Hi all! I am curious, I have incredibly strong association with colors, numbers, sounds, and spacial areas around me. When I was a child a beautiful piece of music felt like fingers running through my hair (lost that now unfortunately). Now, however, numbers and words mean certain colors or flavors, but I don't know if it's just association as I don physically see it. Like 3 just is pink, and I will always confuse it if I see one that's blue. It trips me up. But maybe moreso is the taste of names. I don't physically get a taste transduction effect from it, but the names just have a taste. I'm sorry Nathans, your name is literally like piss and onions.

But, as I said, I don't physically see or taste or hear things. Colors don't block my view if I hear something. The shapes that form from music and colors don't physically (in my eyesight) manifest before me.

Is this just strong association mixed with some OCD and strong imagination? Is it similar to what you experience?

edit to add its like the memory of a taste. like remembering watermelon when you hear watermelon.

I've been seriously thinking about writing a book where the main character has synesthesia. Could someone who has this condition help me clear up some doubts?

I don't "see" things with a colour, and I don't (necessarily) know something's colour instantly. But when I think about things, there's always a right colour for it and everything else is wrong.

Take a spreadsheet for example. If I'm colour-coding various categories, then they all have a "right" colour and it would itch my brain if I swapped colours for things.

I'm currently making a graphic for something with several categories and with these ones, their "right" colour comes straight to mind.

I'm in my 40s. It's not something I've ever given any thought to, but I'm just curious whether this counts as synesthesia or not?

Cheers!

Im not really sure how to describe it since every emotion and feeling i have has this 3d shape to it i cant describe yet i can see a and sorta feel it so clearly

Sometimes like when im really happy the best i can describe it is that the shape is like tv static if the individual pixels where spades out more and being stretched up and down like the light speed travel in star wars

While on the same hand when i had possibly my worst mental break down 1 year ago every i felt and you see the shape of my thoughts in my head and it felts glass almost mixed with with a metal wall, wanting and trying to shatter as the cracks would suddenly grow and grow like my breaking point was soon approaching before just barley holding together like a breath of fresh air stopped the cracking in its tracks and the cracks began to repair only slightly and slowly

I know this might sound crazy but im also wondering if this is normal for some with Synesthesia as idk anyone else with it

Hi everybody, I've recently realized that I think I have a form of synesthesia. I've known about the concept for a while, but never thought that what my brain does was a form of it until recently.

I'm bad at describing it, so I'll try my best!

Basically, I can "hear" visuals. Not music necessarily, but not strictly "sound effects" either.

Say I'm watching a looping gif of a spider crawling around. No sound coming from my device. My mind immediately assigns a sound to each movement. The movement of the legs, the legs touching the ground, a leaf being disturbed by the spider's movements... Everything has a sound in my mind's ear.

It's not just looping videos either. Longer ones have it too, and to go even further, it extends into real life stuff too. I recently watched a production of a musical made for a deaf audience, and although there was still audio involved, it BLEW my mind! The visual inputs of everyone's hands, and the motion based choreography was almost too much to handle (in a good way!). When songs got repetitive, I started tuning out and listening to my mind instead.

When I took a ballet class, during the more repetitive motions (jumping exercises), I could hear seemingly unrelated noises in the back of my brain. They were almost distracting!

On the mundane side, I can "hear" people's gaits. Some people have really annoying sounding walks. It's more interesting with animals (videos of horses tend to sound really cool).

But I can't replicate the sounds very easily with my throat or mouth, so when people ask me what I mean by "sound" I have a hard time describing it.

Sometimes it's music, but it's not a song you'd find on a CD. It's just notes that happen to fit in my brain.

It happens in all levels of environmental noise too, but it's the strongest when it's quiet.

Maybe this isn't synesthesia and I'm just insane but I think it is... just an uncommon or less talked about type.

I dunno, tell me your thoughts. And ask me questions too, I'd like to answer them to try and sort this out further.

What does it feel like and taste like?

I always get a strong sense of movement

I can tell if a song will trigger my chromesthesia if I suddenly develop strong than usual music euphoria. Does anyone else experience the same thing or similar?

I'm sorry if this isn't allowed here—I'm not asking for medical advice, just some opinions.

Ever since I was a kid I have always seen bright light around people and kids when I zone out or hyperfocus. Until last year I (F26) assumed everybody saw this. When I described it to a friend, she told me I was having migraines with aura, and that it's normal there's no headache or pain associated.

Here's why I'm eager to hear some second opinions. Because migraines with aura have some medical issue that makes taking birth control with estrogen dangerous, I've switched my birth control. But I much prefer my old prescription. I looked up symptoms of migraine with aura and realized that it doesn't match what I see and feel. I don't have numbness or tingling, and the light/aura I see is very different from the common examples given. With a bit more digging, something called "synesthesia" came up. It very closely matches my experience, but I can't tell if synesthesia is a "real" diagnosis. Both migraines with aura and synesthesia are completely new terms for me. I have an appointment with a doctor, but I'm asking for opinions because I don't want to sound absolutely silly.

What I see is a lot like the photo included. Any opinions or knowledge about either migraines with aura or synesthesia would be amazing! Thank you.

Anyone else find that each cardinal direction has a "feel"? This feeling even goes with imagining how things are oriented in outer space when reading science fiction. Anyways, when I was a kid in my hometown I felt- based on how things were oriented- that east should be north. I felt pretty uneasy when places' orientations didn't coincide with the directions I felt they should.

