The colorful and delicious-smelling synesthesia thread!

[trilbyulatingDungeoneer]

aaah god blueberry muffins :L what do the words blueberry muffin smell like? XD

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also, time is actually one of the human senses. owo

there are like twelve or so in total, I think, heh

[OrangeAipom]

temperature is a sense

[trilbyulatingDungeoneer]

So's sensing electricity. ^^ I'm particularly good at that, too.

[Twentisix]

I would never claim to be synestetic (not how its spelled dont care bla) but

26 is the best number. I just love that number, it is great.

[ceilingotaku]

My favorite number's gotta be 2. It's so helpful and useful! 8D

[unbridledExüberance]

I wish controlled synesthesia was something you could buy. Seriously.

I understand how it works, but it's still mind-boggling to think about having that. It sounds like something that would be really awesome too have for a little bit before it starts to get really really really annoying. I am right about that?
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I SO wish I could seriously say "That paint has a kind of pants hue to it" or "why does green broccoli taste like chartreuse?" or "I tried the new Ubuntu release but it smelled too much like bacon, it made me hungry".

temperature is a sense

So's sensing electricity. ^^ I'm particularly good at that, too.

Those are really just subsets of the sense of touch.

[Twigwise]

So apparently scientists discovered the most relaxing tune ever. Aaaah it's heavenly. It's got the brightness and warmth of a desert, so there's a lot of yellow and blue, but there's a definite echo of this really pretty lavender and teal. Aaaaaah it's so pretty!

[AnatidaeCollector]

@Orange: No, unless they have that much of an accent that they don't pronounce one of the letters or something.
@trilbyulationDungeoneer: Blueberry actually smells like mixed berries, and muffin smells citrusy with a hint of vanilla. Combined, they smell a bit like blueberries and cream, or even kind of like blueberry muffins, because you have tartness+berries+vanilla. And watch your language, mister!
@Unbridled: It doesn't really annoy me unless the colors for one thing don't match up (in the periodic table, it's common for the symbol to not match the atomic number/mass at all, which bugs me), or if the smells are really strong. Usually, I don't really even notice them, but late at night, when I have a migraine, or when I shower, sometimes the smells get grossly strong. Although some smells, like pale icy greenish blue, are just plain nasty any time of the day. Freezer-burnt food? Do not want. DX

[Fish]

Man, I've got colourblindness!

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and everyone in this thread.

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[goofoofighter]

Jane and Mom's convo was like a sugar-coated olfactory out-of-body experience.

I just want to like, hoard this quote forever. I want to tuck it away in my jacket and pet it when I get frightened or disturbed and whisper to it that it's my precious and mommy will never let it be stolen. Either that or slap it on a package of fruit gushers HOORAH! SUGAR-COATED OLFACTORY OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE GUSHERS. BUY THEM NOW!!!

I want to know more about how this "tangible time" sense is... I just... the thought boggles my mind. To feel time. I've only been able to do that in my dreams, where it feels like a string being pulled from an inch above my belly button, as if the spool were inside me and the thread was slowly being pulled ahead. Unfortunately those dreams usually lead to an impending doom that is near-to-effing-impossible to break free of. uuuuuuuugh [/often plagued by nightmares]

[BRPXQZME]

I wish controlled synesthesia was something you could buy. Seriously.

Uncontrolled synesthesia is something you can buy, technically. But you have to time-travel to the 60s to get it legally....

[trilbyulatingDungeoneer]

[QUOTE=goofoofighter;5816986]

I want to know more about how this "tangible time" sense is... I just... the thought boggles my mind. To feel time. I've only been able to do that in my dreams, where it feels like a string being pulled from an inch above my belly button, as if the spool were inside me and the thread was slowly being pulled ahead. Unfortunately those dreams usually lead to an impending doom that is near-to-effing-impossible to break free of. uuuuuuuugh [/often plagued by nightmares]

It's like... no matter if I'm standing, lying on my front, or whatever, I always feel that I could fall backwards at any time. And whenever an amount of time has passed where I know how long it'd be, like for traffic lights or something, I always feel like I've been let go of, if that makes sense? Like the wait is a physical thing holding onto me. I can always be patient enough to wait for something, though, because I'll know when the feeling changes. It does make my memory a bit porked, though, because I'm not experiencing the same sensation anymore. >

[unbridledExüberance]

I wish controlled synesthesia was something you could buy. Seriously.

