does anyone know what Synesthesia is, and if so, do you have it?

Question

i read a book about it, it seems really nice, if you have it, do you want to get rid of it, or do you love having it?

Answer 1

I love having mine. I mean, Ive had it for so long I cant imagine living without it. Most people see letters in colors, but I see people in colors. Kind of like an aura, bot not quite because it doesnt change with the persons mood. I also have personification synesthesia. I associate numbers, letters, and shaped with personalities and gender. If you have any more questions on it, feel free to email me!

Answer 2

Shellular is correct, it's the mixing of sensory impressions, and it is not necessarily a problem - many creative people enjoy their synesthesia and use it as a muse. ;-) Become a poet!

Answer 3

Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesiae or synaesthesiae)—from the Ancient Greek σύν (syn), meaning "with," and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), meaning "sensation"'—is a neurological condition in which two or more bodily senses are coupled. In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a three-dimensional view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise).

While cross-sensory metaphors (e.g., "loud shirt", "bitter wind" or "prickly laugh") are sometimes described as "synesthetic", true neurological synesthesia is involuntary. It is estimated that synesthesia may be as prevalent as 1 in 23 persons across its range of variants (Simner et al. 2006). Synesthesia runs strongly in families, but the precise mode of inheritance has yet to be ascertained. Synesthesia is also sometimes reported by individuals under the influence of psychedelic drugs, after a stroke, or as a consequence of blindness or deafness. Synesthesia that arises from such non-genetic events is referred to as adventitious synesthesia to distinguish it from the more common congenital forms of synesthesia. Adventitious synesthesia involving drugs or stroke (but not blindness or deafness) apparently only involves sensory linkings such as sound → vision or touch → hearing; there are few if any reported cases involving culture-based, learned sets such as graphemes, lexemes, days of the week, or months of the year.

Although synesthesia was the topic of intensive scientific investigation in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was largely abandoned in the mid-20th century, and has only recently been rediscovered by modern researchers. Psychological research has demonstrated that synesthetic experiences can have measurable behavioral consequences, while functional neuroimaging studies have identified differences in patterns of brain activation (for a review see Hubbard & Ramachandran 2005).

Many people with synesthesia use their experiences to aid in their creative process, and many non-synesthetes have attempted to create works of art that may capture what it is like to experience synesthesia. Psychologists and neuroscientists study synesthesia not only for its inherent interest, but also for the insights it may give into cognitive and perceptual processes that occur in everyone, synesthete and non-synesthete alike.

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

Answer 4

Yeah. I affiliate Wednesday and Friday and commonly Monday with even numbers, and stunning hues like eco-friendly. I affiliate pink with the decision seven. January with blue. October with black. December with military blue. I actually have OCD. which will be a aspect-result type of mission.

Answer 5

i could be totally wrong, but isn't that when your senses get merged together. for example you can taste a color. i don't have it, but i think it would be cool to try it out for a few days. i'm not sure how a lifetime of living like that would be, but i guess you'd just be used to it.

Answer 6

I never heard of it before but it sounds like quite a burden to have. At times itcould be overwhelming.

Answer 7

I LOVE HAVING IT!!! IT KEEPS ME ALL LIKE, AHHHH!!!
BUT YES I DO LOVE IT!!!

Answer 8

never heard of it, sorry.