Synesthesia

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Eric Borsheim
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Synesthesia is a phenomenon in which the senses cross over resulting in such phenomena as hearing colours
I have concept-colour synesthesia, visual texture-colour synesthesia, and historical event-colour synesthesia
Do other kiwis have synesthesia
 
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If I watch a monochrome video with sound then technically yes. does this answer your question?
 
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I have sound-->color synesthesia.

Edit to actually add to the discussion: when did you realize that you actually had synesthesia, and how you perceived things wasn't "normal"? (For me, it was when I was in my psychology class in my senior year of high school, when we discussed it briefly. I read about it in the textbook and was super confused, because I thought everybody "saw" sound, like I did.)
 
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I think it'd be cool to have a form of sound synaesthesia. I really like music, particularly videogame music because of the patterns.


Actually, it'd also be pretty cool to have people with synaesthesia try to describe it in depth.
 
I'm not entirely sure, but I might have Word-to-Taste synthesia. Certain words give me distinct tastes in my mouth every now and then. For instance, "opinion" tastes metallic, and "Christine" tastes like my mother's peanut butter and chocolate rice crispies. It could be just strong word association, though.
 
This is major news for me. I thought it was normal to be able to taste sounds. I guess that's why people laugh at me whenever I try to determine a song's flavor.
 
I have what I'd call a form of pseudo-synaesthesia: I don't experience crossed senses, but I have strong, involuntary, consistent associations between different sensory modes.

Examples:
I have associations between musical key and colours (there's a clear relation to the circle of 5ths there, with, generally speaking, flat keys becoming darker and adding more blue, purple and black, and sharp keys becoming more complex colour mixes), and in one case, temperature.
I have associations between letters and colours.
I have associations between days of the weeks and colours (I got an appointment confused once because Monday is a very similar colour to Wednesday) , and between days of the week and musical keys.

These associations are so strong that, for example, if I'm playing a piece of music in E flat major, I forget that the sheet music doesn't literally have a darkish blue cast to it, and that the notes affected by the key signature are not highlighted in blue. (And I have to remember not to say things to my students like "of course it's in G major; can't you see the light sky blue?".)
 
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