Guest guest Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 Girlscout Cowbow, sorry to reply so late to this very old post, but I have had times when I can't keep up with the messages. I have synesthesia too. Numbers have a sex and personality, music has visuals, in fact all sound has a visual with it. Also an emotion. If a singer is depressed when they are singing or it's a sad song, I can go right to tears - and they stop when the song stops. It can be very distracting. A lot of noise in a large area can be very tiring. Sometimes I cannot concentrate at all with some sounds in the background. Cannot think when the Tv is on at someone's house. Some people's voices give me the creeps and I know who really did do steroids, LOL. Don't get me started on politicians. Nothing gets past me, ha! However, because my synesthesia is complex (several joined senses), it's the super rare kind so I'm told. My therapist has said that my synesthesia is what got me through my childhood with my nada and " fisherman father " because I could lose myself in music and be part of a whole different visual word. There are a lot of cool things that come with this ability but the one that is most important for this group is the theory that it saved me as a KO. And I didn't know I had it until I was 28 years old. I thought everyone could " see sound. " Flowers Synthesia > >So, I may have posted about this before, but i have this thing. Its not a >handicap or a disability, its just something about me that is different. It >maybe could even be looked at as a talent or gift. > >Sorry if I have written about this before - but I continue to be very >interested in this. > >I see, and have for as long as I can remember, seen numbers and some letters >as having personalities. Evens are female. Odds are male. Prime numbers are >unkind. Two is always yellow (bright yellow) and is the gentlest of all the >numbers. One is white and is quite boring. HA HA > >I'm adding this to the fact that I am extremely sensitive - by that I don't >mean I'm emotionally sensitive (though I am). What I mean is that my skin is >sensitive, my hearing is sensitive, my sense of smell is sensitive and I >have much better vision than average. I'm not sure how to compare my sense >of taste to other people's but I am much pickier about food than most people >I know and I'm great in the kitchen and I have a talent with spices and >flavors. > >So, I just kind of wonder if I have some weird nada-passed-down genetic deal >that makes me different. Fortunately it didn't manifest in BPD or >schizophrenia or whatever - but yeah, neurologically I'm . . . well. . . >sensitive. > >Here is a description of it. I relate very much to sound having color, names >having smells or flavor, even physical sensations I can relate to sounds, >for example, when I move I kind of hear percussion. . . when I dance I >always sing percussion to match and I often teach dances to beats that DO >NOT exist in the music. . . Anyway > >Do any other KOs have THIS MUCH weirdness to their neurology? I also >have extremely sensitive circadian rhythms, and I am prone to migraines and >fibromyalgia. > > " Most people experience the sensory world as a place of orderly segregation. >Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch are distinct and separate: A Beethoven >symphony is not pink and azure; the name does not taste like creamed >spinach. Yet there are those for whom these basic rules of the senses do not >seem to apply. They have a rare condition called Synesthesia, in which the >customary boundaries between the senses appear to break down, sight mingling >with sound, or taste with touch. " > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 20, 2012 Report Share Posted May 20, 2012 Girlscout Cowbow, sorry to reply so late to this very old post, but I have had times when I can't keep up with the messages. I have synesthesia too. Numbers have a sex and personality, music has visuals, in fact all sound has a visual with it. Also an emotion. If a singer is depressed when they are singing or it's a sad song, I can go right to tears - and they stop when the song stops. It can be very distracting. A lot of noise in a large area can be very tiring. Sometimes I cannot concentrate at all with some sounds in the background. Cannot think when the Tv is on at someone's house. Some people's voices give me the creeps and I know who really did do steroids, LOL. Don't get me started on politicians. Nothing gets past me, ha! However, because my synesthesia is complex (several joined senses), it's the super rare kind so I'm told. My therapist has said that my synesthesia is what got me through my childhood with my nada and " fisherman father " because I could lose myself in music and be part of a whole different visual word. There are a lot of cool things that come with this ability but the one that is most important for this group is the theory that it saved me as a KO. And I didn't know I had it until I was 28 years old. I thought everyone could " see sound. " Flowers Synthesia > >So, I may have posted about this before, but i have this thing. Its not a >handicap or a disability, its just something about me that is different. It >maybe could even be looked at as a talent or gift. > >Sorry if I have written about this before - but I continue to be very >interested in this. > >I see, and have for as long as I can remember, seen numbers and some letters >as having personalities. Evens are female. Odds are male. Prime numbers are >unkind. Two is always yellow (bright yellow) and is the gentlest of all the >numbers. One is white and is quite boring. HA HA > >I'm adding this to the fact that I am extremely sensitive - by that I don't >mean I'm emotionally sensitive (though I am). What I mean is that my skin is >sensitive, my hearing is sensitive, my sense of smell is sensitive and I >have much better vision than average. I'm not sure how to compare my sense >of taste to other people's but I am much pickier about food than most people >I know and I'm great in the kitchen and I have a talent with spices and >flavors. > >So, I just kind of wonder if I have some weird nada-passed-down genetic deal >that makes me different. Fortunately it didn't manifest in BPD or >schizophrenia or whatever - but yeah, neurologically I'm . . . well. . . >sensitive. > >Here is a description of it. I relate very much to sound having color, names >having smells or flavor, even physical sensations I can relate to sounds, >for example, when I move I kind of hear percussion. . . when I dance I >always sing percussion to match and I often teach dances to beats that DO >NOT exist in the music. . . Anyway > >Do any other KOs have THIS MUCH weirdness to their neurology? I also >have extremely sensitive circadian rhythms, and I am prone to migraines and >fibromyalgia. > > " Most people experience the sensory world as a place of orderly segregation. >Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch are distinct and separate: A Beethoven >symphony is not pink and azure; the name does not taste like creamed >spinach. Yet there are those for whom these basic rules of the senses do not >seem to apply. They have a rare condition called Synesthesia, in which the >customary boundaries between the senses appear to break down, sight mingling >with sound, or taste with touch. " > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 I have heard of this in people that are gifted either musically or in other areas, like cranial sacral therapists that sense a person's " song " It sounds quite interesting. I don't have anything like that, but I do get very strong feelings about things that are going to happen. I had a feeling that I was going to run into an old friend on my way from a friends house to my family's house. This was no where NEAR where he lived or my family, but literally on the way, during a two hour drive at a gas station about halfway between the two points late at night. I only thought of it for a second and when I saw him, it was like yeah, I knew I was gonna see you. I don't think that is the same thing, but I know it happens to me quite a bit. No matter, it is quite facinating. C > > Girlscout Cowbow, sorry to reply so late to this very old post, but I have had times when I can't keep up with the messages. > > I have synesthesia too. Numbers have a sex and personality, music has visuals, in fact all sound has a visual with it. Also an emotion. If a singer is depressed when they are singing or it's a sad song, I can go right to tears - and they stop when the song stops. It can be very distracting. A lot of noise in a large area can be very tiring. Sometimes I cannot concentrate at all with some sounds in the background. Cannot think when the Tv is on at someone's house. Some people's voices give me the creeps and I know who really did do steroids, LOL. Don't get me started on politicians. Nothing gets past me, ha! > > However, because my synesthesia is complex (several joined senses), it's the super rare kind so I'm told. My therapist has said that my synesthesia is what got me through my childhood with my nada and " fisherman father " because I could lose myself in music and be part of a whole different visual word. > > There are a lot of cool things that come with this ability but the one that is most important for this group is the theory that it saved me as a KO. And I didn't know I had it until I was 28 years old. I thought everyone could " see sound. " > > Flowers > > > Synthesia > > > >So, I may have posted about this before, but i have this thing. Its not a > >handicap or a disability, its just something about me that is different. It > >maybe could even be looked at as a talent or gift. > > > >Sorry if I have written about this before - but I continue to be very > >interested in this. > > > >I see, and have for as long as I can remember, seen numbers and some letters > >as having personalities. Evens are female. Odds are male. Prime numbers are > >unkind. Two is always yellow (bright yellow) and is the gentlest of all the > >numbers. One is white and is quite boring. HA HA > > > >I'm adding this to the fact that I am extremely sensitive - by that I don't > >mean I'm emotionally sensitive (though I am). What I mean is that my skin is > >sensitive, my hearing is sensitive, my sense of smell is sensitive and I > >have much better vision than average. I'm not sure how to compare my sense > >of taste to other people's but I am much pickier about food than most people > >I know and I'm great in the kitchen and I have a talent with spices and > >flavors. > > > >So, I just kind of wonder if I have some weird nada-passed-down genetic deal > >that makes me different. Fortunately it didn't manifest in BPD or > >schizophrenia or whatever - but yeah, neurologically I'm . . . well. . . > >sensitive. > > > >Here is a description of it. I relate very much to sound having color, names > >having smells or flavor, even physical sensations I can relate to sounds, > >for example, when I