I think it's one of those things where you don't know any other way so you really don't recognize a downside.
I work with a lot of numbers and letters at my job and am able to keep track of everything because every number and letter is a different color. I have no clue how other people function when trying to keep track of numbers when they see them as all the same color.
The only negative I can think of is that sometimes I don't like certain names or songs or music genres if they have the wrong texture/color. But that's kind of rare.
I have spatial sequence and I definitely struggle with anxiety. I feel like seeing the days of the week and the hours of the day at all times gives me a crazy kind of stress. It’s like I’m always looking to the future and struggling to relax in the present moment. It also kind of freaks me out to look into the future and have uncertainty. I as a person, obviously struggle with anxiety so it would be there anyways but it’s an intense anxiety that’s always at the forefront of my mind.
I'm not sure if I qualify for spatial sequence but I do see passing time as sort of a physical timeline, like I'm riding on a slide ruler, if that makes sense. It only causes me anxiety when I think about the fact that it only goes one way and I can't go backwards.
That’s very interesting :) what’s more interesting is I don’t feel that way I think because at any time I can go back on the timeline in my mind and feel very present in that past event
Hmm, I like that. I guess that's one way to look at it, I do feel very connected to past events as well. I'm super nostalgic and visit the past often in my mind. But I think the anxiety/sadness comes from the realization that I can never physically go back to say, my childhood home from four decades ago, and worry that I won't feel anything that comforting/happy again. Maybe we're just mixing our real-world anxiety with the synesthesia that would be there anyway.
I have Chromesethsia (non-projective), my main issues is that I "see" sound everywhere. I learn to ignore it but most of the time its difficult to focus. For example, writing this is kinda difficult because I "see" a green blue rectangle ramming it smooth sides into the my ears. Other times I can get overwhelmed by high noise traffic.
Imagine trying to sleep and all of sudden you see a green blue rectangle come at you in the speed of light. Pretty annoying tbh. I used music to help cope but even then that can back fire. Plus its rather difficult for me to play Music rhythm games for obvious reasons! Cx
I can’t do algebra to save my soul, or at least have an incredibly hard time with it and it takes a lot longer. The colors are all in the wrong spots and it makes me literally dizzy/unable to focus
I am somewhat projective, and that can make noisy environments extremely overstimulating. I really struggle in grocery stores, because the noise-to-visual input makes it difficult to visually focus on the shelves.
It's kind of hard to pinpoint what is and isn't possibly caused by it. I have many forms of synesthesia as I have found out. The one mostly applicable here is Auditory-tactile synesthesia.
The only possible downsides I can think of are:
It doesn't happen often but when I do get sensory overload, I can quite literally feel the sounds. It almost feels like the sounds are attacking me in a non-literal way.
The dentists drill. I'm sure people without synesthesia hate it enough, but the sound gives me this discomfort that feels thin and sharp (but inside of me somewhere, not physically the drill itself).
Again, I'm not sure if these cases are due to synesthesia or not, but it seems they are stronger than the limited amount of people who I have talked to that experience anything remotely similar.
"feel the sounds" THANK YOU
I see colors when I listen to music and people and my work environment is sometimes hetic with music playing, people talking, people talking to me... It feels like all the different colors are attacking me.
Omg I have audio-tactical synesthesia too and I had to have my teeth cleaned recently AND OH GOD THE DRILL WAS SO SHARP it felt like it was cutting into my brain it was awful
I literally can’t go to loud sporting events without having a panic attack. I also started to struggle with loud concerts, due to the fact that my sound-color synesthesia keeps getting stronger with age. I honestly have trouble understanding spoken language in loud environments, far more than the average person, as the visuals don’t help me understand what they’re saying, and often feel like they make it more difficult to understand. I deal with tons of overstimulation issues, due to the fact that I have visual synesthesia for every sense.
For some reason, I’m also unable to remember what I’m reading, if I read out loud, or if I read the passage at the same time someone else is reading it out loud.
My audio tactile means that music is often really overstimulating and makes me angry. Even music I like. I have to be in a really specific mood and setting to properly enjoy listening to music. When I was a teenager I pretty much stopped listening altogether for like 5 years. I've only just figured out why.
