looking for another synesthete

I have synesthesia and would like to talk to someone else with it. I haven't met anyone EVER with it.

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EO,

I don't have it but I like to learn new things..

Can you say if not too personal how does your synesthesia manifest itself with you. I learn very quickly and can keep up with whatever you share...

Wanna talk???

Chris

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[Daesin]

How does yours manifest? Mostly I can smell when the water is too hot.

I've actually never told anyone that. It just makes you sound so, different.

Blessings to all

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Mine manifest in a lot of ways. my letters have color. My numbers have personalities like I could carry a convo with them if I wanted. Some names I can taste/smell/touch. I can also hear sound.

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As strange as that sounds it makes sense. I don't understand why only one sense has to be involved. yes I can smell the temperature of water.

When do you realize that others didn't?

How old are you now?

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I didn't really know it wasn't normal till 8th grade. I'm 16 now and a junior in high school

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When did you realize it?

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Oh honey it's perfectly normal, it's just not typical. You can ask any painter and they feel the colors. Musicians anguish over the right note. Authors who taste the pain of their creations.

It's normal honey, just not typical.

What you have to decide is whether you're going to utilize this or let it freak you out and drag you down. Will it be an asset or an obstacle.

Not only can I smell the water, but I've learned to be able to taste and see emotions on people. It served me very well in my career. I was able to use it to read people and know when they were lying and when they were honest.

My kids hated it by the way.

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Thats so cool!

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I don't tell anyone really 'cause they always look at me like I'm a weirdo

[Daesin in reply to Hidden]

I could always see colors on people to match their mood. But I never realized what that meant. I asked my sisters and they saw it too. I never really thought much about it.

During undergrad school I started learning about the technical terms. I never even thought about the water issue or mood color as being strange. After all, I grew up in a home where two of my sisters also matched colors with feelings. extreme moods of others could sometimes even produce a taste.

It was helpful at times. I thought people were defective if that they couldn't. Learning that it wasn't typical was a shock.

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Lucky! my brother and parents don't have it

[Reading_Rando]

I hope im not getting too philosphical or academic here and over thinking things (even though that's probably exactly what Im doing) but I think that all human senses are bassically illusions that our brain creates to allow us to understand the world (neuroscience largely supports this).

Like we cant actually understand electromangentitc radiation (light) directly so our brain invents colors and shades so that this thing that is normally intagible can be understood by us. I think that synesthesia is really no wierder or stranger than any other sense humans have.

People often assume that we all experience the senses most of us have (sight, hearing smell, ect.) the same way but, there really is no way to know for sure that this is the case. If synesthesia's existance proves anything, it proves theres more than one valid way to experience and understand the world.

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Cool

[Champagne03]

Hello?? I have this. I just discovered there was an actual word for this condition. I’ve searched my whole life for answers and no one could help me. I had been evaluated by so many therapists and psychologists and no one was able to say anything about it. But, I knew I wasn’t crazy or living with a mental disorder. I am a professional, age 48, female. Mom of 2 children.

I feel it is a handicap for me, since it is a constant distraction, but I’ve learned to function and no one would know anything was unusual in day to day interactions. I used to never say anything ever, out of fear and I started telling my most closest friends and partners, husbands, but it never quite could come out sounding normal. I know I’ve isolated myself because of it. It’s awkward relating this to anyone. I feel alone in this world in an unusual way. I socialize well, and love to learn. High IQ and extremely intuitive- My world is color energy on any living thing, or anything that emits energies. It is transcribed as colors in the mind. Also sound frequency creates colors in varying hues with its vibrational changes, so minor, no one would notice except my strange self.

People are the most complex- in that their emotional states or moods or thoughts emit energy changes in their auric fields and it rapidly changes or is multi layered in intensity. Old vs new, acute vs chronic. Shapes of energy fields also are defined because of the color presentation.

Anyway, it’s been this way as long as I can remember as a child. I tried to communicate early in life with my parents, they were quite taken back by my unusual perception of life around me- and saved journals and art often made reference to these odd understandings .

I feel the older I get, the more prominent it has become, and causes me more anxiety. My walls deflection seem so weak lately and my sense of “ “wonderment” , is just tired out I guess. People that I’ve told just are baffled and quite frankly freaked out. Unfortunately, it leaves people kind of vulnerable. As I can see their emotional states and pain- or dark negative fields- big or small, old or new.

Anyone else out there that can relate? I appreciate your response. Thank you!