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Links to types, subtypes, manifestations and a few other phenomena.
NOTE: These 300+ entries don't all lead to separate types of syn! They lead to about 100 different pages.
Acupuncture-colour/shape (tactile-visual) (not always synesthesia)
Audio-tactile
Audio-motor (see either lexical-motor or auditory-motor/sound-to-kinetics synesthesia)
Auditory-gustatory synesthesia
Auditory-motor synesthesia (hearing sounds produces involuntary movements)
Auditory-olfactory synesthesia
Auditory-tactile synesthesia
Auditory-visual synesthesia
Aura synesthesia (projective personality-colour)
Audio-motor (see either lexical-motor or auditory-motor/sound-to-kinetics synesthesia)
Auditory-gustatory synesthesia
Auditory-motor synesthesia (hearing sounds produces involuntary movements)
Auditory-olfactory synesthesia
Auditory-tactile synesthesia
Auditory-visual synesthesia
Aura synesthesia (projective personality-colour)
Autobiographical time-colour
Calendar synesthesia (time units-spatial location)
Cardinal points-colour
Centuries-colour
Chords-colour (musical chords) Chord-colour Chord-color
Chords-taste (musical chords) Chord-taste
Chromesthesia
Calendar synesthesia (time units-spatial location)
Cardinal points-colour
Centuries-colour
Chords-colour (musical chords) Chord-colour Chord-color
Chords-taste (musical chords) Chord-taste
Chromesthesia
Coloured sensations
Coloured sequence synesthesia (colour associations for sequences of things)
Colour-graphemic or colour-grapheme (= grapheme-colour)
Colours-emotion (not considered synesthesia) Colour-emotion
Colours-musical notes (colour-tone synesthesia)
Coloured sequence synesthesia (colour associations for sequences of things)
Colour-graphemic or colour-grapheme (= grapheme-colour)
Colours-emotion (not considered synesthesia) Colour-emotion
Colours-musical notes (colour-tone synesthesia)
Colours-numbers
Colours-odd or even
Colours-personality or gender
Colours-smell Colour-smell
Colours-sounds Colour-sounds
Colours-tactile sensations Colours-tactile sensations
Colours-taste Colour-taste
Colours-tones (musical notes)
Concepts-colour Concept-colour
Concepts-shape Concept-shape
Concepts-smell Concept-smell
Colours-odd or even
Colours-personality or gender
Colours-smell Colour-smell
Colours-sounds Colour-sounds
Colours-tactile sensations Colours-tactile sensations
Colours-taste Colour-taste
Colours-tones (musical notes)
Concepts-colour Concept-colour
Concepts-shape Concept-shape
Concepts-smell Concept-smell
Concepts-taste Concept-taste
Countries-colour Country-colour
Cutlery personification
Dance steps-colour (as a coloured sequence or as kinetics-colour synesthesia)
Days of the week-colour
Days of the week-colour/shape/texture
Days of the week-personality
Days of the week-spatial location
Countries-colour Country-colour
Cutlery personification
Dance steps-colour (as a coloured sequence or as kinetics-colour synesthesia)
Days of the week-colour
Days of the week-colour/shape/texture
Days of the week-personality
Days of the week-spatial location
Days of the week-taste or smell
Decades-colour Decade-colour
Duality (concepts are masculine/feminine, heavy/light, round/sharp etc.)
Emotion as a synesthetic concurrent (not usually considered synesthesia)
Decades-colour Decade-colour
Duality (concepts are masculine/feminine, heavy/light, round/sharp etc.)
