#spacial sequence synesthesia

[synesthete-culture-is]

spacial sequence synesthesia culture is thinking your christmas holiday goes for a third of the year, because december takes up so much space behind you

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[snailstrail]

my experience with synesthesia

i have associative grapheme-color synesthesia + ordinal linguistic personification + spacial sequence synesthesia.

let me break that down

synesthesia - "Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway"(Wikipedia). basically, one sense triggers the sensation or association of another sense.

associative synesthesia - this is the more common kind of synesthesia. as opposed to projected synesthesia, those who experience associative synesthesia do not literally feel/see/experience this phenomenon physically. rather, there is a strong involuntary association between two senses. while someone with projected synesthesia might physically See the colors associated with a sound, someone with associative synesthesia will see it only in the minds eye.

grapheme-color synesthesia - this is the most prevalent/researched kind of synesthesia. someone with grapheme-color synesthesia has a natural association of letters, numbers, words, and even shapes to colors. for example: the letter A is yellow, the number 1 is blue, the word synesthesia is pink, and circles are red. (this is only my experience though. every synesthete is different)

ordinal linguistic personification - this co occurs with many types of synesthesia but is most commonly found in synesthetes with grapheme-color synesthesia. ordinal linguistic personification is when a synesthete percieves letters, numbers, words, days of the week, months, ect as having specific genders, personality traits, and even relationships with eachother. for example: five is red, she is an aries. stubborn, loud, confident, funny. she is friends with six who is purple and a libra. she is fair, shy, sweet, easygoing.

spacial sequence synesthesia - this can also be called visio-spacial synesthesia. those who experience it percieve sequences like letters, numbers, months, days of the week, ect. as occupying points in space. for me, because its associative, i see these things in my minds eye but those with projected synesthesia may see these things in the actual space around them. for example, the way i see months is they are in a circle around my head. all of them color coded of course. i can spin the circle around in my minds eye to move whatever month im focusing on towards the front of my head. so when january (blue) is in the front, august (orange) would be at the back of my head. gosh i hope that makes sense.

so basically

the letter T is green. he is a boy and is sort of a loner and he exists on a horizontal slider with all the other letters in standard alphabetical order.

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(i tried to make some of the words the color that they are in my brain but there arent too many color options so those colors are only as close as i could get to their Actual Colors)

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[soupydoopie]

If words have color for you, what color is my username??? :0

Also how do you visualize the calender here's mine

Aaaaaa a synesthesia question I’m so happy

Okay, a little background: Along with other kinds, I have color grapheme synesthesia, the projective kind. This means that when I look at words on a piece of paper (or in this case a phone screen), I actually see the corresponding colors in front of me. Of course, I know that the text is the color it really is (ex: white or black), and can even see it, but my vision is projecting the colors onto the letters. For me, each individual color of a letter shows in a word. So, if your name was Joe, it wouldn’t be all one color. It would be purple for J, white for O, and green for E. However if I’m reading too fast, it’ll come across as the color of the first letter (especially if it’s capital).

TL;DR: each letter has an individual color.

This is your name how I see it (gray blobs are to help see the white Os), I apologize if it’s hard to see the color of the Ys :’D Because I am limited by my own ability to choose colors, this is the best I could come up with via the app I used. It’s about as accurate as it gets! I love your user because it has very earthy tones (fitting for you as a person) and it’s easy on my eyes. Some words are hard to read but yours alternates in a way that’s easy for me :3

As for the calendar:

I see my calendar from right to left, color coded and with no abbreviations. The reason the letters aren’t individual colors here? Idk :P Brains are silly sometimes /lh

Tysm for the ask this was really super duper fun :D