Hey there, id like to share my thesis with you all. Hope someone finds it interesting.

I've chosen to base my thesis around synesthesia, specifically grapheme-color synesthesia. I created a "questionnaire" with English alphabet and numbers from 0 to 10. The information I got I used to make an informative website. Moreover I also made interactive posters (passersby use markers to scribble a color which they associate with a grapheme) from which information is displayed on light installation.

I'd love to share my written thesis with you but I didn't write it in English.

I posted the practical part of the thesis on Behance if you wanna check it out.  

Synesthesia through digital and physical media

Looking forward to your comments and suggestions.

I'll just list some examples.

When my husband snores, my throat feels uncomfortable and it irritates me.

Seeing anything involving eyes being "manipulated" makes my eyes feel uncomfortable and like I want to protect my them. Sometimes even just imagining it can trigger it.

Hearing people arguing angrily makes me feel incredibly tense and like I want to run away.

I guess if I have synesthia, it involves feeling sensations in my body not just with sight triggers but also with sound. Is there any terminology to describe this?

Hi!

Brief summary about me: I'm autistic and I know I have colors-to-letters synesthesia.

However, there is another type of synesthesia I feel which I haven't really understood and feel curious about. Sometimes when I do some things repeatedly I get a particular "sense" which is hard to put into words. It's not a feeling in the traditional way, more like a sense, really. But I can't fit it into five-senses boxes. It's another thing and the experience is very different from one experience to another and the sensation "refines", kinda becomes "sharper", as I consume these things more deeply.

For example, I've become used to listening to a particular podcast while doing dishes. When I do this I get a "sense" between my mouth and nose which is purely in my mind. Can't explain better than that.

The thing is, sometimes I feel kinda "superficial" bc sometimes seeking these types of sensations is a big part of the reason why I consume certain types of media or do certain things. Does anyone experience that type of sensation, or does some things partly or completely bc of synesthesia?

Thanks for reading! I'm not native in English so excuse me possible mistakes.

I have always had people-color and sound-color synesthesia. So strong that I used to have to consciously build a wall to dampen it otherwise it was distracting. Unfortunately I started having horrific intrusive thoughts and was diagnosed with OCD and started taking Prozac to manage the distressing anxiety and fear. This has worked miracles on that front (I refused medication for YEARS bc I thought I should be able to control it in my own), however I’ve noticed that over time my synesthesia has virtually disappeared. And I really miss it, not sure how to feel about that lol I was also diagnosed with young onset Parkinson’s a little over a year ago. Parkinson’s is predominantly a dopamine issue so I’ve started wondering if the ssris killed my synesthesia or was it actually the Parkinson’s!? Anyone else experience anything similar? I’ve debated backing off my meds a touch to see if it returned but I don’t really want to mess with something that’s working for something that was absolutely horrific to deal with 🤦🏻‍♀️

I know that I have sound to color synesthesia but also most names have colors. And I'm genderfluid and different genders feel like different colors. But not in a traditional blue for boys, pink for girls way. And it's always consistent. And then sometimes names or numbers have textures? Like 4 is very chewy and reminds me of meat and Tatum is mashed potato texture.

Also has anyone found a connection between synaesthesia and hypermobility beyond vicarious through autism?

marked nsfw because it has to sort of do with self harm. I often end up on the side of Tumblr(ik, who still uses Tumblr these days??) that shows people's fresh / new cuts and whenever I see the photos/videos I can smell the blood. is this a kind of synesthesia? it only happens with photos of blood / injuries and nothing else.

Hello! I am conducting studies for an honors undergraduate thesis and am looking for color-grapheme synesthetes who are willing to participate. You may have seen this post a few weeks ago, but we are still looking for participants! I am studying the effects of synesthetic color concurrents on object trimming (the ability to identify letters or numbers when they are flashed briefly on a screen, with a visual mask), and participation is 100% virtual. If you’re interested, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/2ojghNvQkLu3TEWY6

I’ll then reach out with instructions on how to access an initial paid ($5 Amazon gift card) screening, and if you qualify after that, I’ll be in touch about further participation in a series of studies (2-4 hours maximum, in total) that will be paid hourly. These studies will occur over the next few months. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask! 

I've always had ordinal linguistic personification synesthesia and even remember how it came to be when I was a child! But throughout the years, I've had brief experiences of color synesthesia. Occasionally I can see music as colors, and just recently had a moment of grapheme-color synesthesia while reading a book. It kept fading in and out, especially if I tried to focus on it. Has anyone had similar experiences? I can't determine why one is constant but these other types come and go at random times.

