plessis204

I don't tell many people, but I have this as well, though yours is seems to be a much more extreme/ severe case than mine. I like to keep pretty quiet about it to my friends, mostly because I have the damndest time explaining it to people, since I don't really have a frame of reference as to what it is like to live without Synesthesia. I don't get the manifestations on my skin or whatever, for example.

I tried to explain it to a girl I was casually seeing a few years ago (pre-med student, actually) and she couldn't even fathom why I got a lot of nonsense with the number three.

I don't get anything from most numbers, but I get pretty well the same reaction from any number with a three in it, and the same reaction from anything with a 7 in it, and then a combination of the two from a thirty-seven, if that makes sense.

Most of the time, familiar sounds and voices don't generate anything. My grandparents began going to Florida for the winter when I was 6 or 7 (24 now), and I never got much of a response from either of their voices until they came back from Florida in the spring of the year I was 10 or so. I'd go visit every now and again, and the first three or 4 times I'd go over, there would be a small response, and then nothing until the next spring.

Hall and Oates gives me the best physical and visual reaction, but I actually got a boner the first time I heard Fergie's voice, which is kind of hilarious based on what she looks like. Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, AC/DC are a few examples of bands that I just couldn't physically listen to when I was younger. Tom Waits made me physically sick and dizzy the first time I heard him.

Live music typically equals a bunch of purple and blue lines flying out of instruments or speakers, or anything that would vibrate on a table as a result, to varying degrees. Live music was tough for a while, because I never really knew what to expect and different bands sound and feel different, especially hearing them for the first time, but I got used to it. Some still make me pretty uncomfortable, but it's not too bad. I absolutely can't have sexy bow-chicka-wow music playing in the background during sex.

Watching baseball pretty much turns it off, save for little ditties that play in the background when guys are walking to the plate. It also really bothers me when there are three balls and the HUD signifies so with three little dots.

I associate green with the taste of relish, and I fucking love relish.

Seeing brunettes feels significantly better than seeing blondes.

Wow, I usually only last a few minutes.

That was fast.

Did a category ever come up that was so up your alley that you didn't want to bounce around, since you'd never run the category and get a game-pausing applause? Do you know of any categories that you did end up running, but everything was so out of order that nobody noticed?

Do these print on KEM cards? KEM is the best thing.