The table does not list all
the existing types of synesthesia (and it isn't a complete list of all the pages on this website), it is just a route for finding information
on this site.
Why is it impossible to list all the types of synesthesia that exist?
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Personification |
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(Sight) Including: |
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(Taste) Including, among others: |
(Smell) The types included are
described on the page on auditory-olfactory synesthesia |
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(Personification) Personification
of musical sequences |
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Smell |
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Other sensations |
(Sight) Perceived emotion-to-colour/shape |
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Sequences of concepts |
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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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Personification |
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Parity |
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
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