Synesthesia
Synesthesia
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#0Synesthesia
Posted: 5/19/05 at 7:58pmWhere'd that post a few months back go? I want to show a friend - another synesthete - of mine the site and the messages.
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#1re: Synesthesia
Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:55amFellow synesthete here. Woot!
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#2re: Synesthesia
Posted: 5/20/05 at 1:06am
For those like me who have no idea what Synesthesia is...here you go.
Synesthete: A person with synesthesia, a condition in which the normally separate senses are not separate. Sight may mingle with sound, taste with touch, etc. The senses are cross-wired. For example, when a digit-color synesthete sees or just thinks of a number, the number appears with a color film over it. A given number's color never changes; it appears every time with the number. Synesthesia can take many forms. A synesthete may sense the taste of chicken as a pointed object. Other synesthetes hear colors. Still others may have several senses cross-wired.
Estimates of the frequency of synesthesia range from 1 in 250,000 to 1 in 2,000. People with synesthesia are 6 times more likely to be female than male. Most synesthetes find their unusual sensory abilities enjoyable.
People with synesthesia often report that one or more of their family members also have synesthesia, so it may in at least some cases be an inherited condition.
It may be that synesthesia arises when particular senses fail to become fully independent of one another during normal development. According to this school of thought, all babies are synesthetes. Synesthesia can be induced by certain hallucinogenic drugs and can also occur in some types of seizure disorders.
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#4re: Synesthesia
Posted: 4/30/15 at 9:33pm
Really old thread, I know, but since it's been, like, ten years, does anyone here now have a form of synesthesia or know someone with the condition? I have lexical-gustatory synesthesia, which means I literally taste certain words (for instance, "meeting" tastes like Kraft macaroni-and-cheese), and I'm interested in reading others' experiences!
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#5re: Synesthesia
Posted: 4/30/15 at 9:44pm
Elfuh - that's fascinating. Any other examples you'd care to share?
#6re: Synesthesia
Posted: 4/30/15 at 9:54pm
Sure. For a couple of theatre-related ones, the word "understudy" tastes like chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, and "soprano" tastes like cheddar cheese for some reason. The words with the most distinct tastes tend to be names, such as "James" tasting like sausage, "Chris" tasting like green grapes, "Matthew" tasting like sliced apples, etc. I could go on and on, but there's so many, lol.
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#8re: Synesthesia
Posted: 4/30/15 at 10:08pm
I'm all ears.
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#9re: Synesthesia
Posted: 4/30/15 at 10:10pm
What does "dick" taste (or your preferred euphemism: "cock", "willy", "weiner", "dong", "pork sword" or just plain old "penis") like?
#10re: Synesthesia
Posted: 4/30/15 at 10:17pm
Um, well, the only one of those that has a taste is "wiener," and that really just tastes like a plain old hotdog to me. I'm not even joking.
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#11re: Synesthesia
Posted: 4/30/15 at 10:20pm
Well, that one actually makes sense. FYI, pineapple juice works, not just a myth. One last one for tonight. A few Broadway names:
Bernadette
Patti
Audra
Chita
Angela
Ethel
Is it cool if we bump this thread every now and then to get some more word-taste associations from you?
#12re: Synesthesia
Posted: 4/30/15 at 10:25pm
Pineapple juice?
Bernadette: No taste. (Although "Peters" tastes like canned pears.)
Patti: No taste.
Audra: No taste. (Although "McDonald" tastes like thick, non-salty fries.)
Chita: Taco meat.
Angela: Bananas.
Ethel: No taste.
And yep, I'm cool with that!
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#14re: Synesthesia
Posted: 4/30/15 at 10:51pm
I want to say al pastor.
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#15re: Synesthesia
Posted: 4/30/15 at 11:15pm
That is amazing. Hopefully with the slice of grilled pineapple that any legit taco truck is going to serve al pastor with.
#16re: Synesthesia
Posted: 5/1/15 at 5:24pm
I have never heard of this but I have it to a certain extent. Like Tuesday is yellow. Certain names are yellow, like Kyle, Todd, Kevin. A meatball is Thursday. There's too many to mention.
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#17re: Synesthesia
Posted: 5/1/15 at 5:49pm
That's interesting, Jane! Is yellow the most common one that you associate words with, or was that just the main example you could think of at the moment?
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#18re: Synesthesia
Posted: 5/1/15 at 6:02pm
Yellow is the strongest connection I have to words and names. there are others but I would have to spend time bringing them to mind.
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#19re: Synesthesia
Posted: 5/2/15 at 8:06pm
I've always seen the days of the week as colors.
Sunday is orange
Monday is turquoise
Tuesday is hot pink
Wednesday is pastel green
Thursday is pastel purple
Friday is very light pink
Saturday is red
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#20re: Synesthesia
Posted: 5/3/15 at 4:05am
Tuesday is Prince Spaghetti Day! 
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#21re: Synesthesia
Posted: 5/3/15 at 9:43am
I always thought of Thursday as purple, but I think it's because of the two sounding similar with the "ur"
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#22re: Synesthesia
Posted: 5/3/15 at 10:22am
My friend was talking about colors with her five & seven-year-olds. One told her that money was green. She said, "It sure is! What else is green?" Seven-year-old said, "Grass!" The five-year-old said, "Laughter?" We've laughed for years about how beautiful it was. Maybe he is a synesthete, too!
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