tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post1020919048759819458..comments2024-03-27T17:47:16.910+01:00Comments on The Synesthesia Tree: Do I have synesthesia?Pauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.comBlogger251125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-16134342351226038802024-03-25T14:15:18.966+01:002024-03-25T14:15:18.966+01:00Hi Lyla, and thanks for your question! Of the thin...Hi Lyla, and thanks for your question! Of the things you describe here, songs, musical keys, numbers, days of the week, school subjects and people having colours would all be considered synesthesia. If each element in those series also has consistent sounds associated with it, which you would either hear literally or just get a very strong impression of, as if you remembered it, then that would be synesthesia too and another type. Perceiving a smell when you see people according to how you think or know their personality is synesthesia too, and numbers and letters each having their own smell also. The ones with colour are more common types and the ones with sound, smell and taste are not so common. <br /><br />What you say at the beginning about literally everything making you visualise or think of something else is not a type of synesthesia as such, or if it is you’d have to break it down into which series of concepts are evoking which associations exactly, and what the synesthetic associations are: it could be a synesthesia thing if the associations are colours, geometric shapes, tastes, smells, sounds or tactile sensations, and possibly images although that’s not really as common and may or may not be syn, it depends. But the inducers always have to be series or sequences of something: just objects in general wouldn’t count. Emotions, however, would count as a series or sequence, so if those objects always provoke a particular emotion in you and that’s what’s giving rise to your consistent secondary perceptions, then that could be synesthesia.<br /><br />To get to the Tree pages on all the different types you have, if you want to read them, I suggest you use the Synesthesia Finder as I think it could lead you to most of what you experience.<br />https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/p/0.html<br />Pauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-226305488259694262024-03-25T13:52:11.396+01:002024-03-25T13:52:11.396+01:00Hi! No, that wouldn't be considered synesthesi...Hi! No, that wouldn't be considered synesthesia, it doesn't correspond to any of the types. Can't say I know what it is or what it would be called though, sorry!Pauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-12485506924165106542024-03-24T23:11:47.672+01:002024-03-24T23:11:47.672+01:001: Yes, this is classic synesthesia, the type woul...1: Yes, this is classic synesthesia, the type would be personality-colour:<br />https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/personality-colour-synesthesia.html<br /><br />2. So interesting! This actually reminded me of several accounts I’ve read where the synesthete was on the spectrum, because often synesthetes who are on the AS and have difficulty in reading and interpreting emotions, intentions, etc. do feel them intuitively and have learnt to use the colours they perceive as a way of recognising and defining those specific emotions/intentions, and it works well and helps them a lot. Some synesthetes who are not on the spectrum also “trust” their colours to that extent as well, so it wouldn’t necessarily mean you are on the spectrum of course, but I agree that there’s a possibility, with there being others in your family who are. Very interesting what you say about children, and it sounds like you have a heightened, intuitive perception of personality and others’ emotions thanks to your colours.<br />https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/voice-colour-and-voice-shape.html<br /><br />3. My opinion with this one: if the most important thing here is the categorisation, i.e. you perceive many different clothing textures, which you have kind of automatically, unconsciously grouped into different types and each type corresponds to a consistent taste (even if you don’t always get it), and there are numerous texture-taste combinations, and they are both good and bad, not exclusively bad, then it would probably be more of a synesthesia thing. If it’s just a few and they are all bad then I don’t think so. In that case it could be more connected with being a particularly sensitive person, perhaps on the spectrum, and a sensory processing issue perhaps.<br />https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/tactile-gustatory-and-tactile-olfactory.html<br /><br />4. Yes, this is classic number-colour (falls within grapheme-colour synesthesia):<br />https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/02/grapheme-colour-synesthesia.html<br /><br />5. I can understand that horrible distraction! If the “sensations” you refer to are shapes, colour, or another rarer synesthetic concurrent such as tactile sensations or something like that, then it could certainly be a product of your synesthesia. If it’s just kind of “vibes” and a concentration thing, then probably not.