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-Leo I am happy to share! I'm a hobbyist writer and a huge fan of fiction, as well, so I love sharing! And being nosy! 
It's quite hard for me to explain, because I just learned what this was less than a year ago? I thought everyone saw the world like that.
I first heard of it through this video. I love Alessa Cara, and I always wondered why her video for Here was tinted purple. It really made me realize - wow, not everyone sees the world like this.
For me, emotions have colors associated with them, so I can see a faint, almost like an aura of sorts, around a person that shows their mood. It makes it really hard for people to hide their emotions from me. But it's not like red equals angry, blue equals sad. There's so many minutely different shades and hues and saturation that all mean different things. And the colors don't have the same emotions link to them for every person, or every situation. It changes. I can just...feel it, kind of.
People also have colors associated with them. First, there's the color of their emotions, close to the outline of their body, like a glowing hue. But then their actual body has a color, kinda. Some people's colors are very static, so I always associate that color with them, and them with that color. Others change. My fiance is really weird, 'cause his colors change all the time - both his emotion colors and her personal colors. I see such a large range of colors in him that are constantly shifting, constantly changing, as he experiences new things and new emotions. It's really beautiful to watch. People just kind of put out this color, like an energy radiating from their body - almost like their presence? And it influences the mood of the room, and how you interact with them. Almost like an extension of their personality. Ya'know how some people just seem to exude happiness? Or sadness? Or anxiety? Or aggression? In everything they do? And when they walk into a room, you can feel the energy of the room change? Kinda like that. I just see it in waves of glowing colors.
Music, in my mind, has two levels of emotion - the emotion of the artist who composed it, and the emotions elicited in the person listening to it. These can be the same, or they can be drastically different. Each one of these has a color. The first is pretty static - it has to do with the state of mind the artist was in when they recorded or wrote it. The second is very dynamic, because it depends on the listener. Every person is different. And every situation is different, as well. A song might make you happy one day, but sad the next. So the colors of songs are constantly morphing.
All of these "colors" aren't just one shade - they're usually a sort of glow that varies and blends to create an overall pallet for the emotions elicited by the person, mood, or music. I like incorporating those pallets into my coloring. It's cool, because there's an overall pallet, but there's also little mini pallets that morph and change ever so slowly, that add to the overall pallet as a whole. Just like emotions are not cut and dry or static, neither are the colors.
I don't know. I know this sounds like a whole lot of hippie-dippy, power of the crystal mumbo jumbo. I don't fully understand it myself. And this is the first time I've ever tried to explain it, so it may be a bit hard to follow.  I wish I was better at explaining.
Everyone who has synesthesia experiences it differently. Alessa Cara's experiences are different than mine, which may be different than someone else's. I know there are a few artists out there that paint how they see the world, and I think that's really cool. I wish I was better at art, so I could try to give people a little insight on how I see the world. My fiance really wants me to get into drawing and painting so that he can see how I see the world, both because of my synesthesia and because I don't have depth perception (I can see dimension, but not depth, because of a benign tumor on my brain. Once again, found that out only a few years ago - I went my whole lift thinking everyone saw like that. It's one of the reasons I love photography, and one of the reasons why things like parallel parking, and merging, and not running into corners/walls/tables is so difficult for me). He thinks it would be really interesting to see how I see the world. Someday I want to learn how to draw landscapes, so that I can take a picture of a scene, then sketch it, and show him the differences in how I see and how he sees. I also want to do work with sketching people, and filling in the color pallets I see for their moods and personal colors over it, to show him how I see people and human interactions. I also wanna do a project where I sketch a scene, start coloring on one side of the page, then smoke a bowl and slowly work my way over to the other side and show how the color pallet changes. My depression makes it so I often see things in gray scale, with very muted colors, and colors only "pop" back into my vision when the depression is lifted. Smoking helps lift my depression. So I wanted to show the transition from muted, washed out colors of how I see life typically to the vibrant shades and hues I see when I am truly happy. Unfortunately, nowadays that only really happens when I smoke, but hey, whatever works right? It's all just a process.
Look at me, rambling on. Sorry about that. I got a bit excited thinking about all of these projects I want to do.
Poshi: I graduated uni last May. Within 7 days of graduation, my fiance and I sold all of our stuff, moved everything we owned into storage, quit my two jobs and his one, and started traveling the world. So far we've been to Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Spain, Costa Rica, and are now in Sicily.  It's been such a fantastic whirlwind experience! I highly recommend anyone with an inkling for wanting to travel to pursue it! It's actually very cheap if you do it right - by hostels that offer kitchen access, airbnbs with crazy monthly discounts, taking public transportation as much as possible, and avoiding guided tours, we have been able to travel as much as we want while spending less money than we were living on back when we were in uni and living cheaply to save money! 
Ooh! You actually share a lot of hobbies with me! I love singing (though I'm not nearly as good at it as I should be for how often I sing!), I LOVE fiction novels, I am super in bouldering and rock climbing, and hiking is my favorite sport of all time! We're actually backpacking right now, and I drag C out hiking at every chance I get! I especially love night hikes, or daytime hikes deep in the forest, where my only company is the sound of the critters and the wind through the leaves. 
Ooh, you've met some internet friends IRL? That's awesome! I've always wanted to do that! I am hoping that when C and I do our big Great American Roadtrip I get to visit them! People like Agriimony and Moi and Charstar, and possibly Amura when I'm in Spain next! Ooh, and I've always wanted to meet Firn and Starkard, though that is a lot less likely, since I've only talked to Firn a few dozen times, and Starkard maybe once or twice.
Kitalpha Hart: It is! If you have a desire to travel, I highly suggest you do! It's really not as expensive or as difficult as people make it out to be!
If you are ever looking for tips to help you get started, my inbox is always open! I have some really kickass resources that have really helped me through this journey!
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