Emotion as a synesthetic concurrent (not usually considered synesthesia)
Emotionally mediated synesthesia
Emotions observed in other people-colour/shape/smell/taste/sound/touch
Emotions-colour/shape/image Emotion-colour
Emotions-smell Emotion-smell
Emotions-tactile sensations Emotion-tactile sensation
Emotions-taste Emotion-taste
Emotions observed in other people-colour/shape/smell/taste/sound/touch
Emotions-colour/shape/image Emotion-colour
Emotions-smell Emotion-smell
Emotions-tactile sensations Emotion-tactile sensation
Emotions-taste Emotion-taste
Emotions-texture Emotion-texture
Empathy with machines
Feeling physical pain on seeing or hearing about others hurt (but not in the same part of your body)
Feeling touch, pain etc. in the same part of your body when you observe it in others
Empathy with machines
Feeling physical pain on seeing or hearing about others hurt (but not in the same part of your body)
Feeling touch, pain etc. in the same part of your body when you observe it in others
Flashes on hearing sudden or loud sounds when falling asleep (not considered synesthesia)
Flavour (see taste)
Gender as a synesthetic concurrent (concepts, letters, numbers, etc. are masculine or feminine)
General sounds-colour (and/or shape)
Geometric shapes-colour
Flavour (see taste)
Gender as a synesthetic concurrent (concepts, letters, numbers, etc. are masculine or feminine)
General sounds-colour (and/or shape)
Geometric shapes-colour
Geometric shapes-numbers
GIFs (motion)-sound
Grapheme-colour synesthesia
Grapheme-shape/texture/colour/image
Grapheme-smell
Grapheme-sound
GIFs (motion)-sound
Grapheme-colour synesthesia
Grapheme-shape/texture/colour/image
Grapheme-smell
Grapheme-sound
Grapheme personification (see either ordinal linguistic personification, letter personification or number personification)
Grapheme-taste
Grapheme-temperature
Gustatory-auditory synesthesia
Gustatory-olfactory (not considered synesthesia)
Gustatory-tactile synesthesia
Gustatory-visual synesthesia
Hearing GIFs
Hearing motion (hearing sounds when you see things moving)
Grapheme-taste
Grapheme-temperature
Gustatory-auditory synesthesia
Gustatory-olfactory (not considered synesthesia)
Gustatory-tactile synesthesia
Gustatory-visual synesthesia
Hearing GIFs
Hearing motion (hearing sounds when you see things moving)
High-production synesthesia
Ideasthesia (or ideaesthesia) (not a type of synesthesia but an alternative way of defining it)
Ideasthesia (or ideaesthesia) (not a type of synesthesia but an alternative way of defining it)
Ideas-abstract shapes, spatial positioning, vision
Images (figurative, not abstract) as a synesthetic concurrent
Images (figurative, not abstract) as a synesthetic concurrent
Images - smelling or tasting them
Involuntary movements in response to sounds
Key signature-colour (in music)
Kinetic synesthesia (or kinesthetic synesthesia)
Kinetics-colour
Kinetics-sound
Involuntary movements in response to sounds
Key signature-colour (in music)
Kinetic synesthesia (or kinesthetic synesthesia)
Kinetics-colour
Kinetics-sound
Letter form synesthesia (letters have a spatial location)
Letters-colour Letter-colour
Letters-colour/shape/texture/image
Letters-personality Letter-personality
Letters-smell/taste Letter-smell Letter-taste
Letters-sound Letter-sound
Letters-spatial location
Letters-temperature
Lexeme-colour
Letters-colour Letter-colour
Letters-colour/shape/texture/image
Letters-personality Letter-personality
Letters-smell/taste Letter-smell Letter-taste
Letters-sound Letter-sound
Letters-spatial location
Letters-temperature
Lexeme-colour
Lexeme-taste (mentioned in lexical-gustatory)
Lexical-gustatory synesthesia
Lexical-motor synesthesia
Lexical-olfactory synesthesia
Machine empathy, machine synesthesia (machines/objects induce tactile sensations if watched)
Massage-colour/shape/image (tactile-visual)
Lexical-gustatory synesthesia
Lexical-motor synesthesia
Lexical-olfactory synesthesia
Machine empathy, machine synesthesia (machines/objects induce tactile sensations if watched)
Massage-colour/shape/image (tactile-visual)
Mathematical concepts-vision
Mathematical synesthesias
