Synesthesia: The Science Behind Seeing Sounds & Tasting Color
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Synesthesia is a rare neurological condition where someone’s senses become entangled. What’s it like to see sound and taste color?
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The Synesthesia Project
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“At its simplest level, synesthesia means that when a certain sense or part of a sense is activated, another unrelated sense or part of a sense is activated concurrently. For example, when someone hears a sound, he or she immediately sees a color or shape in his or her ‘mind's eye.’"
Prevalence of Learned Grapheme-Color Pairings in a Large Online Sample of Synesthetes
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“Learning has also been shown to play a role in other types of synesthesia such as word-taste synesthesia, and most types of synesthesia involve culturally learned sequences such as letters, numbers, dates, and pitches. However, there are reasons to be cautious about extrapolating from our result to the claim that synesthetic correspondences in general can be or are often learned from external stimuli.”
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My mom thought I was weird when I was a child for asking her questions like "what color do you think Tuesday is?"
Orange?
+camerica7400 orange!
It's green
Wow, I'm super surprised that everyone, including me, says orange
Purple ... Monday is blue
I remember not liking the cartoon "between the lions" as a child because one of the lion's voice smelled like burnt rubber to me and having my friends watch me like "wtf" yrs later when I mentioned it
Macaela Harding I hate that show lol
David Moses same man
David Moses because it smells like burnt rubber?
OMG!! I SMELL STUFF TO!! But mostly when I look at stuff I hsted the brother on Hanna Matana 'cause he smelled like ketchup
There’s an actor that triggers the taste of burnt toast. It used to annoy me, but I can block it out now 😅
Whenever I'm exposed to politics, I smell shit and get a horrible taste in my mouth. Is this Synesthesia?
lmao
+vincent roosmalen Vincent, that is your opinion. I smell it too.
lol these comments
+SuperAtheist hahahaha brilliant,
Oh dear! You suffer from a rare and dwindling phenomenon called logic and reason. It used to be fairly common, but has all but disappeared in recent years. I recommend avoiding the general population and possibly resettlement depending on your region. ; ) lol
Diagnosis,cross-wired, condition, this guy is making it sound that it's illness it's not. It's a perspective a very good one. That is an amazing gift.
I have color- number synesthesia; as a child I had a book that dedicated a page to each number and the number was decorated mostly with 1 color. I'm not sure that I'm recalling all of them 100% correctly, however I still have it, for me 1 is black, 2 is blue, 3 is orange, 4 is green, 5 is red, 6 is white, 7 is pink, 8 is purple. and 9 is yellow, 0 is clear/no color
I only had a single episode of this in my life and it was the most wonderful few seconds I have experienced. It happened back when I was still young enough that my parents felt I needed a baby sitter (I am embarrassed to say they didn’t relent until I was in my teens) so I would guess ten or so. The entire event happened while the sitter was reading me a bedtime story but her voice was getting further away and indistinct, fuzzy like a radio being turned to static. I looked at her alarmed and then I saw the most amazing thing - her mouth was moving but colorful shapes like bits of glass in odd geometries were popping like sparks around her head and mouth. I felt the most relaxed and at peace as I ever have and I wish I could relive or recreate that night. It stopped suddenly when I realized how strange the situation was and tried to get the babysitters attention. If I knew then that doing that would dispel such wondrous beauty I would have sat mute. I am in awe of those who get to experience this daily.
I seriously didn't know this was a rare thing. I thought everyone did this until I was talking to one of my friends and they were just like "wtf" lmao.
Same
Same, I told my mom what do think about Tuesday being a salmon red? She looked at me funny until I told her, what?? Tuesday isn’t orange salmon for you, what is it then? She said there’s not colors in days 😂, I said in every word there’s a Color 😂 and in a sound 2
A year ago in a car ride with my friends, I accidentally said can someone play some salmon music, they thought It was a genre of music, I told them after to play a song that the color was orange salmon, they laughed at me and put Kpop instead, which is salmon anyways ah 😂
I hate it when my best friends has a voice color I hate 😂 GREEN, like my voice 😂, I can’t explain what makes it green tho, it’s not like every raspy voice is green of soft Voice or anything 😂, my voice is low and raspy and hers is high pitched and soft, sooo how do we have the same coloured voice !!?
