Post by taylormicrowave on Jul 25, 2015 8:14:54 GMT -5
this is a very interesting topic to a lot of people so i think it should be talked about some!
synesthesia is defined as "a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway."
basically, take for example you see a letter. your mind will translate that letter and give it its own color, and every time you see/think/talk about that letter, your brain associates it with that color and you see that color. but, this does not mean that you see a black letter in a different color. this happens in your mind.
i have a few types of synesthesia. grapheme-color synesthesia, ordinal linguistic personification synesthesia, and what i believe to be mirror-touch synesthesia.
what does this all mean, you ask?
GCS is what i described before: giving colors to letters, numbers, months, words, and days of the week (in my case). each letter has its own color in my brain. S is a reddish purple, C is yellow, G is green, J is bright purple, N is orange-yellow, etc.
however, when letters are put into a word, each letter does not have an individual color for me: the entire word is colored. for example, the word "woman" is a dark reddish purple, although the plural "women" is a light blue. it's super weird, trust me, but i love it, honestly.
OLP, for me, is where i give letters, colors, numbers, words, months, and days of the week genders, personalities, and sometimes even a specific age. my gender scale only includes male, female, and gender neutral, since i've always had this condition and that's all i could imagine. T is masculine, U is neutral, K is feminine, etc. i'd go into personality and age but that would take forever ;u;
finally, MTS is pretty weird. i don't know how to describe it, but for example when i see someone on TV or real life shaking hands, or being tapped on the shoulder, or any touch sensation, i also feel that.
i remember i was watching a horror movie with my boyfriend (he made me watch a life like one. i always stick to paranormal and i didn't even realize why until this) and there was a scene where a man was getting whipped on his back really hard, and every time they whipped him i grabbed my own back and i almost started crying because i was overwhelmingly empatetic and i could literally feel it happening in a dull sense. of course the feelings are never full on, like i feel as thought it's happening, but i just faintly feel the sensation? if that makes sense whatsoever.
all of these sensations are AUTOMATIC and INVOLUNTARY, meaning you do not control them, and you don't voluntarily create them. that's what many non-synesthetes do not realize. in the past, this condition has been marked as a hallucination or a mental illness, but that is not in fact what it is. some scientists think it may be from a new gene they don't know about, but either way it is an extraordinary phenomenon that i'd like to bring a little light to! i've had this all my life, from as young as i can remember, but no one really knows about it because i've been thinking everyone experienced it until i started some research :">
if you have questions or think you may have a type of synesthesia, just ask! there are other types too, but you can find them by a quick google search for the wikipedia page since i don't know much about other types as i do not experience them.
synesthesia is defined as "a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway."
basically, take for example you see a letter. your mind will translate that letter and give it its own color, and every time you see/think/talk about that letter, your brain associates it with that color and you see that color. but, this does not mean that you see a black letter in a different color. this happens in your mind.
i have a few types of synesthesia. grapheme-color synesthesia, ordinal linguistic personification synesthesia, and what i believe to be mirror-touch synesthesia.
what does this all mean, you ask?
GCS is what i described before: giving colors to letters, numbers, months, words, and days of the week (in my case). each letter has its own color in my brain. S is a reddish purple, C is yellow, G is green, J is bright purple, N is orange-yellow, etc.
however, when letters are put into a word, each letter does not have an individual color for me: the entire word is colored. for example, the word "woman" is a dark reddish purple, although the plural "women" is a light blue. it's super weird, trust me, but i love it, honestly.
OLP, for me, is where i give letters, colors, numbers, words, months, and days of the week genders, personalities, and sometimes even a specific age. my gender scale only includes male, female, and gender neutral, since i've always had this condition and that's all i could imagine. T is masculine, U is neutral, K is feminine, etc. i'd go into personality and age but that would take forever ;u;
finally, MTS is pretty weird. i don't know how to describe it, but for example when i see someone on TV or real life shaking hands, or being tapped on the shoulder, or any touch sensation, i also feel that.
i remember i was watching a horror movie with my boyfriend (he made me watch a life like one. i always stick to paranormal and i didn't even realize why until this) and there was a scene where a man was getting whipped on his back really hard, and every time they whipped him i grabbed my own back and i almost started crying because i was overwhelmingly empatetic and i could literally feel it happening in a dull sense. of course the feelings are never full on, like i feel as thought it's happening, but i just faintly feel the sensation? if that makes sense whatsoever.
all of these sensations are AUTOMATIC and INVOLUNTARY, meaning you do not control them, and you don't voluntarily create them. that's what many non-synesthetes do not realize. in the past, this condition has been marked as a hallucination or a mental illness, but that is not in fact what it is. some scientists think it may be from a new gene they don't know about, but either way it is an extraordinary phenomenon that i'd like to bring a little light to! i've had this all my life, from as young as i can remember, but no one really knows about it because i've been thinking everyone experienced it until i started some research :">
if you have questions or think you may have a type of synesthesia, just ask! there are other types too, but you can find them by a quick google search for the wikipedia page since i don't know much about other types as i do not experience them.