Mirror kinetics (involuntary movements on seeing other people move)
Mathematical synesthesias
Mirror kinetics (involuntary movements on seeing other people move)
Mixed perceptions or concurrents, multi-sensory synesthesia
Misophonia (not considered synesthesia)
Months-colour Month-colour
Months-colour/shape/texture
Months-personality
Months-spatial location
Morpheme-colour
Misophonia (not considered synesthesia)
Months-colour Month-colour
Months-colour/shape/texture
Months-personality
Months-spatial location
Morpheme-colour
Movements of your own body mirroring movements made by other people
Movements of your own body-sound
Music (all music-related types of synesthesia)
Movements of your own body-sound
Music (all music-related types of synesthesia)
Multiple perceptions or concurrents, multi-sensory synesthesia
Musical genres-colour Musical genre-colour
Musical genres-smell
Musical genres-taste
Musical instruments-colour and/or shape
Musical genres-colour Musical genre-colour
Musical genres-smell
Musical genres-taste
Musical instruments-colour and/or shape
Musical notes-texture Musical note-texture
Musical synesthesias (all the different types)
Music-colour
Music-emotion (not considered synesthesia)
Music-images, landscapes or “music videos” (not considered synesthesia)
Musical synesthesias (all the different types)
Music-colour
Music-emotion (not considered synesthesia)
Music-images, landscapes or “music videos” (not considered synesthesia)
Numbers as a synesthetic concurrent
Numbers-colour Number-colour
Numbers-personality Number-personality
Numbers-shape/colour/texture-image Number-shape Number-texture Number-image
Numbers-smell or taste Number-smell Number-taste
Numbers-sound Number-sound
Numbers-spatial location
Numbers-temperature
Numbers-colour Number-colour
Numbers-personality Number-personality
Numbers-shape/colour/texture-image Number-shape Number-texture Number-image
Numbers-smell or taste Number-smell Number-taste
Numbers-sound Number-sound
Numbers-spatial location
Numbers-temperature
Object personification (only considered synesthesia in certain cases)
Objects are odd or even
Objects have personalities
Objects are odd or even
Objects have personalities
Odd and even: concepts are either odd or even
Odour (see smell)
Olfactory-auditory synesthesia
Olfactory-gustatory (not considered synesthesia)
Olfactory-tactile synesthesia
Olfactory-visual synesthesia
OLP (= ordinal linguistic personification)
Odour (see smell)
Olfactory-auditory synesthesia
Olfactory-gustatory (not considered synesthesia)
Olfactory-tactile synesthesia
Olfactory-visual synesthesia
OLP (= ordinal linguistic personification)
One-shot synesthesia
Ordinal linguistic personification
Orgasm-colour/images
Pain empathy (not usually considered synesthesia)
Pain-colour/shape/image
Pain-smell
Pain-sound
Pain-taste
Parity (odd or even) as a synesthetic concurrent
Parts of the body-colour
Ordinal linguistic personification
Orgasm-colour/images
Pain empathy (not usually considered synesthesia)
Pain-colour/shape/image
Pain-smell
Pain-sound
Pain-taste
Parity (odd or even) as a synesthetic concurrent
Parts of the body-colour
Personality-number
Personality-smell
Personality-taste
Personification
Personification of colours
Personification of cutlery
Personification of days or months
Personality-smell
Personality-taste
Personification
Personification of colours
Personification of cutlery
Personification of days or months
Personification of graphemes (see ordinal linguistic personification, letter personification or number personification)
Personification of letters
Personification of musical notes, chords or keys
Personification of numbers
Personification of objects
Personification of musical sounds or sequences
Personification of letters
Personification of musical notes, chords or keys
Personification of numbers
Personification of objects
Personification of musical sounds or sequences
Scales (musical modes)-colour
School subjects-colour School subject-colour
Seasons of the year-colour Season-colour
School subjects-colour School subject-colour
Seasons of the year-colour Season-colour
