"Mark D. Morin" <mdmpsyd at PETERHOOD69gwi.net> wrote in message
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> GOGAR wrote:
> >
> > I think i just discovered that i have synesthesia, and i'm quite shocked
> > that nobody else feels the way i do about letters and words.. but the
more
> > people i talk to about this, the more it becomes clear that i have a
unique
> > condition..
> > But anyways.. i'm not really concerned with it because i've always been
> > fine..
> >
> > Although i do recall some strange things from my childhood that i
haven't
> > seen documented anywhere.. so i'm wondering if there are any other
people
> > with the same experience.. or if it could be explained.
> >
> > When i used to lie in bed ready to go to sleep, just waiting for me to
fall
> > asleep.. occasionally i would get "Zapped" as if i received a single
> > electric shock.. i would see a flash of colored patterns and hear a
> > sound.. and i would be more awake again.. very irritating actually..
> >
> > I remember 1 person in high school saying he had the same.. but i have
no
> > contact with him anymore
> >
> > Maybe some of you know what this could be.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Chris
>> To be honest, this doesn't sound like synesthesia. My understanding of
> the term, and this may be less than accurate, is a crossing over of
> sensory modalities--hearing colors, seeing sound, etc.
>> m
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> ====================================================
> "How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh. "Well, it's when people call out
> at you just as you're going off to do it, `What are you going to do,
> Christopher Robin?' and you say, `Oh, nothing' and then you go and do
> it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't
> hear, and not bothering."
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You would be correct in that Mark.
The above experience sounds more like some form of hypnogognic illusion. So
I suppose the question for you Gogar would be what are the experiences that
make you think you have synesthesia?
-Joseph III