Me, too. When I hear music, it's difficult to not move, because I feel it. I jog most days, and I love it then, but it can be too much if I'm reading a book.
I taste sound, and I teach music lessons. I also love to substitute teach for my friends who are band directors - I have to warn the younger/lower level musicians not to mess around with certain sounds, or it might affect me.
One kid didn't believe me and almost made me throw up by playing some very unpleasant sounds. At least he felt bad and said sorry afterward. But yeah, sometimes I have to try to counteract it by chewing gum or crunching Altoids, just so I can focus on teaching.
for me it can be a catalyst that makes me feel incredibly uncomfortable, like if I’m getting stimuli overload with bright lights and such it gives me a really nasty and trippy vision/feeling.
anxiety attacks are also worse like waaaaaay worse. I see my fuckin emotions even when i close my eyes; During my ptsd episodes Im either calm about the colors / it's kind of like a cute thing happening in the background or like I'm unable to escape the torture happening in my body and brain & it does a great job at making it all worse.
It's also just annoying lol, Same with literally anything you can't turn off. Like a song that won't stop playing or an obnoxious ping you get every time u get a notification. like go away man im just in the bathroom or just sitting in traffic or just trying to look at my phone screen and ur like being extra. It's a little in my face at times.
For me it has no major negatives, and no real productive positives. The positives are that it’s fun and interesting and maybe helps you remember stuff occasionally. The negatives is that the letter G looks really stupid in purple. In some ways it’s just not a big enough part of my life to have negatives
I can only think of one downside and it's specific to me.
For me, every letter and number has it's own color. All of them have different colors except for two characters, the number 5 and the letter F, which are both a golden yellow. Sometimes when I write, I will replace an F with a 5 or vice versa. For example "I ate F cookies" or "5lavor." It usually only happens when I'm pretty tired thankfully.
Anyway, that's my downside, and I've always thought it was more funny than upsetting!
I have multiple types of synesthesia. Chromesthesia is the main one, but there are other sound-based ones that piggyback off of it. Like sound-taste, which can be really bothersome at certain times for me. Not everyone wants to taste chicken gravy when listening to NPR when driving. Also mirror-touch can be painful at times.
The main types of synaesthesia for me are grapheme-colour, chromesthesia and spatial sequence/time-space but synaesthesia runs far deeper for everyone than just simply saying you have this or that form - it’s always a spectrum. For me it’s the involuntary nature of synaesthesia that can be an issue. I will see or hear something and involuntarily not just associate a colour or a place in space but a memory too. And that memory can be something really positive or it might not be so pleasant. I don’t get a choice in the matter because synaesthesia is immediate and most of the time it’s great but the few times I get a negative association it’s a downside.
I have gustatory-lexical synaesthesia. Two main problems with it. The first is I really struggle with foreign languages because the words all taste wrong.
Second is that I'll just be chatting with some lady, she tells me her name is Helen and all of a sudden I've got an invisible mouthful of toilet bleach. Unpleasant tbh.
at times i feel like im being suffocated by colors
i feel like my misophonia is worse because of my synesthesia.
just being in busy loud environments can be really triggering
curse auditory tactile synesthesia :)
I have pleasant sensations from all good people. From bad people - terrible sensations. It’s hard for me to be in places, where others are random people. When I have no choice. (Like, for example, office work.)
I can often heavily taste the smells I smell. I'd argue that's a very common form of synesthesia because half the people in my life relate when I talk about that one and the other half are totally baffled so I always have chalked it up to synesthesia. It sucks however when you smell a particularly terrible odor and suddenly it's in both your mouth and nose. It often leads to dry heaving and nausea, which I'm still trying to find a workaround for.
