u/EricS40

So all of us have spent lifelong even us ourselves undermining the value of this cross-sensory as background noise until we make it the subject matter and then it feels incredible to bond with all of you.

But the rest of the psychology community and research community and our own families unfamiliar with this probably have a tendency to deflate our excitement with these well intended kinds of comments:

1. That sounds like a cool ability you have but don’t let it take over your life, stay focused stop wasting time on this it’s not going anywhere
2. That’s great you have these maps (color) whatever else your synesthesia but what has it done to help you in your studies and career, why aren’t you getting ahead at work? I don’t see how this is beneficial it’s a sad gift it takes over you and doesn’t add much value there’s limited social benefit.

Ok so the reason I’m making this is I only agree with part of the first 1, like everything else in life balance priorities give everything time and place. But 2) I think is what we need to prove wrong and fight hard!

What can my synethesia do for others ? Firstly, it manifests as my longterm memory which helps people remember forgotten moments, forgotten events, forgotten ordering of events, revive those who are aging and facing dementia, remember the kind actions of others .

What can our synesthesia do socio-economically ? I’ll give one example. My months of year and days of week are closed loops, a lot of us have that but why …. It has to do with “early childhood education how we learned seasons and the repetition of the calendar early on”
We have a successful children’s programming , parent teaching tools, community tools that teach months as a cyclical structure so the fact we imprint this loopwise statistically speaks to how this was learned at an early age. We can pattern audit the structures of all our Synethesia’s and ultimately get microcosms of anything from how information used to be taught, how it’s taught today, what correlations tie to these imprints, and if they are more telling than we even realize, even tested with actions in education curricula changes and the way we learn and teach.

Moreover what else synesthesia can entertain is more people may have a form of it that don’t entertain the fact that they do and by capturing these we may have more resources to provide improved therapeutic methods for many persons in say the autism spectrum community for one.

My points is we have to connect what these things can reveal and connect those dots because we have something extremely special being ignored.

And we only have so much time we live once we are given this gift. And we can put it to waste or we can witness something that researchers may not be zooming in on nearly enough.

If that isn’t enough, the subject of imprints is a “data” galore input and Data is the building block of pattern recognition tools, artificial intelligence AI especially, we have something analyzable, auditable, and revealing, and accredited by test ability by the genuine test that it’s Real.

I would love all your feedbacks on this.

So like the rest of those who posted your designs, you draw your alphabet you get lines or curves or 90-degree rotations, sometimes the shapes don’t match unit for unit ,

Sometimes the seams are different depending which way you work the sequence

Sometimes there’s 2 orientations for the same information with 2 different overlapping learnings like for me that’s a map with Australia and Indonesia on it I see the same Indonesia a different way in my head from if my map doesn’t begin with Australia , both may apply

But the direction part let me get into that. I see a defined difference in what North South East and West look like. What I mean by that is no matter which northbound interstate highway I drive on, there is an internal consistency to the “look” of the horizontal direction to me. But sometimes this “look” direction indoors and in disoriented settings does not match the true North South East West!

When it doesn’t I get it wrong and permanently lock in a wrong orientation for a local segment and this becomes a permanent imprint that doesn’t correspond with my cardinal true north south east west .

Yes my brain works like this and yes I can get lost in places where this happens because of the false orientation imprint

But one locked orientation that never changes as long as I’ve been alive , on a commercial airplane, I always perceive the orientation that for highway mode … corresponds with “front of the plane is heading West”
It’s a locked configuration

It means the airplane isn’t actually always going west I know that , but the orientation to the locked plane in the sky is as if it is heading west no matter what way it’s going

But because of this, if I’m going to prove to anyone my synesthesia is orientation and design specific for every map , I have the solution and it’s to use the airplane ….

And just change my terminology when I saw the ABCs to me goes from the left of the plane to the right of the plane , there we go , I have a locked reference frame , all my orientations described are not just design internally consistent but rotation internally consistent as well