Phantosmia and Parosmia sound horrible. I'm glad you don't have that. Though, there still must be something wrong with you.

O)CecilSunkure, that's not synesthesia. That's just a free association. Synesthesia is when you associate sounds, colors, tastes, words, and letters with tastes, colors, and sounds. I believe I have synesthesia. For example, whenever I hear a C, taste salt, and different letters are different colors. An s is blue.

EDIT: Synesthesia has nothing to do with pictures or complex sounds or tastes, just very, very basic tones, colors, and tastes.

I don't find this too hard to believe, as Taste, Hearing, Sight, and Touch all relay to the thalamus. Therefore, the information can always be relayed differently.

It is only the sense of smell that does not get relayed to the thalamus. I didn't read ALL the articles, but if one of them claims they can use their nose to see or hear, then it'd be even more interesting .

I love it when people responding to a topic make up so much crap.

Here, let me try:
Oh, I have perfect pitch too! (Response to Madroc)
Oh, I can see colours and stuff too! (Response to O)CecilSunkure, Aster, Syphon, HolySin, and everyone else)

Sometimes it's not all fabrication, Heinermann

Wow, so there are -that many- synesthesic people? At first, I though that girl in the movie was just lying to get attention, but seeing an article on Wikipedia somewhat convinced me. The others article are ''meh''
Anyways, I'm pretty sure that we can all get to imagine a colour linked to a sound or a note... this is mostly imagination, but when it comes to automatism, wow! It must be just awesome to listen to some Pink Floyd with that thing

It always goes back to Pink Floyd for you doesn't it?

Yeah, except I'm not making it up, but that's cool too.
Also, I think everyone can "see colours."

Guess what Heinz?

I also have perfect relative pitch.

Just because you can't comprehend these things, doesn't mean other people don't have them, and those things aren't particularly rare.

I doubt anyone here saying they have synesthesia actually has it- I even doubt many of the synesthesia people shown in the video have it either. Everyone associates colors, feelings, sounds and smells; people just want to be special.

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NOT TRUE!!

~blind people can't "see colours"

BTW: I think that approximately 1 in 4 of the 1 in 23 people that "have" it are attention whores. The other 3 have pretty trippy lives.

It's very hard to fake, is really the only recourse I can tell you.

I actually can't tell if I have it. I think I might think I have it because I heard about it. That's called Medical Student's Disease, where a student studies all of the diseases and thinks he has them. I can tell you, if you see an actual picture, like a syringe, you are lying or hallucinating.

This topic just makes me wonder how I am supposed to know if what I see and perceive is actually there and not some sort of hallucination or 'error'... Which brings up questions I've thought of long ago... if someone were to somehow experience the same sensual stimuli and process it the same way as I (essentially they are seeing what I see, hearing what I hear, etc.) would it be much the same, just from a different perspective or minor subtleties, or would it be a total mindfuck?
How am I supposed to know if any of this applies to me? I see and hear a lot of things which I ignore because I know they logically cannot be (like a rope swing that tasted like bubble gum... so I licked it and it tasted like shit)

I doubt I have any major sensual errors or differences as I'd just consider myself average, but that is how everyone should naturally feel I'd assume.

Holy shit, I just found out (thanks to reddit, and the BBC news), that there's an ultra rare form of synaesthesia that connects the sensations of time and space. That's fucking ridiculous, there are real life Dr. Manhattans wandering the Earth.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8248589.stm

From the artcle:

If they see lots of violence such as fighting, would their organs start functioning differently from the damage other people took? That would be totally matrix style.

My response:
So, the free association was associating the syringe to my thumb, which were both linked to feelings of seriousness and precision. The synesthesia was deriving those feelings from just looking at my thumb. Now, a perfect example would be when Norm wanted to name one of his characters "Psychopath". The word psychopath brings me the feeling of isolation and danger, as if I were placed next to someone who was mentally challenged and dangerous. The feeling disturbs me. Also.. When I see or hear the word "Psychopath" I keep thinking of looking at wounds on an innocent face with a mentally challenged mind. This seems tied to my experiences when watching "The Village", as the crazy guy in that movie was both innocent and yet pissed me off. I don't know, I don't like the word, it disturbs me.

I'm not 100% sure if all that in synesthesia or not. I don't know the criteria for being a synesthetic by heart, I just know I've been told I am and I believe I am.

[Edit]I don't really want to banter back and forth pointlessly. If you think I am lying, or this really isn't synesthesia.. Look up the criteria real fast and show me. I'll own up to my fault if I was wrong. If you won't do that, then don't post in retort to this please. I'll just ignore you, most likely.

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Don't you think it'd be awesome?! I mean... Trying to listen at Heavy Metal music with that must imply having epileptic behaviours ;o
Maybe a little Led Zeppelin would make it too, but Pink Floyd really sounds to me as the best music to listen to and it -has- to be colorful!

This topic is full of hypochondria.

I was watching BrainMan on the science channel a few days ago and saw how this, in some cases, can be very beneficial. It's based on Daniel T. who has a form of synaesthesia. Here is a site on him. http://www.optimnem.co.uk/index.php and http://science.discovery.com/videos/brilliant-minds/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdeAq7_r63g&feature=player_embedded He learned and became fluent in Icelandic in one week. He also memorized the first 22,514 numbers of pi.

In the documentary he visits the original 'Rain Man' Kim Peek. Although Kim started to memorize things at twenty months, he didn't walk till four. He memorized over 12,000 books, reading two pages at once with the speed of under 15 seconds per page. He also knows every city and zip code in the United States and knows the history to every coutry in the world.

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