#synesthesia?

[kaiabbot]

So like I understand that most animals aren't really defined by sex and definitely not gender for example a chicken can be both a male and a female just like most animals. But I have this weird thing where I sort of associate a gender with animals. For example spiders to me are feminine, dogs are guys although sometimes it depends on breed like chihuahua's and staffy's are women, tigers on the other hand are are equal to me.

And I cannot explain this at all but for me it makes total sense. Also no clue if this fits in the category of synesthesia, but yeah.

[tenobelisk]

SENSORS TO MAXIMUM #558

i gave up long ago trying to explain why if the music is too loud i can't see what is happening.

part of, i guess atypical stimulation responses? is not at first realising that it is rare and that most people don't experience movement that has a feel to it as well as a shape and sometimes a sound that is separate from what the average eyeball perceives.

it's not a hallucinated phenomenon for me.. it's more a visitation of a perception similar to post traumatic experiences but with echoes of the present instead of the past.

and it's the same with sound; that certain patterns of sound have a shape and a feel.

smell and taste thank goodness aren't like this for me. i can't imagine tasting earwax every time i hear the name Derek.

my fingernail beds tingle as i even think of the concerted, interlinking and fluid kinetics of a spider's movement. there's a sound to the webs also and their movement is both jarring and fluid at the same time.

watching a looped gif sometimes evokes emotional responses as i am revisited by the same shape or sound somewhat related to what i'm seeing but not in any way i can succinctly describe to someone who does not Get It.

it does make things more impactful and tends to fuel obsessive recurring thought patterns as i visit myself (and am visited by) the same Feelshapes(tm) repeatedly washing over me.. sometimes even to the point of mania, but not usually.

it also means that i end up really liking or really disliking things for reasons i cannot properly articulate to others. this has also meant that things i would normally steer clear of or be indifferent about gain this quality that draws me back to them for the unusual stimulus they provide.

i think it is a form of perceptive memory impact, like trauma, that cements the impression i have of something with multilayered sense memory.. which i guess is different to the impact of remembering something without this stimulus?

does all of this explain why my facial recognition and sense memory is just out-and-out and quite frankly phenomenally off the charts? that i can scroll through a folder of images and Feelshape(tm) something in my ears and eyes when i spot a repeated image? that i proofread like a fucking Mentat from Lawrence of the Nepo Babies?

[void-galaxy-art-stuffs]

So....when I read or hear words & names, I often see colours and patterns in my mind. This one is what Ian looks like to me, because I met someone named Ian today & felt inspired.

[Image ID: black background; bottom left corner has a small box of light blue text that says “MII: Mental Image of Ian”; bottom right corner is signed by the artist, “Nicolás Carriedo del Void Galaxy”; in the middle, block letters spell ‘Ian’, which is outlined in teal with a light green background that has electric green lines drawn across it. (/end ID)]

Let me know if you wanna see more of these. & as always, ¡reblogs are welcome!

~Nico

[high-fructose-jay-syrup]

does anybody else experience tastes as having shapes because i thought this was a universal human experience but when i brought up how i don't like milk bc of how round it tastes all my friends just looked at me like ??? and now i need to know

[attackradish]

Does anyone else here associate numbers with personality traits? Like nine is a responsible, serious person with long strait hair and is vaguely feminine? And three is a younger energetic male who’s into sports? And eight is either male or female and they are tall, quiet and intimidating, but probably won’t hurt you? Two digit and higher numbers are less likely to have this information, or have identical information to their first digit.

[lapinkpig]

[cutmefromthelight]

Fun with (maybe?) synesthesia: I'm so tired that I can smell my eyes burning