<br /><br />6. Sound-to-smell can be experienced occasionally or sometimes, it doesn’t necessarily happen every time you hear a particular sound. But as far as I know people who don’t have synesthesia don’t experience it at all. You could consider it a type of synesthesia if it happens enough to let you see what kind of sounds are consistently producing what kind of smell, even if it doesn’t happen all the time. If it happens only very rarely and doesn’t seem to be particularly consistent, then it wouldn’t be. <br /><br />Most of the online “synesthesia tests” are not useful for determining whether you have synesthesia, as they tend to be created by people who don’t have much knowledge of the subject and they’re not thorough or even relevant sometimes. It depends which test, of course, but they range from really terrible and completely useless to tests with a few relevant questions and the rest irrelevant or over-specific or without an understanding of how a person with synesthesia might answer. The one that you should do is the Synesthesia Battery Test, which is connected to research and tests different specific types of synesthesia you recognise that you (probably) have. You could do it for your number-to-colour and it should give you an accurate result.<br />https://synesthete.ircn.jp/home<br />Pauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-64813222272591425842024-03-21T23:02:34.129+01:002024-03-21T23:02:34.129+01:00And smells people have smells that smell like thei...And smells people have smells that smell like their personalitiesm. Also numbers and lettersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-16870770466803380012024-03-21T23:01:34.051+01:002024-03-21T23:01:34.051+01:00Also people! People have colors assigned to them i...Also people! People have colors assigned to them in my mindAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-3403625305018038492024-03-21T23:00:29.378+01:002024-03-21T23:00:29.378+01:00Idk what that's called but I do that with thin...Idk what that's called but I do that with things (not houses tho)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-67975595077832361942024-03-21T22:57:23.195+01:002024-03-21T22:57:23.195+01:00Hi! I'm Lyla, and I'm 13 years old. I conn...Hi! I'm Lyla, and I'm 13 years old. I connect everything to something else, like when I see, think of, hear, touch, smell, or taste literally anything, I see or think of something else. It could just be my weird neurodivergent ass but idk. For example, I one time had this feeling but all I could describe it as was , and I know this sounds fake and stupid, but when I was eleven I had this feeling and my only description was "chicken strip" Which obviously isn't the name of an emotion. Or different songs have colors assigned to them, or different keys of music have colors. Even numbers, days of the week, and school subjects have colors, sounds, etc aligned with them in my mind!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-67468889540789673642024-03-21T02:46:30.875+01:002024-03-21T02:46:30.875+01:00Hi! I'm not sure if this is synesthesia, but m...Hi! I'm not sure if this is synesthesia, but my brain often thinks about chewing houses. Like, if I'm driving down the road I'll have a desire or feel drawn to imagining myself plucking the houses up and popping them into my mouth like they are sugar cubes or like ice breakers gum. Then I imagine chewing and crunching them. I feel a stronger urge to chew certain houses if they seem like they'd be satisfyingly crunchy based on the architecture etc. This is something my brain does on its own, and I just sort of recognize it's happening again as the imagery unfolds. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-43577121084280708502024-03-19T03:54:15.351+01:002024-03-19T03:54:15.351+01:00I found out about synesthesia recently. I was read...I found out about synesthesia recently. I was reading a book where one of the characters described the color of music, and I was very surprised when the author went on to explain that this was unusual. I’ve done a bit of research, and I’ve discovered that the way I perceive the world is different from other people. My unusual perceptions are as follows. <br />1: I see colors when I look at people. Lots of them, mixed together. Usually a shapeless, shining cloud around them, and often the colors I see are ones that I can’t find on any color palette. They almost never have anything to do with the person’s appearance, and when they do, I find that it’s often by coincidence. Bright colors are usually friendly, and I made a friend once for the simple reason that she was very sparkly and colorful. Dusky rose is a sign that they’re self-centered, and more than a hint of it is usually unpleasant. Duller but still colorful hues like sage are usually because the person’s an introvert. If they have gray in there at all, they’re not a good person. <br />2: I see colors when they talk, too. This one’s more sporadic. The color I usually see most often is gray, and it usually means the person is lying or being otherwise manipulative or abusive. I see other colors too, though, and I realized I read peoples’ colors more than I read body language, making extremely possible that I do have autism like the rest of my family. Children are harder to read, because they feel so many things the colors run together. <br />3: I taste nonexistent flavors when I touch things on occasion. It mostly happens with unpleasantly textured clothing, which has since explained my hatred of wool sweaters and why all of my sheets are microfiber.