I once thought I might have a little synesthesia, I noticed a weak color associated with some numbers: 1 was blue, 2 green, 3 red, 4 dark blue, 5 dark red, 6 cyan, 7 black, and 8 gray. People my age might already see where this is going. Anyway, the lower numbers were much more strongly associated with colors, but when I started noticing this, I eventually realized 9 had nothing, like it just didn't exist. Then I put it together - I had just been playing a ton of Windows Minesweeper.
There's actually some recent research about giving people artificial synesthesia using basically that method (repeated exposure to colored symbols), and it's pretty interesting
Studies and tests like these are so humbling. They show us that there are multiple ways to perceive the world. It can really be that we all see the world differently. It's made me realize how judgemental of other people's experiences we can be without knowing that their perception can be really so different.
I wish that people who realize things like this could also see that it's true about political opinions, and consider giving a little respect back to the old idea of freedom of speech.
When I was around 7 I wrote down letters and numbers in my own colors to repeat that later to check if they're consistent. I noticed I had color associations pretty early and asked all the people around me how their letters looked, but no one had proper answers. I then forgot about that piece of paper for a couple of years and found it while tidying up and instantly wrote them down again without looking and almost all matched up pretty identical, although I forgot I had these associations at all. 10 years later I took pretty much the same test online and got super low variance. I had quite a lot of letters where I pinpointed the exact same color. I was kinda surprised, but not overwhelmingly so. It was pretty intuitive and easy for me and I didn't think of it that much. I don't project the colors tho. Maybe a teeny tiny bit sometimes, but it is more mental for me. I might even have some aphantasia (still not sure tho :D ) Oh and I think I get asmr, but often times it's unpleasant and strong and leads to twitches. Some are good tho :P And as side info: I'm autistic with adhd. I hope this big bunch of info and stories about my synesthesia is interesting to someone :D 7 is dark blue, almost black!!
Thank you for mentioning the word "aphantasia". I think I might have some degree of aphantasia but never new it was a named condition. I have a good memory for things that have been verbalized but a terrible memory for anything spacial or for colors of things.
yeah the 'tiny bit mentally' is the secret sauce. 9 and H were purple for me as a kid. Time-space synesthesia is the new one that I completely experience. I'm also coincidentally very well versed on DATETIMESTAMP functions in SQL. Coincidence. 3 is Blue.
I actually have chromesthesia (sound/music to color synesthesia) & I just took these tests recently to identify the color assiociations I have whenever I hear musical keys & instruments. I ended up scoring below a 1.0 on both of them. I also find it interesting that you mentioned in the video how most people who have synesthesia end up in creative fields because I'm actually a graphic designer/illustrator & often use my synesthesia as a bit of an aid in my creative process. 😄👍
You should look into aphantasia which is an interesting situation where people don't visualize in their mind's eye, it's just empty. I only discovered this was a thing a few years ago, for my entire life before that I always just thought when people talked about seeing things in their mind's eye, it was just a metaphor.
@@douglasboyle6544 It's amazing how little we know about what is simply a collection of biological molecules and electrons, and at the same time it is amazing how much we know about what is such a highly complex structure that is our brains.
I think I have aphantasia. I don't "see" anything in my mind's eye, I just "think" about it / remember things as a thought, not a picture. I only heard about this a few years ago (I'm 45) and was boggled to hear about "seeing" things vividly in their "imaginations", even being able to "move 3D models around in their head".
Seeing the illustrations of synesthete number lines and calendars you selected from Wednesday Is Indigo Blue awakened something in me. I’m 40 years old and still get lost trying to follow a regular calendar because that’s not how I see weeks, months, and years. But I immediately recognized and understood those illustrations; even if they aren’t exactly what I see, the “logic” behind them was clearly the same as whatever my brain is doing. I always knew I had mild synesthesia; I didn’t realize my circular calendar or meandering number line was part of it. And I had no idea other people saw things that way, too.
I didn't think I had synesthesia but a circular calendar is how i picture time throughout the year. Does your circular calendar turns clockwise or counterclockwise with passing time?
I see a circular calendar which doesnt rotate. January is at the top left and December and the top right. June and July are at the bottom. I use it to gauge where i am in the year. I also have color associations based on the seasons that color the months
@@hazeld8016 mine also doesn't rotate by itself, but i do as if the calendar was a road. And I "ride" on that "road" counterclockwise. Summer months are higher then winter months as if my calendar was placed at an angle.
@@jus4795 That sounds like the way it is for me! I never realized that spacial locations were a part of synesthesia. I only considered that my colors to letters/numbers/days of the week/months counted. Synesthesia is really freaking cool.
Guys, thank you so much! I never knew my visual inner calendar had something to do with synaesthesia although I kinda suspected it. It's so satisfying to finally "meet" people who are the same.
I think with spacial locations to sequences. I had no idea this was considered as synesthesia. It's so much a part of how I think that it is impossible for me to imagine how people think without it. Thank you for mentioning it, I will research it more EDIT: It turns out my daugther has numbers to color synesthesia. Number 7 is dark green
I also didn't realise until recently that not everyone has time spirals - that's how my sequences mainfest. I have no idea how I'd remember anything without using them. But I didn't realise it was a kind of synaesthesia.
Thank you for this video! My son who studies mathematics sent me the link. It turns out he sees colors with numbers. And I myself have time-space synaesthesia, I see shapes in time. So cool to discover that there are more people who have these variations of perception!
I’ve always been fascinated by the phenomenon of cultural synesthesia. For example in the Igbo language you would say “can you hear that smell” or can you “see that feeling”
Agreed, that's absolutely fascinating. I mostly know Latin languages and it's always funny to me how variations of the verb "to feel" are homonyms of different things in some languages. In french, to feel is the same word as for to smell. While in Italian it is homonym for to hear. So in french you would say "do you feel that smell", while in Italian you would say "do you feel that sound".
In russian, for some reason, people use the word "listen" for when they are talking about the smell of perfume, like "can you listen to my new perfume?" or "after spraying it on your wrist, rub it in and then you'll be able to hear it better" but in any other context it's just "feel the smell"
This was a very cool video. Even though I knew what synesthesia was, there was a lot about it that I didn't know. I scored a 2.38. I got the result that I kind of expected. Even though I tried to memorize several, I was only really consistent with one of them and somewhat consistent with four more.
Whenever I watch a movie where a dark indoor scene shifts to a bright, outdoor one (like when a door opens in a dark room to reveal sunlight, car noises, and people talking) I get an overwhelming smell of 'outside'. It's like my brain blends the visual and sound cues with a strong scent, even though it's not really there.
The optical nerve is close to the sinuses and light changes can effect your sense of smell or make you sneeze. This is nothing special, it's true for everyone, they just may not have noticed but once you do you can use it when you me to sneeze. Just look at a bright light and 90% of the time the reaction to the light will cause you to sneeze. It is not synisthesia
@@andyv2209 The photic sneeze reflex is not universal and affects only a subset of the population, estimated to be about 10-35%. What i'm experiencing is more synethesia and not a reflex. So synesthesia would explain the vivid experience of having an overwhelming feel of smelling "outside" when visual and auditory cues change in the scene.
@@VestaRoleplay no that's just your sinuses opening up, it's a light response, it doesn't have to include sneezing but it can cause it if you already have to sneeze and I'm not talking about people who sneeze from lights alone as a reflex I'm talking about using lights to sneeze its not exactly the same
I'm a musician and a writer. I frequently use my synesthesia in all of my creative work. I'm also a polyglot, and the synesthetic reactions for me get really wild when getting into other languages, kind of like hearing/using tuning systems from other cultures. For me, 7 and 6 are almost the same color, which is almost like sand. I frequently get them confused in English and in other languages, even if the other languages have a different color for the numbers because of how strongly numbers are hardwired in our native tongue.
@@conradaster3764 How do you mean? As far as negatives go, I can't handle being in loud, crowded places like bars. People noise gives me sensory overload.
I often confuse the digits 4, 7, and 9 when trying to remember numbers, because they all have similar shades of yellow (though 7 can sometimes be silver).
My ex-girlfried had synesthesia and attached colors to, for example, voices. She didn't like red voices, fortunately mine was orange or, if calm, had a special type of blue.
Red voices? I'm so jealous! Red is so tasty 😋 Some of my friends/partners are aqua, light grey, peach/salmon, pink, etc All very tasty (Color to flavor and voices to color so I get cascading sense of flavor from voices)
My friend's ex had the same kind. She described my voice as either purple with jagged green lines, or green with jagged purple lines. I don't remember exactly which, but it was definitely purple and green and jagged. Either way, purple is my favorite color, so that was neat.
@@solsystem1342 i just straight up taste voices! I haven't met anyone who has anything having to do with taste before, so glad to know I'm not insane lol
I'm 73. I have always felt "different" or maybe "wierd". After all these years i have finally described me as "seeing more than people expect me to see and seeing things other people seem to have no clue is even there to see." I recognize people sometimes by the timber of their voice, the specific way they form words, an odd way of holding their head, an unusual genetic shape that isn't "common". My dad was like that as well. I have since stopped thinking I'm wierd. I'm just me. =)😀
That's just human level of recognition and perception, lol. Everything you described - is something average human should be able to do, if not - they have certain disability, like for example prosopagnosia. What you described is a big ego or narcissism, if anything (followed from the parents, who also probably thought he was special). It's the same way people say they are more empathetic than the others - in most cases they are just average humans, with twisted perception of what an average human is like (easily acquired, if they have strong need to be different or due to perception bias).
I have something similar, but not sequences of numbers, just information. I felt like I was almost cheating on tests sometimes because I would associate a piece of information with an area on a page to remember it.
I've always wanted to participate. I discovered I had this only in my mid teenage years, where I realized people didn't see things the way I did. Later I noticed how it affects my art, memory, and daily life with meeting people. I scored 0.60 in my alphabet and numbers test. It was so satisfying to see all of my choices lined up in the end, all in the same perfect colors. And I am very much an Associator, I don't hallucinate it in the physical world. Thank you for sharing so I can finally see my condition with clear results 💕
My multiples of 3 are green too, but only if they ar obvious to me, and aren't already a different more 'obvious' multiple of another color. 15 is red for example because 5 trumps 3 in this case. And 64 is dark blue because of 8.
Number 7 is def orange, I can also hear a some electro funky tune to it and it is associated with Thursday and the English language for some reason. But my favorite is the number one - it is so clear and bright, a mux if white and light gray and there is a perfectly clear water and fresh odorless air in that world too. This is in contrast to the number 5 which is a burning red, hellish scape. Thanks for making a video on this, Tibees. It is really quite strange and fascinating that these things are so closely tied together.
The number 5 is red for me too, but in a cheerful way, like a children's number set or something--but red isn't my favorite color and so five has never been a favorite number. One is cool and serene for me too, but it is blue, not white/grey.
For me, 1 is red, 2 is blue, 3 is yellow (though the word yellow itself feels like pink), 4 is purple, 5 orange, 6 pink, 7 green, 8 is also blue, though deeper, and 9 is a dark purple.
Wow. That's interesting. I wrote my associations a moment ago and now I am reading comments. Hre is what I wrote: "7 - it's most possibly a golden yellow. And 2 is navy blue. 5 is deep red. 1 is white. 3 might be turquoise. 4 might be bright red"
I wonder if mine has to do with the rainbow at all, since 0 is white/gray, 1 is black, 2 is red, 3 is orange, 4 is green, 5 is yellow, 6 is brown, 7 is lavendar, 8 is blue, and 9 is purple.