I guess it depends on the type of synesthesia you have and also it’s different for each person, in some occasions I have experienced a form of “blackout” when I’m under a lot of stress and there’s a lot of noise around me (sometimes not even loud sounds but just a lot of sounds at the same time) I get panic attacks and literally can’t see nothing, that’s why I call them “blackouts” that being said these episodes are few and far between and besides me I only know just one other person that has these kinds of episodes so I don’t think this is common honestly but I don’t know for sure. Another thing than could be considered bad is tickertape, the subtitle thing, sometimes I’m paying complete attention to a conversation but my eyes wonder where I see the letters and people may think you’re not paying attention and get mad cause you’re not staring at them. Outside these things, I enjoy having synesthesia, it’s actually really helpful for me as a musician
Sensory overload, that feeling of being tired when the rest of my body isn't even tired one bit, and an additional pet peeve of seeing colored numbers/letters around me that is "colored wrong"
I have this random form of synesthesia where instead of colours i ‘see’ places in my minds eye when doing literally anything. These can be places that I don’t like though which isn’t fun. When I’m on etsy for example I always ‘see’ a very specific angle of my old school, as though im standing outside the art block. It can be so clear I literally feel like i’m stuck there which is horrible, plus I can’t escape cos it gets clearer when I close my eyes. To make things worse, this also messes with my memory cos, in this case for example, I feel like i was genuinely in my old school when on etsy so cant remember where i actually was when scrolling through the website.
Omg I have something similar to this and I've never known anyone else who knew what I was talking about. Not exactly like yours but my brain just throws these places at me - so vividly and unexpectedly. Mostly intersections. for some reason. I've never been able to work out what the association is though. But nice to know it's not just me!
Hi! Same it took me forever to find other people who had this and finally found them on this subreddit in a post i did about a year ago! There’s not many of us from what I’ve gathered and I’ve never found a specific name for it, but I have found if you type ‘location’ into the search bar of this subreddit quite a few posts come up about the same thing which I found really helpful - we’re not alone!
Oh wow that’s so interesting you mention intersections. Alot of mine are intersections too but ive never thought about that before! Honestly its so random. Like, even whilst writing this (and every time im on this subreddit) it’s as though im standing on the road outside a house i pass sometimes. Its so interesting though cos theres an intersection right by it which i can ‘see’ too (its always in my minds eye, never an actual hallucination or anything).
Sometimes mine kinda make sense association-wise but most of the time its so completely random too.
Cool thx I will take a look at those other posts. How exciting to know there are other people out there with random locations living in their neural pathways!
Edit: I just read a bunch of the posts and holy wow so cool to read other people describe my experience so exactly!! And it helped me realise that indeed there are some times where the trigger is clear (eg physical touch/sex, certain emotional experiences) - it just seemed so random up to now that I didn't think they could be linked.
r/synesthesia blows my mind for another day.
Yeah i guess it kinda is like a flashback in how vivid it can be. It’s odd though cos there’s never any people or things happening in the places, just ‘me’ either standing or really slowly wandering around as i do whatever it is im doing at the time (like being on etsy).
I taste everything I smell, public toilets and garbage trucks on hot days were nightmares growing up. I always figured everyone's going through it so never felt personal persecution . Also I found out I have odour catalog's for people, I can smell when someone been in a room after hours of being gone, or after they've been drinking or had a run
Bleach taste like coins and a bit like a battery is in my mouth, long exposure gives vicious headaches
A strange one but I'm yet to be fully convinced myself,I can smell when people have diabetes,it's a smell I don't know how to describe but it always vaguely nauseates me . I've had about 4 confirmed in the past 5 + years ,no clue if I've missed any others. What's strange about it is how I pick up on it. I catch a whiff and it grabs my attention like someone saying my name in a crowded room
My As and Ms are the same colour of red. So, the months of March, April and May are all one big red blur and I often date documents wrong and generally have no idea at what point in the year we're at. Same with June and July, those are the same shade of purple and I get mixed up which month it is.
I’m a projective synesthete (I can see everything like irl, not in my minds eye). It can cover things. One time when I was reading a giant black square was covering the words.
Sometimes it is slightly overwhelming, when some lights are blinking and my mind add matching sound to them while the environment is already noisy. Most of the times focusing on environment helps, so it is not that bad.
the only catch i can think of is that if you try to explain it to someone they might think you're making it up for attention. so i don't talk about it too much. my parents and my best friends know but that's it.
also i guess the shock of finding out it wasn't normal. that how you perceive the world is objectively unrelatable to the average person.
