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Correctomundo said:
It's been discussed before, but I have six different kinds of synesthesia. The rarest causes words to have a flavor.
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Holy cow, I though having chromethesia was cool. I only see music, you get all of it!

Is it ever overwhelming? I get really overwhelmed if like, music is playing and someone is singing/playing something else. Oh and dubstep is really creepy lol
 
Well since nobody answered when I asked I'll just post a few of them.

Chuck Norris gave me an award.

I've played basketball with Shaquille O'Neil and sang on stage with BB King & Lucille.

I discovered a partial set of dinosaur fossils when I was 9 years old.

I discovered and participated in a sercret sumo tournament on a mountain top in the middle of nowhere.
 
Regiruler said:
He's not a known Saint perchance, is he?
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No, he was an eastern orthodox metropolitan bishop. It's standard burial custom for bishops and priests to be buried in vestments, they do all the same prayers as you do for a priest who is getting ready to celebrate the liturgy. The upright seated burial position is a very old and significantly less common tradition but still done in some places.
 
Correctomundo said:
It's been discussed before, but I have six different kinds of synesthesia. The rarest causes words to have a flavor.
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I know this may seem like a really random question but out of curiosity what is your favorite sort of music? I'd always imagined music would be an even more powerful experience for people such as yourself.
 
I woke up on an island 5 hours away from my apartment after blacking out

we had all been drinking heavily and doing other things and my idiot roommate decided to take my car with us in it down to Tybee Island, GA to visit our friends in a hotel there


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Had the cops show up at a hotel party I threw - bunch of underage (18ish) kids with alcohol and lots of weed. They searched us all and made fun of us for a little bit (my friend was wearing sunglasses at midnight for some reason and they were calling him Ray Charles) and made me break my bowl (weed pipe) out in the parking lot before they let us go.

And they forgot to take the weed. Or the alchohol.
 
Media said:
Holy cow, I though having chromethesia was cool. I only see music, you get all of it!

Is it ever overwhelming? I get really overwhelmed if like, music is playing and someone is singing/playing something else. Oh and dubstep is really creepy lol
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These have all been there for my whole life. I don't know what it's like to be without these reactions. Not really difficult to manage them. It's just me.

I also have chromethesia, but it's pretty mild. Dubstep and a good deal of thrash metal aren't as overwhelming as a lot of other people report, but it is pretty messy and crowded. I couldn't draw a picture of one if I tried.

The lexical-gustatory is the weird one. It makes certain words pretty unappealing and I will try to avoid using them, but I've gotten better about using them without much problem.

For example, the word "you". Fairly common and inoffensive, but it has this terribly tart, almost lemony flavor that sits in the back of my mouth like a really cloying aftertaste. I can use the word if I need to (and really, it's unavoidable), but I still experience the flavor, though I can ignore it if I have to.

The hard part comes in my actual hunger levels. Certain words are downright delicious and can antagonize a real hunger, making focusing on things even more distracting.

I'm very interested in the processes that develop these associations. I'm particularly interested in how certain words can taste like things that don't even exist anymore. This suggests that the connection is absolutely formed during childhood development. For instance, the words "sum", "summer", and "summit" elicit a strong flavor of the old candy bar called Summit. I don't think those things have been made in over 30 years. I certainly haven't had any since the early 80s at the latest. But the reaction is still there and it is quite strong. The obvious commonality is the "sum" phoneme. But how and when did this incomplete synaptic pruning occur is the big question.

There is data that suggests there is a genetic disposition, and I know that my mother has some very mild synethesia and a brutal form of OCD (that I apparently also inherited), so it's all probably her fault. =D

Delibes said:
Could you possibly do an AMA on reddit?
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Probably not. I'm not a user and have no intention of going there. But I'd be happy to answer any questions here or in PMs.

RexNovis said:
I know this may seem like a really random question but out of curiosity what is your favorite sort of music? I'd always imagined music would be an even more powerful experience for people such as yourself.
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I don't really have a favorite. Honestly, I like all forms of music, but I can be turned off of individual songs because the sound has an uncomfortable texture or a set of lyrics antagonize my stomach. I really like classical, and it's the easiest to clearly visualize. I could paint a picture of probably most pieces.

I have a personal preference for hard rock and glam/hair metal from the 70s and 80s, but that was when I was a kid, so that might be unrelated.

The interesting part is that sometimes music won't have a flavor, or a clear picture, but it has a scent or "mood" or personality. I have been turned off of music because the music seems to "not like me", if that's a way to say it.
 
I worked in the White House/DC during most of the Obama presidency. During the 08 campaign I attended a fundraiser in California hosted by a Hollywood donor. The guy kept hitting on me; I guess he thought I was gay. I played along, mainly to ensure things went as smoothly as possible; anything for the job (well, not anything lol). He ended up sending me some nice gifts a week later.
 
I have an accidental "tattoo."

A few years ago a friend threw a pen at me, and the writing end happened to hit the back of my hand dead-on. It broke the skin and some ink got in, so now I have a permanent black dot on the back of my hand.
 
I have a banana shaped penis. I routinely get squirted on or straight peed on by women I date. It's usually ok but one time I dated this girl and she had a really strong reaction when on top. Since it came out body temp I didn't realize it had happened. Went to the gym and realized I smell like fucking pee and ran home to shower. She flatly denied it until it happened again and again. I ended up breaking up with her over it bc it just got to the point where I was scared/worried to have sex with her bc sometimes it would be a lot.
 
