tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post8523365732735249585..comments2024-03-27T17:47:16.910+01:00Comments on The Synesthesia Tree: Spatial sequences of concepts (other than time units, numbers or letters)Pauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-55016465264204700362023-12-25T11:02:40.829+01:002023-12-25T11:02:40.829+01:00Very interesting, Daisy, thanks for telling us abo...Very interesting, Daisy, thanks for telling us about your case and I'm glad you've found a starting point for finding other people who perceive things like you do!Pauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-51520717634085418882023-12-25T05:00:56.961+01:002023-12-25T05:00:56.961+01:00I call it “mapping”. I’m severely combined type ad...I call it “mapping”. I’m severely combined type adhd & autistic & have a hearing issue: using imagined mental maps like this is the only way I can communicate at all. I use it for everything. It’s how I remember. It’s how I hold a thought to talk about it. It’s how I understand what others are saying. It’s how my mind shows my body how to bend, fast like lightning, in a vaguely human-shaped diagram, so I don’t get hurt when I fall. =)<br /><br />I’m ecstatic to find other people do it too. It helps to prove there are previously established human parameters for my existence, so it’s allowed to be true.Daisynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-22111404872289335272022-10-04T14:29:46.973+02:002022-10-04T14:29:46.973+02:00I believe I have sound-spatial synesthesia, if tha...I believe I have sound-spatial synesthesia, if thats an accepted name for it. I describe it looking like number/letter form but with songs, they go up and down and in various directions throughout. One of my better examples is a song from my childhood, since childhood songs tend to have the strongest associations for me, "someday" by No More Kings, it goes diagonally down to the right, until you get to the bridge, where it starts going up diagonally and then flattening out at the end. I get a very specific visual image of this whenever i listen to it however I don't see it in the space around me. I believe my timbre-color can tie into this, as instruments go different directions in my headspace when visualizing a song, saxophone and clarinet go downwards for example, This is a bit more tied to my physical space unlike songs.<br /><br />I've met others online with sound-spatial and they have their own unique experiences and I think its a really cool type! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-77279416801877289932021-12-28T13:33:37.117+01:002021-12-28T13:33:37.117+01:00That’s fantastic to know, and also to know that it...That’s fantastic to know, and also to know that it’s rekindled your interest in the syn theme. Of course I would love to see any more drawings you might like to produce!! Actually I’ll be making a new addition to this very page today as just yesterday, by chance, in Reddit someone appeared describing their spatial sequence of school subjects and it was a great post so I asked if I can include it. Hopefully this will continue and more spatial synesthetes for other sequences will appear and it’ll become clear that it’s not as rare as it originally appeared, it just wasn’t as well-known.<br />So my original perception of Flappyfluellen doesn’t exist any more, but I must say I thought she was very assertive, with a strong sense of purpose. Definitely very masculine in that. She was quite glamorous also. She would make a great fictional character. That’s great you’re a writer. Do tell me more if you want!<br />I suppose it isn’t so easy for anyone at all to keep up with all the latest research, but yes, it’s been known for some time that the women-to-men imbalance was really just a result of self-disclosure being much more likely in the case of women. That was a study led by Julia Simner and it dispelled some other myths too, as the first very large study that didn’t depend on self-referral, as it captured people attending an exhibition with no knowledge that they were going to be asked about synesthesia. Here’s the link if you were interested: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6720564_Synaesthesia_The_Prevalence_of_Atypical_Cross-Modal_Experiences<br />Thanks for restoring the lost surveys to your synesthesia blog, I shall certainly be reading that again! The colour surveys look interesting so I think I might find some material to link there!<br />Pauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-86787784969272213802021-12-28T12:17:41.813+01:002021-12-28T12:17:41.813+01:00Thinking about this more, I just remembered my old...Thinking about this more, I just remembered my old Wordpress site, where I shared more about my experiences with synesthesia, as well as the results of a few surveys I conducted in 2016 within a synesthesia mailing list. I'd privated those a couple years ago, but in case they're of interest to you (or anyone else), I just went back and put them all up again! https://starkwafie.wordpress.com/synesthesia/Finnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12032839019622171399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-66520940361427920652021-12-27T14:38:29.664+01:002021-12-27T14:38:29.664+01:00This was such a delightful comment to receive - I&...This was such a delightful comment to receive - I'm so flattered that my drawings have meant so much to you! (and that you like my other art!) Now that I think about it, I haven't really heard others discuss spatial sequences based on TV shows and the like, though admittedly I haven't been in many synesthesia-focused spaces lately. If you like, I can draw up my sequences for some other shows and movie series... I barely think about it because it's so natural for me, but I definitely get strong sequence impressions from all sorts of fictional series. Maybe it has something to do with being a writer! :)<br /><br />Don't worry about the mix-up! I think I tend to have a more "feminine" typing style? And though it's not me, I like the image of a wavy-haired lady who waves her hands around! Also, I didn't realize that the "more female than male synesthetes" was an outdated belief - how interesting!Finnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12032839019622171399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-50753993442289948002021-12-27T10:59:14.334+01:002021-12-27T10:59:14.334+01:00Flappyfluellen! I’m so pleased to meet you! To me,...Flappyfluellen! I’m so pleased to meet you! To me, you have one of the most interesting cases on the whole of my site and I remember how pleased I was to find your drawings of the Shakespeare plays and Star Trek series, they’re a perfect illustration of a type of synesthesia that people just don’t talk about but which I am starting to think is more common than it originally seemed, and I think this is helping more people to find cases similar to theirs.<br /><br />I’m so sorry about getting you mixed up, I really did think you were a girl :D I read through your blog and I was sure, otherwise I wouldn’t have put “her”. I got it wrong though, I’ll learn from that! Maybe in part it was difficult for me to believe otherwise because of your name Flappyfluellen, for me that is so feminine, I see a red-haired lady with wavy hair who kind of waves her hands around when she speaks :D, now I’ll get another image in my head for Finn. I’ve corrected the mistake on both pages it was wrong on, and I’ve credited you as Finn F. in the 4 you appear on. If it’s any consolation, I did think Star-kwafie was a man! Hadn’t made the connection that they were the same person. I’ve added the DeviantArt link to the picture that’s on there too. If you prefer “their” instead of “his” or any other change, just let me know and I’ll alter that. It’s actually a pet hate of mine when people write “she” and “her” for synesthetes by default (and also when article writers don’t bother checking or updating the old belief that there were more female synesthetes than male), so there was nothing intentional about it!<br /><br />Beautiful art on your site by the way. And that’s great if you like the Tree. Thanks!<br />Pauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-77750002531876887742021-12-27T04:00:12.228+01:002021-12-27T04:00:12.228+01:00Wow, it's so fun to see something I wrote in 2...Wow, it's so fun to see something I wrote in 2017 quoted on here! (I'm "Flappyfluellen"/"Synaptic Synnie", though I haven't really used those blogs in years.) You might be interested to know that the basic shape of my Shakespeare sequence has stayed the same for me, though some plays have shifted places.<br /><br />I noticed you have some more images of mine around the site - if you'd like to credit them to a uniform source, my DeviantArt page has some of those and a bunch more images you might be interested in checking out! https://www.deviantart.com/star-kwafie/gallery/60365646/synesthesia<br />You could also credit them to "Finn F." if you'd prefer names to old internet handles. (sounds a bit better than "Flappyfluellen" at the very least, lol)<br /><br />It's also quite funny seeing that "her" pronoun, as I'm a man! Synesthesia may be more common in women, but it certainly occurs in people of all genders...<br /><br />Super cool site! I'm excited to look around some more.Finnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12032839019622171399noreply@blogger.com