NFs with Synesthesia?

I have grapheme-color, sound-color, and personality-color synesthesia. Basically it means that the nerves in my head are connected slightly differently than normally. I see lots of colors in my head--every number and letter has a different color, I see different colors of sounds (music is beautiful), and people each have their own color too.

Studies seem suggest that as many as 1 in 20 people have synesthesia (or has few as 1 in 20000). Most people who have it aren't really aware of the fact that they have it, I assumed that everybody saw the world the way I did until I read about the condition in my psychology class!

So are there any other nerdfighters with synesthesia?

Tags: synesthesia, synesthete

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Permalink Reply by Brad on August 18, 2008 at 8:13pm: That sounds incredible. : D; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Penpusher on September 30, 2009 at 2:58pm: Every time I read your comment I think it says "inedible" and I think "Well, duh." xD And then I realize my mistake.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by silky.weather on August 18, 2008 at 8:24pm: Oh man...
I have a degree of OLP (ordinal linguistic personification) synesthesia. Personally, I automatically assign a personality and a gender to most inanimate objects. I never knew that other people didn't think this way, until I read about it either.
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Permalink Reply by Flyyn duMartier on August 18, 2008 at 8:36pm: Wow, I've read about that type but never ever thought I'd meet somebody with it.

I don't mean to be rude, but for me numbers also have complete personalities. Sometimes when I'm bored in math class I imagine them them interacting, and when I was little I even wrote down stories of what happens when 3 met 9...do you ever do anything like that?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by anaward on August 20, 2008 at 2:42am: I used to do that sometimes, but with letters. :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Aleon on October 22, 2008 at 11:29am: I used to do that in math all the time. Some of the numbers just don't get along and have to be seperated.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Karlee on October 22, 2008 at 2:17pm: I do that with numbers and letters. I never realized it could be a "condition" haha. I just think we're special, awesome, cool. All of those things.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Manda Freno on September 27, 2009 at 5:54pm: i have a few types of synesthesia; and you're right, music is beautiful. i have all the same types that you do, plus i have OLP as well. it's the best thing in the world. I can't imagine living without it.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by emmet on December 6, 2008 at 2:02pm: there's a character who does that in...gah, can't remember name of the books right now, but it's a canadian trilogy about a british girl who comes to toronto during wwii. her name is norah and she has very firm ideas about the personalities of numbers. hm, now i want to read those books again and see if there's any other evidence of synaesthesia...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by dancingsparklepony on February 20, 2009 at 2:59pm: The Sky is Falling?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alan on December 23, 2008 at 9:42am: 6 is aftraid of 7. That's because 7 8 9.
Six is afraid of Seven. That's because Seven Ate Nine.
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Permalink Reply by Chiburger on December 23, 2008 at 2:11pm: I suppose so ^^D Couldn't help yourself, could you?

Actually I think it's just because 7 is pretty old and mighty while 6 is still a bit immature ;]; ▶ Reply to This