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.