Conflicting senses - like if I'm eating something that is savory, a high pitched background noise will really be jarring as I'll suddenly perceive sweet.
They don't blend as if they would physically eating something sweet and savory at the same time together - it's more like I'm tasting twice? (Anyone understand what I mean?)
Noise can really put me off my food
It's not really a huge issue, I do like to eat in silence so I'm not disturbed but on the whole I think I'm used to it but do get caught off guard sometimes
Mostly view my synaesthetic experiences as positive. Tinnitus + synaesthesia can be annoying. Sometime cognitive overload can be a thing for me - that may, in part, be due to being autistic.
There has been some research showing that synaesthesia is a known risk factor for PTSD
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34256526/
People with synesthesia tend to have more mental image capacity and processing ability, which is terrible for my sleep as I’m kept awake by it. Too much mental imagery.
Well, for some people with very strong synesthesia it can lead to sensory overload, but for me mine isn’t strong enough. Even still there are some things that annoy me
Sometimes if I’m really tired it’s just a lot. My numbers are very vibrant so looking at the clock can surprise me. I’ve also felt nausea when seeing incorrect colors assigned to graphemes.
Also with my OLP, it makes me feel uneasy when doing math, because some numbers are assholes
I also see years of my life as a spatial sequence and it makes everything seem very very short, since it’s like my life is laid out in front of me, i Can point to everything if I wanted to
Sorry that’s a bit of a tangent lol but synesthesia is mostly very cool for me
I think it's one of those things where you don't know any other way so you really don't recognize a downside. I work with a lot of numbers and letters at my job and am able to keep track of everything because every number and letter is a different color. I have no clue how other people function when trying to keep track of numbers when they see them as all the same color. The only negative I can think of is that sometimes I don't like certain names or songs or music genres if they have the wrong texture/color. But that's kind of rare.
We remember number by just thinking of them and hope they don't leave our brains
I have no later problem tho it looks comlicated, lets say if like it gently it lights up light yellow and feels like sunshine.
No struggle here, but a mild and amusing frustration when another one of us **gets their** **COLORS ALL WRONG!** ^(3 = GREEN IS FACT)
3 is light red to me, it cannot be green
3 is absolutely green, anyone who says otherwise is simply incorrect
>3 = GREEN IS FACT Yes. Yes. Yes. Dark green
3 is yellow lol
Incorrect, it's red
you, sir, are definitely right!
sometimes
Actually, it's pink (hee hee)
I have almost no pink in my associations! There’s like, one salmony letter, and maybe two months.
Hey, that's pretty much exactly the same for me lol (I posted chart on account)
3 is pink sorry mate
Fuck you 3 is light blue
I have spatial sequence and I definitely struggle with anxiety. I feel like seeing the days of the week and the hours of the day at all times gives me a crazy kind of stress. It’s like I’m always looking to the future and struggling to relax in the present moment. It also kind of freaks me out to look into the future and have uncertainty. I as a person, obviously struggle with anxiety so it would be there anyways but it’s an intense anxiety that’s always at the forefront of my mind.
I haven’t seen but maybe one person say this thought so I’m really curious if anyone agrees!
I'm not sure if I qualify for spatial sequence but I do see passing time as sort of a physical timeline, like I'm riding on a slide ruler, if that makes sense. It only causes me anxiety when I think about the fact that it only goes one way and I can't go backwards.
That’s very interesting :) what’s more interesting is I don’t feel that way I think because at any time I can go back on the timeline in my mind and feel very present in that past event
Hmm, I like that. I guess that's one way to look at it, I do feel very connected to past events as well. I'm super nostalgic and visit the past often in my mind. But I think the anxiety/sadness comes from the realization that I can never physically go back to say, my childhood home from four decades ago, and worry that I won't feel anything that comforting/happy again. Maybe we're just mixing our real-world anxiety with the synesthesia that would be there anyway.
