#auditory tactile synesthesia

[sounds-to-touch]

Sometimes I don't think about my audio tactile synaesthesia at all, for huge swathes of time.

But then I think about why it's so easy for me to identify specific voices in songs i like, and the closest word that comes to mind is texture.

I really do sort vocal sounds primarily by tactile means. When I'm certain I've identified a specific voice artist I'm thinking not about how it sounds, but about how that sound feels, physically, in my body.

[peppermint-rat]

Local rat shocked to find that not everyone physically feels sound like pulses, shocks, or crunchy gravel in their body (even with quiet sounds) and they do in fact have either 'tism or FND (or both) induced auditory tactile synesthesia

I feel like I've always had it and often wondered about it but it is at the forefront of my mind rn because I like to listen to lofi but I have to skip so many songs because the formula is usually soft, gentle lows and then sharp, louder beats, and those beats kind of pop/pulse in my body each time which is really distracting

It adds extra insight as to why my startle response is sky-high and why I'm so damn sound sensitive

[beatbawksradio]

🪞He Listens with his Body🪞

[a-totally-reasonable-username]

Funny story about this! I have a younger sister and we've always been very close and always understood each other better than anyone else. So when we were younger we'd ask our family like "hey this is something i experience and it doesn't seem like anyone else does, is this normal?" And way too often the adults would be completely confused, absolutely no idea what we're talking about. If it was me i'd try to explain more and get frustrated that i can't communicate my thoughts properly but my sister would understand what i meant and go "oh yeah! I have that too!" This happened the other way around too.

Turns out that the divide wasn't "adults and kids" like we all thought but that my sister and i share a ridiculous amount of disabilities and neurodiversities. And amongst many other things this includes that we're not only both autistic (with similar presentation thereof) but also share synesthesia experiences.

I told her about me finding out that there's a lot of different types of synesthesia and which i think i have and she just looked at me super judgy and went "are you sure? Isn't that normal? Everyone can physically feel sound in their bodies, where else would you feel music??" After i further explained, we know suspect she has auditory tactile synesthesia

So... I think i have kinesthetic synesthesia?

Apparently sound "having motions" and touch isn't something everyone experiences. Neither is every motion making sound and a physical feeling. And tactile experiences don't move or have a sound.

This... Explains a lot actually. Mostly everyone being so fucking baffled when i try to describe any physical sensation.

I've had a few people in my life bring up the possibility of synesthesia when i talked about how i experience colors but only ever visual auditory synesthesia which i don't have. For me, colors don't make sound but they do move.

[waitineedaname]

when people said your twenties are for learning about yourself I thought it would be like. personal self discovery about who I am as a person. not learning that my body functions differently than most people's

[basil-from-omori]

Guhehrh

[iistxrmyskyii]

having auditory-tactile synesthesia is the strangest thing ever lol-

[pre1ude]

The actual genuine deep psychological distress daniel feels when he can't pinpoint an imperfection in a piece of music or sound. There is something wrong and he feels it like an itch on his skin he's unable to scratch (because it isn't a physical sensation). He can and has driven himself half hysterical over it. Like listening to the disembodied, madenning unrhythmic tap-tap-taptap of water or the scrape of a fork against porcelain, it's the type of noise that annoys him to the point of anger.

Likewise, though, if a single music note in a composition is written or played wrong, he hones in on it like a bloodhound. It's why he makes a phenomenal performer and conductor, but a horribly picky, self-dictatorial composer.

[baladric]

So with synesthesia can you feel singing in your mouth when you sing? Does other people singing feel different to your own singing? Does listening to a recording of your singing vs actually singing yourself feel different? Sorry for the questions I just love synesthesia I think its so interesting and I was so happy when I found out there's an explanation for why Tuesday is purple

weirdly enough, i think singing and music are one of the few things i don't really get a mouth-based/oral reaction to? probably something to do with how deep i've delved into music as a technical profession, so it's like i've rewired the Mouthfeels part of my brain to be specifically A Work Tool for that particular realm of stuff!! and also i think the reaction might be more about the layering and texture of sounds than the actual sounds, if that makes sense? like how a good sandwich is about variety of textures, right?