Niklas Soderstrom same
You should do a topic on Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. i have it and there is barely any information out there about it and i would like to understand it more
So you're insane?
no, objects in the room just seem to get absurdly tiny then all of a sudden i feel like a 20 ft tall giant in the room. its hard to explain
+Joe ancira I get that sorta thing in the shower when I close my eyes. It feels like the world I warping around me
+Joe ancira I've had this experience as well. it's so weird and disorienting. I never knew it was a thing for others as well or had a name.
+Astrofishisist Is that a disorder, though? I get the same thing sometimes, but I don't think it's what they are talking about
I associate words with foods- "table" feels like a very dry vanilla cake in my mouth, and "wood" tastes like rye chips
dalton recktenwald interesting
Me too. Monday and Tuesday tastes like toast with mayonnaise. Wednesday tastes like toast with butter, cinnamon and sugar. Jealous tastes like jello. Specifically cherry jello. I remember it coming up when I was learning days of the week. Not all foods taste and some taste the same as others. To me jealous' taste makes sense. I think the only word that tastes like itself is carrot. Fortunately I love carrots.
The table held Emily
Which sat Alice too
As they sung with phonograph
with mmmm's in tune
Skip to the progress
To programs or process
Aye to Sierra
I say too!
Now what does this poem...
Taste like to you?
As a Chinese, I guess some of my synesthesia is from superstitions of my culture. For example, we have a meaning for each numbers. For 6, 8 it's lucky and 4 is unlucky. I see personality for each number. For me, 4 is a timid person, 5 is a hardworking person and 6 is a active person... I also see color associate with each number. To me 1 is black,2 is yellow, 3 is red, 4 is lime green... Whenever I see a series of number, I feel the number is telling me some thing, like a whisper. Also It's a bit easier to remember a small number combination. Instead of remember the numbers, I remember by how the numbers make me feel, like how a certain group of people make me feel, since all the numbers are so lively to me.
Imma try it
Had it for as long as I can remember. I see weekdays, years, school years, seasons in colors AND in patterns or shapes. I also see colors and shapes when I listen to music
I can taste things I touch sometimes. Not always, thankfully. It happens most often with coins and metals.
+Lars Erik Volden when i had braces, certain metals had a certain feeling to them. It was a cross between taste and touch. I couldn't explain, but I think ours may be similar.
+Lars Erik Volden I'd get the same sensation when my toungue would touch a wound, inside or outside my mouth. Maybe it was the iron in the blood and iron in the metals...
+Lars Erik Volden Sometimes i can taste things even just seeing them for the first time or touching them too but it only happens on certain stuff.
+Lars Erik Volden what if you were cleaning your butt after taking a dump, and your fingers went through the paper?
+13doctorwho lol
I haven't tried it in a long time but I kind of trained myself (and my son) to do something kind of similar. We'd close our eyes and imagine colors that'd let change and move based on the music. It was really kind of neat.
now everybody thinks they're synesthetic
Ellie5621 I can't tell if I have t or not. I don't have the colour sound or taste thing but I involuntarily visualise time in my head like a sort of linear Circle type thing and depending on the month or day that it is I'm somewhere along the circle. I also associate random words with images for example the word 'Yawn' to me makes me think of a cartoon style bowl of mashed potato in a blue bowl on a green background.. Weird but idk if it's Synaesthesia
Robyn Smyth. There are different types of synesthesia.
*synesthete, I know 😂 I have it so I wanted to know more and all the comments are like I’m one 2 and stuff, I’ve had that since I was a kid and I didn’t know what much ppl had it, heck I tough everyone had it 😂it’s not that fun tbh, I can’t even watch my fav tv show bc the main characters voice smells like ass (it smells like toxic rubber of something 😂)
I dont
Yep... it reminds me of teenagers self diagnosing with say depression or them being iNsAnE. I don't understand why so many people suddenly think they're synthetes. It sort of weirdly developed when it comes down to me. It started off with letters, numbers, and words having their own colours, and only recently in the past 3 years I realised while listening to music or generally hearing sounds have their own colours (my voice is blue :D). And some colours make me taste things. I always thought the colourful words was normal since my dad has it, but my friends freaked out when I mentioned it to them. Our brains are so weird!
