Do you have any form of Synesthesia? 32
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Grapheme-Colors - for me letters, numbers or words are colored (14) 44%
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Spatial sequence - for me numbers, dates or time appear like on a map or in a 3d image (14) 44%
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Chromesthesia - music and sound to me have colors (11) 34%
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Auditory-tactile - sound is something I feel on my body like physical contact (11) 34%
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Misophonia - Sounds can cause me to have strong emotions (19) 59%
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Mirror-touch - When I see somebody else gets a pat on the back I can feel it on my own back (6) 19%
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Lexical-gustatory - I can taste the words in my mouth (5) 16%
To make things easy, I used the English language Wikipedia article on Synesthesia as a reference for the terminology. Also, anyone not fluent in English or otherwise unfamiliar with wording can switch to the German language Wikipedia article on Synesthesia .
I put up a poll, just to see where people are roughly coming from. Since technical terms can be confusing I put some plain English descriptions in there. If you've got more than one, pick any one you prefer. Let me know in a comment if you can think of others.
So, to start with my humble self, I experience grapheme-colors, spatial sequence and chromesthesia.
For example R is blood red, Februrary is moss green, my left hand is light green, the number 5 is navy blue, Saturday is orange.
Time is something I visualize as a very long ruler, that can be stretched and sequeezed.
One singer I like has an orange voice.
Now the funny thing I noticed, and this is a bit different to synesthesiacs I've met, is that for me the sensation isn't overwhelmingly strong. In fact if I try to actively go through the months of the year I can't see clearly what the colors are, however next time I encounter the name of a month it may be in its specific color. For lack of a better understanding I tend to think colors show up in my memory. In addition to that it's not omnipresent, I don't sense a color for every voice I observe.