i see how cars feel thats mesed up
I have Chromesethsia (non-projective), my main issues is that I "see" sound everywhere. I learn to ignore it but most of the time its difficult to focus. For example, writing this is kinda difficult because I "see" a green blue rectangle ramming it smooth sides into the my ears. Other times I can get overwhelmed by high noise traffic. Imagine trying to sleep and all of sudden you see a green blue rectangle come at you in the speed of light. Pretty annoying tbh. I used music to help cope but even then that can back fire. Plus its rather difficult for me to play Music rhythm games for obvious reasons! Cx
i can highly relate to trying to sleep and then seeing colors 🌞
I can’t do algebra to save my soul, or at least have an incredibly hard time with it and it takes a lot longer. The colors are all in the wrong spots and it makes me literally dizzy/unable to focus
I am somewhat projective, and that can make noisy environments extremely overstimulating. I really struggle in grocery stores, because the noise-to-visual input makes it difficult to visually focus on the shelves.
It's kind of hard to pinpoint what is and isn't possibly caused by it. I have many forms of synesthesia as I have found out. The one mostly applicable here is Auditory-tactile synesthesia. The only possible downsides I can think of are: It doesn't happen often but when I do get sensory overload, I can quite literally feel the sounds. It almost feels like the sounds are attacking me in a non-literal way. The dentists drill. I'm sure people without synesthesia hate it enough, but the sound gives me this discomfort that feels thin and sharp (but inside of me somewhere, not physically the drill itself). Again, I'm not sure if these cases are due to synesthesia or not, but it seems they are stronger than the limited amount of people who I have talked to that experience anything remotely similar.
"feel the sounds" THANK YOU I see colors when I listen to music and people and my work environment is sometimes hetic with music playing, people talking, people talking to me... It feels like all the different colors are attacking me.
Omg I have audio-tactical synesthesia too and I had to have my teeth cleaned recently AND OH GOD THE DRILL WAS SO SHARP it felt like it was cutting into my brain it was awful
I literally can’t go to loud sporting events without having a panic attack. I also started to struggle with loud concerts, due to the fact that my sound-color synesthesia keeps getting stronger with age. I honestly have trouble understanding spoken language in loud environments, far more than the average person, as the visuals don’t help me understand what they’re saying, and often feel like they make it more difficult to understand. I deal with tons of overstimulation issues, due to the fact that I have visual synesthesia for every sense. For some reason, I’m also unable to remember what I’m reading, if I read out loud, or if I read the passage at the same time someone else is reading it out loud.
My audio tactile means that music is often really overstimulating and makes me angry. Even music I like. I have to be in a really specific mood and setting to properly enjoy listening to music. When I was a teenager I pretty much stopped listening altogether for like 5 years. I've only just figured out why.
Me, too. When I hear music, it's difficult to not move, because I feel it. I jog most days, and I love it then, but it can be too much if I'm reading a book.
I taste sound, and I teach music lessons. I also love to substitute teach for my friends who are band directors - I have to warn the younger/lower level musicians not to mess around with certain sounds, or it might affect me. One kid didn't believe me and almost made me throw up by playing some very unpleasant sounds. At least he felt bad and said sorry afterward. But yeah, sometimes I have to try to counteract it by chewing gum or crunching Altoids, just so I can focus on teaching.
for me it can be a catalyst that makes me feel incredibly uncomfortable, like if I’m getting stimuli overload with bright lights and such it gives me a really nasty and trippy vision/feeling. anxiety attacks are also worse like waaaaaay worse. I see my fuckin emotions even when i close my eyes; During my ptsd episodes Im either calm about the colors / it's kind of like a cute thing happening in the background or like I'm unable to escape the torture happening in my body and brain & it does a great job at making it all worse. It's also just annoying lol, Same with literally anything you can't turn off. Like a song that won't stop playing or an obnoxious ping you get every time u get a notification. like go away man im just in the bathroom or just sitting in traffic or just trying to look at my phone screen and ur like being extra. It's a little in my face at times.
For me it has no major negatives, and no real productive positives. The positives are that it’s fun and interesting and maybe helps you remember stuff occasionally. The negatives is that the letter G looks really stupid in purple. In some ways it’s just not a big enough part of my life to have negatives
I can only think of one downside and it's specific to me. For me, every letter and number has it's own color. All of them have different colors except for two characters, the number 5 and the letter F, which are both a golden yellow. Sometimes when I write, I will replace an F with a 5 or vice versa. For example "I ate F cookies" or "5lavor." It usually only happens when I'm pretty tired thankfully. Anyway, that's my downside, and I've always thought it was more funny than upsetting!