move I kind of hear percussion. . . when I dance I > >always sing percussion to match and I often teach dances to beats that DO > >NOT exist in the music. . . Anyway > > > >Do any other KOs have THIS MUCH weirdness to their neurology? I also > >have extremely sensitive circadian rhythms, and I am prone to migraines and > >fibromyalgia. > > > > " Most people experience the sensory world as a place of orderly segregation. > >Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch are distinct and separate: A Beethoven > >symphony is not pink and azure; the name does not taste like creamed > >spinach. Yet there are those for whom these basic rules of the senses do not > >seem to apply. They have a rare condition called Synesthesia, in which the > >customary boundaries between the senses appear to break down, sight mingling > >with sound, or taste with touch. " > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 I have heard of this in people that are gifted either musically or in other areas, like cranial sacral therapists that sense a person's " song " It sounds quite interesting. I don't have anything like that, but I do get very strong feelings about things that are going to happen. I had a feeling that I was going to run into an old friend on my way from a friends house to my family's house. This was no where NEAR where he lived or my family, but literally on the way, during a two hour drive at a gas station about halfway between the two points late at night. I only thought of it for a second and when I saw him, it was like yeah, I knew I was gonna see you. I don't think that is the same thing, but I know it happens to me quite a bit. No matter, it is quite facinating. C > > Girlscout Cowbow, sorry to reply so late to this very old post, but I have had times when I can't keep up with the messages. > > I have synesthesia too. Numbers have a sex and personality, music has visuals, in fact all sound has a visual with it. Also an emotion. If a singer is depressed when they are singing or it's a sad song, I can go right to tears - and they stop when the song stops. It can be very distracting. A lot of noise in a large area can be very tiring. Sometimes I cannot concentrate at all with some sounds in the background. Cannot think when the Tv is on at someone's house. Some people's voices give me the creeps and I know who really did do steroids, LOL. Don't get me started on politicians. Nothing gets past me, ha! > > However, because my synesthesia is complex (several joined senses), it's the super rare kind so I'm told. My therapist has said that my synesthesia is what got me through my childhood with my nada and " fisherman father " because I could lose myself in music and be part of a whole different visual word. > > There are a lot of cool things that come with this ability but the one that is most important for this group is the theory that it saved me as a KO. And I didn't know I had it until I was 28 years old. I thought everyone could " see sound. " > > Flowers > > > Synthesia > > > >So, I may have posted about this before, but i have this thing. Its not a > >handicap or a disability, its just something about me that is different. It > >maybe could even be looked at as a talent or gift. > > > >Sorry if I have written about this before - but I continue to be very > >interested in this. > > > >I see, and have for as long as I can remember, seen numbers and some letters > >as having personalities. Evens are female. Odds are male. Prime numbers are > >unkind. Two is always yellow (bright yellow) and is the gentlest of all the > >numbers. One is white and is quite boring. HA HA > > > >I'm adding this to the fact that I am extremely sensitive - by that I don't > >mean I'm emotionally sensitive (though I am). What I mean is that my skin is > >sensitive, my hearing is sensitive, my sense of smell is sensitive and I > >have much better vision than average. I'm not sure how to compare my sense > >of taste to other people's but I am much pickier about food than most people > >I know and I'm great in the kitchen and I have a talent with spices and > >flavors. > > > >So, I just kind of wonder if I have some weird nada-passed-down genetic deal > >that makes me different. Fortunately it didn't manifest in BPD or > >schizophrenia or whatever - but yeah, neurologically I'm . . . well. . . > >sensitive. > > > >Here is a description of it. I relate very much to sound having color, names > >having smells or flavor, even physical sensations I can relate to sounds, > >for example, when I move I kind of hear percussion. . . when I dance I > >always sing percussion to match and I often teach dances to beats that DO > >NOT exist in the music. . . Anyway > > > >Do any other KOs have THIS MUCH weirdness to their neurology? I also > >have extremely sensitive circadian rhythms, and I am prone to migraines and > >fibromyalgia. > > > > " Most people experience the sensory world as a place of orderly segregation. > >Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch are distinct and separate: A Beethoven > >symphony is not pink and azure; the name does not taste like creamed > >spinach. Yet there are those for whom these basic rules of the senses do not > >seem to apply. They have a rare condition called Synesthesia, in which the > >customary boundaries between the senses appear to break down, sight mingling > >with sound, or taste with touch. " > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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