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[zebravenom.livejournal.com]

I have a question...type thing.
Do any of you have mixed up senses? If you don't know what I mean, you probably don't but a brief explaination anyway:
Sound has colour,taste,texture -literally.
Texrtures have their own smell, while smells have their own 'sensations' and shapes have emotion, letters have colours in your mind and stringing them into words is like mixing paint on a pallette...things like that. There's MUCH more but...eh.
It has always been like this for me (and the others what with us being not-quite-seperate) but nobody seem(ed) to have a clue what I was on a bout and I was told to 'stop being silly' or that I'd be a poet when I grew up...so I guessed that the word 'emotion' wasn't pastel mint green with the texture of a painted wall for other people, who also didn't get orange and yellow headaches, and sky-blue goosebumps*sigh*.
I don't know if this is because of the multiple thang( although I doubt that),because we really are crazy ;), or for some other reason (it's just there, like the multiplicity, or as a result of our traumatic birth...).
Perhaps our brain is just crosswired. Or maybe our senses are 'leaking' like our emotions and thoughts have a few times.
I dunno...I'm just curious.


~Coma

Comments

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

I think you have what might be termed 'synesthesia'...

you might try looking up that term on like google.com or something.

*shrug*

Or I could be talking out my ass.

C.

[arhuaine.livejournal.com]

Nope, I think you're right on the mark there. :)

synaesthesia

[arhuaine.livejournal.com]

Yes we do. It's called "Synaesthesia", or "Synesthesia" if you're American. We have it, and we run a LJ community for it synaesthesis. We have sound-colour synaesthesia; we "see" colour (and sometimes also texture & pattern) in response to spoken words and music. Pain is red to me, as is the word "ow!" I'm sure that's related. We also get impressions of colour off people, not necessarily related to the sound of their voice or the way their name sounds - maybe it's a reaction to their emotions. There are odd other little things too, like places having gender and personality. Not everyone in our system seems to be sensitive to the synaesthesia but those of us who are will get the same colour-combinations.

Re: synaesthesia

[cirape.livejournal.com]

Huh...that's interesting...weird--but, mind you, not in a bad way--I dun think any of us really have experaince in things like that (but then, to me atleast, everything [feeling, thought, sensations, senses. everything] tends to be a more abstract concept than others put it as--which makes finding words for some things hard ^^;), but it actaully sounds reasonable...
I dunno. I wouldn't mind hearing more about it. For one, I'm curious as if its considered a "mental illness" tho I have no bloody idea /why/ it would be (aside from it being "not normal").

--Diz-chan

Re: synaesthesia

[arhuaine.livejournal.com]

It's not considered a mental illness, more like a quirky curiosity. :)

Re: synaesthesia

[neitherday.livejournal.com]

We have it, too. I didn't know there was a community on LiveJournal dedicated to it. Thanks for pointing it out.

[zebravenom.livejournal.com]

Oooh, funkay. It has a name!

Thankyou!


Coma, feeling less freakish, more Quirky ;)