Hi, I have been wondering about the 'subtitling" of spoken words that I and my daughter have. Sometimes, we can see the words as other people say them. Someone told me that's a type of synaesthesia... is that right?
I've always associated this with being a V/S-type thinker, myself. It's an act of translating aural information into a visual format, for processing in that preferred mode.
This process has obvious utility and purpose, which seems to me to indicate it's a brain circuit that has been created by (not necessarily entirely conscious) design... as opposed to these other traits of synesthesia, which appear to have no immediately obvious utility, and seem to be a sort of signal noise bleeding over into the other sensory processors.
Not that signal noise is necessarily a bad thing. Long live rock and roll.
That's just my non-expert take. I do this "seeing" of language, but I can't relate to any of this other stuff.