(Forgot to mention about thw tasting colours thing, I often avoid colours like pink in my art because it's sour... I don't know why)
I've just started studying this is in Psychology and... is it weird to say I'm in love with the concept of this condition? It might sound weird for me to say this, but honestly it sounds like such a beautiful thing to have, especially seeing sounds. That's amazing.
I saw sound once when I smoked a lot of pot.
That's not synesthesia.
+Drawing Board it was a joke
Lily R Lmfao how would you know? There's plenty of people who say stuff like this and are totally serious..
+Drawing Board it's definitely a joke
Its not a joke, when i did 400ug of acid and lines of MDMA i was seeing and feeling sound, so intense.
Some of my seizures make it so that I see colors for sounds. It's cool to see someone's voice, and sometimes I don't listen to what they are saying because I am looking at their colors.
When someone tells me a year, it's like there is a timeline in my brain of all the years. And two years might be right beside each other, but are significantly different in my opinion. Like 2014 is very different than 2015. I think it's like 2015 is recent and 2014 is not. I also picture numbers and months on a timeline, but none of the timelines are the same.
Growing up it was hard for me to tell time on a clock because I dont see time in numbers going in a circle but more of like a vertical line
I see it like. The same with the days of the week. On a calendar the days are lined up horizontally and in my head they're vertical but Saturday and Sunday are on the left and M-F are on the right lol
Time-Sequencing Synesthesia. It's a subversion of Spacial-Sequencing Synesthesia; which I have. I couldn't imagine life without it. It's so useful.
When I write then record music, I put them in order to most generally fit the rainbow i.e. roygbiv. So a song most generally identified as red would be ahead of one that generally had more orange or yellow. I think it's a good and easy way to decide on song ordering for an album. In fact, I often title songs initially on the colour they invoke. Don't get me started on numbers.
I only just recently started to think about my synesthesia, because I often assumed that most or all people knew what it was like to taste words or sounds. But at the same time, I was scared to ask anybody whether they did or not, in case my assumption was wrong. One day, I finally mentioned it to a friend while we were chatting on messenger. But when I described examples of non-food words like "equipment", and how it tastes like cold water running down my throat, he failed to give a response on it 😕😶.
Seeing things, recalling memories, meeting new people, recalling what those people look like, seeing text and pictures give me different tastes. I can recall answers for tests from their taste which I find really weird but useful
I've had colour-grapheme synesthesia for as long as I can remember though I only found out about it being a specific condition 3 years ago. Interesting when you mentioned the different causes, however, as I was epileptic when I was younger. Might be related...
I don’t really see sounds, it’s the feeling it gives you and the feeling is usually a color, so you’ll end up seeing the sounds color or the voice, the most color I’ve seen in a voice is pink, all my family’s voice is pink and mine is green, I subconsciously am more attached to ppl that has a blueish cyan voice
Maybe it's a form of evolution. A different or new way to help people remember and store memory in our every growing and evolving intelligence.
Nagasaski that is SUCH a cool take thank you
It's such a cool theory
I have the ability to see the musical notes arise from the the actual instruments being 8n prism and multifaceted colors , and as i listen to music and see them rise they tend to dissipate into my surroundings, adding more beauty to my optic senses when music plays it is a wonderful experience. Enhance colors to my surroundings .
I see personality's, months, years, days, weeks, events, dates, people, groups of people, institutions, moods and places as color and combinations of colors.
I see shapes as colours
wow, same here, like
Microsoft-green
sony-blue
anxious-orange
snob-green
+Astrofishisist I associate sour foods as triangles and sweet foods as circles
AmoderateCentrist same with meeee!!!
AmoderateCentrist 😮
so this explains why i connected colors to days of the week when i was little. weird thing is that in the 3 languages i speak every day has a different color. like monday is yellow in english, white in dutch and blue in french to me. this is getting confusing. but appearantly multilinguals adapt to a different personality for every language? so i guess that's how you could explain this. very interesting stuff, great vid Trace. keep up the good work, all of you.
Cheers from Belgium
I can see wave like colors of strings moving, Only when I lay back and relax listening to music.
Do I have Synesthesia?