<br />4: Numbers have colors. They’re always the same color for the same single digit. Any multiple-digit number has a combination of colors. If a number has a lot of digits, they all blend together into muddy gray. <br />5: I cannot eat certain foods while listening to certain musics, or the mismatched sensations will make me puke. Fortunately, we are not allowed music at the dinner table anyway. <br />6: Taste and touch go both ways. The taste of soap feels tingly. Occasionally, sounds will make me smell something, but these are very rare occurrences. And I often catch myself wanting to do something that has nothing to do with hearing to know how it sounds.<br /> These are the ways I am apparently “different”. My friends say they’ve never experienced anything like this. I’ve taken quite a few tests online, but all of them told me different things. I was hoping you could shed some light on the situation, since you seem knowledgeable.Starmarknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-54565470743211460482024-03-11T11:00:19.774+01:002024-03-11T11:00:19.774+01:00Hi!
I don’t think this in itself is related to syn...Hi!<br />I don’t think this in itself is related to synesthesia or a type of synesthesia. I think it’s either a kind of tactile hyperphantasia – meaning you are a person who can easily conjure up tactile sensations in your mind, so strong that it’s almost as if you’re really feeling them – or because you’ve developed the habit of thinking about that aspect of textures you see and it has become somewhat automatic. Probably, if the sensations are unpleasant to you, it would be interesting to try to counteract them by looking at and/or thinking about the tactile sensations for pleasant materials like silk or any others you particularly like touching, or specifically try to avert your thoughts from the scratching sensations thing when it happens. That’s what it seems like to me!<br />Pauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-8976775456923506512024-03-11T10:50:06.456+01:002024-03-11T10:50:06.456+01:00Hi!
First of all I’d say that “everything” or thi...Hi!<br /><br />First of all I’d say that “everything” or things in general can’t be a synesthetic inducer, but perhaps you can think of certain series, sequences or groups of concepts that evoke the specific concurrents for you, to see whether they fit in with any particular type of synesthesia. If it’s impossible to do that, perhaps you would just have to settle for the “mixed synesthesia” you mentioned. I think you have many types of synesthesia, so I think it would be a question of continuing to untangle them if you can. You mentioned you were on the autism spectrum and my experience tells me that some people on the spectrum have numerous types of synesthesia that tend to be interwoven together, giving the impression that with regard to crossed senses an inducer of “everything” evokes a concurrent of “everything”, although they can be broken down and analysed into different types.<br /><br />What you say about the complex flavours eliciting certain colours would certainly be considered gustatory-visual synesthesia.<br /><br />The images or scenes popping into your head describing the emotion profile of some different experiences could fit in with “one-shot synesthesia”, yes.<br /><br />And your colour associations with people are person-colour synesthesia, totally. Synesthesia is normally one-directional, it being a two-way thing is uncommon (but not impossible).<br /><br />I’d just say again that synesthesia normally has to do with categorisation of concepts with output via a sense that isn’t normally associated with them, rather then “crossings of senses” per se, and I think we are heading towards that definition being accepted in future. So that is the place to look in order to try to identify the types you have. But for the moment you are right that your case could be something similar to what is described on the “Mixed synesthesia” page (which is really just a page with a group of different experiences I’ve come across, and some people were asking for this kind of mix to be included on the Tree as it was synesthesia but didn’t quite fit in with any of the other types).<br /><br />That's great that you’re sharing your thoughts and experiences with other people: that will help you to find explanations.