I'm a bit synaesthesic
I have shapes for smells and flavours, colours for words and can see dates in the air. I can remember what I was doing on certain dates by where they are in the air.

This isn't actually as useful as it sounds.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 10:32, 9 replies)

I wonder what LSD would do to you.
Make everything really plain and dull.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 10:35, closed)

Yeah, it may do; I've never tried it
Mushrooms don't have any effect on me at all.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:40, closed)

or maybe
you just didn't notice
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:52, closed)

Remembering events by their spatial position is not "synaesthesia"
Everyone has some representational system going on. Not many people are aware that it goes on and think that's how everyone does it.

Some people order things left to right, behind to front, big to small, type of feelings, Type of Sounds. The way people sort things in their head is fucking fascinating.

Things like seeing a colour but tasting a shape is synaesthesia. If you hear a sound as see a colour I hope you don't drive!

EDIT: the above sounds grumpy, its not. No time to write fluff - sorry.

interested is reading more bollocks about the subject? have a look here.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
(waxdart hello., Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:31, closed)

Actually
Spatial-sequence synaesthesia is a common form of synaesthesia. The regions of the parietal lobe which deal with spatial cognition and numerical cognition are quite close together.

As for visualising a sound as a colour, that's another form of synaesthesia which has been documented.

It is indeed fascinating stuff though. Which is why I'm studying it. :D
(DarkLite swallowed my entire undercarriage, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:40, closed)

Fair enough, but
the spacial position helps me to remember obscure dates and I was told by some expert that this is unusual. e.g. If you asked me "what were you doing on the 5th June this year?" I'd go to the right place and extract the memory.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:46, closed)

What were you doing on the 5th of June this year?
Also 31st March
( Peej, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:17, closed)

I was camping near Dent in North Yorks
on 5th June. It was very wet and windy.

On either 30th or 31st March (can't quite remember) I was in London, at a trade show.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 19:46, closed)

actually, i hear some sounds and see a colour.
the 'poomf' sound on family fortunes for a repeated answer - the old version - is a beautiful shiny purple ellipsoid.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:57, closed)