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I've been wanting to start this topic for the longest time, but I just kept forgetting about it! Well, right now I'm procrastinating on homework, so it's the perfect moment. ^^;

^In case you're not familiar with the subject at hand. I have only one solid strain of synesthesia, and it's with numbers. This is how I see them:

Yikes; that looks so much uglier than I thought it would...anyway, yeah, that's my perception of Arabic numerals. Although they usually change their 'tint' a little depending on the context: my brain doesn't like this picture, because the numbers shouldn't necessarily be those shades of those colors, considering the ones they're next to. But it'll have to do.

Anyway, It can help with memorizing things for tests...like, the Faraday constant (96485 C/mol) is all warm-colored numbers (kind of), stuff like that. But it gets me confused a lot, too, particularly with 2 and 4...sometimes I mix up numbers that start with 4 with ones that start with 2, because they're all 'red' to me. I don't have that issue with 5 and 9, though, even though their colors are just as similar. ¯ \ _(ツ) _ /¯

0 and 1 don't have specific colors...and that's it, I guess. I do see some letters in colors, but only a few, so I don't think it's worth mentioning.

I also have a tendency to think of people's voices as flavors...like grape juice, Coca-Cola, red wine, etc. Sometimes these flavors aren't even real: what I call the 'grape juice' voice comes from a specific depiction of grape juice I saw on a cartoon once, and I guess I just conceptualized it somehow. So if I think you have the grape juice voice, what I'm really thinking is that 'you sound like what that looked like it tasted like'. Hehe. ^^;

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Songs have colors for me but afaik this one is pretty common.

And my brain claims words starting with "kl" have a taste. They taste like pasta. :confused:

Mmm...no, I don't think so. I've heard voices that sound like, say, vinegar, but in those cases the actual sound disturbs me more than the associated flavor.

That's why I listed it as an afterthought, because I don't think it's a true instance of synesthesia: I don't actually taste the flavors, I just 'perceive' them. Like if you look into an unmarked bottle and get an idea of what its contents will taste like, something like that.

Oh dear. All those colors on the screen feel too hot, sharp, and rough. Smells and tastes also have textures and temperatures. Colors and sounds have flavor, texture, and temperature. Textures have flavors and temperature.

You'd think I'd be easily overstimulated by the sensory bombardment, but since I'd been this way all my life, it only really bothers me when something is particularly discordant. Now other people think I'm weird, because I have some likes and dislikes that could only make sense to a synesthete.

I can sometimes hear movement. I also strongly associate sounds with pictures.

Interesting! Is there any interaction with roman numerals or spelled out numbers? How do you see them?

If this question's for me:

Roman numerals...don't have any colors for me (maybe they might if I interacted with them more? It's hard to say).

Spelled out numbers have colors, but the impressions are slightly weaker. Like, if you write 'five' versus '5', the color shows up about the same, but if you write 'three hundred sixty-seven' vs. '367', the colors hardly show up at all for the worded version.

The exception to this is 'four', which shows up mega-brightly in almost any context. I think it's a combination of the fact that the letter f and the number 4 have similar shapes, and 4 is basically my favorite color, etc....there's probably a lot of threads of fate wound around that number. ^^ Sometimes I even start writing 4's instead of f's when I'm tired, or vice versa.