Synesthete calling... Ring ring...

  • xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex
    18 years ago

    Or taste colors, perhaps?
    Or taste smells?

    For, I do that. I just thought I was weird...I didn't think it was a disease...=/

    xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex

  • my name is Llama
    18 years ago

    ^^yeh i also do that sometimes. but i just call it being super intune with the sense..lol

  • xfAdInGxaWaYx
    18 years ago

    I don't have synesthesia but my younger brother has Autism and is highly sensitive to sight, smell, sound, taste and touch. For example he can't go on the computer unless there is music playing quietly 'coz the computer humming hurts his ears.

  • xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex
    18 years ago

    ^^^
    To your last paragraph:

    People really don't see their thoughts? That is baffling to me . . . I've ALWAYS seen what I thought. The concequences, the actions; I can even smell the surronding and taste the food.

    Wow, just from this random post, I'm learning more about myself. I really just thought I was weird in smelling tastes and tasting smells. And I certainly thought EVERYONE could see their thoughts. =/ Wow.

    xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex

  • Daisy if you do
    18 years ago

    wow. I didn't know that there was a name for such a thing. I too experience some of the above and thought it was the norm for most part. I taste colors and see my thoughts and have them categorized and then again into different subcategories according to importance.

  • Lovely Bones
    18 years ago

    "Or taste colors, perhaps?
    Or taste smells?"

    ^ Are you serious?! You can actually do that?

    This is intended to be serious btw, just incase anybody takes it as sarcastic (which I don't know why they would, but anyways..). I don't think I've ever heard of this before...

  • xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex
    18 years ago

    Lol, yes, it is possible.
    I've done it all my life, I just didn't know I was 'special.'

    xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex

  • sibyllene
    18 years ago

    Just a note - smelling tastes and tasting smells shouldn't be that weird - those senses are very connected, both physically and psychologically. if you look at a diagram of the head, the nasal cavity literally connects to the mouth, throat, and tongue. also, (though i don't know a ton about this) the chemical form that the smell of food takes as it enters your body is collected by the nose and mouth in a very similar way.

    this is why if you cut up raw potatos and apple slices, hold your nose and chew them, you likely won't be able to taste the difference between them. it's because the textures are so similar, and taste is affected drastically by smell.

  • silvershoes
    18 years ago

    How curious.