Thread: Anyone have Synesthesia

Part of the reason i think orange is my favourite colour is because my synesthesia is strongest for that colour

I've heard of this a while back! It's had me completely fascinated since I learned what it was, even though I'm pretty sure I don't have it.

Solarflare, in your case, what's it like to see a color? Does it evoke a certain taste memory, or...?

i can only explain for orange. When i see orange;



it makes me thirsty, sometimes, if i have water with me, i'll drink gulps of it. Sometimes i'll want to drink a certain drink (mostly soda)

Its very hard to explain for other colours, so sorry

Originally Posted by Mancon

Also Solarflare, have you told anyone else about your synesthesia? I have tried telling my mom and a few friends, but they don't believe me!!!!

sorry for triple post, i dont know how to edit posts with new quotes

i have told both of my closest friends. My really 100% science science loving science science freak said, thats sick, so my other friend was like holy shit what is it, then i told him and he was like O_O

Threads merged....ironically you made the last post in the previous thread about synesthesia Solar.

Originally Posted by Auron

Threads merged....ironically you made the last post in the previous thread about synesthesia Solar.

oh shit O_O

Originally Posted by Auron

Threads merged....ironically you made the last post in the previous thread about synesthesia Solar.

LOL. And he said he doesn't think anyone else would have it haha

Perfect Merge.

I wish I had it....

Dianeva - I think ti would be interesting, going by what you described with google, to see if you taught kids from a young age to associate letters with colours, if they would develop synaesthesia.
I've thought about this before and I think I would try it with my own kids. Seeing as it only seems to help people. For example you could colour each letter in a different colour in the books they read etc.

I may have mentioned this earlier in the previous thread.

Also with that guy that learned a language in 3 days. I just looked it up recently actually, and I found out the language was ICELANDIC!
Probably one of the hardest languages to learn ever! lol
he could speak it within 3 days, correct pronunciation and everything. Crazy!....

Originally Posted by Mancon

EDIT: By the way Deery, I can HEAR your avatar moving XD. (Yours too Puffin.) I love GIFS because of my synesthesia, I could stare at them all day!

That is awesome! O.O

So you're actually hearing the GIFs make the sounds they would make in real life?

Originally Posted by Puffin

That is awesome! O.O

So you're actually hearing the GIFs make the sounds they would make in real life?

Yeah, pretty much .

I don't have synesthesia, except when I look at the word Google. I can tell that the first 'o' is red and the second is yellow, because I literally see the colors when I look at it as I just typed it. But other than that I don't experience it.

I do associate colors with letters and numbers, pretty strongly, although I don't literally see them except for in the special case of Google.


a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
...

0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9


Some are really strongly associated and it seems that particular character has to be that color. Like with red a, b, i, 3. 3 is green. Even if I see a 3 written in red or something, I'll still kind of think of the color green in my head. Others I had to think about more and wasn't entirely sure of or was stuck between two, like with h, 6, and 9.

Wow this is really interesting. I can't believe I never stumbled across this on my own even once! Especially since I'm always learning new scientific stuff on my own.

As for me: Letters and numbers are naught but letters and numbers to me. And I don't have any visual synaesthesia in the sence of seeing stuff literally in front of my eyes.
However I seem to have some sort of Music → X synaesthesia. Saying music because it only comes to effect with music, not sounds. Saying X for it usually is color but it can be more sometimes. And not every type of music. But those that do can invoke quite a lot of stuff. A big amount of tracks has some colors, usually changing with the current feeling of the track. A few select amount of tracks goes as far as creating a complete scenery within my imagination. It's not normal synaesthesia in a way because I can partially turn it off or on the contrary reinforce it. However the sensations are consistent.

One very good example are tracks with a cold feeling of snow/ice. I know quite a few of them and they are often also named in one way or another after something cold, telling me that the interprets of the tracks should have the same or at least a similar type of synaesthesia. For these tracks it's a certain way of sound instruments in them need to have, something I'd describe as clear, but honestly I can't really put it into words.

Some more examples I can think of:

A certain track called big bridge created a scenery inside of my head of (obviously) a huge bridge across a green and beautiful landscape. The dimensions are pretty off as the bridge is some several kilometers long. The sky is clear blue and the sun would always be behind my back.

Another track called aproaching light always gives me the sensation of a positive departure, feeling like one would leave the atmosphere.

I personally wouldn't be surprised if most people who can genuinly enjoy music would have one or another type of syaesthesia for that.

I think my associations definitely come from some experience. I have a memory of being very little, maybe 3, and looking at a board with letters on it. When I go through the alphabet in my head, I still see the order presented on that board. The first row is A-G, the second is H-N, etc. And I think the letters were colored, the same colors I see now when I think of the letters. Maybe that was the purpose of the board.