OMG "Sequences to spatial location", it has a name!!! and i'm not the only one!!! I always viewed numbers in sort of stairs with platform, and the seasons as a wheel with dates in them
Thank you, the image of the months in a circle with different fonts and colors and shapes is something I've always wondered about since I was a kid and could never explain it. Also different sounds with times, dates with colors I thought was normal. It's really nice seeing there's a name that goes with that kind of perspective and processing
Our Senior Design Project for my Bachelor's Degree was making a device to simulate what Chromesthesia (a type of synesthesia) would look like. Cool to see a video from you on this!
All my life I’ve had sequences to special locations synesthesia. I knew from when I was pretty young that this was unusual but never knew it was an actual thing until I watched this. Seeing other people’s sequences is so interesting
I find this interesting - in my maternal or first language number seven is green-yellowish. When I think in English I see letters s,e,v,e,n before the shape of the number. It means word seven is brown-redish. Finally 7 is green-yellowish.
Hmm. I've always felt 7 was like dark sandy brown, or generally just a dark colour. While my perception of the other numbers can waver a bit, to me, 1 is always white or bright red, 5 is always a rusty dark red, and 9 is a very dark purple. Strangely, I often feel the 4 in 49 specifically is powder blue, and it and the purple 9 make up exactly the same colours as Thursday.
Wait, not everyone visualizes numbers, letters, days of the weeks, or months of the year in 3D space around them? That can’t be right. Do people think I’m strange when I point to where Monday or October is? I’ve definitely heard of synesthesia before, but I thought it was mostly color associations. Fascinating. I see numbers, letters, days, months, and years in various parabolas around me.
Senses don't usually cross with each other. There is the prevalent concept of a timeline, but based on the images in the video, they can form loops and spirals
yep, most people don't have a spatial association for these concepts. from my personal experience, i usually don't even visualise any of these things. if i did visualise a number, letter, weekday or month (generally because of specifically thinking about it, like in this context), i'm just visualising the individual symbol or word, right in front of me (as if it were written on a page or typed on a screen). cool to hear of your experience!
I shared part of my life with a person whose synesthesia is all over the spectrum. I got used to hearing her share with me what I then felt like over the top poetic expressions such as "that particular color sounds like the smell of cat paws", "this cake tastes like the sound of warm tropical rain", etc... She is an incredible artist and I am certain this is an integral part of her talent. So, comparatively, I didn't think I had any kind of synesthesia myself until I began to taste acidity in my lower left jaw and hear a disturbingly high pitch crushing my skull when exposed to the light of car beams while driving on a rainy night. It would significantly dampen on the stretch of road where rain had stopped falling but start again once rain was falling again to stop completely on dry road... I realized the sound of the tires of passing car on rainy days had always been physically uncomfortable to me since I was a kid too. I also do hear sounds when I see any kind of repetitive animation, like random meme gifs for example. Not sure it is synesthesia, but it is not a projection of what it could sound like if I had the original sound on, more like very consistent cartoonish illustrations and rhythmic patterns which repeat in the same way even at months apart when exposed to the same animation. I do seem to have developed some kind of inner library in which I classified all these. Oh and I am very sensitive to ASMR and your soft spoken voice soothed me deeply while I was watching this video. 😅
7 is lavendar. Yes, I have color grapheme association, week to color association, and month to color association, and they have stayed the same my whole life. Just took the synesthesia test. Scored 0.40. Already knew I had it, lol
The test did not identify me because it's too specific. To me, seven is always green, but it can be light or darker shades. Some letters have weaker color associations that others, such as "g" which could go from light blue to magenta. The test claims that if you have synesthesia, you always see a very specific hue and shade. But if I look at your intro and see the randomly-colored symbols at 1:19, this is very hard for my brain to process because it's conflicting information, like seeing the word "yellow" written in green.
I thought I had taste/smell synesthesia, but apparently that's not considered a thing since taste and smell are already closely associated for many people. Most people can't taste the smell of gasoline or petrichor though. I've heard of supertasters, but usually it seems like those people are just very good at discerning actual tastes and smells. For me, my sense of smell is a lot like your friend described seeing colour- like I can taste what's actually in my mouth and a kind of hidden layer of taste on top of it that matches with whatever I'm smelling. For example, gasoline vapour tastes like roasted cheese and vegetables, and petrichor tastes like sweet soggy cardboard. Those are some rare examples of smells that actually taste like something I can recognize, most things don't taste like any kind of food or object my tongue has actually touched before. Sometimes it's like that for awhile until I taste something new and recognize it as something I've smelled before, that's how it was for gasoline. Most of them are pretty neutral- some are good like the previous examples, and some are bad- like the smell of black coffee which tastes similar to how the smell of catpiss tastes. Another good smell that I can't quite put my finger on is clean carpet, which has a taste similiar to the smell of freshly baked bread. I imagine it would be very difficult to make a battery to test this. Smell isn't confined to a spectrum like colour or sound, or orderly like letters and numbers. It's also a lot more contextual. Not to mention the continued lack of smell-o-vision, or for that matter, taste-o-vision.
That's a good point, I guess one way to put it is that I don't smell without flavor. It's like that for actual food as well, and sometimes the smell-taste is even better than the actual taste. So food strangely has two different flavors, the smell is always the same of course but then I have the virtual flavor associated with the smell, and that becomes part of the second flavor when I taste the actual food on my tongue.
Super tasters have more taste buds on their tongue. They have a tendency to be able to taste more or different flavors that normal tasters do. They taste some things differently and not necessarily better. This can be associated with a dislike for some chocolates or spicy foods.
It can be tested, they just need to record your answers and see the patters. Tho taste depends highly of smell. I can taste things from memory, my brain works somehow that I sense the taste from remembering something. Or when I am asked what I want to eat, I can give a precise over detailed something just by pretending I am chewing something. Like Green rice with squid cooked over butter and garlic. But I don’t think I have synesthesia, just a detailed taste sense. Something I do know is, as a woman, I always know exactly what I want to eat.
I suffer from sequences -> spatial locations. I visualise numbers ascending from 1 to 12 as a clock face. From 13 - 20 as a downward slope. 20-30, 31-40, 41--50 etc as zig-zagged lines to the sky until I reach 100 where the clock face starts again from 101. Trying to explain this to people has baffled them. This video is a great insight. Thank you
what do you mean you "suffer" from it???? I I have synesthesia and have always found it to be a cool thing. I've never once thought of it as causing "suffering" to me
I had no idea there was associative and projective variants of grapheme color synesthesia! I am most definitely associative - the color is always present in the mind, but not on the page. Super cool video! Really love when synesthesia gets some light shone on it! Also 7 is a bright yellow!! ⚡
Your editor explained synesthesia so well, I also kinda see and kinda don't see the color on paper, it's more in my mind's eye and the colors are always the same!
I also imagine time in 3D, I did not know it is synesthesia. But connecting words with colors/images always helped me to learn new languages. It did not do anything for me in case of letters, I'm terrible with numbers.
I’ve always had synaesthaesia with for example A being red , W ,K brown , L being glassy and R a gunmetal blue . As well as colours for each numeral . As a young electrical engineering student I had to learn contradictory resistor and wiring colour codes and now the associations are completely screwed up . I can no longer tell if my reactions are just learned .
I don't think it qualifies as synesthesia, but for some reason, numbers have always had genders for me. From as soon as I knew what numbers were, it was: 1: male 2:female 3:male 4:female 5:female 6:male 7:female 8:male 9:male 10:male 11:male 12:female And so on and so forth. It doesn't track with even/odd, but the identifying number for the teens refers back to the 1-12 scale for gender. Eg, 13 is always male because it has 3 identifying it. Once it goes over 20, it stops being associated as strongly with gender for some reason, with a few exceptions. Even today, at 40 (a male number, even though 4 is female to me) if I hear a number, my mind automatically thinks of that gender first.
What a fascinating video! I definitely experience ASMR, but have always been unsure about synesthesia. Thank you for showing us the test. I filled out the survey, and scored 0.86 on the letter/number -- colour test and 0.53 on the weekday - colour test. However, on the speed thing I only scored 41%. I did immediately regret some of my answers to the speed congruency test, so I will be doing it all again in a few weeks. Will be interesting to see if there is some consistency or if I just have a good visual memory. When I was a kid in school, I would do well in tests because of my memorization method, which basically allowed me to imagine the textbook and my notes in my mind. I could "open up" the book and read the pages and look at the photos in my mind, purely from memory.
This is probably why I sometimes remember things by associating them with something that seems completely random (like associating someone's name with a Strawberry when there name has nothing in common with strawberries.)
I did the test and scored 0.84 on the letters/ numbers test and 0.42 on the weekday/month test. I got 7 types of different synesthesia listed in my results. I'm not sure how accurate the test is. But it is clear that two friends of mine both scored above 1, and one of them tried again and weren't able to improve by much. I've never thought of this as a thing, nor had any problems with it, so it won't change my life knowing this. The more you know about yourself, the better, i guess.
What I find interesting is that synesthetes usually associate numbers with very distinct colours. It's never a spectrum of light pink for 0 to dark pink for 10. Also, they have colours for the numbers and days and months that we use frequently, but perhaps not every rational between 3.1 and 3.2. Could this be the brain's way to organise numbers in a practical way? Could you use colours to see factors or prime numbers? Perhaps this is what was going on in Ramanujan's brain.
I don’t think I have any synesthesia, unless having a physical reaction to fingernails on chalkboards counts. I kind of wish I had synesthesia where I see numbers in the resistor color code.
Oh, the "fingernails on chalkboard" thing is actually another condition where certain sounds can be distressing, such as the squeaking of Styrofoam, or simply the word "moist".
While I almost definitely do not have synesthesia, it was certainly interesting when you mentioned the book "wednesday is indigo blue," my first thought was IMMEDIATELY, "No, Wednesday is definitely a dandelion yellow." I don't seem to feel that way about any other days of the week, like maybe Tuesday is a midtone red, and Monday might be kinda blue? But Wednesday, at least right now, feels particularly strongly to be dandelion yellow
So you state that you don't have synesthesia but you consistently associate colors to week days? I would guess that as with a lot of the things synesthesia can be stronger or weaker but in reality idk
Whoa. Our weekday colors are in sync. I knew I had mild synesthesia for letters and numbers, but am only right now realizing that the days of the week have color. And Wednesday is definitely yellow. Monday is blue, and Tuesdys is orange (not red, but similar). Thursday is kind of a muted apple green, by the way (or mauve? Some of my letters and numbers have two colors that they flip between, I think Thursday is like this for me). I don't know what color Friday is though. Either it's white or it doesn't have a color.
It took me until I was 15 to learn that people don’t associate letters/numbers/other things with colors! I have very strong associative grapheme/weekday/month to color, but I in no way see text in my everyday life as colorful. I scored 0.70 for grapheme -> color and 0.31 for weekday -> color (I didn’t get month). I personally can barely tell the colors I chose for each thing apart, so I think this is the limitation of my vision. I only scored 44% accuracy on the congruency test, which is super surprising to me… I guess they must test really close shades which I can’t distinguish or something, but I can definitely tell when something is/isn’t colored correctly. Oh well, fun test, but very long (took me 1.5 hours, but I tested numerous kinds at once). Thank you for sharing!
