Artemis wrote: I see auras, if that counts as anything extraordinary. It comes with being a synaesthete.

I'm really losing control now. Whatever sleep I'm getting isn't helping, I'm always exhausted by my damn dreams when I wake up.

I can sense auras, and yes it does count for something.

Your subconscious is telling you something important. If you remember them, write them all down, and send them to me. I will analize them.

And I was serious about the blueberry hell, you know.

I dream of something, forget when I wake up, and then when it happens I remember that I dreamt it. Kinda like deja vu.

Meh.
I don't believe in telepathic/psychic abilities, preminitions, etc.
Or ghosts.
Or aliens.
Or blueberries.

Out of interest, Artemis, what kind of synaesthete are you?

Actually there is only one type.

If you're asking which of my senses are "connected" then here's the list.

1. Letters and numbers have specific colours and genders.
2. Music/any other sounds have colour, occcasionally a taste or smell as well.
3. Pain has colour.
4. Taste/smells have colour although it isn't as strong as with the others.
5. Like most synaesthetes, I have always dreampt in colour and known that I dreampt in colour.

Like the cult where the guy claimed to be Jesus Chridt and got a bunch of followers to come with him to some place in South America where he killed himself and them all with poisned Kool Aid(Oh YEAH!)? Or a different cult like the one from that really good C.S.I. episode.

Artemis wrote: Actually there is only one type.

If you're asking which of my senses are "connected" then here's the list.

1. Letters and numbers have specific colours and genders.
2. Music/any other sounds have colour, occcasionally a taste or smell as well.
3. Pain has colour.
4. Taste/smells have colour although it isn't as strong as with the others.
5. Like most synaesthetes, I have always dreampt in colour and known that I dreampt in colour.

That's what I meant, yeah.

Out of interest, are the colours here about right?

(There's no k because apparently it wasn't associated with a colour)

wow.
I think I might be a syna...somethingorother... too.

certain letters always make me think of certain colours. (A=red B=green C=yellow D=black E=light blue F=dark green G=yellowy-orange etc)

and I've always dreampt in colour. Do some people not dream in colour?

People sometimes associate colours with numbers. For instance I generally think of 2 as yellow or a 5 as red. That doesn't make me a synaesthete. Some synaesthetes don't dream in colour, which is what Artemis meant.

oh okay

yeah, I just read about it on wikipedia, and I'm definately not one

That would be so cool though, all your reading and stuff could be in colour.

Back on topic for a moment, last night I had a really strange nightmare. Strange not in that it was really that weird, just in that usually I'm not ever in my dreams, just someone watching them. This time I was part of the dream. I think I've had this dream several times before because it was familiar to me, but I always forget about it in the morning. It's really freaking me out and now that I think about it I've been having it for like the last couple of weeks.

Mild synaesthesia is apparently very common - seeing letters as colours for example. It's just what most people would think of when you say synaesthesia - ie, seeing sounds, whatever - that's a lot rarer.

Precisely, Sent.

Some of them are right, most are wrong.

A: Red Female
B: Blue Male
C: Yellow Female
D: Dark Brown Male
E: Green Female
F: Light Orange Male
G: Orange Male
H: Purpleish-Pinkish Female
I: Red Male
J: Red (Slightly Orange) Male
K: Light Orange Female
L: Pink Female
P: Purple Male
Q: Indigo Female
R: Purple (Lighter than P) Male
S: Blueish-Purple (Though not Indigo) Male
T: Yellow Female
U: Light Orange (Not as light as K) Male
V: Orange Female
W: Light Blue Female
X: Orange Male
Y: Yellow (Slightly Orange) Female
Z: Darke Greenish-Blue (Nearly Black) Male.

0: Grey Male
1:White Female
2: Orangeish-Red Male
3: Light Green Female
4: Purple Male
5: Dark Blue Male
6: Pink Female
7: Light Blue Male
8: Dark Green Female
9: Orange Male

There you have it, my letters and numbers.

Hrm, about half right then... interesting that there's any sort of pattern in letter colours.

Holy Cabbage!

I've just had to take my keyboard back from E and Athena.

Athy thought it would be a good idea to write Sent a love note in my name while I was in the washroom.

What pattern are you referring to?

That there's any degree of pattern in how different synaesthetes see colours on letters - why should there be, if you think about it?

I just realized that I forgot a few.

M: Reddish-Brown Female
N: Brown Male
O: Dark Blue Male

There isn't really a pattern. I don't see an after-shadow like the other does, it's simply coincidental.

The only pattern found is that fifty percent of synaesthetes see the letter "O" as white, and the other fifty percent see it as another colour. A, B, and C are generally red, blue and yellow, and 0 and 1 are generally black and white.

There's only about five letters on that other diagram that slightly resemble mine. We synaesthetes are very picky about finding the right shades.

I always accosiate yellow with five, cause yellow 5 is in pop and red 2 I think

That stuff never occurs to me. :blink:

I'm a really good story teller, though. And I have a temper....And a lot of other crap I can't think of right now.