I write so I use Ctrl+shift+c to see my word count on Google docs and even since I was like 10 or so it's always tasted like bananas and cream with a pudding like texture and is a pale yellow and smells like vanilla pudding, and when I visualize it it looks like strawberry shortcake. It never ever occured to me that it was synesthesia until about last year or so. Every time I tasted it I was always like "huh that's weird. Oh well". I think this is among the few very detailed little isms I have.

Ctrl+z also has the color of very very dark purple. Think black licorice but a little bit lighter. Then again, the letter Z is a very dark purple, but the Ctrl makes it darker when connected.

I think Ctrl connected to different letters changes the color of the letter in some way, because C to me is a light yellow, and Ctrl might be making it lighter, while the shift gives it a paler tone because shift in and if itself is white. Like an off white.

Anyways sorry for the rant. I got distracted.

i forgot what this type of synesthesia is, i think its people-color, but i've known about my synesthesia for awhile now and lately i became friends with this guy i keep seeing like a strange glowing pulsing on his forehead. almost like one of those fire alarms lol

usually when i see auras on people its like an outline or just a glow on their face, but never a pulse/beating kind of thing, like its moving. its a bit distracting sometimes when we talk lmao but hey at least i can spot him from afar quite easily. i just wanna know if anyone has experienced something similar

I think I have people-colour, well, I mean, I do have it but it's weird.

For example, if I've never met someone before and they phone me up (eg. For a job), I see a colour for them. Or a character in a book. Or a guest star in a podcast, etc. Usually if I'm not physically seeing them, just hearing them or hearing about them secondhand.

I've only noticed it as I've grown older (I'm 30 now), likely because I come into contact with far more people.

I don't seem to have any colours for people I'm close to, only strangers that I know nothing about. Once I learn more about them, the colour gets weaker and weaker.

I also don't see a colour for everyone.

Would this be called person-colour? Or something else?

https://youtu.be/QEbIgFQfB9U?si=C70-VmhoZbs3shYB

(Just ignore the guy talking lol)

& Not so much the colors doing odd things, more so the pictures changing.

so, i dont believe in psychic ability or that auras mean anything. however, i can say that i see "auras". It isn't a massive thing to me but when I see someone randomly I might occasionally take a sneak peak. I only remembered this majorly as the concept of associative synesthesia (with numbers and letters) was brought up to me and I recognise that I do that associative stuff (again, not important to me as it's a pretty common phenomenon).

Then, I realised that there was such thing as projective synesthesia. I just wanna clarify if this is that or not. I remembered this because I used to know a man who just blatantly radiated orange and I didn't even have to look at him for a while to notice and I own an object which has a very definitive aura of a pearly purplish colour with a layer of yellow.

However, it's never been any stronger than that. If I'm talking to someone, I won't always notice that they have a colour to them. Sometimes I do though but usually I have to intentionally look or just catch occasional glimpses of it. Everybody glows but it's moreso just a white glow which bends light. If I look at it, a colour slowly starts to show. It's mostly just one colour but it can be two.

I'm not sure if it's synesthesia because it's only blatant if somebody is standing against a colour which is somewhat light (still able to see regardless tho). Also, I can sort of tune it out and it takes a while to see it on some people. but still, they have a white glow/ light bending around them.

am I jus seeing things with this one? its just something i randomly noticed lol

Hey Everyone! 😊

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Your insight is immensely helpful to me to continue studying this topic in-depth, and it can be a good opportunity to reflect on your music listening habits as well.

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Thank you so much for your help! 🙌

Does anyone else struggle with this? For me, April is 3, July is 6, August is 9, September is 8, and November is 9 or 10. My own birthday is in April so I can usually catch myself, but I feel like everyone must think I’m just incompetent when I have to take a pause before writing out or reading a date in number form if it’s any of the months that don’t match up to their respective number in my brain.

Not exactly sure where to start this post. I suppose I'll just start at the beginning. On July 19th (maybe it was 18th, I'm not quite sure) I was in a bus accident. The bus came into contact with a bridge that was lower than the bus and because the bus was going probably 35-40mph, the entire roof of the bus came off. I could immediately tell that something was off with my brain. After maybe 30 seconds, I lost all of my senses except a little hearing (thankfully I had managed to sit down before this happened). Two to three minutes after this happened, I was carried out of the bus by the driver and while he was carrying me, I started regaining my senses. I felt fine for a while after that but after maybe an hour or two, I developed an excruciating headache. After a while I was able to get some pain medicine and thankfully the headache almost fully subsided before too long. That same day, I went to the hospital and they diagnosed me with a concussion (or maybe they just said that's what it sounded like, I can't quite remember of they officially gave a diagnosis). I got a CT scan and they found no bleeding in my brain thankfully.