q.e.d i had an obsessive bronski beat phase back in august/september that was definitely partly about jimmy somerville's voice as an auditory experience, but even moreso was about the way their combinations of different synth beats & tones grabbed at my bones and like. my throat, somehow? and there's literally like two measures of "you you" by odetta hartman (from ~1:25-1:35) that i would replay on a loop over and over again back in nov 2021, because one single bass note in there in combination with the glassier sounds and the reverbing percussion hits me like. pretty much just as hard as an orgasm, but in a completely different way. it's like light made physical, in the sense of vibrancy and suffusiveness.

i'm definitely gonna be thinking about this a whole lot more and paying more attention to how exactly i experience music going forward, but atm the loudest examples of the effect for me are, as the original joke went, Video Game Foley Effects. the sound layering of link's footsteps on stone floor in botw paired with the clattering of his gear lives in my molars and my soft palate, and the walking sounds in the dlc area of outer wilds have a whole fckin life in the roof of my mouth and my tastebuds. plus, yeah, the uhhh mountain theme? i think, also in botw, just feels like sinking into cool lake water to me. also the little effect for wall-grabbing in celeste... idk there's A LOT, this is all so new to think about!!!!!!!!

also nw about the questions—they're fun to think about, and also i Fully understand, like the funny part of this is i used to loudly WISH i had synesthesia, bc i wanted to see sounds?? ;lkjafwaf i was So Close, and listen, purple tuesday sounds Correct to me and i'm similarly fascinated by that!!!!!!

[forcebookish]

i am never exaggerating when i describe my actual physical reactions to media if anything i downplay it

[helenwhiteart-blog]

A quest to know myself better though synesthesia

I’m beginning to sense that in synesthesia lies the key of so many aspects of my long running chronic pain. If I could only gain a better viewpoint of what actually happens to me when I sense things, I suspect I might be able to catch a glimpse (like some sideways-on reflection of myself reflected back at me in a shop window) of some of the causative aspects of pain where no other provocation for…

[doyouknowthisdisabledcharacter]

Wanted to give my input as a disabled person with with synesthesia! (For clarity: I have chromesthesia (music to color), and grapheme (words to color)).

Personally for me and the types I have, I wouldn’t consider synesthesia to be a disability. *But* I think some types could be? Examples being: auditory–tactile synesthesia, mirror-touch synesthesia, and misophonia (which apparently might be a type of synesthesia??).

I think if the type of synesthesia someone has limits their movements, senses, and activities could be considered a disability, if that makes any sense. But I don’t think all types of synesthesia would be/should be considered a disability. My synesthesia doesn’t limit or myself or affect my life negatively while my disabilities (such as small fiber neuropathy) do. So if you’re going to consider synesthesia as a type of disability, I personally would go about it case by case and see if the synesthesia negatively affects the characters life.

Thanks to everyone for the feedback! With the input, we will accept characters with synesthesia on a case by case basis.

[would-they-be-good-at-asmr]

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From Wikipedia:

An autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a tingling sensation that usually begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. A pleasant form of paresthesia, it has been compared with auditory-tactile synesthesia and may overlap with frisson.

ASMR is a subjective experience of "low-grade euphoria" characterized by "a combination of positive feelings and a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin". It is most commonly triggered by specific auditory or visual stimuli, and less commonly by intentional attention control.

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Due to the nature of my otherkin identity, I do not experience phantom shifts in the traditional sense. I do sometimes experience some forms of species dysphoria and euphoria, like:

Thinking of my veins and nervous systems as wires

Experiencing touch and sound as mild electrical inputs

(auditory-tactile synesthesia)

Understanding emotions and thoughts through computer terminology (buffering, overclocking, input-output, bluescreening)

Understanding and communicating with other electronic devices (posic and objectum-related)

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[userautumn]

ahhhh i wanna hear all about your synesthesia! how does it present for you? what do you like/dislike about it?

also i have a tag now? 🥺💛

ok i had to wait until i got to my computer because i can never remember the names of things (but i'm working on it!). the most common forms of synesthesia i experience are chromesthesia, auditory-tactile synesthesia, and, obviously, grapheme-color synesthesia. i don't really dislike anything about it and actually i hardly notice it because it's just such a natural part of me, but i've always considered it something like a superpower or, like, a minor form of magic. you know? but that's just because i am full of Whimsy at my core. what about you?

(also yes of course you have a tag, i love you)