[anarchitektur]

Yes, I have two rare forms of synesthesia. Refer to the first thread @alextyrian posted for more info.

I know... but one that doesn't have the side effects and health risks...

Everything has side effects and health risks, so you may as well wish for a unicorn while you're at it. That being said, psychedelics are relatively harmless. I say this as someone who has taken LSD roughly two dozen times, as well as LSA, mescaline, psilocybin, DMT, DXM, and salvia divinorum. The only lasting side effect I have experienced to date, aside from a profoundly altered worldview, is that objects appear to vibrate slightly when I'm in the dark.

[nadjasix]

The only lasting side effect I have experienced to date, aside from a profoundly altered worldview, is that objects appear to vibrate slightly when I'm in the dark.

Definitely makes you realize what's important in life...

People who are not 'experienced' ('are you experienced?') seem very hung up on things that don't matter. Like materialism and envy and jingoism and group narcissism.

[graceelaine]

Synesthesia is probably the most enviable mental oddity to have. Honestly...to taste colors? Or hear textures? Yes please.

And my stories of this aren't all that great. I do know that certain qualities of light immediately warm my mood. In a more tangible example...I've always had the conviction of certain numbers having gender. 2 is a girl, 1 is definitely a boy, 6 is a boy, etc. etc.

[myexplodingcat]

That is a horrible thing to say about Thursday :(

So you associate brown with horrible?

I have always associated the days of the week with colors.

Sunday--various yellows, gold or lemon or whatever
Monday--kind of a mauve
Tuesday--lilac
Wednesday--blue, a middle-colored kind of sky blue
Thursday--dark purple
Friday--usually a dark orange gold
Saturday--sort of a pinkish, orangeish dark red... it's very hard to describe, but it's the color I want to paint my room.

I associate books with the place where I read them for the first time. I also associate songs this way. Sometimes it's more the mood of the place than the place itself that gets wrapped into my associations.

I also have odd patterns with music. It's either Emily or Only Skin (both Joanna Newsom) that reminds me of a bird trying to fly. I associate The Butterfly (Slainte) with a very active kind of Irish dance. And I have sort of a mental choreography for other music, where it's not necessarily a kind of movement that a human could (or was meant to) actually do. It is kind of like other people have described, but it changes from song to song, or artist to artist.

I also find myself punctuating real-life dialogue with mental novel tags. It's sort of automatic after a while.
"I think the Taco Bell menu was devised my fifteen-year-old guys," she said, looking wistfully at the burrito dripping with spicy honey mustard taco sauce.

[SomeWeirdGuy]

I'm irritatingly normal in this field.

[Longdove]

So you associate brown with horrible?

No, not I. I don't mind either Thursdays or Brown.

[myexplodingcat]

I enjoyed that other thread people mentioned. Since it seems to be deserted, I'll post from the ideas those people gave me in here.

Seems I have a lot more forms of this than I remember. I'm not sure how much of this actually is synesthesia and how much is my right brain running junk together and making weird associations, as usual.

I have a very serious case of Synesthesia, in "every-which-way" you can imagine. I have an "almost" photographic memory.

I love "loud" colors! I have favorite numbers, I love colorful, fresh food, I memorize and write music... etc

Like Custer, my senses were profoundly overwhelmed in South Dakota...

My favorite number has always been 2. It has a sweet personality. And 4 is green and mathematical. I'm not sure how many other numbers have these personalities. 3 is always yellow. I think the colors might come from the I Spy book I had as a kid. I read just about every book I had about a bajillion times. I learned to read pretty early.

I remember "large" things from a scene, or remember things that catch my attention well.

Back when I used WordPerfect with its simple gray background, I could easily imagine people's conversations and words appearing as if I had typed them in WP. It was kind of like having closed captioning at will

I'm also very good at memorizing music and the words to it. I'm not good at writing music on command, but for me, poems often run rhythmically in my head to a song I know, or one I invent. Most poems automatically go to "I Saw Three Ships" if nothing else.

I used to be able to count that way. When I was little, you could have put a long row of small dots on a page and I'd be able to count them very quickly, several at a time, without putting my finger on them or anything. I think I've grown out of it, which is sad. It was a nice skill.

I can also sing a song, word-perfect, while writing something totally different, even if the text is in French (which is not my native language) and the song is in English (which is). I also have this compulsive thing where a song gets stuck in my head and I find myself trying to translate it and make it fit the tune. I think so much that when I do stuff like this, it's half-conscious--I'm doing something else and not even realizing I'm thinking it until I'm interrupted. It's like a dream. Sometimes I forget what I was thinking.

Oh, and I can write normally with my right hand while writing backwards with my left. It's not actually as difficult as it sounds, and I recommend people try it to see if they can. My left-hand writing is messy, but it's not hard to write that way. You just make letters symmetrical from the line that divides where you started. It's hard to explain. It's easier to get it accurately backwards that way because if you only write with one hand, then you start thinking in backwardsness and you think you're writing the normal way, so you reverse it again. It's really weird.

I can also read backwards, upside down, and sideways.

Edit: You notice most of these are word-oriented? I grew out of one of my two number-oriented ones.

[DeductiveReasoner]

I don't think I have true synethesia per se, but ever since I was a kid, music had color. And it's only grown stronger since I've learned to read music and study musical theory. It's pretty cool though, and comes in handy when picking out costumes for dance performances.

Like the poster above me, I also have a knack for memorizing songs and words to songs. I also mentally categorize musical pieces based on their rhythm/emotional effect on me. Or rather, somehow the rhythm of the song induces a psuedo emotion in me. I dunno how to explain it. Don't think it necessarily has much to do with synesthesia though, so I'll just shut up now.

[koalaroo]

I don't have synesthesia constantly (or in the ways most have described it), but I do sort of have it in association with unpleasantly loud noises and migraines. The synesthesia in conjunction with migraine seems to be triggered primarily by noise as well, although in my less "severe" migraines I don't really experience this phenomenon. Sound triggers colors, patterns or textures (or some combination) in the worst migraines.

Not sure if that's normal or abnormal, although I think with the aura-type migraines it might be fairly common and that people don't recognize it.

[Mountain Climber]

I have a form of synesthesia where music makes spatial patterns.

How in the hell does a person get to 22,000 posts on here?? Skycloud, do you take showers, and eat, and stuff?

He's very true to his INTP'ness...