I'm surprised that you don't have one of my common and pervasive synesthesias listed here: I experience that when I look at any visual landscape around me, particularly of objects, whether moving or unmoving, but also of people, I experience that landscape as subtle (not always so subtle) pressure touch impressions that feel like they are just under my skin. They help me to feel oriented in my body, but can also lead to feeling overwhelmed when looking at my visual environment very much, particularly in chaotic or messy environments. In addition, I have strong concept/idea-visual synesthesia, where I experience ideas as shapes interacting on a 3 dimensional field. If I pay attention to these images, I also experience them as the same pressure sensations in my physical body. So, visual->tactile, and ideas->visual->tactile. I also have auditory to visual synesthesia, which then leaves a lighter, more subtle tactile impression as well (sound->visual landscape->tactile).
Hi! Very interesting. You're right, I don't have that type on the Tree. In fact, tactile sensations in response to concepts (seen visually or thought of) is on my list of types that very few people have and which haven't been reported enough for me to be able to make a page on them. Do you think the tactile sensations you experience are connected with series of concepts that you are seeing in any way? So for example with objects, if they were, say, planets (just an example!), would you feel each one in a different, specific part of your body or in a different, specific way? Or with the people, do you get a specific tactile sensation for each particular person? That would definitely be synesthesia if it was like that. Or do you think that the tactile sensations are produced by the specific emotion you feel as you look at the object or person (whether they're really there or if they're produced as part of the visual landscape that concepts, ideas and perhaps thought processes create for you in your mind? At the moment it'd be difficult for me to find enough information on this to create a page on it, but I'm certainly interested in knowing more about your case!
I'm surprised that you don't have one of my common and pervasive synesthesias listed here: I experience that when I look at any visual landscape around me, particularly of objects, whether moving or unmoving, but also of people, I experience that landscape as subtle (not always so subtle) pressure touch impressions that feel like they are just under my skin. They help me to feel oriented in my body, but can also lead to feeling overwhelmed when looking at my visual environment very much, particularly in chaotic or messy environments. In addition, I have strong concept/idea-visual synesthesia, where I experience ideas as shapes interacting on a 3 dimensional field. If I pay attention to these images, I also experience them as the same pressure sensations in my physical body. So, visual->tactile, and ideas->visual->tactile. I also have auditory to visual synesthesia, which then leaves a lighter, more subtle tactile impression as well (sound->visual landscape->tactile).
ReplyDeleteHi! Very interesting. You're right, I don't have that type on the Tree. In fact, tactile sensations in response to concepts (seen visually or thought of) is on my list of types that very few people have and which haven't been reported enough for me to be able to make a page on them.
DeleteDo you think the tactile sensations you experience are connected with series of concepts that you are seeing in any way? So for example with objects, if they were, say, planets (just an example!), would you feel each one in a different, specific part of your body or in a different, specific way? Or with the people, do you get a specific tactile sensation for each particular person? That would definitely be synesthesia if it was like that.
Or do you think that the tactile sensations are produced by the specific emotion you feel as you look at the object or person (whether they're really there or if they're produced as part of the visual landscape that concepts, ideas and perhaps thought processes create for you in your mind?
At the moment it'd be difficult for me to find enough information on this to create a page on it, but I'm certainly interested in knowing more about your case!