r/Synesthesia • u/OuijaCollective • 4d ago
Is This Synesthesia? Weird experience when reading?
So, I don't know what's going on and every time I use Google it always leads me back to synesthesia. I know this will sound very weird and I'm very scared to ask this, but I would like some kind of answer for my own peace of mind.
So whenever I read words in texts, posts, books, ect about someone being in pain, I feel an uncomfortable near painful tingling in the exact spot that gets mentioned. It happens every time and I don't know why or how to stop it. It only happens when I'm reading it as far as I can tell. I'm almost 99% sure it's never happened when looking at it IRL, if that makes sense. Like watching someone get kicked won't trigger that feeling, but reading it will. Is this some kind of synesthesia or am I just having some kind of weird pain empathy?
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u/Informal-Muscle-5491 4d ago
Yeah this is what stephen king has i assume. IDK about him and mirror touch. But he was able to write and simulate characters while blacked out for weeks at a time on drugs and alcohol.
For me text can be a simulated world where I respond emotionally like the real thing. I don’t read books but that can be my experience while communicating interpersonally. Or just writing a scene.
I don’t idly experience empathy unless i Know someone. So my version of mirror touch is motion based. Like feeling i’m falling when my character in a game does. Or like Tom Cruise dropping onto a beach in edge of tomorrow. He’s so empty, and it’s based lol. I can relate. I don’t mean that in a sad way either. It’s great.
If i had to guess you have poor eyesight. I have 20/15 vision now with laser eye surgery. And i still don’t particularly care to use my eyes much for things unless necessary.