Aspies For Freedom

If tasting metal when I hear certain sounds is synaesthesia. Then I have it.

Mmm... I get this a little, only when I'm tired.

The voice of a typical prep sounds pointy, and it sounds as though her voice was a needle stabbed into my eardrum. NOT PLEASANT.

Sometimes a guitar chord can sound shinier than another. That's because it has higher notes to it as well as low notes. It could probably be just me having to use a visual adjective because I don't know very many audial adjectives, as a musically challenged artist.

When I was really little, I always thought that hippos were loud, even though I didn't know what a hippo sounded like. It must be because of its size.

Sometimes, a sharp pain can feel like a triangle, and a dull pain can feel like a slightly curved line or a large circle.

I suppose this would be a type of synaesthesia. If you read words and hear them being spoken in your mind, since you are turning visual information into audio information automatically and consistantly. The opposite would also be synaesthesia, if you hear somebody speaking and see the words in your mind.

Sounds like a person who just hates preppy people XD.

That makes sense Luai, I suppose you couldn't count it due to its commoness.

Another thing I have that may be synaesthesia, happens when I listen to music and alot of sounds. It is very hard to explain. Each sound seems to have a specific location in space in my mind (but not in actual space, it is different than being able to tell where a sound came from, though it does influence it), which I sort of sense in a way that isn't using the normal 5, and the location changes as the music or sound moves.

I "see" colors in my mind's eye when listening to music and geometric shapes as well. I sometimes I have images of "moving through the universe", depending on the music. It's hard to explain.

When I look at a painting I "hear" music coming from it.

And I associate colors to numbers and letters. Numbers are the strongest for me. Numbers together (ex: 1839) look like a secret code that I must break.

S and E are feminine. A and P are masculine.

(Is that synaesthesia or anthropomorphism?)

Last night my neighbours were playing their subwoofer (the worst invention in history) and not loud, but the drumbeats are like Chinese water torture. When I'm tired they turn to flashes of cold light.

Numbers have colors and personalities as well. All + odd numbers masculine, and all + even numbers (except some of the ones that end in zero) are feminine. Numbers divisible by 3 remind me of warm colors, particularly yellow. Numbers divisible by 7 remind me of the cool colors. Numbers that are powers of 2 (2, 4, 8, 16...) are either pink, grey, or camel in color. Most prime numbers are either weird or homosexual, but they are the building blocks that determine the core personality of all their factors.
These desciptions above only apply to the positive numbers. If these were negative numbers, everything would be inverted, including the colors and genders.
When the decimal point of a number gets moved either direction, the number is still the same number, it is just projected to a different size. That's why some of the even numbers, such as 10, 30, 700, or 1000, are not consided feminine.

I've just made some Photoshop samples showing the words, colors, and textures associated with each number that stands out to me.

I see colors and patterns when I hear sounds; strangely, I don't hear sounds when I observe an image. I taste things when I touch them, also. Smooth things are sweet or smoky, soft, nubbly things are bland, pointed things are salty, squishy things taste gross, like mucus, sandy or gritty things are bitter, and rough, chunky things tend to be spicy. I also associate numbers and names with certain personalities, but I am not sure if this is truly a kind of synaesthesia or not.

Wow. You made me realise something I've never really noticed before, but always felt at the back of my mind. I totally get the odd = masculine, even = feminine thing!

I was thinking that everyone has synaesthesia, to a point. After all, when you press your fingers to your eyelids, the pressure of touch becomes colour.

I saw an ad for a show on the documentary channel called "Derek tastes of earwax" -- about synaesthesia. (I'm gonna watch that one when it airs.)

On the ad they said that about one in a hundred people have some degree of synaesthesia. Also they seemed to imply that a lot of Shakespearean metaphores may have been the result of synaesthesia. Not sure on that one -- what you think?

I sometimes write synaesthesiast experiences for some of my fictional characters. That's always interesting to do.

^ Might do if I even had much of a sense of smell at all. lol