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12:17pm September 15, 2014
Anonymous asked: i'm the anon that asked about the seeing of auras. i can't find the original response anywhere. i am genuinely interested in the question whether this actually is possible - without the spiritual stuff - more like the people who perceive that numbers have colors and such, a scientifically explainable thing in your brain. i didn't mean to be mean about this and i definitely don't think you want to be 'special'.

Oh so you’re not the person who wrote the nasty post, that’s good to know.  I don’t really see ‘auras’, at least I’d never call them that because that has all kinds of connotations.  I think it’s a kind of synesthesia, like colored-personality synesthesia, which is already known about.  Or a combination of synesthesia and ‘sensing’ (as in Donna Williams’s book Autism and Sensing: The Unlost Instinct), which to me is like… a cognitive style, that relies heavily on sensory pattern and feel and less on ideas and concepts.

Some asshole reblogged my response to you and tagged it with things like #pagan and #this isn’t synesthesia and #you just want to be special.

And I do agree there’s got to be a rational explanation for what I perceive, I just don’t spend a lot of time looking into it.  What I perceive gives me information about the world, and that’s really all I personally need to know about it, although knowing how it works would be fascinating.

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  1. madeofpatterns reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    I see some people as shiny.
  2. maikisan said: wanted to add – some people are subconsciously repulsed by manipulators for the same reason some people are drawn and enamored by them. If NT people react this way, I don’t see why it is mysterious synesthetic people react likewise.
  3. maikisan said: I think a lot of people perceive “creepyness” or “manipulativeness” in people: there are certain body language and voice language traits that go along with it. I can see someone with synesthesia interpreting subconscious queues visually. Makes sense.
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