To those with synaesthesia

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Did it ever happen to you that your synaesthesia grew stronger? Recently I realized it is so in my case.

I don't think so, I think in my case it was always as strong as it is now.

no, mine has really diminished. i get it a little stronger when im ill or stressed, but its barely noticable. somethings are stronger than other- eg- music predominates.

i miss it- i think its a really interesting phoenomenon (sp?) and was really fun for me.
i also used to have an extra sense, which was an experiance of space mixed with some other senses- imagine if you had an energy field round your arms- you'd fel how near a wall was by sticking out your hand- like that.
it was great fun!

Mine has always been at much the same
level since childhood.Since I discovered (only
3 years ago) that it's actually this condition called Synesthesia I've been trying to analyse
it and somehow change the colours I associate
with things. No matter how hard I try the
'default' colours still appear in my mind,so
although it hasn't got stronger it hasn't
diminished either.

Today while playing with a musical keyboard I noticed for the first time that notes and chords sounded like vowels to me. I'm not very good at playing ordinary musical instruments but it seemed that if I tried to make the keyboard "sing to me" the vowels of random lyrics then it also sounded to me like not-too-bad music. I guess I will try using that new music-vowel synaesthetic sense some more and see if it is any good for composing music for lyrics.

My synaesthesia is unusual because it tends to have some kind of logical basis to explain the relationship between the combined senses, and in the case of musical vowels, it just so happens that vowels actually are always chords of tones (called formants), except if they are whispered.