Either way, I have an excellent sense of direction, at least when making a map in my head for where everything is. I've always known where the car is parked and I only need to walk around a new area once to remember where everything is. Sometimes my brain just gets upset when some otherwise arbitrary direction based on Earth's magnetic field doesn't "feel" right for a certain place. Lol.

Mine - 1: leaning more towards female, also npc personality 2: femininity incarnate straight up 3:bro is like a middle school boy 4:old grandma (trained seven in martial arts, discourages her use of it tho ) 5: bro is the blue collar worker of civilization, a man’s man 6: hippie guy 7: female, wants to fucking murder 8 an 10 8: just a good fellow 9: uhhhhhhhhh, I think it leaned more towards female I forget tho, was another npc 10: the mega chad , bro was simply better than everyone, man

when you see colours from sounds and/or music and such, do you literally see it? just like any other colour?

when i listen to music, if i'm not thinking about something else and i focus on the instruments and specific noises, certain shapes and/or colours kinda pop up in my head. like the piano at the beginning of a song definitely being a dark blue/indigo blurry dots, or the guitar at another part totally being yellow/orange lines, or certain voice harmonies being shaking zigzags. sometimes the colours/shapes are inconsistent, and it usually only comes up if i'm really listening to the music and not doing anything else or thinking about anything else. i don't literally see it in front of me, it's just something that pops up into my head, and it doesn't apply to voices, except maybe sometimes, but only lyrical ones. it doesn't always happen.

i'm in a music class, and at the beginning of class we always listen to a few songs from history and super famous songs from important musicians. we're supposed to write down 3 describing words, and i often have a much easier time thinking, "oh, this song is mostly blue" or "if i drew the noises there would be a green/yellow/red staircase kind of shape, specifically drawn on a dark background in something that looked like pastel crayons, i think." those two are actual things i thought of in class, not random examples i made up right now to explain.

does that sound like synthesia??? or does it just sound like thinking of shapes and colours that fit the noises?

Just randomly read about that and it just blowed my mind,im really good at remembering music lyrics and instrumentas,i think i associate the songs,like i can see shapes when a song is playing,i think i feel the songs different them other people,i can also sense smell in pictures,am im good in learning new languages,actually english is not even my primary language,i live in america for a semester almost 5 years ago,and only hearing people talking i mastered it,so it just got me curious,from you guys experience,do i have synesthesia

If so, can you describe it? Do you know what it's called?

All my life, I've had Lexical Gustatory Synesthesia and it has impacted me in many ways. Just over the past week or so, I find myself assigning numbers and words/letters to colors. As well as certain music to moving colors and shapes that just come to me. Grapheme-color Synesthesia. Something I was never able to do before. Or maybe I was and didn't notice? But that's hard to believe.

Has anyone else experienced this at all??

Hi! So I'm interested in learning about different diseases and brain-related conditions (if that's what you call them). And I want to know how different people experience them. You can basicly tell anything you want of synesthesia!

What does it sound or taste like?

West Is bright orange South-west is yellow 2 is Blue 3 is Green 4 is Yellow 7 is Red 8 is Purple Friday is red Wednesday is yellow Nouns starting with T are green

Just wanted to post what my alphabet looks like; does anyone else match?

Would yall consider Misophonia a branch Synesthasia or something entirely else

I mostly just want to hear yalls opinions, I have misophonia and we think I have Synesthesia and I also am a medically defined mess so i've met my fair share of doctors, some having thoughts on the Misophonia and it really seems to be a tossup what they think, ive had some think its part of Autism, Synesthesia, it's own thing, or even some completely different idea! (or the dumb guy who thought it wasnt real but he can go die in a hole, he also worked at a stress center) So I just think it would be fun to hear what you guys think about this "off the books" disorder

remember that few of us here are experts so take nobody's word as law, this is just a place to debate some junk and share thoughts and experiences and I apologize if any spelling or grammar is weird as that has never been my strong suit

Obviously this is just for fun, nobody can really be wrong about something there isn’t a rule for, but it’s just so weird to me that some of these associations are so fundamental to my view of the world, like January being maroon, that it feels uncanny to see it as green or yellow or something. It’s funny how passionate we get about a concept that is specifically a result of our own nervous system. And it’s also weird because for all we know (though it’s probably not the case but impossible to prove), we could be seeing two entirely different colors for the word “blue” but both agree the number two is the same color 🟦 but with a different name. The conscious experience is so cool man

Some names, words and voices have tastes for me. And all the tastes are consitent over time. But i was wandering if any of you that maybe have this type, actually feel the physical sensation on their tongue and if it's indistinguishable from actually eating something! Because I don't have a physical sensation. Mine is more like a memory or like i just have the aftertaste of something. Just wanted to make sure it's synesthesia even if you don't feel the food in your mouth.

Hello everyone.

I very recently realized, after over 50 years alive, that not everybody ”feel” sound! I’m blown out of the water! I find this fascinating, and I’m very curious to hear from anyone else who has this experience. I’m also interested in any research that has been done on this, if anyone knows of any.

Or other forms of art? I sometimes listen to music that feels so specific that I think, "they definitely know what's happening here". Lol.

Today I looked at this album artwork and had the same thought.

What does it taste like and smell like?

Curious to know if people have musical pr sound related to geometry synesthesia?

Or any music - math related synesthesia at all?

I thought this was just normal