<br /><br />What you say at the end about the numbers having infinite images corresponding to each one rather than a simpler concurrent like a colour for each figure reminds me of something like what Daniel Tammet says about his complex number scenery with colours, textures and images for each number (all unique for thousands of different numbers), you might have read about his case. This is a perfectly valid syn type, even if it’s very uncommon, and I’ve seen that it would be something experienced by autistic synesthetes as part of their very high level of functioning, so you would be seeing that in some maths geniuses and so on.<br />Pauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-39754063927986729622024-03-08T21:55:05.627+01:002024-03-08T21:55:05.627+01:00Hey :)
I have been aware of my Grapheme-colour sy...Hey :) <br />I have been aware of my Grapheme-colour synesthesia for a couple of years now but recently I noticed something else. When I see or think of some sort of materials, I get a load of sensations on how it would be to scratch it. <br />Maybe an example can make my explanation clearer. <br />I don’t like matte-finished cars because whenever I think about them or look at them I think about how it would look, sound and feel to scratch them and I really don’t like any of those three sensations. I get this with metal a lot but not exclusively.<br />It is hard to tell, whether this is like my colour-number synesthesia or not because the sensations kinda make sense and are connected to the objects. Quinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-37785034349311521042024-03-01T14:57:24.952+01:002024-03-01T14:57:24.952+01:00Thank you! this has helped a lot <3Thank you! this has helped a lot <3Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-31237872589261207882024-03-01T04:18:53.139+01:002024-03-01T04:18:53.139+01:00Lastly, each experience is like the way some peopl...Lastly, each experience is like the way some people explain how each/most numbers have a specific quality (color/number/personality/etc) but with figurative images that represent concepts and/or "textures" that I described—are just as numerous and seemingly endless. so like, broad strokes to describe one thing don't really work (like, as if there was difference between 3, 35, 27, 7, 48, etc etc)<br /><br />i hope this all makes senseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-43570637509954403342024-03-01T04:03:26.393+01:002024-03-01T04:03:26.393+01:00I forgot to mention — that most of this happens in...I forgot to mention — that most of this happens in my mind / mind's eye unless it is visceral enough for me have a physical reaction, like when it comes to a sound being too smooth or a color being too loud or something ... i was also looking high-production synethesia as a possible too, but like I'm really unsureAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-36240627265589453012024-03-01T03:29:39.892+01:002024-03-01T03:29:39.892+01:00Hello, thank you for creating and being a resource...<br />Hello, thank you for creating and being a resource for people searching for answers and information. I’m wondering if you could potentially help me identify my experience. <br /><br />For me, everything has a texture: visual texture, sonic texture, etc. It’s not an actual thing I “see” or “feel” but more something experience, if that makes sense. I guess another way to put it, is that a lot of what I interact with using my senses has a “personality” that I perceive through or as “texture” in some way. These “personalities / textures” are complex but they don’t happen all the time but I absolutely can tell when something “lacks” a personality / texture. <br /><br />An example is music that has been digitally remastered or when the quality of someone’s voice has been overproduced / over-smoothed—admittedly, these are also weak examples, but hearing, especially the latter produces a visceral “ick” feeling the way some people hate the feel of microfiber. Actual tactile textures also have personalities based on how they feel. Generally, I assign traits, such as “kind, mean, friendly, etc” depending on the texture but not all the time. Complex flavors also have colors (no, not red=spicy blue=cool, green=vegetables, more like a specific dish, depending on how it's cooked, will elicit a certain color<br /><br />But no matter how I come into contact with sensory texture, they are all different dependent upon how they were made / sensory attributes.