Oct 21, 2015

(This a post I sent out to followers of 'The Hide'...thought I'd share with those of you following Cancer Nation, as well.) Thanks!

DO YOU HAVE  SYNESTHESIA?

I've gotten a couple of notes about folks here that experience some kind of Synesthesia, so thought I'd give you a little more on its various forms. It's pretty fascinating and they've only just begun to discover the way in which it shows up in folks. (Thus, 'The Hide')

Here goes...

* If you experiences letters or numbers with a specific color, you may have Grapheme-Color Synesthesia. 

* If certain sounds trigger the visualization of colored, generic shapes, often squares, circles, that kind of thing, you may have Sound-to-Color Synesthesia. 

* When a person thinks about numbers and  a number map is involuntarily visualized, they may have Number-Form Synesthesia. 

*  Ordinal-linguistic personification  is when an  individual experiences ordered sequences with various personalities. Ordered sequences may include numbers, letters, months and so on. For example, a person with OLP may look at the letter ‘A’ and think in his mind that ‘A’ is a rude letter. (I discovered all three of my daughters have this while studying up for The Hide).

* Lexical-Gustatory Synesthesia is when people experience a taste or smell with a certain phoneme or word. 

I'd love to know if anyone here has one or more of these. There are a few theories out there that synesthetes tends to be unique thinkers and I can think of no more creative group than this one.