Over the course of the next several months, I had several symptoms (I can give details on the specifics if asked, it's just kind of a lot which is why I'm not doing so now). I did some research on TBI's and learned that not a whole lot was known about concussions. Fast forward to roughly a year ago (around four years after the accident), I was working a nine to five and I had been talking with one of my coworkers about writing rap lyrics. One day, I had this crazy, incredible, strange experience. The best way I can explain it is that my brain tapped into the frequency of rhyming. It felt like I tapped into the fabric of the universe and I started seeing/hearing things. I had this extremely powerful compulsion to write rhymes nonstop. I was as creative as I've ever been. I felt like I connected with the deepest parts of myself. My perception of words, what words are, started changing. I felt like I just "got" what words are, at the deepest level. This experience lasted for about four or five days. I later learned about synesthesia and immediately knew that this had to be what I experienced. Fast forward to now, I watched a video yesterday about a man named Jason Padgett and I realized holy crap, what he's describing sounds virtually identical to the experience I had. So now I can't help but wonder if I have acquired Savant Syndrome. The thing is, I'm don't currently experience synesthesia. BUT, yesterday I was recording a video (just talking to the camera, something I do occasionally to organize my mind), and I got really close to going back to that place in my mind. So now I'm wondering, is it possible to learn to turn on and off my synesthesia? Or at least to turn it on?

If any of you have any thoughts down below I'd love to hear them! Thanks.

Do your colors for A and I match your colors for 4 and 1? What about O//0?

Only some letters have colors for me, and no vowels do. My 4 is red and my 1 is white.

Dear fellow synesthetes and people who are curious about this topic, I am building my portfolio as a junior developer and I have an idea for a website where alongside with useful links and general information about the topic users can even add their content relating to synesthesia, maybe some kind of editor where you can try to illustrate your specific synesthesia experience, connect with each other, etc. Maybe researchers could also benefit from it in some way. I haven't worked out the details yet, the whole concept is very vague at this point, so I'm curious to know what features you would like for such a website to have. ☺️

This is about the “Hear me out cake” trend on TikTok. I was watching one or these videos and the person put down the number 7. Like… the number 7 is attractive. I couldn’t help but think, “Is this Synesthesia?” What are your opinions?

Hi, sorry for any mistakes, English is not my first language.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I figured I could use someone else's opinion. No one in my family seems to understand what I'm talking about when I try to explain.

So. There are quite a few things I experience that I haven't found an explanation to yet, and it might be synesthesia but I don't know. I read about other people's experiences, but the thing is that I seem to experience (sorry for the redundancy) not just one of those things, but more than one. Like a lot.

Firstly, I see numbers. Like. They all have specific colors and are 'drawn' in a certain way, I'm not sure how to explain. For example, the number 128: the 1 is red, like a coral red, the 2 is white and the 8 is bright green. Also the lines of the 8 are thicker (?) than the lines of the other numbers. Not sure if it makes sense. But this happens not only with numbers, but with words too. Letters have specific colors and 'textures'. They are not necessarily the same in every word, though they do tend to match. For example, the 'O' is usually deep blue.

I also see voices. It's not as specific - I only see colors. For example, my best friend has a lilac-colored voice. My younger brother's is orange. And I can see smells too. Like, when I smell smoke there I see this greyish thing, or just the other day I went to my friend's house and the smell looked sage green. Idk if that is also something of relevance or it's normal.

And then there's music. I can literally see the different instruments. I don't know how to say it better. Like, there are certain types of sounds that my brain recognizes and pictures in a certain way every time I hear it. It's one of the reasons I like hyperpop so much. There are specific sounds typical of that genre that are just so pretty. But it's not only defined shapes, I see blurry images too. Colors, lines, sometimes there are things that resemble glitters (?) again I'm not sure how to properly describe it. I love seeing movies for this reason though. I recently watches Suzume and the music was one of the prettiest things I've ever seen.

