the letters reminded me of a sunset, which obviously didn't make much sense to her..

I don't really know where I was going with this little ramble, I just kind of thought it was an interesting subject. So feel free to post thoughts, or experiences

Wow, I've never heard of that before. Sounds really unusual (not in bad way you understand). How intriguing!

 

[The3rdEye]

I have a mental condition (although the word condition has kind of a negative connotation)called Synesthesia. So to me, every letter and number appears to be a specific color, sounds also have colors, and I find that I see people's voices as shapes as well as colors. Also, in my mind, days of the week have very specific personalities. I don't really like calling it a condition because I feel like that makes it a bad thing, when it really isn't. It doesn't affect how I function at all, I just see things in odd ways.

It's a funny thing to have because I wasn't even aware it wasn't normal until like 2nd grade when I was talking to my mom about how I remembered how to spell "create" on a spelling test because the colors of the letters reminded me of a sunset, which obviously didn't make much sense to her..

I don't really know where I was going with this little ramble, I just kind of thought it was an interesting subject. So feel free to post thoughts, or experiences

Apparently Ian McConville [http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2009-08-31] has synaesthesia, he's the artist responsible for Mac Hall [http://www.machall.com/] and more recently Three Panel Soul [http://threepanelsoul.com/]. I`d heard of the condition before but wasn`t aware of exactly how complex the phenomena could be. It`s not the nicest thing to say in regards to those who may be inhibited by it, but I honestly harbour a little jealousy that there is a "Life v1.1" that I don't get to experience.

No, but I do have perfect pitch and eidetic memory.

The first one, perfect pitch, means I can "recognize the pitch of any tone that I hear without a reference".

The second one, eidetic memory, means that I think and remember everything in images and sounds. That is to say, I "see" it happening in my head.

Eidetic high five ^.^ Vn

[small]I'm sure there are people who WISH I had perfect pitch.[/small]

 

[Leopard]

I too have Synesthesia. I associate numbers and letters with colours. I wasnt even aware it was unusual till a high school maths teacher mentioned the condition in passing. It doesn't really have much effect on my day to day life so I don't really think about it all that much.

 

[robot slipper]

I once had to proof-read "The Frog who Croaked Blue", which is the first time I have heard of synaesthenia, and now here's the second! The only thing I do which is remotely near is how I envisage the days of the week in my head. They kind of exist in 3D as a sort of oval, with Monday being at the left hand side of the oval, curving outwards towards Friday at the right-hand side, and then Saturday and Sunday loop round towards the back. So for example, if its Thursday the 5th and I have to work out which day of the week the 10th is, I mentally count the dates off by going around the oval in my head and arrive at the correct day. Things like that were described in the book, mainly to do with people seeing number lines in their head in 3D and in all different sizes.