Me, My Sensory, and My Synesthesia

Questions

Ok, first of all, thank you for being patient. Yesterday, both my internet connection and Wattpad decided to be cantankerous, so I wasn't able to type anything up or even just simply be on Wattpad for long before it would go blank on me.

A few nights ago, I was watching a TV show (UnXplained: Superhuman Senses) and synesthesia was mentioned. As soon as I saw that it was going to be brought up, I got super excited and started bouncing and rocking in my seat on the couch. After it started getting into it, I became a bit... annoyed at how they portrayed synesthesia. Granted, maybe some actually do see it that way. And, yes, it would be hard to express it when you don't experience it and therefore have no reference points. But still.

When they talk about music, they have colored music lines with notes and the time and treble clefts and everything appear, weaving among the musicians. I honestly don't know who sees it that way. Even if you're a projector, isn't it more abstract than that? (I don't know because I'm an associator. [I don't know how to spell it, spell check isn't helping, and I'm too lazy to pick up the dictionary that's literally lying right on my desk for this express purpose.])

They also show someone dragging their hand along a painted wall and then add in like this sparkly pink trail of bubble-like things and a sound that I'd say sounds like stars. (Revisit "How Do Others Not See It????" if you need a reminder of what I mean by this.) I don't think that was quite realistic, but again, I'm not a projector. Please correct me if I'm wrong and you or someone you know has experienced something like this.

Also, I was just the slightest bit miffed that they didn't appear to even try to depict how associators see their synesthetic colors and such. And, yeah, I know it would be hard, but not impossible. Just split the screen and do some fancy graphics stuff on the one side or something. But oh well. The complaining wasn't the thing I came here for.

On the show, they mention a deaf man who can hear sounds from all of his other senses. That made me jealous. It sounds so cool and I wish I had that type. Then, later on, they mention a man who was born without the ability to feel pain.

My brain then combined the two: a person born without the ability to feel pain having mirror-touch synesthesia. Do they feel the pain of others because it's not their own nervous system experiencing it? Or do they only feel the other sensations, like the sensations of being touched and stuff? I must know! Seriously, now that this question has come to my attention, it'll annoy me and pester me and just generally antagonize me until I get an answer.

And what about a blind person? Could they have chromesthesia? Even if they were born blind?

And then for some odd reason my brain jumped to questions like what if someone without synesthesia hit their head just right? Could that cause them to have synesthesia? And what about the reverse? Could it be possible to lose synesthesia from hitting your head? Or change from being an associator to a projector or vice versa?

And how would someone react to suddenly having synesthesia? Would they freak out? Would they love it? How would someone react to suddenly losing it? I know I would struggle. I wouldn't know how to function without my synesthesia. How do you listen to music without seeing anything? How do you read without seeing anything? How do you anything when everything's suddenly so... so... bland? And what if suddenly I saw my colors out around me? I think I'd start to freak out, honestly. I'd eventually like it, I think, but I'd be pretty shocked. And What if your synesthesia were to change to different types? Like if I suddenly lost my chromesthesia and gained lexical-gustatory synesthesia in it's place? AAAAAA! Too many questions!!!!!!!

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring up so many questions. My brain went overboard on me. It went rogue and stole my thoughts and spat all that out to torture everyone who reads this by never providing any answers.

Please let there be someone one there who can answer at least one of these.