I don't see colors. However, all my life I've had this thing where when I am doing two things at once it's like my brain hits a record button. For instance, if I am drawing a complex picture and I am watching a movie, my brain like hyper records everything. For months later I can look at the picture I drew and depending on the part I'm looking at I can recall exactly what was happening in that movie associated with that part of the drawing. And sometimes I can do it the other way around too. I have re-watched movies days later only to be hit with recurring vivid memories of whatever task I was doing the last time I was watching the movie. I thought everyone did this until my husband told me otherwise. It doesn't just apply to art, its just two tasks that require attention. I've even used this for school work, play a movie while reading and then play the movie later and I can remember what I read. Too bad you can't watch movies while taking a test. Ha.
if i decide to watch a movie and read a book im going to real like 1 page of the book, watch the whole movie, then have to read the same page of the book again 😭🙏
I experience this, as well. It's helpful when trying to remember an idea I had or to think back to a specific point in a conversation I had. Sometimes, I can jog my memory by visualizing where I was standing and looking, but, if too much was simultaneously happening, it helps to physically be where I was. I completely agree with the "record button" association; it feels like the movie Click with Adam Sandler.
My brain does this too with video games and books. I can play Skyrim, or even just think about a specific location in the map, and I will remember conversations from almost ten years ago.
My brain does this with audiobooks, so when I re re-listen to a book I tend to get a lot of vivid flashbacks of what I was doing last time I listened to a scene or chapter.
I can do this with music. I can recall what I was doing and where I was last time listening to a specific song, and some places and patterns rewoke soundtracks associated with them I don't think that's a synesthesia tho, just how brain works
Excellent video. I like the (what I assume is) Ramanujan reference on your shirt. However, you also mentioned RP Feynman which reminds me of 1729.03 which he mentally calculated the cube root of on the spot. From his book: “The number was 1729.03. I happened to know that a cubic foot contains 1728 cubic inches, so the answer is a tiny bit more than 12. The excess, 1.03 is only one part in nearly 2000, and I had learned in calculus that for small fractions, the cube root's excess is one-third of the number's excess. So all I had to do is find the fraction 1/1728, and multiply by 4 (divide by 3 and multiply by 12). So I was able to pull out a whole lot of digits that way.”
I recently realized I have synesthesia with letters and greek letters! I discovered this because I only choose specific combination of colors for letters in mathematical formulas I write. I'll always find them more beautiful when their are colors that fit well together. For example a, b, c, d are red, blue, yellow and green. u and v are pastel pink and purple, while p and q are pastel blue and vibrant purple!
@@Anonymous-df8itNot really for me, it's just that numbers (digits) have an extra "identifier" - besides the symbol and spoken word there's also a colour. So the kind of thing where it would be helpful is perhaps memorizing and distinguishing between numbers, since they have that one extra association. I guess it could maaaaybe help with mode since that's "pattern recognition without calculation"
I got 0.82-0.88 on all my color tests (latin alphabet and numbers, cyrillic alphabet, week days), wasn't even expecting at some point that it will actually be this consistent because everything started to blur. Most of the colors in my mental palette are very muted and complex it turns out, and yet I managed to consistently pick very close colors, with a few exceptions. Cool, cool, useless but cool. Spacial thing for sequences is actually how I think and navigate numbers in different context and it is very useful. my seven is yellow :)
I had distinct ( almost intrusive) musical synesthesia when I was a kid. Music had shape & odour & flavour & colour & texture... And it wasn't just music but music was the most noticeable aspect. Then I sustained a head injury at 14 & not only lost my sense of smell but MOST of my synesthetic abilities. But not all. 7 is maroon. just like Thursday...
I would like to have one specific type of synthesia (that might not actually exist but that doesn't matter here): code Correctness -> color. The more likely a piece of code is to contain a mistake / not be optimal, the more red the color gets. That would be really useful.
I don't have color synesthesia, but Spatial/space Sequence synesthesia. I have it with time, numbers, years, months, weekdays etc. I didn't realize this was a thing until in my mid twenties or so. I thought everyone "saw" time and numbers like this.
Sequences spatial location with time here. No other synesthesia of color for me, it I do react to certain triggers of asmr. Glad to see you are back! ❤😊
I see sounds as shapes and also tastes as sounds, which makes a fun combination. Cooking to me feels basically the same as drawing or composing. Though it's a lil awkward to explain that my soup needs more BASE, so I tend to end up shoo-ing people out of the kitchen so I can hear the food better. 😭
Not many people like yellow, as far as I know, and by being so far to the next weekend and not "special" like Monday it's ... Forgettable Undesirable Tasteless We humans look for meaningful colors and yellow might be just a ... Background, like a noise, like a day that has nothing special inherently
The brain is such an interesting phenomenon! For me, it's as if my brain sometimes remembers very specific things clearly, but mostly just discards lots of stuff. Even things I'm positive about - for example, I love Terry Pratchett's Discworld, but I can tell you very little of "what happens in which book". I kind of remember the "general philosophy /theme", and some specific "scenes", but I generally can't string more than 2 or 3 sentences together about the plot, or place specific scenes into specific books, unless their content is really important to that book's story. I can remember lyrics (and musical notes) quite well - I've found that I sometimes know the lyrics of a song I don't even like very much better than people who absolutely love the song. I could also sing along with a song I may have last listened to 10 years ago, and remember almost all the notes/details of the solo, etc. However, when it comes to books and movies, the details simply vanish for the most part. I work in a very technical (nerdy, maths, stats, coding) field, and I'm able to figure out really complex stuff, as well as remember the essence of how/why it works, and combine things from different disciplines where it makes sense to, but sometimes I see stuff I've done 3 or 4 years ago and struggle to remember actually doing it. Also, my brain doesn't seem to have "time stamps" associated with memories, and generally tend to just "forget stuff". I may have a general idea of "in what decade", but time-wise, my memories are rather jumbled. I've went on a 5-day hiking trip with people who, 3 years later, were able to tell me who did what and what happened on every specific day of the hike, while I probably couldn't tell you the names of half the people (all of whom I'd known before the trip!) that went with. Finally, I think I have aphantasia. I don't "see" anything in my mind's eye, I just "think" about it / remember things as a thought, not a picture. I only heard about this a few years ago (I'm 45) and was boggled to hear about people "seeing" things vividly in their "imaginations", even being able to "move 3D models around in their head".
My mom and all three of my sisters have synesthesia, the Sunday dinner I found out was mind blowing all around. It's super interesting how different their internal representations were from mine in kind and from each other in details.
I have visualied the calendar in a floating ellipse like this all my life. I asked my wife recently how she visialises it and she just simply doesn't and i didn't understand. Very strange.
Besides numbers-colors and letter-colors I for some reason also have a strong association of certain languages with colors, especially the ones I've studied/speak. Whenever I think about a certain language or hear it I get this association.
I definitely see colors associated with numbers, letters, directions, names, topics, and days (in my mind when I picture the things) but they are not always consistent. There are definitely patterns to it, though. I think the biggest pattern is the oddness of evenness of things. Odd numbers are more green or yellow and even numbers are more blue or red. Letters that feel more even to me (like A, B, J, L, etc.) follow the even color schemes and those which feel more odd to me (C, I, E, N, etc.) follow the even color scheme. Directions also have this property with left feeling more odd/green and right feeling more even/blue. The days of the week alternate with Monday odd, Tuesday even, Wednesday odd, etc. As if you had numbered them starting with Monday. Topics like math and science are odd/green while English and history are even/blue.
For me it's more like a positive or negative "emotional association", than color.. Odd = negative emotions Even = positive emotions Letters like " d,k,t,g,r,q" negative vibe Letters like "a,b,l,m,n,o,v" positive vibe
@@martf1061 I think we are opposites! I get negative vibes from the things I consider "even". I relate more with the "odd" things, and I wonder if that is due to my left-handedness. We seem to have the same but opposite lists though! That is interesting!
I associate numbers with colors, but more specifically the time of the day. It's kind of weird, but 7am is green, 8am is red 5am is yellow, 6am is a blurry dark color etc
Omg I connected so hard over those number lines. I mean, I've been aware I experience everything in this video for many years now, but try describing numbers spacial relationships like that to another person. I've managed to let people into the colour stuff quite well by now, but never figured out how to get the number lines or calendar stuff across. Even though those images were only shown briefly, I feel like I know exactly what's going on in that person's experience. For me at least, the odd twists and shapes aren't totally static. As I shift my attention along the number line or zoom in or out the whole thing kind of folds or unravels like some kind of fractal ribbon, and the shape changes depending on whereabouts within the numbers my focus is, like I've taking a different visual perspective. That's why it's all twisty when stepping back to consider the range of values shown in the drawing - the continuum begins to fold up in my mind's eye. Does this resonate with anyone else? (Oddest thing - for some different forms or contexts the line folds up differently. For things like sports scores or imaginary numbers or whatever. Haven't quite figured out what's going on with that...) Oh, and 7 is a touch darker than sky blue.
As someone who doesn't have a minds eye this is even more wild than finding out people can actually visual things in their head that stuff has colour associated with it too.
I associate numbers with colors, but usually only when I picture it, not when I'm reading it. It's mostly with numbers 1-9 and everything else is a mix of it's components. Some numbers has stronger colors than others (24 is pink and purple), while others are harder to nail down (like 8, it's either dark green or dark purple, maybe dark brown?). It also kinda helps me with math, because it makes it easier to tell by vibes when a number is a multiple of another number, because number groups have similar colors? It's not that fancy tho. I've always wanted someone to ask me about my number colors lol.
The Most probable reason would be that certain smells will be strongly associated to certain personnal emotional moments in our lives and will bring back memories of those moments when the same odour comes back later on. Same goes for certain sounds that bring back certain memories.. It's more likely that it's those who see sounds or see diferent colors for different letters that are the Weirdo's 😉🤭
7 is lime green. I have synaesthesia that manifests in a lot of ways including noises to color graphemes to color but also words to color. Notably smaller parts of things don’t seem to affect larger things for instance the word left is blue but the letters are yellow orange pink and brown
What I'd like to know is, do these synesthetians (why not?) who associate colors with numbers associate with the *concept* of the number, or instead with the *shape* of it? Would they experience the association with say, the dots on a die rather than Arabic numbers? Are FOUR, QUATTRO, and IV the same as 4, in color terms? Are they all equal, or does it have to be Arabic numbers?
For me, it is definitely the concept. All of those have the same color to me (a dark purple). I will say that the “4” and Roman numeral “IV” have the strongest associations out of those examples.
@@jasster8Follow up: if you see a group of four persons or objects, do you associate dark purple with those, and if so, does it in any way impact your perception or opinion of them? Or is it more a completely incidental thing that has no actual impact on your judgement?
Some research suggests that synaesthesia is more often a concept-senses thing than a joining of senses. Synaesthesias that are purely based on the senses are known as sensorial synaesthesia. When concepts (such as numbers, personalities) are involved, it is called ordinal sequence synaesthesia or cognitive category synaesthesia. Sean Day says of the conceptual kind, "certain sets of things which individual cultures teach us to put together and categorise (and also usually serialise) in some specific way - such as letters, numbers, or people's names - also get some kind of sensory addition such as smell, colour, or flavour. "
Some synaesthestes only have to think of a number, letter etc to experience colour, taste etc. Others need to see the shape of the grapheme to induce the synaesthestetic experience. The first type is conceptual, the second sensorial.