When I was a freshman in college I convinced the Dean of business studies to let me teach an ESL program he hosted for students visiting from Tokyo Denki University. The other two teachers were long time educators with doctorates and I had no professional experience as an educator. At the end of the program we were rated on our abilities by the professor that shaporoned the students and I received the highest score.

The first short story I submitted (which was the second one I ever wrote) was picked up by three literary journals within a three week period. Everybody told me the odds of my first story even being published at all were slim to none so I figured what the hell.
 
I'm a news anchor for a large radio corporation. I work in a building with seven stations within, so we get a lot of "celebrity" types who are interviewed on the morning shows, and things like that....... Now the strange thing I have to share, is that I have a list at my desk of celebrities who are side-saddlers......aka people who come in and use the urinal right next to the one you're releasing into while there are many other urinals available. I'll give you one: Tom Morrello.
 
Tagyhag said:
I've played over 8,000 hours of Runescape.
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Sadly, this is easily believable.
Do you still play? Have the updated the graphics, or does it still look like a PSX game?
 
My real name is Talon.

After 911 and the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, my parents emptied their back account and offered me the money to dodge the draft(that never happened). I turned it down.
 
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Media said:
Holy cow, I though having chromethesia was cool. I only see music, you get all of it!

Is it ever overwhelming? I get really overwhelmed if like, music is playing and someone is singing/playing something else. Oh and dubstep is really creepy lol
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How do you even see that?

Have you had it since you were a child? If so, what was it like finding out others didn't have this?

This is definitely a case of "grass is always greener", an ability like yours seems so interesting and fantastic, while it's probably a hindrance for you.
I'm almost a tad giddy, this sort of interaction is a favorite of mine in literature.
 
I was born in an ambulance, on a freeway, (in route to hospital) during the afternoon rush hour in Los Angeles.

My wife likes to joke that I was annoying people as soon as I was born.
 
Correctomundo said:
These have all been there for my whole life. I don't know what it's like to be without these reactions. Not really difficult to manage them. It's just me.

I also have chromethesia, but it's pretty mild. Dubstep and a good deal of thrash metal aren't as overwhelming as a lot of other people report, but it is pretty messy and crowded. I couldn't draw a picture of one if I tried.

The lexical-gustatory is the weird one. It makes certain words pretty unappealing and I will try to avoid using them, but I've gotten better about using them without much problem.

For example, the word "you". Fairly common and inoffensive, but it has this terribly tart, almost lemony flavor that sits in the back of my mouth like a really cloying aftertaste. I can use the word if I need to (and really, it's unavoidable), but I still experience the flavor, though I can ignore it if I have to.

The hard part comes in my actual hunger levels. Certain words are downright delicious and can antagonize a real hunger, making focusing on things even more distracting.

I'm very interested in the processes that develop these associations. I'm particularly interested in how certain words can taste like things that don't even exist anymore. This suggests that the connection is absolutely formed during childhood development. For instance, the words "sum", "summer", and "summit" elicit a strong flavor of the old candy bar called Summit. I don't think those things have been made in over 30 years. I certainly haven't had any since the early 80s at the latest. But the reaction is still there and it is quite strong. The obvious commonality is the "sum" phoneme. But how and when did this incomplete synaptic pruning occur is the big question.

There is data that suggests there is a genetic disposition, and I know that my mother has some very mild synethesia and a brutal form of OCD (that I apparently also inherited), so it's all probably her fault. =D

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That is so interesting! And yeah, I've heard that our associations appear in childhood, which is likely why dubstep and the like bother me so much. Someone growing up with a parent into dubstep that has it would likely have better formation with it and it wouldn't e as jarring. And the lexical-gustatory thing is cool. I've heard that it basically proves the childhood development thing, because people that, for example, never tried curry as children but did as adults have no associations with curry. It's fascinating.


Regiruler said:
How do you even see that?

Have you had it since you were a child? If so, what was it like finding out others didn't have this?

This is definitely a case of "grass is always greener", an ability like yours seems so interesting and fantastic, while it's probably a hindrance for you.
I'm almost a tad giddy, this sort of interaction is a favorite of mine in literature.
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Yeah I've had it for as long as I remember. Thought everyone saw music that way. Found out in my early teens when someone called me crazy for talking about a song I liked with visual words. Shut up about it, thinking maybe they were right, and then heard about the condition and was vastly reassured lol.

I see it..it's hard to describe. I always say it's like trying to describe seeing in color to someone who only sees in black and white. It's just there, like color and light. It doesn't usually bother me, unless as I said, there are two conflicting pieces of music playing, dubstep, and things like sirens and sudden loud musical like sounds. I imagine it's the same with all people; no one likes sirens right? :p
 
Media said:
Holy cow, I though having chromethesia was cool. I only see music, you get all of it!

Is it ever overwhelming? I get really overwhelmed if like, music is playing and someone is singing/playing something else. Oh and dubstep is really creepy lol
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I'm kinda jealous. I wish I could see music.
 
I have canine tooth without root that hold out since 20 years. My dentist always wonders how its still healthy and in place.
But I want to remove it the end of this year and replace it with an implant.

so you can see my life is boring.
 
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