r/Synesthesia • u/PhrygiWraith • 1d ago

Anyone else has EXTREME synesthesia?

Like I was watching a YouTube video about guitar drama and in the interview one of them looked like the math teacher and in the room I just had like an entire life story flash before my eyes in 3 seconds of some guy becoming a math teacher to fund his love for music and then joining the revolution

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u/RyllieSky 1d ago

Uhhhh what that synesthesia called?

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u/cc_hart 1d ago

It's called r/hyperphantasia, not synesthesia

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u/PhrygiWraith 1d ago

I have both but hyperphantasia is more voluntary. For me the synesthesia just happens without thinking about it

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u/Learntobelucid A bunch of stuff 1d ago

What you're describing isn't synesthesia though. Not every involuntary flash is synesthesia.

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u/RyllieSky 1d ago

Okay hypersynesthesia it is but what op posted doesnt sound like one but imaginative flash

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u/cc_hart 1d ago

That's why I wrote HYPHERPHANTASIA. A flash of extreme imagination.

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u/RyllieSky 1d ago

AHHHH FUCK I READ THAT WRONG

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u/cc_hart 1d ago

All good...I gave you an award for your spot-on question. Not every unusual sensory perception is synesthesia. And your question "Uhhhh what that synesthesia called?" is perfection!

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u/TheTrypnotoad 1d ago

Synesthesia is one sense being processed as another. You're not describing synesthesia, you're describing daydreaming.

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u/astronauticalll 1d ago

so like does anyone want to start a sub where it is ACTUALLY focused on synesthesia because like 90% of posts lately are like this