Michael Chernak omg true. That’s why most synesthetes are good at This. I’m pretty good 😂
I had an experience today. Not sure if it is synesthesia or not. I was getting a massage and every time the therapist moved her hands or changed pressure, different colors would mix and swirl behind my closed eyes. When muscles relaxed, I saw blues, purples and dark pinks. When she worked on spots that were particularly tight, I saw white, yellows and oranges. As her fingers moved and applied pressure, the colors would move. I'm 46 and this is the first time I have experienced this (or at least that I was aware of).
I've experienced it on shrooms and lsd, its pretty crazy.
Look out, we have a badass over here
+Robo Batman poorly memed, poorly memed...
movement2contact isn't that the point of memes?
+Robo Batman No.
+Jack “arefx” Curtis plz OD for me.
This happened to me after a visit to the dentist. i could hear colors and taste sounds! it lasted for a couple of days and completely freaked me out!
I have two types of synesthesia. One is similar to the literary concept of personification. Inanimate objects seem to have an emotional aura and human-like actions.
The second one I have I don't know the name but when I hear sounds, I see a sort of pattern and if a song does not seem to fit the pattern, I get really agitated.
I do that as well. For example: Circles are comforting and reassuring. Squares are honest and logical. Triangles are somewhere between Circles and Squares. Rectangles border on being rebels. Trapezoids are full-blown rebels. I also give them colors. Circles are red, Squares are blue, Triangles are yellow, Rectangles are green and trapezoids are indigo or turquoise.
As far as "sounds-to-patterns", I see Triangular-like patterns when hearing fast fiddles. I see circular-like patterns when hearing slow violins. Electric guitar solos are something like you would see on an Oscilloscope, EKG monitor or a Seismograph.
And for anyone that is wondering, this is not in my physical eye. It is purely "associative"; thus, it's in my "mind's eye". It's an involuntary perception.
Yeah, Kaitlyn's VR violin video is absolutely amazing! I wonder if synesthetes are all usually left or right-side-brain dominant.
A friend of mine can smell color, and we always have fun when I dye my hair. When I had pastel pink hair, she described it as similar to raspberries, and my now green hair as lime and various unnameable smells. Apparently, purple smells like absolute heaven, while orange is the most disgusting smell out there.
Woah. This just opened up a whole new reality to me that I never knew I was experiencing. I now cherish my synesthetic experiences.
I haven't watched your videos in forever, looks like I know what I'm doing for the next 2 months.
What is it called when you see a specific pattern and it makes you churn or itch... like people with trypophobia?
Trypophobia
+00maniacmanny00...It's any type of patterns.. not just trypophobia is what I'm asking lol
+00maniacmanny00 fatty
I've had this happen before and its mind blowing 🤯 let me tell ya. . Stay lifted people 🙏😌
I have synesthesia!! So cool to see a video about it!! I have the colour/character one, eg. 3 is green, Friday is purple. I've had it for as long as I can remember, and always thought everyone did it!!!!
+serenaisnotamazing Well your profile picture looks like a Friday night.
friday is orange
fuzzie2000sh Nope, you're wrong.
You should check your glasses.
lmao.
Friday's red watchu mean haha
+fuzzie2000sh Thursday's orange
I'm from SF, and a synesthete. I see dates and time in a 3D type clock rollercoaster looking track with decades in different colors based on historical events or trends. I also taste a few words, and feel pain and discomfort from others. I feel and see music, trance, progressive, house and classical trigger it mostly. I thought everyone was like that until a few years ago when I started to point at things my friends couldn't see as if they understood my rollercoaster date track as well. They confirmed they don't see dates like I do and boom, now everyone knows.
I can smell sounds. specifically farts. I'm a special snowflake
Bruh
I can smell foods that I ate days ago
Omg so relateable
angels smell the past huh, pretty cool
Crazy 😂😂😂
I've given each number personality and characteristics I've done this since I was little , I also can remember things better if they are written on yellow or green. I thought everyone did this until I took my first biology class and our teacher gave us an article on Synesthesia
To be honest I'm here because Kanye West said he said Synesthesia so I wanted to learn more about it because it sounded interesting. 😂
Jdizzle LOL same, saw him talk about it on Ellen
Jdizzle Having it is the best.