Synesthesia is not just a mere figure of speech or some expression of the poetic feeling that we can express in a situation where, for example, we associate a flavor with a specific odor, such as a sweet and flowery jasmine flower, like a perfume. We experience this daily at lunch and dinner, for example, when we identify the sense of taste with the sense of smell and notice how the flavor of food is much more pronounced when its smell is good, pleasant and stimulates the appetite. Another interesting thing is about intuition, in particular mathematical intuition, which oscillates between the sensory manifestation of the abstract and the sensory manifestation of the numerical concrete. It is noteworthy that there has long been discussion about a possible sixth female sense. Personally, I believe and experience intuition as a sixth sense, in particular mathematical intuition. But I believe that much of the female sixth sense is associated with intuition itself. I also experience daily and all the time a kind of overlapping of senses with the sense of intuition, in the process of attributing flavor to the sight of an object, smell to the sound of music, touch to the timbre of a voice, etc. I love your channel.🫀🖤
I'm an electrician, and 7 is a red wire 😋 But i agree that "emotionaly speaking" it is a southing tint of yellow. 1 is white. 9 purple. 13 feels like it is brown And all factors of 5 are blue. 🙂 6 orange 2 red 4 green
I have visual synesthesia for like every sense. I guess my brain can’t comprehend something’s existence unless I can look at it in a way. Also no one can tell me anything other than 1 is black, 2 is pink, 3 is resish-purplish-pink, 4 is yellow, 5 is slightly darker yellow but sometimes other more neutral colors, 6 is DEFINITELY pink, 7 is brown or grey or brownish blackish grey, 8 is silver, 9 is dark orange, but not dark enough to be brown. Finally 10 is black again because both 1 and 0 are black.
I’m a teacher and years ago, I found out that one of my students had synesthesia and I just learned watching this video that she was a “projector”! I’m an English teacher and she experienced a lot of difficulty in reading, especially novels, as each letter on the page was a different colour for her. There was just so much visual clutter that reading made her head ache. It was a pain to her, but very cool to me! I don’t have synesthesia however, to me, blinking coloured lights are loud and always have been and I don’t know why. It is like a “pre-noise noise”. I can’t describe it any better than that. We have these lights at home that have many different settings, and my husband loves the random colour blinking setting. It drives me nuts and I don’t even want to be in the same room when he’s got them going. If I’m watching them, it fills my head and is not pleasant. However, if we set the lights on one solid, unblinking colour, I’m filled with a sense of calm. Those blinking ones, though!!! Also, I go to a lot of Deaf chats and while I’m socializing, I feel like there is a lot of noise…not visual noise, either; it is much like the blinking lights: pre-noise noise. It’s just a noisy, social environment for me like many social gatherings, but with a different quality of noise. It is quite impossible to describe accurately, and it isn’t unpleasant like those blinking coloured lights are. It is noise before the noise is made, but noisy nonetheless. However, if I walk away and come back, I’m hit with a realization of how quiet it is…until I’m chatting with people again and it becomes noisy to me once more. I only noticed this sense of noise fairly recently, ie: within the last few months. I walked away to use the bathroom and quite literally was hit with how quiet everyone was…until I joined the group again. For people who actually have synesthesia, I can’t imagine how cluttered their life could be. Like I said, it is cool to me, but I think the opposite may be closer to the truth for some of them!
Not to take away from those that have synaesthesia, but I think we all have this to a degree. The basic idea is senses get crosswired in a way and we can all smell food an know how it will taste, see something, know how it will feel to touch, and to get specific... we can hear water getting poured and know whether it's hot or cold water. People "with synaethesia" have extreme and unique cases of this. I think there's a degree of envy those of us who do not have this feel because it's such a benign effect that seems like it would make things more fun or interesting in our bland day to day. My advice if you have this feeling of missing out is to look at something pink. Pink is not a real color. Your brain makes that up because it doesnt know what to see. That's probably similar to synaesthesia.
Seven is a very dark, dull blue. I scored a 0.49 on the Grapheme-Color Picker Test but my results show at least one input for the number 0 that I think was a mistake or misclick or something, so maybe it should be even lower? I have heard before that research on Grapheme-Color synesthesia has looked for patterns across different people, and has found that the letter A is commonly associated with bright red (as it is for me, in fact). This video made me curious if there's any pattern to the brightness or saturation people associate with colors, if not the hues. For example, Feynman says X is dark brown, but I say that it's dark cyan, but maybe it isn't a coincidence that we both think of it as dark? I wonder if you compared a bunch of different synesthetes' alphabets and then put them all in grayscale, how similar would they be?
Psychedelics like Aciid and others produce this effect along with many other effects colors are much more vivid and beautiful and stationary objects like lamps and walls and carpets appear to move
I'm solidly not a synesthete, nor am I with dyslexia or any form of autism. From what I understand about the gifts associated with these, I feel well deprived of an ability to think without great effort. But synesthesia does run strong in my family with at least one parent, sister and neice with synesthesia that I know of. I do have powerful ASMR when I hear certain snippets of favourite songs. Come to think of it, it's almost exclusive to music.
One kind of weird recent thing--synesthesia has made me very aware of how neural networks work. Not that the synesthesia influences my understanding of the nuances of LLMs or anything. But I feel like I understand the overall gist of them implicitly. That's already how I picture the world. The colors and the numbers are like the weights in a large language model. Had a real "aha" moment the first time I saw a neural network. It really resonated with me.
One weird quirk I have is having things in a sort of left/right grouping. Odd numbers, warm colors, pointy shapes, and other awkward things are Left. Even numbers, cool colors, round shapes, and familiar things are Right. I think this is part of the reason why I can never keep East and West straight and often mix up my lefts and rights. I used to deliver pizza, and there were a couple of times where I was supposed to turn right at an intersection, but I'd usually go left, so I ended up going left thinking it was a right turn because ot was familiar. To get east and west right, I have to imagine a map of the US with empty yellow deserts in the west and big blue buildings on the east coast.
I knew I associated weekdays and months with specific colours, but I never thought it could be a form of synesthesia! I thought those were common occurrences that we had due to different weathers (depending on months), cultural associations (October--> Halloween-->pumpkins-->dark orange), or 'rhythm' of the month (i.e holidays are calmer and end-of-year months faster due to i.e exam season). But I surprisingly scored 0.52 on weekdays and similarly on months. I am quite curious to know whether anybody in these comments have similar associations (or know whether it is common or truly a form of synesthesia?)? Thanks for the great and intriguing video! Precision: I don't just see the colour, but see the weekdays/months written in different fonts (and w/diff colours).
Years ago, my older brother called me to announce that their baby was just born. "We named him Adrian Michael". I blurted out, "Cool, like a sunset...red and golden yellow." My brother said,"??, what do you mean?" I said, "Adrian (golden yellow) and Michael (red) looks like a sunset". He said, "You've always been weird...I think that's your ADD talking."
It makes perfect sense, Adrian sounds like "Adriatic" which to me elicits images of a Mediterranean island with bright golden sun shining down. Michael is a powerful, hard-hitting name, like red as a color. But I also have autism/ADHD 😂
I used to be fascinated by the idea of synesthesia, when I’d only heard of the projected variety. Not that long ago, though, I looked into it more deliberately, only to discover associative synesthesia, and realized that I experience most of the flavors of associative synesthesia. I’ve never experienced sounds as colors or anything like that, but I often think of, and describe, sensory experiences with terms and concepts that really only apply to distinct sensory experiences.
I once thought I might have a little synesthesia, I noticed a weak color associated with some numbers: 1 was blue, 2 green, 3 red, 4 dark blue, 5 dark red, 6 cyan, 7 black, and 8 gray. People my age might already see where this is going. Anyway, the lower numbers were much more strongly associated with colors, but when I started noticing this, I eventually realized 9 had nothing, like it just didn't exist.
Then I put it together - I had just been playing a ton of Windows Minesweeper.
Once played minesweeper for hours and started seeing patterns in every grid I saw and even in my dreams for a while. 😅
@@maskedmallard537 that might happen if you play The Witness as well
There's actually some recent research about giving people artificial synesthesia using basically that method (repeated exposure to colored symbols), and it's pretty interesting
Studies and tests like these are so humbling. They show us that there are multiple ways to perceive the world. It can really be that we all see the world differently.
It's made me realize how judgemental of other people's experiences we can be without knowing that their perception can be really so different.
They show that the way any of us perceive the world is arbitrary and can never be 100% accurate to what reality really is.
But perception shouldn't be confused with actual reality.
And that's to those who do such too quickly that I'm judgemental.
@ThomasKundera But who gets to decide what actual reality is? And then isn't that reality just their perception?
Perception will always influence us@@ThomasKundera
I wish that people who realize things like this could also see that it's true about political opinions, and consider giving a little respect back to the old idea of freedom of speech.
i think you meant to title this "This is what a synesthesia test smells like"
I hear what you did there
@@ClifffSVK
Why didn't pepole understood the joke behind your comment ? Like, they don't taste what you mean ?
*Taste like for me.
Yes! I smell colours
@@Nore2554 I felt that
When I was around 7 I wrote down letters and numbers in my own colors to repeat that later to check if they're consistent. I noticed I had color associations pretty early and asked all the people around me how their letters looked, but no one had proper answers.
I then forgot about that piece of paper for a couple of years and found it while tidying up and instantly wrote them down again without looking and almost all matched up pretty identical, although I forgot I had these associations at all.
10 years later I took pretty much the same test online and got super low variance. I had quite a lot of letters where I pinpointed the exact same color. I was kinda surprised, but not overwhelmingly so. It was pretty intuitive and easy for me and I didn't think of it that much.
I don't project the colors tho. Maybe a teeny tiny bit sometimes, but it is more mental for me. I might even have some aphantasia (still not sure tho :D )
Oh and I think I get asmr, but often times it's unpleasant and strong and leads to twitches. Some are good tho :P
And as side info: I'm autistic with adhd.
I hope this big bunch of info and stories about my synesthesia is interesting to someone :D
7 is dark blue, almost black!!
Thank you for mentioning the word "aphantasia". I think I might have some degree of aphantasia but never new it was a named condition. I have a good memory for things that have been verbalized but a terrible memory for anything spacial or for colors of things.
yeah the 'tiny bit mentally' is the secret sauce. 9 and H were purple for me as a kid. Time-space synesthesia is the new one that I completely experience. I'm also coincidentally very well versed on DATETIMESTAMP functions in SQL. Coincidence. 3 is Blue.
Myoclonic seizures, they call those twitches.
I cant imagine a world where 7 isnt green :0
@@Kallastar. but... buuut... 4 is green!
I feel you though. It seems so impossible :D
I don't care if Mondays blue, Tuesdays grey and Wednesday too. Thursday I don't care about you, it's Friday I'm in love! Sorry, I just had to!
Came here to say this
A man of culture I see! 🎼🎶🎵
🚰...drip,drip,drip...
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It's Friday, I think it's green.
I actually have chromesthesia (sound/music to color synesthesia) & I just took these tests recently to identify the color assiociations I have whenever I hear musical keys & instruments. I ended up scoring below a 1.0 on both of them. I also find it interesting that you mentioned in the video how most people who have synesthesia end up in creative fields because I'm actually a graphic designer/illustrator & often use my synesthesia as a bit of an aid in my creative process. 😄👍
how do I get that
Messiaen in real life:
The music youtuber Adam Neely says to have the same form.
Color accurate monitor ❌
Color accurate speakers ✅
Greetings fellow chromesthete! Someone here mentions Messaien.....also Kandinsky. His paintings are this
You should look into aphantasia which is an interesting situation where people don't visualize in their mind's eye, it's just empty. I only discovered this was a thing a few years ago, for my entire life before that I always just thought when people talked about seeing things in their mind's eye, it was just a metaphor.