Seeing flashes on hearing sudden or loud sounds (not considered synesthesia)
Seeing images when in a creative/musical trance
Seeing landscapes, figurative images or “music videos” when listening to music (not considered synesthesia)
Seeing music or sound
Seeing time units, letters or numbers in a spatial location
Seeing landscapes, figurative images or “music videos” when listening to music (not considered synesthesia)
Seeing music or sound
Seeing time units, letters or numbers in a spatial location
Seeing sequences of concepts in a spatial location
Seeing smells
Seeing tastes
Seeing touch, pain etc. in other people and feeling it in the same part of your body
Seeing words (like subtitles) when people speak
Seeing smells
Seeing tastes
Seeing touch, pain etc. in other people and feeling it in the same part of your body
Seeing words (like subtitles) when people speak
Sequences of concepts-sounds
Sequence-personality (sequences or groups of things have personality)
Sexual synesthesia; sexual and romantic synesthesia
Sequence-personality (sequences or groups of things have personality)
Sexual synesthesia; sexual and romantic synesthesia
Shapes-numbers
Sight as a synesthetic inducer
Smell-emotion: see Emotion as a concurrent or Smell and memories (not considered synesthesia)
Sight as a synesthetic inducer
Smell-emotion: see Emotion as a concurrent or Smell and memories (not considered synesthesia)
Sight-smell: see smelling images or concept-smell
Smelling images
Smelling music or sound
Smelling numbers
Sight-taste: see tasting images or concept-taste
Smelling colours (colours trigger smell perceptions)Smelling images
Smelling music or sound
Smelling numbers
Smelling personalities
Smelling sequences of concepts
Smelling words
Smells-colour Smell-colour
Smells-memories (not considered synesthesia) Smell-memory
Smells-musical notes or sounds
Smells-shape Smell-shape
Smells-sound Smell-sound
Smells-tactile sensations
Smelling sequences of concepts
Smelling words
Smells-colour Smell-colour
Smells-memories (not considered synesthesia) Smell-memory
Smells-musical notes or sounds
Smells-shape Smell-shape
Smells-sound Smell-sound
Smells-tactile sensations
Smells-vision
Smell-taste (not considered synesthesia)
Social synesthesia
Songs-colour Song-colour
Songs-smell
Songs-taste
Sounds-colour Sound-colour
Smell-taste (not considered synesthesia)
Social synesthesia
Songs-colour Song-colour
Songs-smell
Songs-taste
Sounds-colour Sound-colour
Sounds-emotion (not considered synesthesia) Sound-emotions
Sounds-personification Sound personification
Sounds-physical sensations
Sounds (sudden or loud) produce visual flashes (not considered synesthesia)
Sounds-shape Sound-shape
Sounds-involuntary movements Sound-movement Sounds-motions
Sounds-physical sensations
Sounds (sudden or loud) produce visual flashes (not considered synesthesia)
Sounds-shape Sound-shape
Sounds-involuntary movements Sound-movement Sounds-motions
Sounds-kinetics Sound-kinetics
Sounds-numbers
Sounds-smell Sound-smell
Sounds-tactile sensations (sound-touch)
Sounds-taste Sound-taste
Sounds-temperature Sound-temperature
Sounds-texture Sound-texture
Sounds-visual perceptions Sound-visual
Spatial sequence synesthesia
Spatial sequences of letters
Spatial sequences of numbers
Spatial sequences of other concepts
Sounds-smell Sound-smell
Sounds-tactile sensations (sound-touch)
Sounds-taste Sound-taste
Sounds-temperature Sound-temperature
Sounds-texture Sound-texture
Sounds-visual perceptions Sound-visual
Spatial sequence synesthesia
Spatial sequences of letters
Spatial sequences of numbers
Spatial sequences of other concepts
Stimulus-dichotomy synesthesia (concepts belong to one of two groups)
Stimulus-parity synesthesia (concepts are odd or even)
Subtitles (ticker tape synesthesia)
Swimming styles-colour
Tactile-auditory synesthesia
Stimulus-parity synesthesia (concepts are odd or even)
Subtitles (ticker tape synesthesia)
Swimming styles-colour
Tactile-auditory synesthesia
Tactile-colour (and shape/image)
Tactile-emotion synesthesia
Tactile-gustatory synesthesia
Tactile-olfactory synesthesia
Tactile-visual synesthesia