People who are interested in synesthesia should probably be addressed about this too: Not all music-color synesthetes actually SEE the colors when they hear the sounds. People who do are called projectors, and they have a stronger neuronal connection to the V4 color thing. But there are also associators like me, who only see the color in their mind's eye. All my music notes/chords have colors, like C is purple, D is black, G is blue, etc., but I don't see them in any shape or form when I hear them. The color just exists, it's there. There are a lot more associators than projectors, but it's only projectors who are noticed because they're able to better explain their interpretation of vision being directly associated with sounds.
I've had synesthesia since I was 4 days old and I remember how confused my kindergarten teacher was when I told her that the quadratic formula was red XD
First, I'd like to say that this was a great episode! And about the fusiform gyrus, i know that at least a part of it is involved with recognizing objects and faces (mainly fusiform gyrus, an area specialised in faces).
What about if I associate letters with genders???
Are there any transgender letters?
+Astrofishisist
X and Y
#notsureifserious
Numbers also have genders to me
Yup, I guess that'd be grapheme-gender synesthesia :)
+Francis Quinn 69 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
My brother tastes colors, every letter, number, and punctuation has a color, he sees emojis of what he is feeling, black tattoos are pink to him, and that's all I can remember. He's only 8 and thought everybody saw stuff like that lol. :)
I taste colours, and relate personalities to the colours via taste. Like my girlfriend is this pale pink/blue swirl and its this sugary flavour.
Me too!
Trace is awesome :) This channel is awesome. Learning is awesome. More people need to see this.
I have lexical-gustatory synthestia (hearing-taste)
Lol how is that?
I have the music and colors/shapes
Please expand
I don't think that's real
+00maniacmanny00 it's very real
+00maniacmanny00 then u dont have it
i have grapheme-color synesthesia and it's really helpful for remembering track numbers on music albums or episode numbers of tv shows
this is exactly what I wanted to know because I can see sounds ;-;
how do u see them? okz explain
I do have synesthesia. Thank you so much for this video. When I was terribly afraid of telling anybody about this cool experience when I was young. It's much better as I get older. :) Love the sound of violin in previous video.
Ratatouille is synesthestique!!!
*Remy.
No offense.
I divide the year in 2 halves, 6 months each. And I know exactly why too. Once, in preschool, I remember seeing a chart on the wall that showed January-June on the left side, and July-December on the right side with a background of what it's like in each month (Christmas and snowy in December, Halloween and autumn in October, sunny and beach like in July etc etc)... so now any and every time I think of the months, which month it is, or counting out how many months till something or whatever, I visualize that very same chart.
Mind Blown
I have synesthesia, I have the most common one, color-graphemic. I always thought everyone was like this, then I saw an interview with a famous singer in Iceland where he talked about his synesthesia. He described it just like mine. I turned to my mother and asked if this wasn't normal (I was around 10 at the time). And she said "no honey. This is not normal. But this makes you unique." I love my synesthesia. As a writer, it helps me to see letters and numbers in color. I also see them in form. (I can't draw the week here, if I could, I would): For me, the week is like this; "Monday is red, Tuesday is light-blue, Wednesday is light-pink, Thursday is light-green, Friday is brown, Saturday is yellow and Sunday is dark-green. When I think of the 70's I think of red. When I think of the 80's I think of purple. When I think of the 90's I think yellow, and so on.
Howdy. I don't think I have synesthesia, but I kind of see the week the same way you do, but a little different. I kind of see it in a chart, with monday on top and sunday at the bottom. Monday is orange, Tuesday purple, Wednesday yellow, thursday green, friday this bluish color, and Saturday and Sunday are weird grayish colors. Oddly enough, when I get to Friday through Sunday, my "chart" is no longer vertical. I can't really explain it, it just becomes horizontal, and it's like you're standing in front of it?
Im not sure if I do have Synesthesia. Im a high school band student in Indiana and I sing. Whenever I play/sing I experience... Well Im not sure how to explain it... But I see flashes of light and colors and feel a certain type of pleasure like euphoria. If I close my eyes during one of these "episodes" it is the most beautiful thing you could imagine... It may have something to do with a slightly high IQ (125). I am not bragging about this because I actually feel like a freak when I try to explain it, nobody understands it.
That is awesome😀😀😀
DANIEL W Thanks man. But I see it as a cures.
Caleb Banks I tried to justify mint flavor as a green triange like that(~134-147iq) I laughed at my self for hours then months later realized I had synesthesia.
