Synesthesia (re: colours)

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I have synesthesia. Numbers and letters have colors and personalities. Sounds create patterns in my mind--pitch, timbre, and volume are represented by shapes, colors, and textures. Some smells have colors too.

I used to think it was normal. I went to a school for gifted girls, and discovered that some of my classmates claimed to experience the same thing. These were girls who otherwise seemed nt.

You know talking about senses and paper, if any kind of tissue paper or paper it self touch my teeth at all, or if i see it and rub my hand against it wrong, i get this horrible shooting pain through my body, i never knew why

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i dont know exactly about synesthesia, but i can usually see music in my head. When i listen to it, i often associate a color or texture to it. A sour note sends me in orbit. I have gotten angry at people for singing off key a few times. they dont know that because i dont tell them. i am really familiar with the teeth itch thing. Bad music makes me angry. and it makes me feel tense and achy. I also relate to the color red and blue especially together. Red really puts me in a good mood and blue makes me think about God. Together, the combination is so satisfying it will put me in a good mood.

This happens to me too, especially with my guitar (A is clean red, B is kinda a purply-blue, C is a strong yellow...).

Ugh, I know what you mean about certain noises. When they happen they make my teeth itch, my ears ache, my eyes water... it's horrible, haha.

Sometimes I see swirls of colours... it happened a lot when I was younger, but not so much these days.

I do see colours around people's bodies though, I guess what new-age types would call an aura, and the colours always relate to their personality. Like, some of my teachers were really wise, and they had a kind of pretty golden-white glow. Mine is a turquoise blue, which is kinda what I would associate with being a deep thinker. One of my friends is red and she's angry all the time, has a lot of issues, and the red just makes it worse. My brother goes kinda green sometimes. I saw someone who was purple once and just about flipped, no idea why. And a guy with a really dirty, murky brown/black came into a shop once and he scared me so much I literally bolted from the shop and ran till I was around the corner... I'd love to know what he gets up to, if he's like a muderer or something.

I sometimes get it with music too, not so often with songs - though they do affect my mood pretty drastically - but more often when I'm playing the piano or something. I get feelings or colours or images... sometimes at once, sometimes not. The colours are always the same as I see around people though.

I see every single sound as graphs, shapes, colors etc. I also feel most sounds. Some smells have shape. None of this is static, it keeps moving.

I've always had colors associated with words, letters, numbers and mostly concepts like right vs left - all this limited to my mind's eye and having decreased very much over time.

Lately music sometimes feels like some vague entity (sometimes a succession of things) in black, white and shades of gray movement - for example a synthesized loop. Some concepts are accompanied by some very vague image-feel usually devoid of colors or with colors not as intense as I used to view them when I was 5-6.

When I was around 6 I also couldn't help intepreting faces (which I didn't necessarily like) in objects like cars, doorknobs, buildings. . . I would look at cars; their "faces" and their colors and automatically figured out personalites and tastes (blue or violet would taste bitter - some looked aggressive or goofy due to headlights shape and position).

As for numbers:
1: white / slight blueish hue
2: yellow
3: orange
4: some reddish hue (more piercing)
5: another reddish hue (deeper)
6: orange (but no the same as 3)
7: green
8: brown
9: light brown
10: white

"a" is orange red but "e" is light blueish; not sure if this was so from the start since I was taught vowels with colors when I already had "my own" colors for them and I'm not sure what prevailed. Anyway, "left" is light blueish and "right" is orange in English but the other way round in my language. All these colors looked like bright lights (they don't now).
Most of these things came to me like some obsessive spam; never ocurred to me it was anything special (even though I was once told it was a bit singular).

hmm..

I associate people with colors. My dad is blue and black, sister is usually orange... my brother is brown and green. One aunt is like a barn-red. One uncle is yellow. a diffrent aunt is green or blackandwhite.
My moms is....a purpldy-greenish blue. Stuff like that.

Except its like I feel the colors first and then see them, sorta. Like i don't "see" them with my real eyeballs...

Ok...grr... I see person. I feel. Then I feel color. Then I think Color. Does that make AnY sense?

I associate letters as male/female. like A is male B female C male D female E male..... O female P female .. R female S female T both, usually male.... X both.. Z male.

Numbers have feelings....but not like happy/sad.

I can feel sounds/songs, but Not "feel" like nts mean it. and I like to make up stories to go along with a song, but it usually has nothing to do with what is being sung. Its like a story where the song fits in, and associated with the feel of the music and it, like i said, usually has nothing to do with whats being sung. Or if it does, its in a different context.

Oh my!

Chalkboards.....it depends on the person, i'v heard.

Umm...can you(anybody) actually look some people in the eye most of the time and then other people you absolutely can't? See, I try to make an effort to look people in they eye when talking to them, but with some people I get so uncomfortable I feel like fleeing.

I know its an aspie trait, just wondering if someone else was capable of actually looking at some people.