QUOTE(Grym @ Aug 25 2008, 09:04 AM) [snapback]282476[/snapback]
Nein. I have the type where letters and numbers are associated with colours.
That's remarkably useful for learning inflective languages.
One of my Latin teachers had that kind of synesthesia and she could always tell what kind of declensions she needed because of the colour. I don't remember many of her specifics but the third declension was brown and kind of spiky for her.
QUOTE(Ghosty @ Aug 25 2008, 09:46 AM) [snapback]282505[/snapback]
I'm not sure what this would imply, but I used to have a strong desire to be an insomniac all the time.
That's very overrated. I've never really had trouble going to sleep but I've gone through periods where I'd sleep for four to six hours in three days. You just feel stretched thin.
QUOTE(Artemicon @ Aug 25 2008, 02:02 PM) [snapback]282665[/snapback]
Hmm dunno if it would qualify me as schizophrenic, but yeah...I often talk to myself, and Im able to actually converse since one side takes on the moral, responsible pain in the ass guy, then theres the dark, eternaly pesimistic and critical side, and then theres whats left of me, the child i guess, who follows his wants and fears, consulting with the other two...
Holding an internal dialogue out loud isn't schizophrenia. It's schizophrenia when you hear voices that aren't there and you believe they're genuine. In the English-speaking world, this usually manifests as the voice of God or Satan, or a servant thereof. Part of the condition is that you don't really question the reality of the voice. You need to be aware that you're a schizophrenic and even then, sometimes you'll be able to hear (or, rarer, see) things and people that aren't there.
My mother once held a forty minute conversation with my paternal grandmother that she hadn't seen in six or seven years and it wasn't until three hours later that it occurred to her that she'd appeared suddenly in her bedroom and disappeared when my mother left the room. Even with someone disappearing like that, she had to come and ask me to confirm her crazy because she couldn't be sure.
The easy rule of thumb is that you need to ask yourself whether or not you believe the voices are real. Usually, if you have the presence of mind to ask you're not schizophrenic. For an undiagnosed schizophrenic to ask themselves is the equivalent of you questioning the reality of a friend you bumped into on the street and caught up with. There's simply no reason to ask yourself, clearly they're real.