<br /><br />Sort of similarly, when it comes to emotion, once I interact with something (say a intricate story or a complex flavor or a person), the only way I can find to describe it by a singular / vivid figurative image / scene that pops into my head that, to me, describes the “emotional profile” of the experience. These are not memories I have or things I have seen in the real world, but simply conjured images and the sensations of them. An example being, I listened to a short story and the only way I could describe it was “a French door opened at night onto a barely lit balcony, with a white curtain rustling gently in a breeze” — (which had nothing to do with the story itself) there is no scenery or details beyond or around the door, just blackness — and if I inspect the feeling longer I can identify more details of the singular image (how the stone of the floor feels, the fabric of the curtain, or temperature of the breeze etc.). Every time this happens it is visceral and immediate. <br /><br />Or, relatedly, I will associate a person with a color sometimes based on how their personality comes to me or if they were wearing / near a specific color and suddenly something clicks into place — so it can go either way. This vice versa can happen with a lot of my other sensory experiences, but it’s not all the time and not every sense (ie. taste and hearing only work in one direction).<br /><br />It’s kind of like “touching” something or something "touching" me with a sense and receiving complex sensorial tactile experiences back. I very rarely see simple colors or shapes by themselves.<br /><br />I’ve gone through so many pages on your site, threads on subreddits, and comments here too, looking for something or someone who related to this but haven’t quite connected. From my searching, I’m thinking it could be some type of associate synthesthia as I cannot think about one sense without one more or others involuntarily and immediately coming to mind in some detailed / complex way (or the intense reaction when something conjures a visceral discomfort). Maybe dealing somewhere between figurative images, (because, like I said, they’re not based off memory or nostalgia). “Mixed synthesthia” also sounded closer to how the world comes to me.<br /><br />I describe a lot to people, since I share these thoughts openly and casually, that I think in “metaphor” but it’s more much more automatic than that. What makes me want to reach out for answers is that other people synthesasia have asked if I have it based on my descriptions.<br /><br />I will say generally all my senses are very sensitive and that I have ADHD / autism. Thank you for your help!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-59359280686690952152024-02-13T21:55:52.170+01:002024-02-13T21:55:52.170+01:00Hi Beck!
You said you’d seen the page on OLP but...Hi Beck! <br /><br />You said you’d seen the page on OLP but you didn’t mention the one on sound personification (including personification of musical notes):<br /><br />https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/sound-personification.html<br /><br />That would fit in with much of what you’re saying and you’ll find cases similar to yours. Yours is very interesting because it is related to the process of playing music rather than listening to it.<br /><br />I also like what you say about the relationship changing through the changes of tone or notes, the relationship between A and F is so funny! And you having control over their personalities according to how you play the note shows how complex it is. Yes it makes sense what you say.<br /><br />Chord-personality is something else you mention, there’s a description by another person who has that on the sound personification page of the Tree too. These are not very common types of synesthesia, which is probably why you hadn’t found anything about them.<br /><br />Going back to the processes of playing music and listening to music, there’s a difference between them: they’re two different processes as far as the brain is concerned! Playing can involve creating and learning and not only recognising, distinguishing and appreciating, and it requires a different kind of concentration. So the two can have synesthetic perceptions and manifestations that are different too.<br />And singing and sheet music reading are also two different activities/skills, so it’s logical that your synesthetic reactions also differ with those.<br />You might be interested in reading this page:<br />https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/images-seen-in-creativemusical-trance.html<br />You don’t mention having this but it has to do with playing music rather than listening to it and you might find the cases interesting or perhaps see a parallel situation with your own case.<br /><br />Yes, as you say synesthesia is more common among people on the autism spectrum, it’s estimated that about 20% of people on the spectrum have it vs. about 4% of those who aren’t. And not just that: the people on the spectrum tend to have more types, which can manifest more strongly.<br /><br />It’s possible to have month-colour synesthesia without having month-personality, in fact month-colour is a very common type while month-personality is not common at all. Perhaps you do have month-colour, but if you have to “force” the associations and it doesn’t come naturally then you probably don’t. Normally it would be the concept of the month that would evoke the perception of a colour, not the other way round.