Bruh it always feels more vibrant when listening to music with not words for me
3rd eye, Simple
And to think, all this time I thought my letter or number pairing with colors and genders was related to sesame street. I've noticed it has faded a bit as I get older, but if I focus in on specific letters, I can still recognize not only my original perspectives on the individual characters but also when/where I was when I became aware of this concept holistically as a child.
I have synesthesia and it makes me really mad when colors, words, and numbers are written in the wrong colors.
Same! Once my teacher had us take a color personality test and she showed us what each color meant and i got super mad because they werent what i thought was "right". I remember my friends telling me to chill out, and even myself refusing to take the test. Luckily it wasnt for a grade or anything though
@Ellie5621 why?
Ikr!!!
1= yellow
2= yellow
3= red
4= green
5= red
6= pink
7= yellow
8= blue
9= purple
I do the same thing with the alphabet
OMG YES, my classmates wanted me to write rainbow is rainbow colors for a poster and it was so wrong 😂 I had to do it tho 😂
I have a rather mild version of it. I see certain colours in letters and numbers, but full worlds adapt the colour of the first letter. Sometimes a mix of the first and second letter. I've never been able to coordinate my memory with it, tho. They seem to be on very different paths. Music, however, is quite prominent. I don't see colours there, but in a way I can see how the music is structured. And like a picture in photoshop I can "zoom in" on a specific sound and focus on it. But again, I haven't figured out how to combine sound frequencies with what I see, so I've not been able to take full advantage of it.
Can DNews do an episode covering if it is possible for gay couples to have biological children with recent genetic advancements?
I can see sound. And I love it!! It can be quite calming
I can taste the red on your face, Trace.
I have grapheme → color synesthesia. It is very useful, especially for memorization.
season 4 of heroes anybody?
I think everyone had this to some extent. For example, assigning to colour to school subjects and sounds to textures to sounds like in classical music.
Talk about Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.
I think i have synestesia, because when i heard your voice, I can see my fist punching your mouth YFSOB!
this is not synestesia you have what they call fistynestesia xD Hahaha
Fingloi Delos reyes I think that's anger management issues
stephie3 lol ikr haha
That’s angernestiesia
hi friends
LOL FATTY
+00maniacmanny00 what are you laughing at? It's okay to be fat. It's okay to be gay. Let people be them, you probably don't even know this person, and I'm defending some random person, so what?
what is even happening
Magical Mongoose I will report your ass if you bring up the purse one more time, try me. I had already requested to drop the topic multiple times..
WOW! you guys actually took my request! (Actually, IDK if you took mine but I'M VERY HAPPY) THANKS~
I love synesthesia
Really? I looked at is as a genuine problem because it literally blinded my vision if I listened to certain songs.
+VariantAEC lol wtf u got synesthesia?
+ModernTriicks no he has electromagnetic x-man powers
+ModernTriicks
I think so. Sound used to render my vision completely useless. I was literally blinded by some songs and I would see nothing but, solid grey light everywhere. I would consider that a very bad thing. Before music visualizers were a thing I could see multiple colors shapes and entire environments form when listening to music. I didn't have control over what I was able to see. With years of exposure and really trying to alter thos function I was able to overcome that form of synesthesia.
I apparently might have many kinds of synesthesia, but none are anywhere near as debilitating as the one that used to blind me.
+Astrofishisist
You posted almost 4 minutes before I did somehow! Precognition?
Sometimes when I see videos of people having injuries I cringe and feel it, but it’s like I feel it but not completely but still feel it
1: black 2: yellow 3: red 4: green 5: blue 6: red 7: red 8: yellow 9: green 10: white/blue who else?
I always see 3 as yellow.
I think of 3 as green. Maybe it is because I think of triangles as green
I think 3 is red
+David Bednarczyk yes red
5-yellow
0- translucent 1-red 2-yellow 3-green 4- dark blue 5- light blue 6- pink 7-purple 8-dark purple 9- crimson 10- black
Your explanation is perfect and that what it feel like
I have synesthesia and I've had it as long as I can remember. I have the most common type I think. Numbers, letters and names have colors, for example the name Maria is red and the number 3 is blue. Weekdays, months and years also have colors but they also come in forms. I don't think you develop this kind of thing. It just is. I always thought that everybody were like this until I saw an interview with a famous singer here in Iceland who also has this. To me it's just normal.
