Synaesthesia: do you have it?

There's plenty more info out there if you were interested, but to be brief, and for those who don't know:

Synaesthesia is the jumbling of cells in a certain area of the brain which causes "cross-talk" between the senses.

There are many different kinds. A common one is grapheme-colour synaesthesia where someone will perceive letters and numbers in colour (C might be yellow, 5 might be orange, etc.), to more obscure types like sound-taste; there's a video on YT of a man who describes how he was attracted to girls not be their looks or personality, but by how nice their names tasted! :)

Studies suggest that synaesthesia is more commonly experienced by artistic and creative people. So I wonder if any of you have it and does it influence your work in any way?

You may not even realise you have it but reading this has now made you aware of it!

Cheers

I think its a spectrum and we all have it to an extent.
Look at how we describe certain things..

It tastes soft
it sounds bright
a sharp smell , etc

I also think that we had more of this sense when we were younger and it has been lost as we develop.

That being said, i think some people are more in tune with it now. If you listen to a sound and try to imagine how that sound looks , like intuitively - it works right? . I think most people can do that.

Tasting names though...Wow, thats next level.

Isnt there some trick where you ask people a whole lot of simple maths questions that give the result 6? or 66, etc , or just get them to think about 6 a lot.

Then you suddenly ask them to name a vegetable, and .... they say carrot!

That must be related right? try it out.