I don't get it with music at all. The only thing that sounds close is associating music with certain environments, and it's pretty much only when I've listened to the same song over and over while doing a certain thing. Like a song called Nepal in Tomb Raider - Legend. It takes place in an icy, snowy environment. And when I listen to the song, even while not playing the game, I feel that environment and atmosphere again. But I'm guessing everyone gets that.

And I don't think this is related to synesthesia at all, but I'll associate music with just about anything, if I do the thing while listening to music at the same time. I listened to a song often while reading a certain book, and now the song reminds me of the book. It seems to bring me back memories of the book's atmosphere and story that I can't remember otherwise.

Smells can do that too but are much more powerful. Different book printing places make the paper smell differently, so when I smell a book, I'll get a metal overload of atmospheres of stories, memories of when I was immersed in all of the books I've read that smelled the same, that I'd forgotten.

And another thing. I used to listen to audio shows while playing games like Tomb Raider or Minecraft, and it seemed like I was associating the voices I was hearing with the game's environment, and I would subconsciously make up metaphors for the things I was hearing in the game itself.

Synesthesia sounds really cool. I wish I had it. The only thing I have is that bright light makes me sneeze.

Well its an old thread. But the hell with it. Im also on the synesthesia wagon.

Like many i put colors to sound, names, words, letters and numbers.
Well in sound like music it mostly bass, drums or any lowpitched sounds is where i put any colors. I feel colors aswell. They all have different feels of texture and taste.

I thought it was totally normal until.. well I saw a woman on tv whom had it talking about it.

I like it this way though. I also tend to feel people as different colors aswell.

Might be necroing... but I thought it would be better to necro than to create an unnecessary brand-new thread.

I do, though not as much as my sister it seems. I associate colors with letters and numbers, I can picture shapes and colors when listening to music (the colors there seem to be pretty inconsistent, but hey, music isn't one long note), and when I hear certain noises my teeth hurt.

Recently my brother and dad were setting up the artificial Christmas tree, that fake pine needle cshhh noise made my lower two molars hurt terribly. I've never had my molars hurt before. Kids in elementary used to scrape their shoes against that woven-type carpet, because they knew I didn't like it. That hurt too. And it hurt my heart.

My sister is crazy though, all of her letters and numbers have colors, only most of mine do. And several of mine are shades of blue (not that I control it, but I find that rather suspicious). She also has the teeth thing. My mom has the teeth thing (her same teeth hurt with the tree!), my dad has letter/color, and my brother has sound/color/shape.

It gets stronger when I'm tired, and crazy on the one instance where I was high. I want to paint/draw some songs, but it would be hard to pick where in the song to draw

If you're curious as to what colors I see, here's a chart. I took a test where it gave me letters and I had to pick the colors, whcih is why there is a bit of variation. This is the summary of what I picked.

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Originally Posted by NewArtemis

It gets stronger when I'm tired, and crazy on the one instance where I was high. I want to paint/draw some songs, but it would be hard to pick where in the song to draw

That would be cool! Get high again and draw Shpongle!

I hear colors sometimes, mostly at night, but it's not as intense NewArtemis described.

To clarify the test results:

For the number 1, it was kind of like iridescent pink and black, but it was mostly black. 4 and B confused me, sometimes B was red, sometimes blue, four was sometimes green and sometimes brown. I'm inclined to say it's green.

It's difficult to describe this stuff too - I was trying to describe part of a song to my friend and said "It rolls on the ground, just like thunder." And she replied, "Yeah, cause that totally helps." How do you guys describe it?

(And in case you were curious, it's a bass noise, low, sustained, and rumbling, and looks like a dust wave or a wave wave.)

Haven't given it much thought and I'm not even sure if it's normal or not, but whenever someone mentions an object or activity or anything like that, the first thing my memory does is conjure up what it feels like to touch and probe that object or perform that activity. After that an image of it comes to mind along with a taste or smell. Always the senastion of touching it first though. When I watch a movie and someone's firing a gun, I always get the feeling of holding a gun myself, pulling the trigger and feeling the kick.

If you say "spoon", I'll immediately get the sensation of holding and touching the spoons we have at home. What they feel like when I put them in my mouth. Often it's very realistic, like I'm doing it for real.

Had alot of fun doing this as a kid as I could conjure up any taste I'd tasted before. Used to visualize myself walking around in an empty mall, gorging myself on ice cream and grilled chicken. Conjuring up tastes is just as simple and combine that with how it feels to eat a chicken and I start drooling like crazy.

Never talked to anyone about this before except recently with a few friends, they don't experience it nearly as vivid as I do. But like I said, I might be completely normal and this might be something most people can do. Just felt like getting it out there