Taste-colour
Tactile-emotion synesthesia
Tactile-gustatory synesthesia
Tactile-olfactory synesthesia
Tactile-visual synesthesia
Taste-colour
Taste-memories (not considered synesthesia)
Taste-musical notes Tastes-musical notes
Taste-shape Tastes-shapes
Taste-smell (not considered synesthesia)
Taste-sound Tastes-sounds
Taste-tactile sensations Tastes-tactile sensations
Taste-vision
Taste-musical notes Tastes-musical notes
Taste-shape Tastes-shapes
Taste-smell (not considered synesthesia)
Taste-sound Tastes-sounds
Taste-tactile sensations Tastes-tactile sensations
Taste-vision
Tasting colours (colours trigger taste sensations)
Thoughts-shapes and colours
Ticker tape synesthesia
Timbre-colour and/or shape
Time units-colour
Time units-spatial location
Ticker tape synesthesia
Timbre-colour and/or shape
Time units-colour
Time units-spatial location
Vibes or feelings as a synesthetic concurrent
Vicarious pain (not normally considered synesthesia)
Vision as a synesthetic inducer
Vicarious pain (not normally considered synesthesia)
Vision as a synesthetic inducer
Visual-olfactory synesthesia (vision-smell): see smelling images, concept-smell or colour-smell
Visual-gustatory synesthesia (vision-taste): see tasting images, concept-taste or colour-taste
Visuo-spatial synesthesia
Voice-colour Voices-colour
Voice-shape Voices-shapes
Voice-smell
Voice-colour Voices-colour
Voice-shape Voices-shapes
Voice-smell
Voice-tactile sensations Voices-tactile sensations
Voice-taste Voices-tastes
Words appear visually when hearing people talk
Words-actions (perceiving moving images)
Voice-taste Voices-tastes
Words appear visually when hearing people talk
Words-actions (perceiving moving images)
Words-odd or even
Words and letters-shape/texture/colour/images Word-shape
Words-smell Word-smell
Words-taste Word-taste
Words-temperature
Years-colour Year-colour
Years-spatial location
Words and letters-shape/texture/colour/images Word-shape
Words-smell Word-smell
Words-taste Word-taste
Words-temperature
Years-colour Year-colour
Years-spatial location
This page last updated: 26 March 2024
What would seeing colours at people's feet when they walk be?
ReplyDeleteI like this question!
DeletePeople’s gait can be a good indicator of personality, and perceiving colours appearing around people is quite typical of “aura” synesthesia or personality-colour, so I think it could be that. I hadn’t heard of it around their feet before, it’s more common around their face, head, upper body… but if they way they walked was intuitively giving you the information about their personality, then that might be the case. Or if you tend to look down towards foot-level rather than maintaining your gaze on people’s faces when you see them in the street, that could be another reason. Here’s the page:
https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/02/aura-synesthesia-projective-personality.html
The other possibility would be that it’s the sound of the person’s feet that produces colours for you, although I think that’s less likely as you would have realised it was the sound causing it. But in the page on General sounds-colour/shape, right at the end of the page, there’s a compilation of all the different colours and shapes a lot of different synesthetes associate with the sound of heels on a pavement, so you might like to read that too:
https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/general-sounds-vision-colourshape.html
What would you call being able to feel someone’s face as your face when watching them and feeling their expressions as though your face is making them, and feeling their voice in your throat and your mouth making the dialect they use?
ReplyDeleteFeeling people’s voices in your mouth and throat as if you were making the sounds yourself would be mirror speech (https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/02/mirror-speech-synesthesia.html) and I think feeling somebody’s facial expressions as your own might be connected with mirror kinetics, if it depended on the movement of the person’s face (https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/mirror-kinetics.html).