I have aphantasia and synaesthesia, yes I know it sounds impossible
@@naomiparsons462 Nothing about the brain surprises me anymore. It's just so enigmatic.
@@douglasboyle6544 It's amazing how little we know about what is simply a collection of biological molecules and electrons, and at the same time it is amazing how much we know about what is such a highly complex structure that is our brains.
@@naomiparsons462I guess your a projector then?
I think I have aphantasia. I don't "see" anything in my mind's eye, I just "think" about it / remember things as a thought, not a picture. I only heard about this a few years ago (I'm 45) and was boggled to hear about "seeing" things vividly in their "imaginations", even being able to "move 3D models around in their head".
Seeing the illustrations of synesthete number lines and calendars you selected from Wednesday Is Indigo Blue awakened something in me. I’m 40 years old and still get lost trying to follow a regular calendar because that’s not how I see weeks, months, and years. But I immediately recognized and understood those illustrations; even if they aren’t exactly what I see, the “logic” behind them was clearly the same as whatever my brain is doing. I always knew I had mild synesthesia; I didn’t realize my circular calendar or meandering number line was part of it. And I had no idea other people saw things that way, too.
I didn't think I had synesthesia but a circular calendar is how i picture time throughout the year. Does your circular calendar turns clockwise or counterclockwise with passing time?
I see a circular calendar which doesnt rotate. January is at the top left and December and the top right. June and July are at the bottom. I use it to gauge where i am in the year. I also have color associations based on the seasons that color the months
@@hazeld8016 mine also doesn't rotate by itself, but i do as if the calendar was a road. And I "ride" on that "road" counterclockwise. Summer months are higher then winter months as if my calendar was placed at an angle.
@@jus4795 That sounds like the way it is for me! I never realized that spacial locations were a part of synesthesia. I only considered that my colors to letters/numbers/days of the week/months counted. Synesthesia is really freaking cool.
Guys, thank you so much! I never knew my visual inner calendar had something to do with synaesthesia although I kinda suspected it. It's so satisfying to finally "meet" people who are the same.
I think with spacial locations to sequences. I had no idea this was considered as synesthesia. It's so much a part of how I think that it is impossible for me to imagine how people think without it. Thank you for mentioning it, I will research it more
EDIT: It turns out my daugther has numbers to color synesthesia. Number 7 is dark green
My number 7 is also dark green. Number 5 is a lighter shade of green (but still dark).
I also didn't realise until recently that not everyone has time spirals - that's how my sequences mainfest. I have no idea how I'd remember anything without using them. But I didn't realise it was a kind of synaesthesia.
My 7 is light green. But green seems to be a common color association for 7, I wonder why
Reminds me of Philip J Fry from Futurama : "hey what smells like blue?" "did everything taste purple for a second?"
I started watching this video right after finishing futurama, so to say this comment made my heart skip a beat would not be a lie.
I used to mix up grape Gatorade from concentrate. Mom always said it smelled like purple
Watched the Roswell episode on Saturday! 😆
Thank you for this video! My son who studies mathematics sent me the link. It turns out he sees colors with numbers. And I myself have time-space synaesthesia, I see shapes in time. So cool to discover that there are more people who have these variations of perception!
what a fascinating perspective. Have you everr thought about studying theoretical physics? such an abulity to visualize would surely come in handy
I’ve always been fascinated by the phenomenon of cultural synesthesia. For example in the Igbo language you would say “can you hear that smell” or can you “see that feeling”
Agreed, that's absolutely fascinating. I mostly know Latin languages and it's always funny to me how variations of the verb "to feel" are homonyms of different things in some languages. In french, to feel is the same word as for to smell. While in Italian it is homonym for to hear. So in french you would say "do you feel that smell", while in Italian you would say "do you feel that sound".
In russian, for some reason, people use the word "listen" for when they are talking about the smell of perfume, like "can you listen to my new perfume?" or "after spraying it on your wrist, rub it in and then you'll be able to hear it better" but in any other context it's just "feel the smell"
This was a very cool video. Even though I knew what synesthesia was, there was a lot about it that I didn't know.
I scored a 2.38.
I got the result that I kind of expected. Even though I tried to memorize several, I was only really consistent with one of them and somewhat consistent with four more.
Lol, and you can tell that's close to what tibbees got
Whenever I watch a movie where a dark indoor scene shifts to a bright, outdoor one (like when a door opens in a dark room to reveal sunlight, car noises, and people talking) I get an overwhelming smell of 'outside'. It's like my brain blends the visual and sound cues with a strong scent, even though it's not really there.
that kinda reminds me of the sun sneezing thing
i wonder if its related?
I hadn't thought about that type of synesthesia before... Gotta keep that in mind and see if I notice something
The optical nerve is close to the sinuses and light changes can effect your sense of smell or make you sneeze. This is nothing special, it's true for everyone, they just may not have noticed but once you do you can use it when you me to sneeze. Just look at a bright light and 90% of the time the reaction to the light will cause you to sneeze. It is not synisthesia
@@andyv2209 The photic sneeze reflex is not universal and affects only a subset of the population, estimated to be about 10-35%. What i'm experiencing is more synethesia and not a reflex. So synesthesia would explain the vivid experience of having an overwhelming feel of smelling "outside" when visual and auditory cues change in the scene.
@@VestaRoleplay no that's just your sinuses opening up, it's a light response, it doesn't have to include sneezing but it can cause it if you already have to sneeze and I'm not talking about people who sneeze from lights alone as a reflex I'm talking about using lights to sneeze its not exactly the same
I'm a musician and a writer. I frequently use my synesthesia in all of my creative work. I'm also a polyglot, and the synesthetic reactions for me get really wild when getting into other languages, kind of like hearing/using tuning systems from other cultures.
For me, 7 and 6 are almost the same color, which is almost like sand. I frequently get them confused in English and in other languages, even if the other languages have a different color for the numbers because of how strongly numbers are hardwired in our native tongue.
Have you ever found that it effects you in ...other ways.....?
@@conradaster3764 How do you mean? As far as negatives go, I can't handle being in loud, crowded places like bars. People noise gives me sensory overload.
I often confuse the digits 4, 7, and 9 when trying to remember numbers, because they all have similar shades of yellow (though 7 can sometimes be silver).
@@lafcursiaxthat is very similar for me, except it's 4, 6, and 9. They are also yellowish, alone but can be marigold depending on the context.
I confuse 6 and 7 as well! Theyre both pink to me. Also considering theyre both numbers starting with S
My ex-girlfried had synesthesia and attached colors to, for example, voices. She didn't like red voices, fortunately mine was orange or, if calm, had a special type of blue.
Red voices? I'm so jealous! Red is so tasty 😋
Some of my friends/partners are aqua, light grey, peach/salmon, pink, etc
All very tasty
(Color to flavor and voices to color so I get cascading sense of flavor from voices)
@@solsystem1342 Cool!
@solsystem1342 that’s actually crazy that that happens
My friend's ex had the same kind. She described my voice as either purple with jagged green lines, or green with jagged purple lines. I don't remember exactly which, but it was definitely purple and green and jagged. Either way, purple is my favorite color, so that was neat.
@@solsystem1342 i just straight up taste voices! I haven't met anyone who has anything having to do with taste before, so glad to know I'm not insane lol
I'm 73. I have always felt "different" or maybe "wierd". After all these years i have finally described me as "seeing more than people expect me to see and seeing things other people seem to have no clue is even there to see." I recognize people sometimes by the timber of their voice, the specific way they form words, an odd way of holding their head, an unusual genetic shape that isn't "common". My dad was like that as well. I have since stopped thinking I'm wierd. I'm just me. =)😀
And pretty cool! It's always nice to have someone who can look at the world in a different way. An extra perspective is always welcome =)
@@HildeTheOkayish Thank you. And the best part is... I often see solutions to problems that actually work. Cheers Hilde. 😄
That's right. Everyone is weird. We're heckin weirdos
That's just human level of recognition and perception, lol. Everything you described - is something average human should be able to do, if not - they have certain disability, like for example prosopagnosia.
What you described is a big ego or narcissism, if anything (followed from the parents, who also probably thought he was special).
It's the same way people say they are more empathetic than the others - in most cases they are just average humans, with twisted perception of what an average human is like (easily acquired, if they have strong need to be different or due to perception bias).
I feel the same way!, although for different reasons.
Sequence-spatial is what I have. It is soooo hard to explain to people. But it helps with arythmetic.
I have something similar, but not sequences of numbers, just information. I felt like I was almost cheating on tests sometimes because I would associate a piece of information with an area on a page to remember it.
I've always wanted to participate. I discovered I had this only in my mid teenage years, where I realized people didn't see things the way I did. Later I noticed how it affects my art, memory, and daily life with meeting people. I scored 0.60 in my alphabet and numbers test. It was so satisfying to see all of my choices lined up in the end, all in the same perfect colors. And I am very much an Associator, I don't hallucinate it in the physical world. Thank you for sharing so I can finally see my condition with clear results 💕
I have very minor associative synesthesia. Multiples of 3 are green, powers of 2 are red, 5 is yellow, 0 is white and 1 is an off-black red
When you see a large number, does your perception of it change after you notice it fits into one of those categories (eg multiple of 3)?
My multiples of 3 are green too, but only if they ar obvious to me, and aren't already a different more 'obvious' multiple of another color. 15 is red for example because 5 trumps 3 in this case. And 64 is dark blue because of 8.
Number 7 is def orange, I can also hear a some electro funky tune to it and it is associated with Thursday and the English language for some reason. But my favorite is the number one - it is so clear and bright, a mux if white and light gray and there is a perfectly clear water and fresh odorless air in that world too. This is in contrast to the number 5 which is a burning red, hellish scape. Thanks for making a video on this, Tibees. It is really quite strange and fascinating that these things are so closely tied together.
The number 5 is red for me too, but in a cheerful way, like a children's number set or something--but red isn't my favorite color and so five has never been a favorite number. One is cool and serene for me too, but it is blue, not white/grey.
For me, 1 is red, 2 is blue, 3 is yellow (though the word yellow itself feels like pink), 4 is purple, 5 orange, 6 pink, 7 green, 8 is also blue, though deeper, and 9 is a dark purple.
Wow. That's interesting. I wrote my associations a moment ago and now I am reading comments. Hre is what I wrote: "7 - it's most possibly a golden yellow. And 2 is navy blue. 5 is deep red. 1 is white. 3 might be turquoise. 4 might be bright red"
I wonder if mine has to do with the rainbow at all, since 0 is white/gray, 1 is black, 2 is red, 3 is orange, 4 is green, 5 is yellow, 6 is brown, 7 is lavendar, 8 is blue, and 9 is purple.
7 is GOLD and nobody can tell me otherwise, thank you Tibbes
Good to see someone that agrees!
It’s almost unnerving seeing depictions of other people’s color sets because they use the “wrong” colors to me
Me toooo!
OMG "Sequences to spatial location", it has a name!!! and i'm not the only one!!! I always viewed numbers in sort of stairs with platform, and the seasons as a wheel with dates in them
Thank you, the image of the months in a circle with different fonts and colors and shapes is something I've always wondered about since I was a kid and could never explain it. Also different sounds with times, dates with colors I thought was normal. It's really nice seeing there's a name that goes with that kind of perspective and processing
It’s also called “number form synesthesia.” I have it too!
