What causes synesthesia to fade?!


Question: What causes synesthesia to fade?
I had the type of synesthesia where I saw letters/numbers in color and also music. It's still kind of there but hardly and it depends on my mood. I'm wondering, what could cause synesthesia to go away, i've had it all my life.

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Synesthesia can fade naturally over time. It can also fade or disappear altogether due to substance use (including prescription drugs), depression, grief, or brain trauma. These effects can be temporary or permanent. Some synesthetes experience temporary changes based on mood or alertness. No two synesthetes react the same way to things - caffeine, for example, might strenghten one person's synesthesia, weaken another person's, and have no effect on another's. There is very little research in this area, and no one can tell you much about *why* such changes might occur. If your synesthesia has been fading gradually over a period of time, and there was no particular trigger that started the change, then it's probably just natural.

I have synesthesia



Synesthesia means literally "feeling together."

1. A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
2. A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain, generally related to high nociception (high pain levels).
3. The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.


What is happening is that there is a kind of "bleed-through" from one sensory input to another. As it is an abnormal process, it makes sense that the symptoms would abate, as the body seeks to normalize and heal.

One thing to consider is that subluxation of the cervical spine (what osteopaths today call "somatic dysfunction") may have all kind of effects related to the head and upper extremities (and even to mental functioning). I recommend a chiropractic or osteopathic examination, and subsequent treatment by manipulation, if indicated. Was there a traumatic event--or illness--which preceded the onset of the synesthesia?

Holistic doctor and D.C.



The brain has what is referred to as plasticity. That is the ability of the mind to adapt and change do deal with both external and internal changes. It is how stroke patient can relearn to use body parts and how people with brain sections removed go on to lead normal lives. The brain can actually rewire itself with enough time.
It could just be that your brain has done this to see the world the way you and, no doubt, others have tried make it to. However, I can find no reported cases of synesthesia patients reporting a decline in symptoms with time in my cursory search of my universities digital medical library. The brain and the condition are just not understood enough to give you a solid answer.

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