DeleteAny chance there's a Tactile–Tactile Synesthesia (experiencing tactile sensations from being touched)? It would be the same effects as auditory–tactile synesthesia but evoked from physical touch - I can't find any answers on this, please let me know if you're aware of anything.
ReplyDeleteHi! No, that wouldn’t be a kind of synesthesia. I'm not completely sure what you mean, though. Do you mean like a kind of “referred itch” phenomenon, but only when other people touch you, in a different part of the body from where you were touched? And which wouldn’t be accounted for by emotion (e.g. if someone you have a romantic interest in touches your hand and you get a tingle in your spine?)
DeleteHi, thanks for your answer! No, it's not tied to a "referred itch" at all, and it's not mainly emotionally-tied. As a person who experiences similarities to (self-diagnosed) Mirror-Touch and Audio-Tactile Synesthesia's, I can describe it as experiencing Audio-Tactile synesthesia. I'd say it's like feeling pulsation/ripple sensations from the point where you're touched that travel throughout your body (it's also like tactile-visual but more involves feeling that energy movement throughout your body instead of seeing it in patterns/colors). I apologize if this is unclear; I haven't found a great way to explain it yet. Thanks for your questions and time!
DeleteAh, OK! That's very interesting... and I hadn't heard of it before. If you say it isn't really emotionally-tied, what aspect of the touch experience do you think causes it? I can sort of imagine it as I have auditory-tactile too and get those kind of sensations from sound, although it's a bit difficult for me to capture it exactly. Is it always when people touch you or is it also other kinds of touch, like when you brush against something? Is it different depending on which person is doing the touching, I mean if they're someone close to you, a stranger, etc? Does it depend on the kind of touch (caress, grab, hit, accidentally brush, etc.)?
DeleteThanks, again. It's most consistently stimulated by other people's touch but from brushing against soft or smooth textures too. It can be from anyone (but it's the most intense when it's someone close rather than a stranger) and it's from all kinds of touch, just not to a point of pain. I can't find anything that describes it, I've looked into touch sensitivity and just about every synesthesia platform (but it's technically just one sense - so I understand that it wouldn't be synesthesia applicable). Rippling energy is the best way for me to describe it.
DeleteI will be very grateful if any Synesthete could let me know if she or he sees colours or different shades of the same when certain letters are pronounced aloud.There is an interesting aspect of chanting alphabets I am trying to investigate.Thanks,
ReplyDeleteIf anyone knows what feeling sight would be(feeling like its distance to yourself like a needle to your eye if its sharp) could you tell me.
ReplyDeleteCan you add musical-space synesthesia on there?
ReplyDeleteI've answered you over on "Musical synesthesias".
Deletewould imagining being touch in a part of the body and being able to feel it be considered synesthesia?
ReplyDeleteNo, that wouldn't be considered a type of synesthesia. It would fit in more with hyperphantasia, in this case tactile hyperphantasia, meaning that if this happens to you often or at will, you would have an above average ability to recreate and actually feel tactile sensations just by thinking about them. Some people have this kind of detailed perception on looking at or imagining textures too.
DeleteWhat would it be if in my Minds Eye, I know what shape someone's singing voice is? I don't see the colour or shape, but I KNOW what the shape and colour of the song is in my head. Sometimes I hate the shape, so I hate the song. Another one: When I'm writing, where my infomation/writing has been hangs off of the paper/my fingers like loose hairs growing everywhere. For example, if I put my writing through an online paraphraser, the mess of... idk what I'll call them, but tendrils becomes more and more chaotic. If I have loads of different excerpts from websites on a PowerPoint, the same thing happens. They only go away when I stop and leave for a good 24 hours, but even when I come back I KNOW they are there, like the strings in Sherlock Holmes' corkboard tying the words allover the world/internet/idk
ReplyDeleteThe singing voices one would be voice-colour/shape, and it's just as valid if it's associative (=you don't see it, you just know or perceive it in your mind's eye) and not projective.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/voice-colour-and-voice-shape.html
The second one, this sounds like it would belong to the concept-shape type, in fact on the page on this there are several examples of synesthetes having perceptions of shape and movement specifically when they are writing or doing things connected with texts, even if they don't usually notice these perceptions for other areas of activity or thought, so that might be your case too:
https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/02/concept-shape-synesthesia.html
I was wondering if there is a category for visual-tactile (or motion-tactile) synaesthesia, other than mirror touch. When I see objects I have a sense of their textures kind of within me or on me, almost as if I'm feeling it just by looking at it. I also feel the motion of objects kind of like sensations on my body, especially when people are gesturing at me. Their hands sometimes feel like vague slashing movements across my skin. I think of it sort of like having an invisible extension of my body that feels the world without actually touching it. What are your thoughts on this?