Tibees!! You're back 🎉
Our Senior Design Project for my Bachelor's Degree was making a device to simulate what Chromesthesia (a type of synesthesia) would look like. Cool to see a video from you on this!
All my life I’ve had sequences to special locations synesthesia. I knew from when I was pretty young that this was unusual but never knew it was an actual thing until I watched this. Seeing other people’s sequences is so interesting
I find this interesting - in my maternal or first language number seven is green-yellowish. When I think in English I see letters s,e,v,e,n before the shape of the number. It means word seven is brown-redish.
Finally 7 is green-yellowish.
Hmm. I've always felt 7 was like dark sandy brown, or generally just a dark colour. While my perception of the other numbers can waver a bit, to me, 1 is always white or bright red, 5 is always a rusty dark red, and 9 is a very dark purple. Strangely, I often feel the 4 in 49 specifically is powder blue, and it and the purple 9 make up exactly the same colours as Thursday.
Wait, not everyone visualizes numbers, letters, days of the weeks, or months of the year in 3D space around them? That can’t be right. Do people think I’m strange when I point to where Monday or October is? I’ve definitely heard of synesthesia before, but I thought it was mostly color associations. Fascinating. I see numbers, letters, days, months, and years in various parabolas around me.
I see them the same way except for history as a a combination of a line with curves and columns depending on how far back. Hard to explain. 🤔
Senses don't usually cross with each other. There is the prevalent concept of a timeline, but based on the images in the video, they can form loops and spirals
yep, most people don't have a spatial association for these concepts. from my personal experience, i usually don't even visualise any of these things. if i did visualise a number, letter, weekday or month (generally because of specifically thinking about it, like in this context), i'm just visualising the individual symbol or word, right in front of me (as if it were written on a page or typed on a screen).
cool to hear of your experience!
Yes, I'd find that odd
interesting, as someone who has aphantasia (no ability to visualize) this stuff is really fascinating to me
Omg. I cannot stand how much ASMR is added to videos. That being said, your voice is quite calming and soothing. Thank you. 😂🙏🏻☀️🌈💜
I shared part of my life with a person whose synesthesia is all over the spectrum.
I got used to hearing her share with me what I then felt like over the top poetic expressions such as "that particular color sounds like the smell of cat paws", "this cake tastes like the sound of warm tropical rain", etc...
She is an incredible artist and I am certain this is an integral part of her talent.
So, comparatively, I didn't think I had any kind of synesthesia myself until I began to taste acidity in my lower left jaw and hear a disturbingly high pitch crushing my skull when exposed to the light of car beams while driving on a rainy night. It would significantly dampen on the stretch of road where rain had stopped falling but start again once rain was falling again to stop completely on dry road...
I realized the sound of the tires of passing car on rainy days had always been physically uncomfortable to me since I was a kid too.
I also do hear sounds when I see any kind of repetitive animation, like random meme gifs for example. Not sure it is synesthesia, but it is not a projection of what it could sound like if I had the original sound on, more like very consistent cartoonish illustrations and rhythmic patterns which repeat in the same way even at months apart when exposed to the same animation. I do seem to have developed some kind of inner library in which I classified all these.
Oh and I am very sensitive to ASMR and your soft spoken voice soothed me deeply while I was watching this video. 😅
@7:07 That blurriness is caused by there being one part of the brain which processes shapes but a different part which processes edges.
7 is lavendar. Yes, I have color grapheme association, week to color association, and month to color association, and they have stayed the same my whole life. Just took the synesthesia test. Scored 0.40. Already knew I had it, lol
Holy shit, I think you just helped me discover I have time space synaesthesia. Thank you, so many things are making so much more sense now!!
The test did not identify me because it's too specific. To me, seven is always green, but it can be light or darker shades. Some letters have weaker color associations that others, such as "g" which could go from light blue to magenta. The test claims that if you have synesthesia, you always see a very specific hue and shade. But if I look at your intro and see the randomly-colored symbols at 1:19, this is very hard for my brain to process because it's conflicting information, like seeing the word "yellow" written in green.
It sounds like you still would get close to a 1. 😮
I thought I had taste/smell synesthesia, but apparently that's not considered a thing since taste and smell are already closely associated for many people. Most people can't taste the smell of gasoline or petrichor though. I've heard of supertasters, but usually it seems like those people are just very good at discerning actual tastes and smells. For me, my sense of smell is a lot like your friend described seeing colour- like I can taste what's actually in my mouth and a kind of hidden layer of taste on top of it that matches with whatever I'm smelling. For example, gasoline vapour tastes like roasted cheese and vegetables, and petrichor tastes like sweet soggy cardboard.
Those are some rare examples of smells that actually taste like something I can recognize, most things don't taste like any kind of food or object my tongue has actually touched before. Sometimes it's like that for awhile until I taste something new and recognize it as something I've smelled before, that's how it was for gasoline. Most of them are pretty neutral- some are good like the previous examples, and some are bad- like the smell of black coffee which tastes similar to how the smell of catpiss tastes. Another good smell that I can't quite put my finger on is clean carpet, which has a taste similiar to the smell of freshly baked bread.
I imagine it would be very difficult to make a battery to test this. Smell isn't confined to a spectrum like colour or sound, or orderly like letters and numbers. It's also a lot more contextual. Not to mention the continued lack of smell-o-vision, or for that matter, taste-o-vision.
Flavor is the word for the combination of taste and smell. Not being facetious, a lot of people don't know that.
That's a good point, I guess one way to put it is that I don't smell without flavor. It's like that for actual food as well, and sometimes the smell-taste is even better than the actual taste. So food strangely has two different flavors, the smell is always the same of course but then I have the virtual flavor associated with the smell, and that becomes part of the second flavor when I taste the actual food on my tongue.
Super tasters have more taste buds on their tongue. They have a tendency to be able to taste more or different flavors that normal tasters do. They taste some things differently and not necessarily better. This can be associated with a dislike for some chocolates or spicy foods.
It can be tested, they just need to record your answers and see the patters.
Tho taste depends highly of smell.
I can taste things from memory, my brain works somehow that I sense the taste from remembering something. Or when I am asked what I want to eat, I can give a precise over detailed something just by pretending I am chewing something.
Like
Green rice with squid cooked over butter and garlic.
But I don’t think I have synesthesia, just a detailed taste sense.
Something I do know is, as a woman, I always know exactly what I want to eat.
I suffer from sequences -> spatial locations.
I visualise numbers ascending from 1 to 12 as a clock face. From 13 - 20 as a downward slope. 20-30, 31-40, 41--50 etc as zig-zagged lines to the sky until I reach 100 where the clock face starts again from 101.
Trying to explain this to people has baffled them. This video is a great insight. Thank you
what do you mean you "suffer" from it???? I I have synesthesia and have always found it to be a cool thing. I've never once thought of it as causing "suffering" to me
@@jaizo_ worded that wrongly.
I had no idea there was associative and projective variants of grapheme color synesthesia! I am most definitely associative - the color is always present in the mind, but not on the page. Super cool video! Really love when synesthesia gets some light shone on it!
Also 7 is a bright yellow!! ⚡
Got 0.46! Seems pretty consistent with my experience
This intrigues and befuddles me, but I'm colorblind. Thank you for this enlightening video.
Your editor explained synesthesia so well, I also kinda see and kinda don't see the color on paper, it's more in my mind's eye and the colors are always the same!
I also imagine time in 3D, I did not know it is synesthesia. But connecting words with colors/images always helped me to learn new languages. It did not do anything for me in case of letters, I'm terrible with numbers.
I meant "numbers", not letters. Numbers don't work for me.
Anczis, an interesting experiment is to ask a group of friends to shut their eyes, point to the future, and then all open their eyes.
I’ve always had synaesthaesia with for example A being red , W ,K brown , L being glassy and R a gunmetal blue . As well as colours for each numeral . As a young electrical engineering student I had to learn contradictory resistor and wiring colour codes and now the associations are completely screwed up . I can no longer tell if my reactions are just learned .
I don't think it qualifies as synesthesia, but for some reason, numbers have always had genders for me. From as soon as I knew what numbers were, it was:
1: male
2:female
3:male
4:female
5:female
6:male
7:female
8:male
9:male
10:male
11:male
12:female
And so on and so forth. It doesn't track with even/odd, but the identifying number for the teens refers back to the 1-12 scale for gender. Eg, 13 is always male because it has 3 identifying it. Once it goes over 20, it stops being associated as strongly with gender for some reason, with a few exceptions. Even today, at 40 (a male number, even though 4 is female to me) if I hear a number, my mind automatically thinks of that gender first.
A is red for me too! The rest are different lol
Interesting!
@@Deletiriumordinal-linguistic personification. She spoke of it when mentioning Srinivasa Ramanujan 8:09
What a fascinating video! I definitely experience ASMR, but have always been unsure about synesthesia. Thank you for showing us the test. I filled out the survey, and scored 0.86 on the letter/number -- colour test and 0.53 on the weekday - colour test. However, on the speed thing I only scored 41%. I did immediately regret some of my answers to the speed congruency test, so I will be doing it all again in a few weeks. Will be interesting to see if there is some consistency or if I just have a good visual memory.
When I was a kid in school, I would do well in tests because of my memorization method, which basically allowed me to imagine the textbook and my notes in my mind. I could "open up" the book and read the pages and look at the photos in my mind, purely from memory.
This is probably why I sometimes remember things by associating them with something that seems completely random (like associating someone's name with a Strawberry when there name has nothing in common with strawberries.)
Just took the test and scored a 0.31 so I guess so lol
Tibeees your voice really puts me at ease
Which is funny because most Australians have harsh and annoying voices!
I did the test and scored 0.84 on the letters/ numbers test and 0.42 on the weekday/month test.
I got 7 types of different synesthesia listed in my results.
I'm not sure how accurate the test is. But it is clear that two friends of mine both scored above 1, and one of them tried again and weren't able to improve by much.
I've never thought of this as a thing, nor had any problems with it, so it won't change my life knowing this.
The more you know about yourself, the better, i guess.
I got 1.02 - it’s not below one, but come on.
Loving the Ramanujan 1729 reference 😊
This was fascinating to learn about and it was so cool to hear Noor's perspective!
What I find interesting is that synesthetes usually associate numbers with very distinct colours. It's never a spectrum of light pink for 0 to dark pink for 10. Also, they have colours for the numbers and days and months that we use frequently, but perhaps not every rational between 3.1 and 3.2. Could this be the brain's way to organise numbers in a practical way? Could you use colours to see factors or prime numbers? Perhaps this is what was going on in Ramanujan's brain.
I don’t think I have any synesthesia, unless having a physical reaction to fingernails on chalkboards counts. I kind of wish I had synesthesia where I see numbers in the resistor color code.
Oh, the "fingernails on chalkboard" thing is actually another condition where certain sounds can be distressing, such as the squeaking of Styrofoam, or simply the word "moist".
Yes, that's misophonia.
no, that's misophonia.
@@alexandermcclure6185Styrofoam is awful. It physically hurts hearing it, like I feel pain.
While I almost definitely do not have synesthesia, it was certainly interesting when you mentioned the book "wednesday is indigo blue," my first thought was IMMEDIATELY, "No, Wednesday is definitely a dandelion yellow." I don't seem to feel that way about any other days of the week, like maybe Tuesday is a midtone red, and Monday might be kinda blue? But Wednesday, at least right now, feels particularly strongly to be dandelion yellow
So you state that you don't have synesthesia but you consistently associate colors to week days?
