Have you heard of it? Do you know what it is?
This can come in many, many different forms. In essence, this means that when you see a colour, you hear a sound. When you hear a sound, it triggers a particular smell, or even when seeing particular letters/words/numbers getting a feeling of a particularly rough or smooth surface pressed against an area of your body. The most common forms appear to be smell/taste crossover - which makes sense when you think of the olfactory senses and where they are processed.
I am convinced that I am a synesthete, and my GP at the time concurred. The problem is, the type of synaesthesia I encounter is heavily colour-oriented. This is a problem due to my colourblindness and a lack of a test capable of fully diagnosing my condition without being reliant on true colour perception. As I delve more and more into the area of study I find more and more how very different my world is to everyone else's. It is little wonder that I struggle for clarity when I am using colour-coding in excel or similar with my more normally-sighted colleagues
Colourblindness is another thing that is largely misunderstood. Most people I have discussed synaesthesia with haven't even heard of it but most are aware of colourblindness even if they are ignorant of the true meaning of it. The response tends to be 'Oh, you're colourblind? What colour is this then?' *holds up random object*
More militant or irritable colourblind people have been known to follow that question up with another question, along the lines of 'if I were in a wheelchair would you ask me to stand?' I don't go in for that sort of histrionics but it is a sort of a disability in that it's something that I and others can't do that most people can.
Anyway, the true purpose of this thread is to bring to light the existence of synaesthesia, and to see if there are any people here that are or know others that might be sufferers. There's a lot of information on the synaesthesia battery site, and there is also a test.
I encounter a few of the synesthete symptoms, but most common is the impression of a colour when I hear particular sounds. It's often a heavy impression that intrudes on my mind, but sometimes something that is just a background idea.
Please take the test and report back
This can come in many, many different forms. In essence, this means that when you see a colour, you hear a sound. When you hear a sound, it triggers a particular smell, or even when seeing particular letters/words/numbers getting a feeling of a particularly rough or smooth surface pressed against an area of your body. The most common forms appear to be smell/taste crossover - which makes sense when you think of the olfactory senses and where they are processed.
I am convinced that I am a synesthete, and my GP at the time concurred. The problem is, the type of synaesthesia I encounter is heavily colour-oriented. This is a problem due to my colourblindness and a lack of a test capable of fully diagnosing my condition without being reliant on true colour perception. As I delve more and more into the area of study I find more and more how very different my world is to everyone else's. It is little wonder that I struggle for clarity when I am using colour-coding in excel or similar with my more normally-sighted colleagues
Colourblindness is another thing that is largely misunderstood. Most people I have discussed synaesthesia with haven't even heard of it but most are aware of colourblindness even if they are ignorant of the true meaning of it. The response tends to be 'Oh, you're colourblind? What colour is this then?' *holds up random object*
More militant or irritable colourblind people have been known to follow that question up with another question, along the lines of 'if I were in a wheelchair would you ask me to stand?' I don't go in for that sort of histrionics but it is a sort of a disability in that it's something that I and others can't do that most people can.
Anyway, the true purpose of this thread is to bring to light the existence of synaesthesia, and to see if there are any people here that are or know others that might be sufferers. There's a lot of information on the synaesthesia battery site, and there is also a test.
I encounter a few of the synesthete symptoms, but most common is the impression of a colour when I hear particular sounds. It's often a heavy impression that intrudes on my mind, but sometimes something that is just a background idea.
Please take the test and report back
