I
count everything in my head.

Climbing stairs, stapling paper, putting cuttlery away, I have a constant ticker going as I'm doing it.

With stairs, I know how many stairs there are in most of the places I frequent, and I usually take them 2 at a time - if there's an odd number of stairs, I will take one step at the beginning of the ascent/descent, so I don't have an odd one at the end.

I also have a strange habit of hearing 'colours' in sound. Bass is black, trebble is white. Fuzzy sound is yellow. The crappier a set of speakers are, the more yellow the sound is to me.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:38, 10 replies)

Really?
Actual synaesthesia? Or do you just associate these sounds with these colours?
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:53, closed)

Synaesthesia is more common than you'd think.
To varying (usually much lesser) degrees, the majority of the population have some elements though we'd not realise it.
( sm.pl.crt.rs I don't fucking know, do I?, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 14:13, closed)

Don't know.
It's only really music, and it just relates to the tone of the sound - I don't see guitar solos as blue and dog barks as green etc.

I think it's just a way I developed to produce some sort of cognative vision of how I'd like something to sound. If I'm fiddling with a hifi, I'll think to myself 'na, needs a bit more black and a lot more white', which is to say a bit more bass and lots of treble. When I get it how I want it, the 'shade' I have produced is very clear in my mind.

On the other hand, I can't remember ever not hearing things like this. Maybe it's just a mild form.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 8:52, closed)

My girlfriend
Sees numbers in colours and textures.

Meaning she thinks of one a pink fake fur, two as green sandpaper, etc.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 14:35, closed)

oh dear
i do the counting thing too. Specially during sex.
I have no idea why i told him i did it recently. He now shouts random numbers during the act to put me off.
(a girl called harry, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:15, closed)

IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND

( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 21:42, closed)

just out of curiosity
What kind of number would you usually get to?
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 8:55, closed)

how many?
well i dont like to go past 100 or it gets confusing. I start again instead. However in answer to your Q... ( and its been a while since i did restart at 99 ) let just say a generous 56

He never visits this site ( luckily )
(a girl called harry, Tue 6 Jul 2010, 13:00, closed)

Frequent stair counter checking in
I used to count every step of the stairs, every time. Been better though.
( Foxglove -- it all ends in tears anyway..., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 16:18, closed)

I do this.
I have no idea why, but I have to count every step of every flight of stairs that I use. Although I may be getting over it, I started a new job a month ago and I haven't counted the stairs at work..
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 20:09, closed)