When I think of numbers, letters and days I also have a color related to them (in my thoughts). For example 1=yellow(ish), 3=green, 4=red, saturday=blue, sunday=orange/brown, monday=dark blue/purple, tuesday=light blue/white.
Although I don't physically see them when I read numbers or letters and I don't think of them strongly; it is more like as if it was a (very) weak dose of a psychedelic drug. Not sure if this is synesthesia but I thought I'd mention it!
+Joakim Mäkinen Also, sometimes I can sort of taste/smell (not sure which) a certain mood or thought or memory or situation... I don't know it's just weird.. not in a bad way though.
Maybe I'm just imagining this....
I hear motion as well as touch, my brain replaces otherwise silent movements and feelings with a certain sound in my head. It can be frustrating trying to sleep and hearing your heartbeat or muscles twitching, but otherwise I think it's cool and I enjoy having it. I didn't know it wasn't "normal" until a couple years ago.
I actually have some synesthetic associations. To me, anything having to do with the note Ab or G#, for example, is Red (Ab itself, Ab chords, etc.). A is yellow, Bb is blue, B is light green, C is a darker green, Db is crystalline blue, D is brown, Eb is grey, E is whitish blue, F is Orange, F# is purple and G is black.
I have a type of audio synesthesia and mirror touch synesthesia. Frequencies of sound produces different textures and effect how I see my environment, like the size of the room or pressure of the air in it. when I play music I can surf the floor in an ever expanding room designing the texture into overlapping layers of almost tangible ripples in the space around me.
my most intense synesthesia is people, words and numbers having colors. interestingly enough, seeing someone in real life, the thought idea of that someone and their name could all have a different color in my head. math gets confusing for me too because of my synesthesia. each number has a color and the equation therefore has a color and almost 90% of all my confusion in math is from just being overwhelmed and getting 'lost' in all the colors my brain tries to keep track of while doing the problem. but on the other hand, when it comes to spelling- my synesthesia actually saves my butt a lot because once the word has the right color, i know i've spelled it right.
also i can tell you that smelling certain smells definitely produces distinct colors for me. :DD
I've just discovered I have this for the days of the week and the months of the year.
I can see music and sound. I don't always do (luckily, because that would be annoying), but when I'm focusing on the sound (not what a person say or what instrument I hear or whatever, just the sound of it) I see the sound like moving from lower to higher or vice verse when the tone goes lower or higher. For a long time I thought everybody saw music this way.
For what it's worth, the ancient Indian Vedic texts are considered as 'Sruti' or 'that, which is heard'(Wiki it for more details)... these were 'sounds & syllables' heard by practitioners of deep meditation, who were able to tap into the primordial energies of consciousness & reproduce them verbally, the texts we now know as the Vedas, which, by the way, were promulgated ONLY orally for thousands of years before being written down.
It might have sounded incredulous until this video, so thanks to the makers for exploring the (endless) possibilities of human perception.
..if you're still reading this, note that the most primordial of 'sounds', as per the Vedic culture, is 'OM'. Of course, it goes without saying, that the rest of the sounds make up the mathematically perfect & intriguing language, that is Sanskrit. Sanskrit has a construct like geometry in cymatics and can be digitalised.
Curious? To explore more, punch into Google, "Sanskrit the Digital Language Ajit Vada ka yil".
I have synesthesia and I've read many websites about including the entire Wikipedia page about it, But I could never figure out what kind I had. Things I was experiencing just wouldn't match up with what I was reading about But in this video I learned that I have Colour auditory and grapheme colour synaesthesia. Thank you
People with synesthesia related to music may also have perfect pitch because their ability to see/hear colors aids them in identifying notes or keys. The colors triggered by certain sounds, and any other synesthetic visual experiences, are referred to as photisms
I don't think I have the condition, for a long time ever since I got into music, and was diagnosed with ADHD, I have seen the world in terms of music. I remember events in my life like they were a symphonic score. For example, when I think of my great grandfather's funeral, I just don't think of 21 Gun Solute; but specifically in minor notes. When I walk down the street whenever I go out, I always sing a song because each step creates chords and notes.
Life would be so interesting with this, it’d be so much more lively at times.
Incredibly interesting stuff.
