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It's synesthesia. I have it too. Colors/associations (and taste, touch) etc etc apply to everything for me so of course with sexual things as well.

My favorite thing is that I get real vivid imagery per sexual position. Like one's a big building full of empty rooms. Ones a trainyard at dusk. Another, barrels floating down a river. I have no idea why--it's very mysterious. ��

As for orgasm, here's a good book if you're looking for some help:

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Female-Orgasm-Extraordinary-Guide/dp/1569242763

Clitoris is your best friend.

Edit: Another thing to keep in mind for orgasms are things like anti-depressant medications (or anything imcreasing serotonin). It can make it super difficult sometimes.

I've started making a spreadsheet of the pictures, if you guys want to help me out a bit it's here. I don't want to misrepresent your colors. I'm just going for very basics, like "yellow" instead of "sunny yellow". When it's finished I thought we could figure out any patterns.

Time-space and spatial-sequence seem hard to separate, but they both involve linking spatial locations to concepts.This post seems like the clearest definition for how they differ that I've come across:

https://steemit.com/psych101/@psych101/psych-101-overview-of-4-forms-of-synesthesia

It does sound like you have time-space/spatial-sequence. I definitely get you on the layers of a map - happens when I read a book and visualize the story, but beneath that is a real life location, or when I'm researching/learning/writing something and really get into it, and it gets linked to a real life location with movement and angle changes for progress or concepts.

I just googled and the music sort has a name, musical space synesthesia!

Have you taken a look at blender? It's free and great for 3D visualizations. You can even generate textures like those electron probability clouds using math formulas. I know how to use and find it was easy to learn.

EDIT: Added link.

Music that I associate with memories can overpower my mental imagery. I know that thinking about the past might not help when you're dealing with things in the moment though. A good site to find similar sounding bands that relate to the sound you're looking for is http://www.music-map.com/ and if you would rather explore many genres at once, this other site is good. Just click on a genre and it will start playing a demo. http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html I'm really interested in what new songs you find that can override that mental imagery for you.

Here's the product on Amazon, it has a picture of all of them. For my daughter, 23 of the 26 are a match. The only differences are that her E and U are orange instead of red, and M is brown instead of green.

I don't want to seem like I'm promoting anything here, but I got this book for my Mom who has Mirro-Touch, and it's about a guy who is a doctor with Mirror-Touch (among others) and you may want to check it out. :) https://www.amazon.com/Mirror-Touch-Notes-Doctor-Feel/dp/0062458663

I posted this in the number/image thread in r/pics (I do not experience synesthesia):

> This reminds me of reading physicist Richard Feynman's autobiography "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" (a book everyone should read). There's a part where he describes doing complex math problems in his head, and he describes it as something like imagining a ball, and then there's some fuzzy hairs on the ball, and then the ball turns green, and things like that. He also had very unconventional ways of solving calculus and physics problems. Now I am convinced he was experiencing synesthesia and using it as a tool to solve problems.

Yes, I’d say this is audio-tactile. I feel all sounds on my body as though they were physically touching me.

Newer research is showing that the idea of it being 100% consistent all the time is only relevant to certain types of synesthesia. So I’m more and more leery of that being a criteria for it.

Check out a book called Struck By Genius.

I found this book helpful for me before I even knew I had Synesthesia. Born on a Blue Day

I was in my 20s when I found out too… Not sure if of interest to you, but I found this book really helpful! Best of luck on your journey! The frog who croaked blue

Went and found the book. The author actually calls them "sensory modes" - a preference to one kind of sensory information, and you'll usually use language that corresponds to your preferred mode/input. This book lists:

• Sight: I see what you mean, I see your point, That's very clear, That looks good
• Hearing: I hear what you're trying to say, That's just a lot of noise to me, That sounds fine
• Touch: That doesn't feel right, I can't put my finger on the problem, That feels ok to me
• Smell: The situation seems fishy, It smells rotten, I'll sniff around a bit
• Taste: The whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth, I can almost taste what's wrong here, This really sickens me

Seems like I mixed this up with another book about multiple intelligences or teaching pedagogue because there's no list of traits to identify yourself in this book. Oops.

I'm going to guess that "I get what you're saying" leans to kinesthetic (touch).

(This is a newer version of the book that I'm referencing, btw. I recommend it.)

Hi! I’ve been in your same position. The colors on the notes, lines, and spaces on sheet music weren’t (and still aren’t) as vivid as they are on actual graphemes, but they do get clearer the more automatically you associate the note with the letter.

The way I see it, you can go about strengthening those associations in two ways: use your synesthesia “forwards” or “backwards”. You can write each of the notes on your sheet music, and since the letters are already colored for us, eventually the notes would pick up some of that color. Alternatively, you can color code the notes and then associate the color with the letter (this might be less useful if you have two letters with the same color between A&G, but that’s not the case for me, so I’d thought I’d offer the option).

I can definitely see how all those training websites would be super annoying! If anything, that would make it harder to learn! If you want to color the notes digitally, it looks like this Music Score Creator night help. It looks like you can pick from a predetermined set of colors but also add your own which seems really nice. Again, it’s for creating sheet music, but maybe you can download other sheet music and edit it on there; I’ve never tried it before.

Hope this helps!

Just read through descriptions of people who have it (as you've been doing) and see if anything clicks. First time I heard of Synesthesia was in a book titled Incognito by David Eagleman. It was a second hand description (a description by someone studying it, but who didn't have it, rather than by someone who had it) of rather extreme, projected, synesthesia and I sort of glossed over it because it sounded wacky. the way it was worded made it sound, for example, like some people see everything overlayed with purple because of what day it was ('I know today is Thursday because the day is purple'). Not only do I not (usually) project, but it works entirely the other way around. For me, the color is usually (but not always) based on the letters in the word (not the conceptual time unit itself), and I also must recognize the word/letters for what they are before I make a color connection.

For example: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/File:Synesthesia_fig7.jpg
Of course, I work in a lab where I use a buffer called TAE all the time, so my brain also wants to see TAE instead of THE...

The first time I consumed cannabis i started asking my friends if they also got more cool "visuality" about how they saw their music and they looked at me like i was crazy or had been dozed

What you "see" in your mind is actually a variety of processes but its like having one of those rare nintedo TV's but with a broken screen for everyone but you to both see, much less explain reliably clearly

anyways read this book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007CIL6BA

don't forget to bring a towel

Not sure any noise cancelling headphones will work. I would look into sleeping earplugs. Look for 30dB or more noise reduction. Just be aware of wax buildup as earplugs tend to push wax into the ear canal.

Or for studying, something like this should be enough to mute the outside world. https://www.amazon.com/3M-Peltor-Over-Earmuffs-X5A/dp/B00CPCHBCQ/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Have you read this?

The Man Who Tasted Shapes - Richard E. Cytowic

Richard Cytowic's dinner host apologized, "There aren't enough points on the chicken!" He felt flavor also as a physical shape in his hands, and the chicken had come out "too round."