I know at least a couple of people with synesthesia, but they tend to experience sounds and words as different colors. This is the first time I've heard of a case involving the sense of touch.
I have overlap with touch... texture produces taste sensation, and sound produces sensory (and visual) sensation, but not to the degree described in the article. I don't have the colored words, my overlap is more diffuse.
Oh, wow. Did you find that unsettling when you realized you didn't feel senses like others do? Personally, I think you experience the world in a more complete way than my plain ol' vanilla senses do.
My mom mailed me a newspaper clipping on synesthesia in 2002. I'd never heard of it before, or considered that other people might not experience sensory stuff the way I do. Mom remembered me talking about how colors taste when I was small. (I got in more trouble from elementary school teachers for eating paint. I thought they were insane. Why on earth would I eat paint? I was just talking about how the colors tasted.)
I guess when I think about it, it's a little unsettling in the same way that reading that most people dream in black & white, not full color, and very few people have sensory input other than the visual stuff in dreams. It's sort of "But... they... oh, how sad, poor them!" I really can't get my head around what it would be like to hear and only hear, without also getting diffuse color washes overlaid in my vision, and then slight taste sensation from the color fields. When listening to music I generally close my eyes so I can watch the color show w/o visual disruption from the real world. (Linux Boy is reading over my
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I guess when I think about it, it's a little unsettling in the same way that reading that most people dream in black & white, not full color, and very few people have sensory input other than the visual stuff in dreams. It's sort of "But... they... oh, how sad, poor them!" I really can't get my head around what it would be like to hear and only hear, without also getting diffuse color washes overlaid in my vision, and then slight taste sensation from the color fields. When listening to music I generally close my eyes so I can watch the color show w/o visual disruption from the real world. (Linux Boy is reading over my ( ... )
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