Sometimes I’ll see an image and I can pick up a scent or a taste, so I can imagine it’d be like that but much more frequent.
With the sound related stuff, I couldn’t imagine how that could be, seeing colours or images to songs, picking up smells and tastes. Probably wouldn’t be fun if you liked a song but it smelt or tasted bad, but for some things, boy would that be an experience. Especially playing an instrument.
Wonder if some consider it a blessing or a curse.
Welp, time to browse this stuff for hours.
For me, I give numbers personalities, and days of the week and certain letters names. Monday is blue or pink, Tuesday is yellow, Wednesday is purple, Thursday is green, Friday is pink, Saturday is just like a rainbow, and Sunday is just, some formal color. Also, 6 is like sweet, and 9 is her bratty sister. 10 is mature.
I highly doubt that I have synesthesia but every time that I try to remember something like a word or an event I don't remember words or letters, I picture colors and shapes and emotions. For example, when try to remember a word for a test my brain pictures a shape and some colors although they are always blurred. If I try to remember something that happened to me I focus on the emotion that I felt instead of what actually happened and it makes it a lot easier to remember. I don't know if its normal or not since I don't really talk about it but I told my friend once and she thought it was interesting. I also have a pretty good memory because of this; I can recall things from long ago with great detail. Again, I doubt in have synesthesia but Trace mentioned something about assigning colors to words or letters and it reminded me of this
nice to know.. i taste the colours of the food i eat.. and now i know why. thanks for sharing!
I just started to look into this because the friend of mine told me to look this up but I have seen shapes and colored shapes come out of people's mouths when they talk to me or when they're talking to somebody else not everybody has the same shapes and colors come out of their mouth I have been saying this since I was in Middle School and I am now 61 years old so anyway I see shapes and colors come out of people's mouths when they talk
I have it too, I can taste and see colors, and different numbers and days and letters have different colors, I'm an artist too so when I draw with a color I can see days or numbers or feel the taste of a food that I associated with the color.
Very int to hear this, i do have synesthesia, am an artist and do paintings with help from my cond. See colors if sound, hear sound from colors etc. Every letter do have colors and help me remember persons name through my colorsystem...joyful :) Tove
I had a right sided ischemic stroke in September 2004, and ever since, every sound I hear has an individual texture, smell and taste to me. ( Some sounds, also cause a sharp pain in my body too.) If the sound is coming from outside, the smell, texture and taste of the sound, can change depending on the weather and temperature. E.g: The sound of a Chinook helicopter. On a hot summer day I would smell freshly baked bread, taste scotch egg and feel coarse grain sand. But the same sound in winter, I would smell frying bacon, taste oranges and feel the texture of a cotton wool ball. Sometimes the sensations can change, depending upon my emotional state as well. (I was born with ADHD, and I suspect I'm a higher functioning autistic too, just to make everything more intresting! )
Everyone says I have synesthesia. I can hear something and see colors or scenes of some sort (i.e, of something sounds light I associate it with green and spring often times). But also, letters, numbers, and words have personalities. Like for me 7 is a lot stronger of a letter than 8 which is very timid and follows the other numbers in a nervous manner. 7 is a dingy yellow (like mixing the yellow and black marker as a kid) and 8 is a darker forest green. And certain words have certain fonts. Like the word "Specific" is in a very fancy cursive like Pacifico while "ace" is very blocky and whole. It's kind of cool really
for me, most songs are blue and another color, 1 is orangeish yellow, 2 is light purple, 3 is green. I have also been doing a test to see if synistisia can be developed on purpose. I started by thinking of a word, and equating it to a color, i would do this for a little bit each day. I think it is working because before, taste didn't work for me, it didn't trigger anything and nothing triggered it, now I can suddenly equate tastes to sight, and i wasn't even testing on that sense yet.
not sure if this counts but I sometime experience a movement sensation from sounds. it's not all sounds and only a hand full of them , but the same sound type will always give me the same experience. conversely I experience a sound in my head from some movement. it's generally from movement in a repetitive pattern. I always thought it was my brain hardwired from TV and cartoons since they generally associate movement and sound for and exaggerated comical effected. so is this synesthesia?
its sure can be, some beats and sound patterns make me feel things and visualize colors and events
I see emotions as different waves and color. I thought it was normal until I was in college and we learned about different types of synesthesia.