Is it just me...

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The closest thing to synaesthesia for me is the way my mind likes to interpret music as movement.  For instance a certain kind of techno might feel like a dogfight in fast-forward to me.  Often, it's really visceral and it really seems like I'm experiencing high-gee forces.

That's totally what I mean; that's a form of synaesthesia, and I think that almost everyone has it with something. It's just that it's so completely normal that they don't think of it as anything other than how their senses work.

[Jasper]

Also, I can't be the only guy who balks whenever I see "red" or "blue" flavored sports beverages.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also, I can't be the only guy who balks whenever I see "red" or "blue" flavored sports beverages.

Mmmmmm, delicious red! Everyone's favorite flavor!

[Lies]

Omigawd, I was listening to this 'here to go' remix in the car, and I got this great music video of vector arrows popping out of everything, and equations flying all over the place.

So cool.

I think you might be suffering from synesthesia...

This could be a good thing, if you learn how to use it to your advantage.

Lots of techniques to remember things and add up numbers really fast rely on it.

According to wikipedia, "It is estimated that synesthesia could possibly be as prevalent as 1 in 23 persons across its range of variants."

[Edit: After reading most of that synesthesia article, it doesn't really sound like that is what the OP describes, though.  From what I can tell from the article, synesthesia involves two different overlapping senses, at least the variations described in the article seem like they involve two distinct, overlapping senses.  But then again, that's only based on the wiki article, I don't really have any clue.  What about the OP makes you think synesthesia, Lysergic?]

If op is seeing shit when they listen to music, they're synesthesics.
There is differing levels of synesthesia, some more intense then others, and all different and subjective on the individual.

Numbers or letters with personalities, or flavours, or colours, and such, music with shapes and personalities and such, all these things mean you're synesthesic.

[Jasper]

I think everybody is, to a small degree.  My favorite neuroscientist says so.

http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/the-synesthesia-condition-explained  
(Skip to about 21:10 for the part I'm talking about)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think everybody is, to a small degree.  My favorite neuroscientist says so.

http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/the-synesthesia-condition-explained  
(Skip to about 21:10 for the part I'm talking about)

Yay! I will have to watch that in its entirety tomorrow.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also, "red" is the grossest flavor because it tastes like paraffin wax with a hint of quinine.

[Jasper]

[Lies]

I think everybody is, to a small degree.  My favorite neuroscientist says so.

http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/the-synesthesia-condition-explained  
(Skip to about 21:10 for the part I'm talking about)

Most likely, yes, in some ways, we all have it.

Myself, I've actually managed to "induce" a "type" of synesthesia in order to recall really long numbers, and remember the order of a deck of cards and such.

Really handy thing to develop.

[Lies]

bet that's great with international phone numbers and a brilliant ice breaker at parties and the such.

You have no idea.

The second I start naming all the cards in the deck for just one person, the whole fucking room WILL pay attention.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Bump

Not the thread I was thinking of, but I couldn't find the other one.

[Epimetheus]

Hmm, I wonder how common it is.
I know that my entire childhood I never thought my personification/coloring of the numbers and letters was "unusual" - I guess I just assumed that's the normal way to experience/interact with those symbols. Never mentioned it to anyone back then, of course.

The interesting thing about my numbers is that, with the exception of 7, their colors follow a rainbow order. This makes me think my associations may come from a book I read, or a toy I used, when I was first learning the numbers, but I have no idea what that book might be.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hmm, I wonder how common it is.
I know that my entire childhood I never thought my personification/coloring of the numbers and letters was "unusual" - I guess I just assumed that's the normal way to experience/interact with those symbols. Never mentioned it to anyone back then, of course.

The interesting thing about my numbers is that, with the exception of 7, their colors follow a rainbow order. This makes me think my associations may come from a book I read, or a toy I used, when I was first learning the numbers, but I have no idea what that book might be.

From what I've read fairly recently, it's very, very common, but still rather poorly understood.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I never got any of that without, erm, sacraments.

Sometimes when I'm walking around I'll get time periods. Like I'm looking at the sidewalk and the side of a building and my mind will flash "1940s" or "1880s" or whatever. I'll get a whole picture of the surroundings in my head with old cars or buggys and people in period dress. It doesn't interfere and I can make it stop just by looking up, but I kind of enjoy it.

Brains are weird. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I never got any of that without, erm, sacraments.

Sometimes when I'm walking around I'll get time periods. Like I'm looking at the sidewalk and the side of a building and my mind will flash "1940s" or "1880s" or whatever. I'll get a whole picture of the surroundings in my head with old cars or buggys and people in period dress. It doesn't interfere and I can make it stop just by looking up, but I kind of enjoy it.

Brains are weird. 

That's pretty cool! I get something like that except everything is in ruins and all overgrown.