ReplyDeleteHi, those are interesting comments! The looking-at-objects-and-feeling-their-texture-physically I think is more connected with hyperphantasia (hyperphantasia tactile), even perhaps if it's automatic. I've heard several people mention this, but I don't think it has a specific name and I don't think it's ever been considered synesthesia by any scientists. Feeling sensations on your body from gestures of other people I really don't know, in a way it sounds kind of related to mirror-touch, somewhere between mirror-touch and mirror-kinetics but... different! In a category of its own perhaps. Then again, if it's not strictly either of those then it wouldn't be considered syn. As far as I know this kind of sensitivity doesn't even have a specific name (yet)... although I must say I haven't studied the subject enough to be able to say much else. If I come across anything of interest about this I will try and post it here in response to your comment. Sorry I can't be of much help!
DeleteWhat if you had mirror pain that controls you. What if big rooms feel like marshmallows pushing on you and the air is thick to breath. Where does one seek help if their synesthesia is more neg than positive?
ReplyDeleteHi! I am a Middle school student and recently I discovered synesthesia. I heard about it through a 'book talk' that one of my classmates did on a book called "A mango shaped space". I decided to read the book myself, and I was confused when the characters in the book responded to the main character talking about the things she saw. They acted like it was unusual and weird. As long as I remember I have seen letters and numbers in my head as colors. I went to a Montessori school when I was younger and we had many hands-on lessons and songs about things like days of the week, months in a year, and the alphabet and numbers. The alphabet is the main thing that I could relate to in "a mango shaped space" and ever since I had learned it, I have seen it as a wiggle line of colorful letters. The number line also formed in my head with color. as I learned about things like negative numbers, it grew or became more detailed, but the colors of each letter or number never changed. C has always been yellow, and 6 has always been cool white, etc. In grade school we used bead bars, colored beads on wires, to represent numbers. It annoyed me the way certain numbers were colored. 3 was a pink bead bar, when it was "supposed" to be red, and 2 was green when I saw it as yellow. 4 was a very cool yellow bead bar, which almost perfectly matched mine. The most annoying bead bars, however, were 7 and 8. The bead bar 7 was white, when it should have been brown, and the bead bar 8 was brown, when it should have been white. Math wasn't as hard as many people with colored numbers describe it as, but one of the best parts was that 6 plus 3 equaled 9. Red and white makes pink!
ReplyDeleteWe used to sing songs about the days and months in order, and in the month song, we had cards. The cards said the month name and had color all around it. I don't remember particularly being annoyed at the color choices, but the way we put them in a circle made me cringe. The weekdays are a loop in my head. Monday is purple and rounded and near the top left corner of the loop, Tuesday is brown, diagonally below it to the right, Wednesday is teal-ish blue and flat, closest to me (the color makes it my favorite) and so on. My family doesn't see any of this except maybe my younger brother, but he keeps telling me that it isn't synesthesia and everyone has colored stuff and sees time as a loop. I don't actually see my colors in the physical world. Another thing I wanted to mention was that I "see" certain songs. I can only remember seeing a few. One example I have, though, is the song "a thousand years" because I heard it somewhere when I was younger and always saw a pinkish orange background and darker pink around the words of the chorus. I recently heard the song again and the colors are so familiar. They never changed. I see color and stuff for other sounds and even sensations. When I get too active and I can feel my heart beating in me, it's Grey with lighter Grey in the middle, oval shaped, and pulsing with my heart. When people cough it's brown and gritty, and breathing it usually shades of grey in stringy, painted looking brushstrokes.