I would guess that as with a lot of the things synesthesia can be stronger or weaker but in reality idk
Whoa. Our weekday colors are in sync. I knew I had mild synesthesia for letters and numbers, but am only right now realizing that the days of the week have color. And Wednesday is definitely yellow. Monday is blue, and Tuesdys is orange (not red, but similar). Thursday is kind of a muted apple green, by the way (or mauve? Some of my letters and numbers have two colors that they flip between, I think Thursday is like this for me). I don't know what color Friday is though. Either it's white or it doesn't have a color.
It took me until I was 15 to learn that people don’t associate letters/numbers/other things with colors! I have very strong associative grapheme/weekday/month to color, but I in no way see text in my everyday life as colorful. I scored 0.70 for grapheme -> color and 0.31 for weekday -> color (I didn’t get month). I personally can barely tell the colors I chose for each thing apart, so I think this is the limitation of my vision. I only scored 44% accuracy on the congruency test, which is super surprising to me… I guess they must test really close shades which I can’t distinguish or something, but I can definitely tell when something is/isn’t colored correctly. Oh well, fun test, but very long (took me 1.5 hours, but I tested numerous kinds at once). Thank you for sharing!
I don't see colors. However, all my life I've had this thing where when I am doing two things at once it's like my brain hits a record button. For instance, if I am drawing a complex picture and I am watching a movie, my brain like hyper records everything. For months later I can look at the picture I drew and depending on the part I'm looking at I can recall exactly what was happening in that movie associated with that part of the drawing. And sometimes I can do it the other way around too. I have re-watched movies days later only to be hit with recurring vivid memories of whatever task I was doing the last time I was watching the movie. I thought everyone did this until my husband told me otherwise. It doesn't just apply to art, its just two tasks that require attention. I've even used this for school work, play a movie while reading and then play the movie later and I can remember what I read. Too bad you can't watch movies while taking a test. Ha.
if i decide to watch a movie and read a book im going to real like 1 page of the book, watch the whole movie, then have to read the same page of the book again 😭🙏
I experience this, as well. It's helpful when trying to remember an idea I had or to think back to a specific point in a conversation I had. Sometimes, I can jog my memory by visualizing where I was standing and looking, but, if too much was simultaneously happening, it helps to physically be where I was. I completely agree with the "record button" association; it feels like the movie Click with Adam Sandler.
My brain does this too with video games and books. I can play Skyrim, or even just think about a specific location in the map, and I will remember conversations from almost ten years ago.
My brain does this with audiobooks, so when I re re-listen to a book I tend to get a lot of vivid flashbacks of what I was doing last time I listened to a scene or chapter.
I can do this with music. I can recall what I was doing and where I was last time listening to a specific song, and some places and patterns rewoke soundtracks associated with them
I don't think that's a synesthesia tho, just how brain works
Excellent video.
I like the (what I assume is) Ramanujan reference on your shirt.
However, you also mentioned RP Feynman which reminds me of 1729.03 which he mentally calculated the cube root of on the spot. From his book:
“The number was 1729.03. I happened to know that a cubic foot contains 1728 cubic inches, so the answer is a tiny bit more than 12. The excess, 1.03 is only one part in nearly 2000, and I had learned in calculus that for small fractions, the cube root's excess is one-third of the number's excess. So all I had to do is find the fraction 1/1728, and multiply by 4 (divide by 3 and multiply by 12). So I was able to pull out a whole lot of digits that way.”
0:29 thats one of the most random combinations of languages I have ever seen
I recently realized I have synesthesia with letters and greek letters! I discovered this because I only choose specific combination of colors for letters in mathematical formulas I write. I'll always find them more beautiful when their are colors that fit well together. For example a, b, c, d are red, blue, yellow and green. u and v are pastel pink and purple, while p and q are pastel blue and vibrant purple!
When I take an unusually hard math test, my body associates it with high-blood pressure.
Seriously though, I've always wondered if synaesthesia could make it easier to find the median, mode, or range of a set of numbers
@@Anonymous-df8itNot really for me, it's just that numbers (digits) have an extra "identifier" - besides the symbol and spoken word there's also a colour.
So the kind of thing where it would be helpful is perhaps memorizing and distinguishing between numbers, since they have that one extra association.
I guess it could maaaaybe help with mode since that's "pattern recognition without calculation"
🤣
Is that sensation affected by if you study or not!
Nor a funny joke.
I got 0.82-0.88 on all my color tests (latin alphabet and numbers, cyrillic alphabet, week days), wasn't even expecting at some point that it will actually be this consistent because everything started to blur. Most of the colors in my mental palette are very muted and complex it turns out, and yet I managed to consistently pick very close colors, with a few exceptions. Cool, cool, useless but cool.
Spacial thing for sequences is actually how I think and navigate numbers in different context and it is very useful.
my seven is yellow :)
I had distinct ( almost intrusive) musical synesthesia when I was a kid. Music had shape & odour & flavour & colour & texture... And it wasn't just music but music was the most noticeable aspect. Then I sustained a head injury at 14 & not only lost my sense of smell but MOST of my synesthetic abilities.
But not all. 7 is maroon. just like Thursday...
I would like to have one specific type of synthesia (that might not actually exist but that doesn't matter here): code Correctness -> color. The more likely a piece of code is to contain a mistake / not be optimal, the more red the color gets. That would be really useful.
I don't have color synesthesia, but Spatial/space Sequence synesthesia. I have it with time, numbers, years, months, weekdays etc. I didn't realize this was a thing until in my mid twenties or so. I thought everyone "saw" time and numbers like this.
Sequences spatial location with time here. No other synesthesia of color for me, it I do react to certain triggers of asmr. Glad to see you are back! ❤😊
7:30
I don't see the "2's".
I see 5's and those you see as 2's, i see them as "mirrored 5's.
If you look close enough, you will see what i mean.
Same. I didn't register them as '2' until Tibees said they were 2's.
Same for me
I see sounds as shapes and also tastes as sounds, which makes a fun combination. Cooking to me feels basically the same as drawing or composing. Though it's a lil awkward to explain that my soup needs more BASE, so I tend to end up shoo-ing people out of the kitchen so I can hear the food better. 😭
I dont have synesthesia but once someone told me thursday is yellow and that just makes perfect sense to me in a way that cant be explained
And wendsday is brown or ugly purple
Strangely, SUNday is kind of greyish.
Not many people like yellow, as far as I know, and by being so far to the next weekend and not "special" like Monday it's ... Forgettable
Undesirable
Tasteless
We humans look for meaningful colors and yellow might be just a ... Background, like a noise, like a day that has nothing special inherently
For me thursday is orange :P
@@fluffpawz As someone for whom thursdays are reddish brown, I’ll tolerate you but not OP.
Thursday is purple! You fools!
The brain is such an interesting phenomenon! For me, it's as if my brain sometimes remembers very specific things clearly, but mostly just discards lots of stuff. Even things I'm positive about - for example, I love Terry Pratchett's Discworld, but I can tell you very little of "what happens in which book". I kind of remember the "general philosophy /theme", and some specific "scenes", but I generally can't string more than 2 or 3 sentences together about the plot, or place specific scenes into specific books, unless their content is really important to that book's story.
I can remember lyrics (and musical notes) quite well - I've found that I sometimes know the lyrics of a song I don't even like very much better than people who absolutely love the song. I could also sing along with a song I may have last listened to 10 years ago, and remember almost all the notes/details of the solo, etc. However, when it comes to books and movies, the details simply vanish for the most part. I work in a very technical (nerdy, maths, stats, coding) field, and I'm able to figure out really complex stuff, as well as remember the essence of how/why it works, and combine things from different disciplines where it makes sense to, but sometimes I see stuff I've done 3 or 4 years ago and struggle to remember actually doing it.
Also, my brain doesn't seem to have "time stamps" associated with memories, and generally tend to just "forget stuff". I may have a general idea of "in what decade", but time-wise, my memories are rather jumbled. I've went on a 5-day hiking trip with people who, 3 years later, were able to tell me who did what and what happened on every specific day of the hike, while I probably couldn't tell you the names of half the people (all of whom I'd known before the trip!) that went with.
Finally, I think I have aphantasia. I don't "see" anything in my mind's eye, I just "think" about it / remember things as a thought, not a picture. I only heard about this a few years ago (I'm 45) and was boggled to hear about people "seeing" things vividly in their "imaginations", even being able to "move 3D models around in their head".
I hadn't realized spatial visualization of numbers and so on was synesthesia. Do other people not think in 3D?
My mom and all three of my sisters have synesthesia, the Sunday dinner I found out was mind blowing all around. It's super interesting how different their internal representations were from mine in kind and from each other in details.
I have visualied the calendar in a floating ellipse like this all my life. I asked my wife recently how she visialises it and she just simply doesn't and i didn't understand. Very strange.
Besides numbers-colors and letter-colors I for some reason also have a strong association of certain languages with colors, especially the ones I've studied/speak. Whenever I think about a certain language or hear it I get this association.
I definitely see colors associated with numbers, letters, directions, names, topics, and days (in my mind when I picture the things) but they are not always consistent. There are definitely patterns to it, though. I think the biggest pattern is the oddness of evenness of things. Odd numbers are more green or yellow and even numbers are more blue or red.
Letters that feel more even to me (like A, B, J, L, etc.) follow the even color schemes and those which feel more odd to me (C, I, E, N, etc.) follow the even color scheme.
Directions also have this property with left feeling more odd/green and right feeling more even/blue.
The days of the week alternate with Monday odd, Tuesday even, Wednesday odd, etc. As if you had numbered them starting with Monday.
Topics like math and science are odd/green while English and history are even/blue.
For me it's more like a positive or negative "emotional association", than color..
Odd = negative emotions
Even = positive emotions
Letters like " d,k,t,g,r,q" negative vibe
Letters like "a,b,l,m,n,o,v" positive vibe
@@martf1061 I think we are opposites! I get negative vibes from the things I consider "even". I relate more with the "odd" things, and I wonder if that is due to my left-handedness. We seem to have the same but opposite lists though! That is interesting!
@@Crayphor sorry but it's not because you are left handed 😏
I am also lefty 😉
I associate numbers with colors, but more specifically the time of the day. It's kind of weird, but 7am is green, 8am is red
5am is yellow, 6am is a blurry dark color etc
Interesting!
I enjoyed watching this! ❤️ You should make a video about aphantasia! 🙂
Omg I connected so hard over those number lines. I mean, I've been aware I experience everything in this video for many years now, but try describing numbers spacial relationships like that to another person. I've managed to let people into the colour stuff quite well by now, but never figured out how to get the number lines or calendar stuff across.
Even though those images were only shown briefly, I feel like I know exactly what's going on in that person's experience. For me at least, the odd twists and shapes aren't totally static. As I shift my attention along the number line or zoom in or out the whole thing kind of folds or unravels like some kind of fractal ribbon, and the shape changes depending on whereabouts within the numbers my focus is, like I've taking a different visual perspective. That's why it's all twisty when stepping back to consider the range of values shown in the drawing - the continuum begins to fold up in my mind's eye. Does this resonate with anyone else?
(Oddest thing - for some different forms or contexts the line folds up differently. For things like sports scores or imaginary numbers or whatever. Haven't quite figured out what's going on with that...)
Oh, and 7 is a touch darker than sky blue.
Synesthesia is very good. And the "taxicat number" shirt is amazing!
As someone who doesn't have a minds eye this is even more wild than finding out people can actually visual things in their head that stuff has colour associated with it too.
