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I hear voices when I read to. I can control it slightly. When I'm reading books, I always have to give the characters voices, and it can be problematic when I want to make one character sound like one thing but my brain insists they sound like another. I also have a number of "voice actors" who usually become the voices I hear--for some reason, these inlclude Rip Torn, Phyllis Diller, that one kid who does the voice of Sokka in Avatar, and the voice of Tommy from Rugrats.

I also have "esthesiopsia," which is associating a sight with an emotion, but I don't think that's the proper word for it. See, a lot of places and books and movies and things--I guess I would say "settings"--have what I'd call "auras." I can't define them in words, because as far as I know I'm the only person who experiences these auras, and because of this, there are no words for them that truly convey what they are, and without the words I can't explain them. It's just that they "feel" the same to me. Also, when two things have a similar aura, they make me craze those things of that similar aura.

For example, there's a park in my town that has the same aura as the levels of the first world in Yoshi's Story. My grandma's house has a similar aura to a lot of books, but especially to a book I used to love called The Firelings. The book I'm currently writing right now has an aura similar to Click Clock Wood from Banjo-Kazooie in places, but in others, the aura is the same as that of the manga Yotsuba&! And most of the deserty-foresty-middle-of-nowhere you see on road trips has the same aura as either Kirby's Dreamland 3 (in some places) and Monster Rancher Advance (in others).

Children's TV shows are the worst, though. They have all kinds of crazy, tripped-out auras. They make me crave all kinds of weird things. It almost makes me ill.

My favorite auras, by the way, are what I call the "Yoshi Auras." The ones that have auras like levels in Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Story. I don't know why I find them so appealing, but I do.

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Currently the only forms of this so-called Synesthesia (EDIT) I have are chromaphonia (color illictied from sound), morphographemia, (the picture-making while reading), and phonographemia, creating voices while reading.

You want to know something else? I subliminally used my Synesthesia to remember certain parts of piano pieces I practice. At a climatic point of an Opus 1 or so forth I associate it with a feeling of some girl saying "YOU'RE NOT MY MOTHER!". It's like certain points in the music sheet are reaching out to me and giving me this weird feelings, just like the one good old Cyberbottle Pop had described. Auras, eh?

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Yes. Rap. Taste like rotten milk. Seriously. A downside. Because rap is everywhere.

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Actually, there are dozens.

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I think Markie meant that he personally has. XD

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I think everyone has the sound-movement thing. When I listen to J-rock, I see to guys fighting.

I taste smells, but that isn't as much synaesthesia as that semi-dormant senseory organ that evolution forgot to remove.

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If smelling flowers tasted like chocolate, that could be synaesthesia.

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No, I talking about how smelling crap tastes like crap. Smelling chocolate tastes like chocolate. Smelling beer tastes like beer. [s]Smelling glue is bad.[/s]

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Oh, do you mean that "Smells like the taste of, tastes like the smell of" sensation? I get that a lot. I remember once not being able to stand some sort of fruit juice because it tasted like the smell of paint thinner.

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No, that's not syn; just how smell & taste work together.

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Human taste buds can only distinguish four flavors: sweet, sour, bitter, salty. It's smell in conjunction with taste that actually causes the brain to detect specific flavors.

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I said it wasn't syn. You said it was.

Cranberry, right? I get that.

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Am I the only person ever who doesn't have anything like this?

Bah! It sounds so cool!

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Me nither. I wish I had this. These are the coolest brain glitch's.

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Technically, they're not glitches:

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I do the "hear a voice when you read" thingy. I had no idea this was a classified, defined, and studied trait! But I realized today, and I don't know if it fits, or it's called something else, that sometimes when I'm thinking and experiencing life, my thoughts play out like narration in a book, for example, I'm looking for a book and start wondering if I left it at my friend's house and I think in my head without meaning to do it:
"I searched endlessly for the novel, but it was nowhere to be found. I began to wonder if I left it at Bob's house, in my haste to get home."

Seriously, I know that's weird, but I do that. Anyone else?

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Sometimes I hear voices while I read. But not really. But I think everyone hears SOMEONE talking while they read.... even if it's just themselves..... that's how it is for me.



That reminds me of The Phantom Tollbooth....... the sound place and the way all of the sounds look.......



Me too. Except without all those spelling errors.

Yeah. You guys all have "voices" that I hear. But they're also pretty generic.

And I can replicate characters' voices in my head. Like I can imagine, say, Homestar Runner or Homer Simpson saying something and it sounds just like them. Neat.

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

Whoa, I do that too! Only instead of in first-person, like you, I do it in third-person. Or at least from some other person's point of view. Weird, eh?

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I'll do that... kind of. After I read a good book for a while, afterwards I'll catch myself thinking in the same style as the book (third person, present tense, etc). It's weird, and awesome.

I don't think I've got any type of synaesthesia. My mind is a boring place to live, sometimes. In some ways.

I do that, but I think it's just me being a writer. I write these long soliloquies about what I'm doing--like, I'll pretend I'm telling somebody about them, and what was going through my head, and all that jazz.

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I have something kind of like that! You should have seen me the day after I finished the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, I was talking weirder than an eel with a pig's head.

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Well, I don't fully have number -> color synesthesia, but I do know that the number 8 is red and the number 16 is orange. None of the other numbers really have a color, though. It's kind of weird. But the number 8 always stood out as red, and 16 as orange. They were my favorite numbers because they were the only ones with colors.

I do, however, have some of those by reading. With every character I read about, I see a specific form that I've made up in my head - one which doesn't usually match what the book says, and when the book describes them more, I always think "No, that's not what they look like. They look like this." and keep my own image. I also give them a specific voice, which again doesn't always match the description, and I can't change either one, even if I try. I have to really concentrate to see or hear the author's description even for a moment, and it usually goes away pretty fast. I guess that's why I hate movie adaptations of books if I read the book first. And also cover drawings.

To some degree, I also give colors personalities. Red especially is vibrant and outgoing. Brown is wise and knowing, but tan is young and thinks it's smarter than it is. Yellow is happy and always nice, blue and green are both fairly indifferent, though green thinks more about other people than blue does, and blue is more of an "inner peacefulness" type. Orange has a nice side but can be a bit snappy, as well. Pure black is sort of middle ground, like an average human, and I relate to it very well, which I guess is why it was always one of my favorite colors. White is full of energy, but off-white is totally apathetic and monotonous. I don't know if that qualifies as Synesthesia - it could just be the normal human tendency to connect colors with emotions. (For the record, my favorite color was also always red, because it had a good personality and a number. Black was second.)

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I know how you feel about voices and descriptions. Usually, movie adaptions of anything almost kill it for me. This is why, if my book ever gets made into a movie, I want a LOT of control.

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Augh! I have that! You explained that so much better than I can!

I also hear things in my head when I read. Or.. rather... I kinda of hear and see the whole story from books in my head. I know the voices and stuff. but it's kind of dream-like, so it's hard to explain.

I also once used to do that narration in my head. That was a few months ago. I don't anymore.

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Sometimes I do it in third person too. I have decided it shall be a sign of genius. Therefore Teff and I, along with everyone else who does this, is a genius. *celebrates*

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I think that phonographemia is fairly common and not at all unusual, from these results. My Language Arts teacher (that's what they call English; they also call the two study hall periods Advisory and Intervention) would group it into visualizing the text, I think.

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Hey! So I'm NOT alone! Cool. So what of all the places YOU know would you say has your favorite aura?

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