Uncontrolled synesthesia is something you can buy, technically. But you have to time-travel to the 60s to get it legally....

Wait, what? What is this referencing? I MUST KNOW.

[OrangeAipom]

So apparently scientists discovered the most relaxing tune ever. Aaaah it's heavenly. It's got the brightness and warmth of a desert, so there's a lot of yellow and blue, but there's a definite echo of this really pretty lavender and teal. Aaaaaah it's so pretty!

It reminds me of 3 in the Morning for some reason.

[Varkarrus]

Sometimes, I associate things with colors, the main one I remember at the moment being I associate Wednesday with Blue.

[sigilyph]

temperature is a sense

iirc, touch has three components- texture, temperature, and pressure. An interesting example of how this blurs is when you put your hand in water- the sensation of water usually is coolness and pressure. Find something metal outside, like a metal bar on a playground, and close your eyes while running the back of your hand along it. You can trick yourself into thinking its water.

Pain is pain- nocioceptors detect that. I guess that is also a human sense.

[Phantasmagoria]

Tastes are shapes for me. Specifically, planar shapes. I also had something with music when I was a kid(around 6-7), but I lost the synesthesia component. I kept the perfect pitch and the eidetic memory for melodies.

Or maybe I unconciously blocked it, because it pretty much ceased after a school assembly where the principle played a slideshow to jet-engine-loud rock music and EVERY STUDENT IN THE HALL WAS SCREAMING "[COLOR="rgb(0, 0, 0)"]I DID THAT[/COLOR]," at the top of their lungs over and over again. Ear rape does not even begin to describe it.

[Varkarrus]

I'm going to stay out of this thread due to jealousy.

[AnatidaeCollector]

Tastes are shapes for me. Specifically, planar shapes. I also had something with music when I was a kid(around 6-7), but I lost the synesthesia component. I kept the perfect pitch and the eidetic memory for melodies.

Or maybe I unconciously blocked it, because it pretty much ceased after a school assembly where the principle played a slideshow to jet-engine-loud rock music and EVERY STUDENT IN THE HALL WAS SCREAMING "[COLOR="rgb(0, 0, 0)"]I DID THAT[/COLOR]," at the top of their lungs over and over again. Ear rape does not even begin to describe it.

That sounds physically painful. O_O
I wish I had perfect pitch, though. I'm learning guitar, and I color the chords by their letter names and the colors of the numbers of the fingers and frets (D7 is red, white, green on yellow background, A is pale red background with the same fingering since it's down a fret, etc), but that's nothing compared to perfect pitch.

[Namboto]

I'm going to stay out of this thread due to jealousy.

You can lucid dream, there's really no room for you to talk.

[Coasterman29]

I just have perfect pitch and a vast knowledge of music and all its components and a lot about it while others can taste music without being shocked by a synthesizer :<

[BRPXQZME]

I wish controlled synesthesia was something you could buy. Seriously.

Uncontrolled synesthesia is something you can buy, technically. But you have to time-travel to the 60s to get it legally....

Wait, what? What is this referencing? I MUST KNOW.

The colors, man... the colors....

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[trilbyulatingDungeoneer]

You can lucid dream, there's really no room for you to talk.

Oh well if we're getting into that, I think it's worth noting that when I wake up I am unappreciative of the fact that I can't move things telekinetically. I'm always aware that I'm dreaming. Always.

[Arkei]

Why does everybody else get cool smellivison and stuff when I all I get is the smell of blood when I get shocked.

[incorrectEnglish]

I wish I had perfect pitch, though. I'm learning guitar, and I color the chords by their letter names and the colors of the numbers of the fingers and frets (D7 is red, white, green on yellow background, A is pale red background with the same fingering since it's down a fret, etc), but that's nothing compared to perfect pitch.

It's a pain in the ass really, if you take music lessons seriously. It's made theory hell on earth for me because I get easily confused between what I hear and what the lecturer is talking about, especially with Baroque pieces as they are at Baroque pitch and not Concert pitch. And don't even get me started on transposing instruments >.>