I have synesthesia! Do you?

[JaanaRuutu]

It means my senses are all wonky. I recently found this out. It's kind of fun.

Does anyone else here have this?

 

[kappy]

I'm just wonky in general

 

[HappyHapyJoyJoy]

I've often thought that synesthesia seemed like a kinda cool condition, but sadly I have Asperger's instead which... not so cool.

 

[Roald]

Some people get all the fun....

 

[Harley Spencer]

Sounds like a trip.

 

[Automate]

I don't, but that is a very familiar concept and interesting as a random curiosity. Which senses exactly? There are five senses so there are 10 possible different combinations of two senses to be linked. Is it one of the common or more rare combinations?

Chromesthesia would probably be great. Listening to e.g. Tool or Meshuggah would be a couple of orders of magnitude more awesome than it already is, though the best combination might be touch combined with vision or hearing. Yeah, I'm thinking what that would be like during sex, of course. Or maybe it would be the worst, if the sex is bad and the synaesthesia makes it... yeah.

 

[288gto]

hey there jaana

i don't know exactly what i got

 

[Mayhem]

You mean your wonkiness doesn't come naturally? Hmmm :doa82: We may have to re-evaluate oor relationship.

 

[Chopper3000]

I have a severe case of 'marsh gas' after last nights ruby if it helps.

 

[JaanaRuutu]

I don't, but that is a very familiar concept and interesting as a random curiosity. Which senses exactly? There are five senses so there are 10 possible different combinations of two senses to be linked. Is it one of the common or more rare combinations?

Chromesthesia would probably be great. Listening to e.g. Tool or Meshuggah would be a couple of orders of magnitude more awesome than it already is, though the best combination might be touch combined with vision or hearing. Yeah, I'm thinking what that would be like during sex, of course. Or maybe it would be the worst, if the sex is bad and the synaesthesia makes it... yeah.

Mine is all about colours. Eveyrthing has one - numbers, letters, days, names, months weeks, music. I see the days of the week and the months of the year a very specific way. Every decade has a colour, too.

 

[L3ggy]

I've often thought that synesthesia seemed like a kinda cool condition, but sadly I have Asperger's instead which... not so cool.

I hear you.

 

[lurkingdirk]

I do actually have this. I also have perfect pitch, so I have specific colours for specific notes, but I also have colours for general tones. For example, people's voices get assigned a colour because of their timbre.

One of the most influential composers that had synesthesia (that we know of) was Paul Hindemith. If you go back and look at his personal scores, he actually composed with coloured pencils, and often described compositions as organised by the waves of colours that they brought.

Pretty cool stuff.

 

[SiriPornStar]

My ex-girlfriend in college was a violinist and a synesthetic. I thought it was SO COOL and would always ask her questions about it.
She had primarily color-pitch connections, I guess because she was a musician. She would write sheet music that was unlike anything I'd ever seen - instead of standard musical notation she had different COLORS she marked on the staff for each note. Like, literally, very VERY specific colors for each note. A might be red, B sharp might be turquoise, C might be yellow, C flat might be light yellow. It was so detailed and the craziest part was it was ALL IN HER HEAD and she never forgot which color corresponded to which note.

So. Cool. I'm so interested in this phenomenon of synesthesia and honestly I wish I had it. I truly think it's a mark of a highly creative (perhaps even genius) individual.

 

[JaanaRuutu]

Wow, guys. The response to this is really great. I'm excited that a lot of you actually know about the topic-

 

[too fast]

I admit I knew nothing of synesthesia before this but from what I can tell I'm too shy to have it.