Synaesthesia

rashid11 · December 26, 2009, 4:56am

i read about this a while back…it was very interesting…somewhat cool XD

Arilou · November 20, 2011, 1:00am

yep im in a really old topic but I associate numbers with feelings. For example, 3 feels dark, mad maniacal to me, kinda like the Joker in batman. It will do anything to get bigger and tricks other numbers. 7 is not very bright, slow to understand and not smart. 5 is like a superhero… saving all the other numbers.

MagykKatte · November 20, 2011, 5:13pm

I sort of have this, but not quite to that extent. For example, when I think of numbers in my head, and visualize them, I see colors with them, but not necesarily for words. I picture feelings with colors, and senses with colors. And sometimes, I feel something that I can’t quite describe other than with a mental picture of something.

Lucidin · November 21, 2011, 11:47pm

Ehhh…reading your post I kind of think everyone has that. I mean I experience that everyday and I never feel any different from everyone else I know because of it. I think I’m going to ask my friends about it, since Im pretty sure all of them are like that too.

avalinah · November 22, 2011, 10:36am

no, definitely not everyone has it. i’ve told people and have got reactions like o_o woah that’s interesting… a lot of people do have it, yes. but definitely not everyone.

snowden_rainforest · November 27, 2011, 3:19pm

Bruno:

Hey, guys!

I’m still not lucid in my dreams (and to be honest with you, I started remembering them on an almost daily basis a month or so ago) but I think this was worth sharing.

I’m a synaesthete, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaesthesia, and in my dreams, I reach even higher levels of synaesthesia.

But first I have to explain how it feels like in waking life. Synaesthesia is not about feeling more than other people. When I see my best friend, Nana, I don’t see her green, or visualize green while seeing her, I just know she’s somehow green. When it comes to looking at myself in the mirror, that colour thing gets even funnier as I know myself in a grayscale tone of yellow. I have my skin colour, I see it as you see it, but I look at me and I know myself not only yellow, but greyscale yellow. Go figure.

Also, reading a book’s chapter some days ago, I knew it smell just like whisky, even though I didn’t feel or remind the smell of whisky.

I don’t think know is the most appropriate verb to describe the feel, but I think it helps you get what synaesthesia is not.

So, on to the dream part: when I’m dreaming, I don’t just knoe, I feel. I look at my dreamsky and I feel something silken touching me. I look at Nana and she’s not green, but there IS green, not only knowingness of green, but the colour, manifesting aitself all around.

So I would like to ask how does this synaesthesia thing work with you guys (even if you’re not waking life synesthetes).

I think synaesthesia = visualizing
I feel others with visualizing and by looking to the lower region of the eyes or upper region to the eyes i. Its an equal effect its
I perform rcs and milds throughout the day and use my third eye to dream.

Wyvern · November 27, 2011, 5:25pm

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snowden rainforest"]
I think synaesthesia = visualizing
I feel others with visualizing and by looking to the lower region of the eyes or upper region to the eyes i. Its an equal effect its
I perform rcs and milds throughout the day and use my third eye to dream.
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Synesthesia =/= visualizing.
That would suggest that the associations were chosen. It’s more like another layer or quality that things just have. A very strong impression. You see it, on a level, you know it, but it’s not consciously visualized. It just IS.

snowden_rainforest · November 27, 2011, 9:36pm

its psycholgical. i feel the air
i am synesthic

Wyvern · November 28, 2011, 6:49pm

Have fun with that.

Lucidin · December 1, 2011, 1:28am

Yeah, asked my friends about it and most of them had no idea what I was talking about. There aren’t any bad health effects of this right? Kinda freaked out now

Wyvern · December 2, 2011, 2:53am

Not at all. It’s just a different way of perceiving the world.

Lucidin · December 2, 2011, 3:15am

Ok good lol,I was worried I had some mental problem or something now.

_Laurelindo · December 4, 2011, 12:25pm

I believe that we all have some sort of synaesthesia.
Just think about our tendency to associate certain types of shapes with certain sounds, for example:
if you had a very rounded figure and a very sharp “spiky” figure, then which of these would you name “Kiki” and “Buba”?
Tests have shown that as much as 98% choose to name the soft-looking figure “Buba” and the spiky figure “Kiki”.
This is an example of describing figures and shapes with sounds.

Obviously this isn’t quite the same as real synaesthesia, but it’s definitely something similar.