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Has anyone experianced Synesthesia?

To be more specific Auditory Synesthesia, from what I understand it is quite rare. At least when it isn't induced by hallucinogenics or other narcotics.

For those of who don't know what it is, it is basically a swapping of sensory perception. Like tasting sound, hearing colors and so on. As you may have guessed I can, at times, (not always, it's not some superpower) see sound traveling through the air like 3D ripples propagating in water...... A gift? I'm not so sure, it can make driving quite difficult when it kicks in.

However it has brought me to where I am today.....

Upon reflection I think it is a lot like A.D.H.D. (which I also have) - not a disease. You see, if control is learned or achieved over A.D.H.D., you can function on a different level than most.

My A.D.H.D (after mastering it's quirks) has made my life easier. By design A.D.H.D. makes your brain work at high speeds, hence the trouble children have with it. I found that if I could process the high speed information coming in, I could use it just as fast. Something I'm teaching my son to do now, hopefully saving him the problems I had adjusting as a child.

Like I said it is not a disease, in fact I believe it is a gift.

I just hope the Synesthesia can be just as useful. So let me know what you think..... disease or gift? Any extra information on this condition (Synesthesia) would be greatly appreciated.

Also I'd like to add that I am not an audio genius or anything, just like the A.D.H.D., you have to know what to do with the information coming in.

Andrew
Synesthesia Studios
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I think I may have experienced it once, when a youngster at school. Someone had thrown an apple at me and I put up my foot to block it and with the aid of adrenalin, everything went into super slow motion and there were ripples emanating from my foot along with the apple pieces.

The super slow-mo was due to the adrenalin rush but the ripples left me wondering. It may have been the sound coming out visually as a side effect.

Do you think that maybe due to your job and the inherent danger, the amount of adrenalin you experience is higher than normal and at a more constant rate? This may be a result of your conditioning but not the only one as the piano teacher mentioned lived a relatively sedate life (I would imagine).

Food for thought.

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Nonoise
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Makes you wonder if auras around bodies are nothing more than the visual aspect of the electrical impulses and signals our bodies make (I'm not referring to any kind of ESP).

I Sing The Body Electric!

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Nonoise
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In all seriousness, I've witnessed auras only when young and most notably at school with the teacher in front of of the blackboard. I never saw colors really, just a whitish border around folk. I thought it was normal as I've always seen them.

It wasn't until sometime in adolescence that they became less and less apparent and just about stopped being noticeable. It's very rare when I do witness this phenomenon, to the point that I don't pay any attention.

And no, I don't take drugs.

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Nonoise
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I think not as all my siblings (there was 6 of us) saw them and we all thought it normal but only talked to friends about it.

As with me, the tendency to see them faded as we got older. I would imagine that if there is such a thing as an innocuous hallucination that it wouldn't be familial and have occurrences lessen over time. Unless it's an inherited, optical disorder of sorts.

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Nonoise
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No. It was there all the time.

The ability to see it lessened through time, for all of us, as far as I know. Once I became aware of it and its implications, I paid somewhat more attention to it, trying to figure it out. Some people had minor auras and some had more prominent ones. Some appeared to have none, but it was just barely there. It was comparative in that one who had one could be standing next to someone who didn't have much.

I never could figure it out and just let it go to the wayside. Never even talked about it until now. Next time I go to the store I'll "see" if it's still observable and that I'm simply not paying attention to it.

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Nonoise
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On an aside, I trust this will not lessen the value or impact of my posts.

:-)

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Nonoise
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Many thanks.

I've just come home from shopping and am happy to report that there's nothing to report, aura wise. Nothing at all.

Save for the unicorn that cut me off on the way home.

All the best,
Nonoise
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