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Why is it impossible to list all the types of synesthesia that exist?
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(Sight) Including: |
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(Taste) Including, among others: |
(Smell) The types included are
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(Personification) Personification
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(Sight) Perceived emotion-to-colour/shape |
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(Personification) Ordinal linguistic personification Personification of days or months Personification of sequences of objects |
(Spatial) Its subtypes are: |
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Wow, I've never realized just how many things I experience are a part of my synesthesia, which my therapist and I had only identified within the last few years. For the longest time I thought that everybody saw movie-like scenes overlayed with reality whenever they listened to instrumental music, or were able to taste the colors of what they saw, so you can imagine my surprise when I learned that most people don't experience that 😅
ReplyDeleteI keep having smell-taste synesthesia with other combinations for some reason. I'm not sure why. I always had a particular strong taste and smell, not just in pure strength, but with a specific type of nuance between seeing differences between similar tastes and smell. The weirdest one is personality-taste/smell, where for some reason, people who end up being good people tend to give off a perfume like scent, while more toxic people, even if not obvious at first, smell literally like garbage sometimes. Perhaps this is my unconscious gut feeling manifesting in taste/smell then?
ReplyDeleteYes, absolutely. When you have the type of synesthesia where different people you see, or meet, or know, have a consistent particular colour, taste, or smell, like in your case, it corresponds to what your intuition tells you about them, your "unconscious gut feeling manifesting" as you say. So you don't even have to think about it consciously - it just appears as soon as you see (or think about) the person. And in general I think it can often be a very good guide to what that person is really like - it seems to tap into observation skills that are better than the ones we have when we're distracted, reasoning too much or perhaps listening to what that same person or other people are saying about them :D
DeleteMy name is Stephanie Burko. I have lived in a box of pure frustration and confusion feeling like I have a clear concept of the world, but it betrays and misunderstands me at every avenue. I have had a slammer of a life that is so hot yellow all I have done is run to the next event and hope for the cool blue to swim in for a minute. I have felt the pain and energy of those around me and it has affected me in such a visceral and physiologically debilitating way I have been a recluse in solitude just to cope with the intensity. I have questions about the coping mechanisms of others like me. What do they see? How do they feel? Do you taste metal when a pan hits something in a porcelain sink? How do you sleep when someone emotionally stimulates you so hard you vomit and cannot rest because of the light show and ear ringing? I have questions and I want to have a simple conversation. Please help me
ReplyDeleteIs associating people with certain colours a type of synaesthesia? Someone I know told me they see people as specific colours (for example me as purple and themselves as orange)- but couldn't see anything here about it (although I haven't looked that hard lol). This person is neurodivergant in other ways- I'm pretty sure they're autistic, and maybe other things too (I don't actually know them that well, I'm just curious lol).
ReplyDelete(*Synesthesia, neurodivergent. sorry I spelt those wrong lol)
DeleteLol I literally just found it (https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/person-colour-synesthesia.html)
DeleteYes, that's exactly it! And both synesthetes on the autism spectrum and not on the spectrum can have it.
DeleteI was wondering if giving certain number personality’s was a form of synesthesia. For example the number nine I always felt was kinda rude and always felt like it was the best but everyone hated it, and sometimes I’m one hundred percent sure if its a boy or a girl like I’m positive three is a girl and other times it just feels like they don’t have a gender like with ten, but it’s not with every number and it’s mostly one digits but sometimes it can be bigger but not usually and most of the time I develop a personality for it if I use it or see it a lot or I just automatically know it’s personality if I see it once, and I make up scenarios of what it would be like if they talk to each other. I don’t think this is a kind of synesthesia but whenever I’m naming something I feel like it has to have the perfect name or it doesn’t fit and I have to change it again and I’ll stare at this one object for a really long time trying to figure out a good name for it and I can tell if it doesn’t fit or not I just get this annoying feeling that the name isn’t right and when I pick out the right name that feeling goes away and I always associate certain names with specific types of faces so whenever someone has a name that doesn’t match there face it makes me kind of angry and confused again this probably isn’t synesthesia and I’m probably just weird but I still wanted to ask to see.
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DeleteYes, what you say about your number personalities is synesthesia. It doesn’t matter if not every number has a personality or gender, as long as you have more than just one or two and they’re consistent and don’t change (they can develop as a person, but not change into someone different!) then that’s enough. People usually have them with single-digit numbers and not usually past that. It’s called ordinal linguistic personification:
https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/ordinal-linguistic-personification-and.html
The thing about the names and the faces, no, that isn’t a type of synesthesia. But it doesn’t mean you’re weird!
Thank you so much!
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