Synesthesia anyone?

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Nah.

try this im a sensitive goin torward high lvl gradually over time ie any thing i touch i get vivid images of what its been thru.kno some feelings before they even im reading them ic an hurt or help.i high level empath basic a sponge rof the energies around u. iof they are very positive i become a force of nature some could tell me chill i feel so powrful i d laught at them and bloe the off even if they were yelling frustrationgly at me.lots of negative enrgies arpound i feel like ai cant move and just wana sleep.crazy it sounds it a gift and acurse i cant technicly exlaion it.yes i get s ynathasia all the time time stare at re collored objest i get a taste of cinnamon in mouth for exmplee.feel happy i get a staic tingle.

I can see shapes in music, though it's during my extra sensory sensitive days. I can also see colours through touch and taste.

i realized something after i left this thread. most people don't see even numbers as "femme" ("feminine") or odd numbers as "butch" ("masculine"), do they? i guess that's an example of assigning personalities to numbers.

think my tendency to undergeneralize was kicking in(?) mostly i'm convinced everyone sees numbers that way, and i don't think of it as a personal quirk. (or maybe that's overgeneralizing.)

i also think orange is mischievous. but everyone assigns emotions to color. (red: anger. blue: the blues. etc.) violet is mischievous too, but more pensive.

I am very used to all my senses blurring together...but nothing remains at a constant. My friend has it..he will say to me.."You seem blueberry-y"..or you feel like a 50's malt shop.

I don't taste music or feel colors...I am too muddled for that.

Sound and music makes me feel like i'm moving/floating. Low tones have a very inwards movement (like my body is collapsing) and high pitched tones generally have an outward movement. I prefer songs which are treble heavy as opposed to bass heavy.

*cough cough* eherm, hell no. I've been investigating it for a long while, and it is not that. Otherwise, they would not show up in my vision while I am in a dark room, or anywhere for that matter. I just focus on it, and they show up, kinda like a cloud of color, a mental droop over what I see. My dad thinks it might be a mental stimulus releasing chemicals into my eyes. I think it's more likely to be a mental, possibly synesthetic reaction to a focused state of mind. I see the colors when I think about something intensely, because I am focusing on one point usually, just staring. It can get a little psychedelic if I let it go on long enough, with green painting itself on the floor and walls, blue splotches moving about every which way, and gray sometimes showing up. Then I start thinking normal again, move my eyes and blink. It goes away, but I can bring it back at will any time. I wanted to think it was light coming through my eyelids, but I see the colors better when I cover my eyes. The reddish yellow tinge goes away from sunlight or light passing through, and I just see green and blue, sometimes gray and occasionally other vivid colors, though I haven't figured out how exactly I saw those before. I only have theories.

Synaesthesia is when sensory information gets mixed up, which doesn't appear to be happening in your case. What you are describing are visual hallucinations. You can actually force visual hallucinations by closing your eyes and pressing on your eyelids. There are many different type of visual hallucinations and i would go as far as to say that everyone experiences them to an extent. Your mood affecting them also makes sense from a neurological point of veiw

I actually have visual snow myself, it's like TV-static only it is green (with a little blue). I can see it wether my eyes are open or closed, it doesn't interefere with my vision, it's like a seperate layer. (I dunno, it's hard to explain).

Synethesia is so cool. I have it too...did you know that many people's synethesisa links up. Like most people associate red for A and white for O. It's the same for music too. Higher notes will usually be lighter for people and lower notes, darker. Does anyone else associate the same colors for letters?

A- red

B- brown

C- green

D- blue

E-black

F- yellow

G- green

H- black & green

I- white and yellow

J- Pink

K- green

L- white

M- yellow

N- black & blue

O- white & orange

P- peach

Q- purple

R- red

S- purple

T- brown and green (looks like a tree)

U- purple with green spots

V- yellow

W- muddled, mostly clear and white

X- black

Z-red and black

Sounds just like mine, though I wouldn't call it static, more like blobs and cloudy stuff in my case. I didn't know that they were visual hallucinations. I figured out I could make gold lights appear like crazy in my vision when I pressed on my eyes in kindergarten with my palms, so that now makes total sense. I've been wondering about that for years. Thanks!

Letter and number/color synesthesia. I also see colored shapes when listening to music, like an abstract music video. However, I'm not sure that that is true synesthesia because it is usually influenced by the color of the title of the song or other text I associate with it. (It does occur in absence of a title or colored text.)

This is great, I don't feel so odd now. My numbers and colors have emotions too, with some music I see colors or tastes, but not all the time.

I definately see colors when listening to music...sometimes certain songs or sections will have its own 'color' that I'll associate with it as a result of what I see. The only way I could describe it is something like you'd see on Windows Media Player visualizations, except far more elaborate.

I experience it really heavily with the intro to Gustav Holst's "Jupiter" from the Planet's Symphony..

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1lo[/youtube]

It's an interesting thing, but I don't know how things would be any other way, which makes it hard to describe to people. I suppose it's kind of cool, but honestly, it's not something I pay attention to...it just happens I guess.

Some of those are similar, except a lot of mine are textured, like H is grey and textured like stone.

I also have visual snow which is more visible in darker rooms, although I see it all the time. Mine is more purplish-white. And for some reason, it seems worse without my glasses (or at least more noticeable).

I also agree that what Daniel09 is describing is completely normal. I've seen it mentioned in a few places (and I have experienced it myself), and it has something to do with pressure on the retina triggering the firing of sensory cells which normally perceive light, so that you see flashes (which is why you can deliberately generate them by pressing on your eye). It frequently occurs in people with healthy eyes, but an increase in or sudden appearance of flashers should be investigated, as you may have an eye condition that needs treatment. It is not synaesthesia, which has to do with funky wiring in the brain.

It sounds like what you two are describing is Phosphene, which is literally seeing light without light entering the eye. Synesthesia has more to do with the mixing of perception. Phosphene is kind of similar but it has more to do with natural electric and magnetic stimulations of the brain

"A phosphene is an entoptic phenomenon characterized by the experience of seeing light without light actually entering the eye. The word phosphene comes from the Greek words phos (light) and phainein (to show).[1] Phosphenes can be directly induced by mechanical, electrical, or magnetic stimulation of the retina or visual cortex as well as by random firing of cells in the visual system. Phosphenes have also been reported by meditators,[2] people who go for long periods without visual stimulation (also known as the prisoner's cinema) or who are under the influence of drugs, especially a hallucinogen."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene

And another link on visual snow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow

Hope that helps...