Wow, you all have the coolest brain disorders. Is there ever a downside?

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

Actually, there are dozens.

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

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

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]

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

I remember once not being able to stand some sort of fruit juice because it tasted like the smell of paint thinner.

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

Bah! It sounds so cool!

Synesthesia occurs in people with normal, noninjured, nondiseased brains.

Technically, they're not glitches:

I think synaesthesia would be a dang cool thing to have. I can easily visualize sounds- and I know what they look like the instant I hear them- but I doubt it's the real thing because it's pretty uncommon.

When I read things, I hear what my brain paperantly thiunks those people sound like.

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?

"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."

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?

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 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.

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?

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