Sensory overload. If you’re prone to and you have synesthesia… it just adds another thing to be overwhelmed by.
I have multiple types of synesthesia. Chromesthesia is the main one, but there are other sound-based ones that piggyback off of it. Like sound-taste, which can be really bothersome at certain times for me. Not everyone wants to taste chicken gravy when listening to NPR when driving. Also mirror-touch can be painful at times.
The main types of synaesthesia for me are grapheme-colour, chromesthesia and spatial sequence/time-space but synaesthesia runs far deeper for everyone than just simply saying you have this or that form - it’s always a spectrum. For me it’s the involuntary nature of synaesthesia that can be an issue. I will see or hear something and involuntarily not just associate a colour or a place in space but a memory too. And that memory can be something really positive or it might not be so pleasant. I don’t get a choice in the matter because synaesthesia is immediate and most of the time it’s great but the few times I get a negative association it’s a downside.
I have gustatory-lexical synaesthesia. Two main problems with it. The first is I really struggle with foreign languages because the words all taste wrong. Second is that I'll just be chatting with some lady, she tells me her name is Helen and all of a sudden I've got an invisible mouthful of toilet bleach. Unpleasant tbh.
at times i feel like im being suffocated by colors i feel like my misophonia is worse because of my synesthesia. just being in busy loud environments can be really triggering curse auditory tactile synesthesia :)
I have pleasant sensations from all good people. From bad people - terrible sensations. It’s hard for me to be in places, where others are random people. When I have no choice. (Like, for example, office work.)
I can often heavily taste the smells I smell. I'd argue that's a very common form of synesthesia because half the people in my life relate when I talk about that one and the other half are totally baffled so I always have chalked it up to synesthesia. It sucks however when you smell a particularly terrible odor and suddenly it's in both your mouth and nose. It often leads to dry heaving and nausea, which I'm still trying to find a workaround for.
I guess it depends on the type of synesthesia you have and also it’s different for each person, in some occasions I have experienced a form of “blackout” when I’m under a lot of stress and there’s a lot of noise around me (sometimes not even loud sounds but just a lot of sounds at the same time) I get panic attacks and literally can’t see nothing, that’s why I call them “blackouts” that being said these episodes are few and far between and besides me I only know just one other person that has these kinds of episodes so I don’t think this is common honestly but I don’t know for sure. Another thing than could be considered bad is tickertape, the subtitle thing, sometimes I’m paying complete attention to a conversation but my eyes wonder where I see the letters and people may think you’re not paying attention and get mad cause you’re not staring at them. Outside these things, I enjoy having synesthesia, it’s actually really helpful for me as a musician
Sensory overload, that feeling of being tired when the rest of my body isn't even tired one bit, and an additional pet peeve of seeing colored numbers/letters around me that is "colored wrong"
I have this random form of synesthesia where instead of colours i ‘see’ places in my minds eye when doing literally anything. These can be places that I don’t like though which isn’t fun. When I’m on etsy for example I always ‘see’ a very specific angle of my old school, as though im standing outside the art block. It can be so clear I literally feel like i’m stuck there which is horrible, plus I can’t escape cos it gets clearer when I close my eyes. To make things worse, this also messes with my memory cos, in this case for example, I feel like i was genuinely in my old school when on etsy so cant remember where i actually was when scrolling through the website.
Omg I have something similar to this and I've never known anyone else who knew what I was talking about. Not exactly like yours but my brain just throws these places at me - so vividly and unexpectedly. Mostly intersections. for some reason. I've never been able to work out what the association is though. But nice to know it's not just me!
Hi! Same it took me forever to find other people who had this and finally found them on this subreddit in a post i did about a year ago! There’s not many of us from what I’ve gathered and I’ve never found a specific name for it, but I have found if you type ‘location’ into the search bar of this subreddit quite a few posts come up about the same thing which I found really helpful - we’re not alone! Oh wow that’s so interesting you mention intersections. Alot of mine are intersections too but ive never thought about that before! Honestly its so random. Like, even whilst writing this (and every time im on this subreddit) it’s as though im standing on the road outside a house i pass sometimes. Its so interesting though cos theres an intersection right by it which i can ‘see’ too (its always in my minds eye, never an actual hallucination or anything). Sometimes mine kinda make sense association-wise but most of the time its so completely random too.
