In case anyone is interested, here is a post from the other forum:
I don't know if this is related to synesthesia or not - I had always thought it was to do with my chronic motor tic disorder and accompanying obsessive compulsive behaviour - but I can always 'feel' what I see.
This is extremely difficult, practically impossible to explain.
Basically, I can 'feel' things like corners and bumps and things and they make vague but strong and usually uncomfortable feelings inside my body that I can't actually feel but are there all the same (my CMTD/OCD makes me have to 'even them up' by touching/moving/adjusting etc.). Sometimes I feel it in my eyes, sometimes in different parts of my body. Corners sort of 'stick into me' and are very annoying and I can sort of get 'caught' on them. They also create different 'tension' in parts of me.
I can also still feel things if I turn my back on them/if they are behind me.
To this day I have never found another person who experiences the same thing and so I have never found out what it is. If anyone can help me, that would be great!
Thanks.
I want to add to that that, for example, corners don't feel like corners, but corners feel like 'patches of tension'.
Yes! I know what you're talking about, and the same thing happens to me...mostly when i'm riding in a car, i can feel the lines on the road, corners, etc. i'm inclined to think that it's syn since i've had it for as long as i can remember even before i found out about syn. mostly i feel it on different parts of my face...usually my cheeks or eyes. hope this helps
Interesting. From what you described, it seems to fit the consistent and involuntary criteria, so it could well be syn. Is it the feel (physical) of the corners, or the concept of them that acts as the stimulus?
Yes! I know what you're talking about, and the same thing happens to me...mostly when i'm riding in a car, i can feel the lines on the road, corners, etc. i'm inclined to think that it's syn since i've had it for as long as i can remember even before i found out about syn. mostly i feel it on different parts of my face...usually my cheeks or eyes. hope this helps
Yay!
I don't know exactly where or how I feel it. It's like it's half associated and half projected.
I feel it all over me. It depends. I wish I knew if it was syn or the CMTD (like Tourettes). Now that you mention it, yes it is generally my cheeks and eyes, but my hands as well.
I think it happens behind me occasionally as well, so maybe that comes from knowing there's something there.
I don't know
Emma wrote:
Interesting. From what you described, it seems to fit the consistent and involuntary criteria, so it could well be syn. Is it the feel (physical) of the corners, or the concept of them that acts as the stimulus?
Interesting. From what you described, it seems to fit the consistent and involuntary criteria, so it could well be syn. Is it the feel (physical) of the corners, or the concept of them that acts as the stimulus?
Sorry, I don't know what you mean here.
Sorry, I didn't explain myself very clearly. I was wondering whether you get this tension from actually touching/bumping into a corner, or whether it is the idea of the corner that invokes the response (sort of like me asking whether Tuesday is green because the word is green or the concept of Tuesday is.)
Interesting. From what you described, it seems to fit the consistent and involuntary criteria, so it could well be syn. Is it the feel (physical) of the corners, or the concept of them that acts as the stimulus?
Sorry, I don't know what you mean here.
Sorry, I didn't explain myself very clearly. I was wondering whether you get this tension from actually touching/bumping into a corner, or whether it is the idea of the corner that invokes the response (sort of like me asking whether Tuesday is green because the word is green or the concept of Tuesday is.)
Is that clearer?
Oh! Yes, thanks.
No, it's seeing the things and knwoing they're there (sometimes it feels horrible after I close my eyes).
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