This is what particularly throws me off. I can 'physically feel' music. What I mean is that I can't listen to some songs (the worst is when they are the popular ones that are everywhere on the radio) because they literally make me puke. And it isn't a 'this song is so touching it makes me physically sick', it could literally be anything. Some examples would be happier by Olivia Rodrigo, Cloud 9 by Beach Bunny, and Nonsense by Sabrina Carpenter. Just for the record, I love all of these artists, I don't know why some songs have this effect on me. They just feel wrong. Sometimes they instantly make me feel 'lighter', almost like floating, instead. Examples would be cardigan by Taylor Swift, Boom Clap by Charli XCX or Secret Garden by IU. Again, no idea why.

And I can also taste sounds which sometimes it's horrible. Forks scraping? It tastes like bile and salad, for some reason. Horrible. Water flowing? It feels like I'm drinking it in that moment. When somebody knocks on a wooden surface it usually tastes like bread. But I want to specify: this does not happen to every single sound I hear, and sometimes it doesn't happen at all. I just put it there because I know there are some people who can taste sounds and idk maybe they can understand what this is.

As you can see, there is a lot, which is why I'm struggling to understand if this is synesthesia or my brain is broken. I've seen people who can see music or voices or something like that, but the problem is that I have a lot of 'different things', not just one. Of course, maybe they are all connected and I just don't know it, which I wouldn't exclude.

Sorry for the loong post. Thanks to anyone who will take the time to read and understand. Sorry for bothering in case this is not synesthesia lolol.

Whenever I imagine question marks I think of bouncy and springy, and intriguing so I think that's why my brain coorelates mushrooms with question marks (also maybe my intense love for Mario games might have something to do with it)

I've always seen speaking voices as various shades of brown, no matter who's speaking—deeper voices are usually darker brown, soft voices tend to be more sand-ish colored, and texture also plays a role, with smooth voices being the consistency of watery mud and rougher voices being more like the texture of gravel or rocky dirt. Around middle school when I first discovered I had synesthesia ("this isn't normal? not everybody experiences this??") I started paying closer attention to this sort of thing and pretty quickly realized that the color of people's singing voices are different colors for me than the color of people's speaking voices. My 8th grade English teacher's speaking voice was orange-ish brown, but her singing voice was gold. I thought that was so cool.

Anyway, I'm in college now and a couple days ago in my poetry class we were focusing on sound and we listened to poetry read in languages other than English. I had never heard poetry read in other languages before, and it was a frankly beautiful experience, but I noticed something that I have never caught on to listening to poetry read in English before. The voices of these poets were not brown.

So I started paying a little more attention to the colors of my classmates' voices while reading poetry. The difference was way more subtle, and I don't have a strong theory about why, but the point is the change was still there. Their poetry reading voices were different colors than their regular speaking voices. And this is wild to me! I've never processed this before! My not-very-fleshed-out theory is that it's something to do with me just not paying attention? I don't really know to be honest, but I'll definitely be paying way more attention now to try and figure it out.

My follow-up line of thinking is to wonder why these colors are different to me. Is it just that anything that differs from what my brain categorizes as regular spoken English is a different color? It would explain the singing, and it would explain the poetry reading sort of. I'm going to pay attention to what colors I associate with other spoken languages to try and test this.

Does anyone else have similar experiences? If so, what sorts of things change the colors? Hope everyone is doing well!

When i see names sometimes some of the colours i see a colour that i see with the individual letter eg. Abby, a=black b=yellow y=grape purple but when i think of the name abby theres a small bit of green but there isnt an e or c in abby, i am diagnosed with synesthesia but i still know next to nothing (plz dont judge) and i'm not sure if its common to see things like that

Red ❤️ -- Please Don't Fall In Love With Me by Ashe
Orange 🧡-- Summer Rain by Belinda Carlisle
Yellow 💛 -- Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield
Green 💚 -- Make You Mine by Madison Beer
Cyan 🩵 -- One Day You Will Fly Too by Aimee Carty
Blue 💙 -- Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers
Purple 💜 -- All I Ever Asked by Rachel Chinouriri
Pink 🩷-- Ruthless by Cannons
Brown 🤎 -- On Melancholy Hill by Gorillaz
Sepia 🫶🏼 -- You Always Get What You Want by The Japanese House
White 🤍 -- I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack
Grey 🩶 -- Vienna by Billy Joel
Black 🖤 -- Goodbye by Marina

Give these a listen and see if you get the same color sensory input, I am curious if there is any overlap between people who have synesthesia. 😊