mirror touch synesthesia

[mrwildwildwest]

No, but I can't watch movies like "Jackass" which show a lot of painful situations that the actors put themselves into. Other people's distress, people falling or involved in painful accidents cause me to feel weird sensations in my own body. Also, because I'm afraid of heights, I can't watch movies/videos that are shot from the tops of tall buildings. When they show walking to the edge, looking down, it makes me crazy/tingling up the legs and stuff. Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?

[SurgicalSniper]

i wiped my left cheek as soon as i saw it...what does that mean?

[TheEpicTortoise]

@SurgicalSniper That's what I did, I do that with a lot of stuff. Like for example, if someone has any scars or something on their face, I will rub or scratch that part of my face, or like in this video if I see someone getting touched I scratch or rub that part of my body.

[Tzendon]

i hear sandpaper , maybe pee-wee has dry skin.

[Niyaru]

ok, when i first saw this video i felt it-I really did-but now when I see it I don't. I mean if it's any help when I know to expect a touch and its repetitive no matter how many times or when i look at it (like this vid) i don't feel it. But when its unexpected I do.

[icecofffee]

nope, did'nt felt it... But i could imagine a certain scratch like sound with it, and the color of the scratching sound was light gray.....

grts,

[RawrgasmsAreFun]

I felt it!

Then again, I can feel when someone is about to touch me, even when I'm not looking...I don't have synesthesia though...Or do I? Not too sure...I can't do sounds and images, though :/

[Taikina]

nothing

[Bacon333666]

I have a tri-themed synesthesia where I feel and see sound according to what Im looking at

[crazyerin999]

I sort of felt it on my right cheek...

[onesexyhamm]

@crazyerin999 same here

[K9Negative]

I don't feel anything but i hear it

[mrmetalheadmonster]

They should have a version of this with someone screaming. lol

[hotelmario510]

At first, I was like 'what the hell, this doesn't work!' Then my knuckle felt like someone was tapping it. Oh, God, I'm a mess.

[savingxcharlie]

I feel an up and down motion on my left cheek but I think it's just imaginary since when I only think about someone touching my face I can feel it and sometimes it just doesn't feel like anything.

[maxp303]

wuh-woo-whu-woo-whu-woo. Does anybody else hear it? Apart from the mild red throb it leaves

[kitkat424]

yeah, all that happens with this video is my motion/hearing syn to kick in

[Daniel092004]

Nopers

[serendipitousevent]

I feel it on my left cheek and also I hear a sound that's sort of like "ooohweee, ooohweee"

[serendipitousevent]

I meant my right cheek, sometimes I get confused....

[maxp303]

I didn't notice your comment before i posted mine. I believe mirror-touched is linked to motion-sound. Cool. We rule

[PKNproductions]

lol the person in this video looks really funny

[Niyaru]

i feel it but its not the left cheek its the right so the cheek facing the one being touched rather than the appropriate. I dont know if that means anything

[dragonfry]

This is the way it is usually experienced by mirror-touch synaesthetes, so you may well be one. Cool.

[Niyaru]

that could explain a lot ha ha. Is there a mirror taste though? Cuz I get that I think. Now that I think about it.

[dragonfry]

A number of synaesthetes have reported taste responses from seeing colours or hearing words I believe, but do you mean literally that you taste things that you see other people eating? If so I haven't heard of that before, but that is really interesting. Jamie ward is coming to my university today so I will ask him if he has come across that if you like.

[Niyaru]

really? That is amazing I am a huge fan of his. Could you also ask him anothier thing. Thinking about Synaesthesia and everything could you also ask him if it is "normal" for some one with auras or Personality-Color Synaesthesia to see these Auras literally around people but they cant see their own? That has always bothered me. Thank You!

[dragonfry]

I'll see what I can do! Could you possibly give a more detailed description of your mirror-tasting if possible?

[Niyaru]

When I see someone eat something my tongue gets this weird feeling like food is on it. It is different for how they are eating it, different parts of the tongue act like eating a burger verses drinking or chewing gum. And when the tongue feels the texture automatically i get a strong sense in my mind of the taste of the food. I know it is not mirror touch on tongue cuz its the same sensation when I taste color or music or when I see food being prepared. Sometimes the taste is more apparent

[Rukysan]

in my neck x)

[AdeonWriter]

Ugh. I always have this. This one's funny but other times it's annoying. Especially seeing someone get slapped on the back of the head.

[angwird12]

gargle

[BlueOceanBelow]

I felt something in my cheeks, but it was just me giggling at his expression!

[savingxcharlie]

it's on and off, sometimes I feel it and other times I don't.

[Rukysan]

me too

[underscorex5]

the left side of my face tickles along the cheek area when I watch

[froilen13]

nou... nothing is feeling by me