Processing Thoughts About Synesthesia

I have written several posts on here and on another one of my blogs that I do not share so openly – it is a blog where I tend to process and do mind dumps with my emotions through music and “in the moment” poetry. Synesthesia is one of my special interests that comes and goes. Mostly because sometimes I just cannot handle my synesthesia – I like to pretend it’s all sensory processing dysfunction or something. I have been quite curious about synesthesia because once I discovered that I was a synesthete it gave me more answers as to why my brain responds, processes, and creates the way that it does. There seems to be a correlation with Autism and synaesthesia. Many people are not familiar with the term synaesthesia. I have found if they are they tend to think of it as some uncommon phenomenon.

I have seen movies and shows where they sensationalize and create this feeling of “super hero” type of persona. 

The more research being done the more they have found that  synaesthesia is not so uncommon. My personal opinion, solely based on my experience, is that I believe there are many people with synaesthesic traits, but it is so “normal” to them that they are unaware that others do not see, feel, and/or hear – experience the world any different. I had no idea that not everyone saw music. I did know of certain things that others did not see or do, such as personifying words, numbers, and colors. I learned early on that people do not do that and I attributed it to my overactive imagination.  However, there was another element of me who wanted to keep how I saw the world and my sensory experiences hidden from others and that is, it was my private world. No one could enter and it was my escape from the realities of the painful world that I lived in.

There was a catch-22 though; my internal world was filled with painful memories that would replay with every sensory trigger.

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