Great video! I got a 5 on the VVIQ-2 test, and a PA score of 0. I have perfect pitch, and I've been playing the piano since I was 4 (16 years!).
I associate numbers with colors, but usually only when I picture it, not when I'm reading it. It's mostly with numbers 1-9 and everything else is a mix of it's components. Some numbers has stronger colors than others (24 is pink and purple), while others are harder to nail down (like 8, it's either dark green or dark purple, maybe dark brown?). It also kinda helps me with math, because it makes it easier to tell by vibes when a number is a multiple of another number, because number groups have similar colors? It's not that fancy tho.
I've always wanted someone to ask me about my number colors lol.
I’m probably just a weirdo but certain smells make me hear musical notes or combinations of notes in my head. As a child, I thought everyone did this.
Seems fascinating. My senses are normal and I've always wondered how it feels. The closest I've been to it was taking lsd haha 😅
Ugh i just have to ask. What note does poop smell like. That being said. I think that you are not a weirdo!
The Most probable reason would be that certain smells will be strongly associated to certain personnal emotional moments in our lives and will bring back memories of those moments when the same odour comes back later on.
Same goes for certain sounds that bring back certain memories..
It's more likely that it's those who see sounds or see diferent colors for different letters that are the Weirdo's 😉🤭
7 is lime green. I have synaesthesia that manifests in a lot of ways including noises to color graphemes to color but also words to color. Notably smaller parts of things don’t seem to affect larger things for instance the word left is blue but the letters are yellow orange pink and brown
What I'd like to know is, do these synesthetians (why not?) who associate colors with numbers associate with the *concept* of the number, or instead with the *shape* of it? Would they experience the association with say, the dots on a die rather than Arabic numbers? Are FOUR, QUATTRO, and IV the same as 4, in color terms? Are they all equal, or does it have to be Arabic numbers?
It would depend on the synaesthete.
For me, it is definitely the concept. All of those have the same color to me (a dark purple). I will say that the “4” and Roman numeral “IV” have the strongest associations out of those examples.
@@jasster8Follow up: if you see a group of four persons or objects, do you associate dark purple with those, and if so, does it in any way impact your perception or opinion of them? Or is it more a completely incidental thing that has no actual impact on your judgement?
Some research suggests that synaesthesia is more often a concept-senses thing than a joining of senses. Synaesthesias that are purely based on the senses are known as sensorial synaesthesia. When concepts (such as numbers, personalities) are involved, it is called ordinal sequence synaesthesia or cognitive category synaesthesia. Sean Day says of the conceptual kind, "certain sets of things which individual cultures teach us to put together and categorise (and also usually serialise) in some specific way - such as letters, numbers, or people's names - also get some kind of sensory addition such as smell, colour, or flavour. "
Some synaesthestes only have to think of a number, letter etc to experience colour, taste etc. Others need to see the shape of the grapheme to induce the synaesthestetic experience. The first type is conceptual, the second sensorial.
Synesthesia is not just a mere figure of speech or some expression of the poetic feeling that we can express in a situation where, for example, we associate a flavor with a specific odor, such as a sweet and flowery jasmine flower, like a perfume. We experience this daily at lunch and dinner, for example, when we identify the sense of taste with the sense of smell and notice how the flavor of food is much more pronounced when its smell is good, pleasant and stimulates the appetite.
Another interesting thing is about intuition, in particular mathematical intuition, which oscillates between the sensory manifestation of the abstract and the sensory manifestation of the numerical concrete. It is noteworthy that there has long been discussion about a possible sixth female sense. Personally, I believe and experience intuition as a sixth sense, in particular mathematical intuition. But I believe that much of the female sixth sense is associated with intuition itself. I also experience daily and all the time a kind of overlapping of senses with the sense of intuition, in the process of attributing flavor to the sight of an object, smell to the sound of music, touch to the timbre of a voice, etc.
I love your channel.🫀🖤
Thanks Tibees. I do not have synesthesia, but your video still added a little colour to my day.
I do NOT have synesthesia, but I can tell you, 100%, that the number seven MUST be yellow.
I'm an electrician, and 7 is a red wire 😋
But i agree that "emotionaly speaking" it is a southing tint of yellow.
1 is white.
9 purple.
13 feels like it is brown
And all factors of 5 are blue.
🙂
6 orange
2 red
4 green
no...
UNACEPTABLE, 7 IS GREEN!!!
The only correct answer is purple.
it is dark forest green, duh
I have visual synesthesia for like every sense. I guess my brain can’t comprehend something’s existence unless I can look at it in a way.
Also no one can tell me anything other than 1 is black, 2 is pink, 3 is resish-purplish-pink, 4 is yellow, 5 is slightly darker yellow but sometimes other more neutral colors, 6 is DEFINITELY pink, 7 is brown or grey or brownish blackish grey, 8 is silver, 9 is dark orange, but not dark enough to be brown. Finally 10 is black again because both 1 and 0 are black.
Apparently you can get synesthesia after psychedelics.
Really???
Yes, I can confirm that is true
I feel extra left out lol I took acid daily for a summer and didn't get any super powers haha
@@conradaster3764Only one way to find out!
I had wood change color.
It was still the original color, but also turned green and yellow.
Unfortunately I don’t get a lot of visuals.
I’m a teacher and years ago, I found out that one of my students had synesthesia and I just learned watching this video that she was a “projector”! I’m an English teacher and she experienced a lot of difficulty in reading, especially novels, as each letter on the page was a different colour for her. There was just so much visual clutter that reading made her head ache. It was a pain to her, but very cool to me!
I don’t have synesthesia however, to me, blinking coloured lights are loud and always have been and I don’t know why. It is like a “pre-noise noise”. I can’t describe it any better than that. We have these lights at home that have many different settings, and my husband loves the random colour blinking setting. It drives me nuts and I don’t even want to be in the same room when he’s got them going. If I’m watching them, it fills my head and is not pleasant. However, if we set the lights on one solid, unblinking colour, I’m filled with a sense of calm. Those blinking ones, though!!!
Also, I go to a lot of Deaf chats and while I’m socializing, I feel like there is a lot of noise…not visual noise, either; it is much like the blinking lights: pre-noise noise. It’s just a noisy, social environment for me like many social gatherings, but with a different quality of noise. It is quite impossible to describe accurately, and it isn’t unpleasant like those blinking coloured lights are. It is noise before the noise is made, but noisy nonetheless. However, if I walk away and come back, I’m hit with a realization of how quiet it is…until I’m chatting with people again and it becomes noisy to me once more. I only noticed this sense of noise fairly recently, ie: within the last few months. I walked away to use the bathroom and quite literally was hit with how quiet everyone was…until I joined the group again.
For people who actually have synesthesia, I can’t imagine how cluttered their life could be. Like I said, it is cool to me, but I think the opposite may be closer to the truth for some of them!
Not to take away from those that have synaesthesia, but I think we all have this to a degree.
The basic idea is senses get crosswired in a way and we can all smell food an know how it will taste, see something, know how it will feel to touch, and to get specific... we can hear water getting poured and know whether it's hot or cold water.
People "with synaethesia" have extreme and unique cases of this.
I think there's a degree of envy those of us who do not have this feel because it's such a benign effect that seems like it would make things more fun or interesting in our bland day to day.
My advice if you have this feeling of missing out is to look at something pink. Pink is not a real color. Your brain makes that up because it doesnt know what to see. That's probably similar to synaesthesia.
Kind of a funny story but Asmr brought me to your channel, I don't get tingles from ASMR it does help my brain to quiet down at night.
Seven is a very dark, dull blue. I scored a 0.49 on the Grapheme-Color Picker Test but my results show at least one input for the number 0 that I think was a mistake or misclick or something, so maybe it should be even lower? I have heard before that research on Grapheme-Color synesthesia has looked for patterns across different people, and has found that the letter A is commonly associated with bright red (as it is for me, in fact). This video made me curious if there's any pattern to the brightness or saturation people associate with colors, if not the hues. For example, Feynman says X is dark brown, but I say that it's dark cyan, but maybe it isn't a coincidence that we both think of it as dark? I wonder if you compared a bunch of different synesthetes' alphabets and then put them all in grayscale, how similar would they be?
X is dark purple for me. And yes, A is red!
Speaking of ASMR - is that your natural speaking voice? It's giving me the tinglies
Psychedelics like Aciid and others produce this effect along with many other effects colors are much more vivid and beautiful and stationary objects like lamps and walls and carpets appear to move
I'm solidly not a synesthete, nor am I with dyslexia or any form of autism. From what I understand about the gifts associated with these, I feel well deprived of an ability to think without great effort. But synesthesia does run strong in my family with at least one parent, sister and neice with synesthesia that I know of. I do have powerful ASMR when I hear certain snippets of favourite songs. Come to think of it, it's almost exclusive to music.
Me realizing that "April is a corner" is a synesthesia thing, and not just me being weird
August is another one
and October, too
One kind of weird recent thing--synesthesia has made me very aware of how neural networks work. Not that the synesthesia influences my understanding of the nuances of LLMs or anything. But I feel like I understand the overall gist of them implicitly. That's already how I picture the world. The colors and the numbers are like the weights in a large language model. Had a real "aha" moment the first time I saw a neural network. It really resonated with me.
One weird quirk I have is having things in a sort of left/right grouping. Odd numbers, warm colors, pointy shapes, and other awkward things are Left. Even numbers, cool colors, round shapes, and familiar things are Right. I think this is part of the reason why I can never keep East and West straight and often mix up my lefts and rights.
I used to deliver pizza, and there were a couple of times where I was supposed to turn right at an intersection, but I'd usually go left, so I ended up going left thinking it was a right turn because ot was familiar.
To get east and west right, I have to imagine a map of the US with empty yellow deserts in the west and big blue buildings on the east coast.
I knew I associated weekdays and months with specific colours, but I never thought it could be a form of synesthesia! I thought those were common occurrences that we had due to different weathers (depending on months), cultural associations (October--> Halloween-->pumpkins-->dark orange), or 'rhythm' of the month (i.e holidays are calmer and end-of-year months faster due to i.e exam season). But I surprisingly scored 0.52 on weekdays and similarly on months. I am quite curious to know whether anybody in these comments have similar associations (or know whether it is common or truly a form of synesthesia?)? Thanks for the great and intriguing video!
Precision: I don't just see the colour, but see the weekdays/months written in different fonts (and w/diff colours).
Years ago, my older brother called me to announce that their baby was just born. "We named him Adrian Michael". I blurted out, "Cool, like a sunset...red and golden yellow." My brother said,"??, what do you mean?" I said, "Adrian (golden yellow) and Michael (red) looks like a sunset". He said, "You've always been weird...I think that's your ADD talking."
It makes perfect sense, Adrian sounds like "Adriatic" which to me elicits images of a Mediterranean island with bright golden sun shining down. Michael is a powerful, hard-hitting name, like red as a color. But I also have autism/ADHD 😂
I have Smell->Color so there's not really an online test for it, but this was really neat to see!
The numbers at 1:19 are _all_ the wrong colours! Argh!
For me too :(
I used to be fascinated by the idea of synesthesia, when I’d only heard of the projected variety. Not that long ago, though, I looked into it more deliberately, only to discover associative synesthesia, and realized that I experience most of the flavors of associative synesthesia. I’ve never experienced sounds as colors or anything like that, but I often think of, and describe, sensory experiences with terms and concepts that really only apply to distinct sensory experiences.