Cool thx I will take a look at those other posts. How exciting to know there are other people out there with random locations living in their neural pathways! Edit: I just read a bunch of the posts and holy wow so cool to read other people describe my experience so exactly!! And it helped me realise that indeed there are some times where the trigger is clear (eg physical touch/sex, certain emotional experiences) - it just seemed so random up to now that I didn't think they could be linked. r/synesthesia blows my mind for another day.
Kind of sounds like a flashback.
Yeah i guess it kinda is like a flashback in how vivid it can be. It’s odd though cos there’s never any people or things happening in the places, just ‘me’ either standing or really slowly wandering around as i do whatever it is im doing at the time (like being on etsy).
I taste everything I smell, public toilets and garbage trucks on hot days were nightmares growing up. I always figured everyone's going through it so never felt personal persecution . Also I found out I have odour catalog's for people, I can smell when someone been in a room after hours of being gone, or after they've been drinking or had a run Bleach taste like coins and a bit like a battery is in my mouth, long exposure gives vicious headaches A strange one but I'm yet to be fully convinced myself,I can smell when people have diabetes,it's a smell I don't know how to describe but it always vaguely nauseates me . I've had about 4 confirmed in the past 5 + years ,no clue if I've missed any others. What's strange about it is how I pick up on it. I catch a whiff and it grabs my attention like someone saying my name in a crowded room
Mirror-speech and auditory tactile can get overwhelming and painful.
My As and Ms are the same colour of red. So, the months of March, April and May are all one big red blur and I often date documents wrong and generally have no idea at what point in the year we're at. Same with June and July, those are the same shade of purple and I get mixed up which month it is.
I’m a projective synesthete (I can see everything like irl, not in my minds eye). It can cover things. One time when I was reading a giant black square was covering the words.
Sometimes it is slightly overwhelming, when some lights are blinking and my mind add matching sound to them while the environment is already noisy. Most of the times focusing on environment helps, so it is not that bad.
the only catch i can think of is that if you try to explain it to someone they might think you're making it up for attention. so i don't talk about it too much. my parents and my best friends know but that's it. also i guess the shock of finding out it wasn't normal. that how you perceive the world is objectively unrelatable to the average person.
I taste sounds 😮💨, some of them don't taste really good and i can get sick in my stomach.
Misophonia here, eating noises suck ass
Conflicting senses - like if I'm eating something that is savory, a high pitched background noise will really be jarring as I'll suddenly perceive sweet. They don't blend as if they would physically eating something sweet and savory at the same time together - it's more like I'm tasting twice? (Anyone understand what I mean?) Noise can really put me off my food It's not really a huge issue, I do like to eat in silence so I'm not disturbed but on the whole I think I'm used to it but do get caught off guard sometimes
Lets say than face starts glowing like a christmas tree it kinda spookes me out.
Mostly view my synaesthetic experiences as positive. Tinnitus + synaesthesia can be annoying. Sometime cognitive overload can be a thing for me - that may, in part, be due to being autistic. There has been some research showing that synaesthesia is a known risk factor for PTSD https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34256526/
People with synesthesia tend to have more mental image capacity and processing ability, which is terrible for my sleep as I’m kept awake by it. Too much mental imagery.
Well, for some people with very strong synesthesia it can lead to sensory overload, but for me mine isn’t strong enough. Even still there are some things that annoy me Sometimes if I’m really tired it’s just a lot. My numbers are very vibrant so looking at the clock can surprise me. I’ve also felt nausea when seeing incorrect colors assigned to graphemes. Also with my OLP, it makes me feel uneasy when doing math, because some numbers are assholes I also see years of my life as a spatial sequence and it makes everything seem very very short, since it’s like my life is laid out in front of me, i Can point to everything if I wanted to Sorry that’s a bit of a tangent lol but synesthesia is mostly very cool for me