Left is yellow and right is red. Left is proper and high class. Also L is yellow and R is red, so that might add to the reason behind those colors. Shapes have color too. Some classmates did an experiment for their science fair project where they tested people on naming the shape versus the word over the shape, (if that makes sense) and I did the best out of them because I ignored that the letters were words and focused on the colors of the shapes instead, and vice versa. Circle the word is yellow, while circle the shape is blue. Triangle is brown and red, but triangles are orangish yellow. Is any of this synesthesia? I have not been diagnosed at all, and I haven't even brought up the subject to my parents other than that restaurant time. Ty!
All of it's synesthesia! And from what you say, it sounds like your younger brother is a synesthete too. It often happens that synesthetes think their perceptions are just something ordinary that everyone else must have too. Let me know if you need help in identifying any of your types in particular, although I think you can probably find all of them here without too much difficulty. About being diagnosed or not, a doctor's diagnosis isn't necessary for this as it isn't a medical condition, so you wouldn't need that.
DeleteEdit- I changed stuff and didn't add the restaraunt thing in there in the end, but forgot to remove it at the end of the comment. restaraunt time means the time I mentioned it to them and they said they did not see the colors, besides my brother. Sorry if that caused confusion.
ReplyDeleteÉ sinestesia se as cores não tem relação com personalidade ou sons? Elas só estão lá em volta de tudo e todos. Geralmente a mesma cor no mesmo ambiente. Mas muda às vezes ou aparecem cores diferentes no mesmo ambiente. Geralmente é a mesma cor em volta de tudo. Tipo só branco transparente. Ou só amarelo transparente etc. Porém elas se projetam e seguem o movimento do meu olhar fazendo com que o formato da pessoa ou objeto salte no ar aonde estou olhando. Também segue o movimento das pessoas e objetos. Porém às vezes acontece formas de linhas, quadrados, ou pessoas aparecerem no ar sem ter o objeto ou a pessoa lá. E no caso das linhas e objetos já apareceram uns 5 juntos cada um uma cor no mesmo ambiente. Existe algo semelhante a enxergar as coisas se movimentando ou derretendo lentamente quando estão paradas? Tipo uma ilusão de ótica. E eu sinto muitas sensações estranhas tipo de sentir o sangue circular na cabeça. Pontos do músculo pulsando, partes da pele queimando, pinicando ou coçando. Seria algo como sinestesia ou outra coisa?
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DeleteOlá, Salertse.
DeleteOs fenómenos que descreve não parecem relacionados com a sinestesia, não.
Infelizmente não tenho conhecimentos suficientes para saber o que podem ser, mas não são consistentes com a “sinestesia de auras”, que se apresenta duma forma diferente, nem com as sinestesias táteis, que são invocadas por indutores específicos (conceitos, sabores, tipos de música etc. etc.: há muitos), que costumam a ser facilmente identificáveis pela pessoa que as experimenta. Talvez estas experiências tenham uma origem neurológica, e um médico seria a pessoa mais adequada para as esclarecer neste caso. (Mas como já disse, não tenho conhecimentos disto e pode ser qualquer outra coisa!) Espero que consiga encontrar a resposta e esclarecer as dúvidas.
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ReplyDeleteHi I have an interesting experience and I was wondering if it’s synesthesia. When ever I think of past, present or future I see a color around my area. For example whenever I think of the past I see gold in my vision so is this synesthesia?
ReplyDeleteThat certainly sounds like synesthesia, yes! Some synesthetes have a colour perception for periods of their own lives, others for more specific periods of time in general like years or months or times of day. So past, present and future can definitely be a series of time concepts that evoke synesthetic colours (as long as they make you perceive the same colours each time and not different ones). This would be a type of time units-to-colour synesthesia, or coloured sequences. Actually I'll add a mention of this subtype on the pages on these types:
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