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Does anyone else experience this?
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Well, I've got this thing since as long as I remember.
Basically whenever I'm talking to someone my mind interprets the other person's words and creates abstract landscapes or objects. What this means is that, for example, if I lose track of what I'm saying I don't try and remember what the other person said but what landscape and/or object my mind had previously created.
This not only happens with speech but also with music. For example, I love hearing Glitch just for the mental imagery that I know I will surely obtain (I always imagine landscapes such as the ones depicted by Wassily Kandinsky or Nadir Afonso)
So what I wanted to know, for years if I might say, is if this is normal or if this happens with anyone else, any help would be appreciated so thanks in advance
Basically whenever I'm talking to someone my mind interprets the other person's words and creates abstract landscapes or objects. What this means is that, for example, if I lose track of what I'm saying I don't try and remember what the other person said but what landscape and/or object my mind had previously created.
This not only happens with speech but also with music. For example, I love hearing Glitch just for the mental imagery that I know I will surely obtain (I always imagine landscapes such as the ones depicted by Wassily Kandinsky or Nadir Afonso)
So what I wanted to know, for years if I might say, is if this is normal or if this happens with anyone else, any help would be appreciated so thanks in advance
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I've never heard of this before. At least, not coming from somebody who was sober.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
In short though, it's not exactly typical, but you don't mention it causing you any problems really, so it seems like just a different method that your brain has of processing things.
(Was this post clear enough? English is not my native language and I might have mistaken myself trying to come up with complex sentences so sorry about that
You don't have any other funky mental/emotional/perceptual stuff going on, do you?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I already thought about being a painter and using these weird, abstract landscapes and objects as an inspiration but I think that to achieve in painting one must know how to paint, thus having the ideas is not enough.
I've also thought about being an architect or just a designer but heh, if you ask me, I'd love to be able to do everything there is involved with arts
For now I'm simply learning to make music as I've already had to make my own personal way of "saving" all the compositions and loops that come to my mind during the day, I've invented a neat pictoric system, it's quite nice actually as no one else understands it and think of it as being just scribbles :P
But more on-topic, so, uhm, yeah, I guess I have some sort of undocumented synaesthesia, it really doesn't affect me so why bother with it, eh?
hehe, though when i dont take care of myself i get like that sometimes.
If this is a persistent thing that has been occurring across your lifetime, I would suggest contacting someone involved in Synesthesia research. I'm sure they would love to document your synesthesia and write up a nice paper on it, if in fact what you are a synesthete. A rare case of synesthesia was found in a woman would taste notes (When Colored Sounds Taste Sweet: Beeli, Esslen, and Jencke; in case anyone is interested and has access to scholarly journals).
The research involving synesthetes is very new, and combining that with the fact that a synesthete has no idea that they are unique until they learn about synesthesia creates a very large deficiency in the uncovering of new types. So basically, there is some researcher out there who would be dying to talk to with you and document it, if in fact you do have a form of synesthesia.
Well it could be. Or you could learn more about it. Really you do have a unique ability.
Definitely sounds like synaesthesia to me.
Still being one out of thousands when we're talking about billions still makes you very unique.
For example, a three is definitely a brown, a two is a white, an eight a blue and so on.
I also have this psychotic feeling where I have to balance everything i do. Like if I close my left eyes once, I gotta close my right right after the same amount of time. If I accidentally brush my left hand against the wall while walking, I gotta walk to the right and brush my right hand slightly on the right wall.
This is normal, right?
This is a more common form of Synesthesia called Grapheme-Color synesthesia, and it's actually quite well documented.
The first part I mean, the second part sounds more like some sort of OC tendency.
I hope so - I'm not much for the OCD part, but I definitely associate things like days, numbers, certain letters, etc. with colors. Not strongly, but it's definitely there if I think about it and if I see the word "Monday" colored anything but some shade red (if the days are colored differently from each other) I notice that it's "wrong."
By the way, you are incorrect, sir: 3 is green, 2 is red, and 8 is light orange. Get it right! :P
Don't take this the wrong way or anything, but you are fascinating.
How can 3 be green? 3 is a bad guy number, it is rough and not afraid to do the dirty work. That characteristics is definitely a brown. 2 is a cool guy, he's lean and doesn't really give a shit about what others think about him so he's definitely a white or a really light blue. 8 is definitely a dark blue, it's the colour of age and maturity which 8 definitely possess.
I can slightly recall that I used to associate alphabets with colours too but nowadays all I can gleam from them is whether they're a "lightie" or a "darkie".
Wikipedia seems to reveal that we, sir, are one in 2000. So we aren't exactly that rare it seems. Try looking it up, it's an interesting read.
it's funny, because I'm actually the opposite-- I have literally no visual memory at all. my brain, for some bizarre reason, has just never been able to hold pictures in it. everything is audio, including visual memories (places like my old house, etc. are all narrated descriptions).
it's really interesting hearing this stuff because we all think in such different ways. I listen to a fuckton of music and public radio, whereas I watch almost no tv. I can't get into visual art AT ALL, I just have no appreciation for it.
Wait, I don't get this.
You can't remember any form of visual imagery at all?
How do you remember people's faces then? Dude, you really need to get that checked out because I think that can be classified as a bit of a disability.
I mean, I don't know what I would do without my wank bank to keep me accompanied at long nights without entertainment..
Janson, holy shit.
I do the exact same thing.
Creepy.
But I thought it was stupid and stopped doing that
And I forgot about your comment Aydr, sorry!
Sometimes I simply imagine abstract imagery on top of real things, for example, just the other day I was talking to my girlfriend and while she was talking I was imagining these white-ish progress bars along her left cheek that would fill up whenever she talked, yeah, I know, crazy, that's what I probably am after all :P