<br /><br />Effectively, there are no online quizzes (that I’m aware of) that test for OLP. Apart from that, online quizzes in general can often not be very good (the most reliable one, created by scientists and used as a standard test for synesthesia is the “Synesthesia Battery Test”). Testing for OLP would be difficult because testing for consistency is tricky with personality traits, it’s much easier and clearer with colours so the tests are usually limited to types that involve colour perceptions. What you can do is make your own test. You could write down the notes or the series of concepts you want to test and write down their personality beside each one. Then you would store it and after a few months come back to it and repeat it without looking at the answers you wrote the first time. Then compare to see if they’re basically the same or not. OLP is very consistent, but as the personalities can be more complex, as can your way of describing them, the description could be slightly different each time. It doesn’t have to be 100% identical but you yourself would know if you’re describing the same “person”, attitude, appearance, tastes, relationships with others, etc.<br /><br />If it’s “a pretty neurotypical/overall sensory experience”?? – No! You are a synesthete with some very interesting types!<br />Pauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-48898874564729417832024-02-10T21:03:55.209+01:002024-02-10T21:03:55.209+01:00Hello Anna,
Well the first part of what you say c...Hello Anna,<br /><br />Well the first part of what you say certainly sounds like synesthesia, yes, weekday-colour and number-colour too, even if some numbers have a stronger association and others a very weak association, as that’s how it presents sometimes. It’s interesting that you think it might be weaker because the colour itself doesn’t make a big impression, like your pale bubble gum colour, I hadn’t heard of that idea before but it sounds like it could definitely be feasible. Sometimes a kind of “non-colour” can be perceived for a particular concept, and logically it wouldn’t bowl you over like perceiving a strong red or yellow would, it’s just “there” but you don’t get a great impression from it. So all that you say there would all form part of synesthesia. And many synesthetes have letters or numbers that have no accompanying colour perception at all, while other letters or numbers do.<br /><br />The sensations that sounds give you, to me they sound perhaps more related to your sensory processing disorder than auditory-tactile synesthesia, particularly if they’re mainly unpleasant. Perhaps it might fit under the definition of auditory-tactile synesthesia if you were aware of a consistent reaction in the same part of your body being evoked by elements in a range of different sounds making up a sort of series or category like different timbres/instruments, notes, keys, etc. But then I think they would probably tend to be pleasant or just neutral, and wouldn’t have much to do with like a Velcro sound aversion thing, for example. Maybe if you thought more about your tactile reactions and try to see what their connection was to sounds in particular categories, that could help you clarify it.<br /><br />Receiving a touch sensation in one part of your body and feeling it in another isn’t considered a type of synesthesia and I wonder if it’s something like a “referred itch” you’re experiencing? But yes, it is an actual thing that some people do report, and it’s interesting to hear about it even if it’s not related to synesthesia.<br />Pauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-53232979120713861932024-02-09T21:53:23.840+01:002024-02-09T21:53:23.840+01:00Hi! Yes, definitely, everything you say there is c...Hi! Yes, definitely, everything you say there is consistent with synesthesia. <br /><br />What you say about “I don’t see it but it does have a visual attached” or “I don’t “see” the image but I do know what it looks like and for it to look like something else would be incorrect” is how it presents for most synesthetes in fact. <br /><br />Sounds with colours, people with colours, letters and numbers with personalities, all those are types of synesthesia. Associating words or letters with images or colours is too, colours definitely and when it’s images it depends, but if your word-images appear to you automatically and consistently, they’re not just basically an image of what the word means (like seeing a table for the word table!) and they’re not the result of any conscious learning or associating process you can remember, then they would probably belong to your synesthesia too. Sounds as textures, time units with colours also. <br /><br />And yes, with person-colour syn it’s possible for the person’s name to influence the colour you perceive them as: it’s one of the factors that can determine their colour, although different characteristics would also contribute. Yes I know what you mean about “seeing the person’s name written in their colour”, I have person-colour and that happens to me sometimes, for some people (only some, not all) it seems that their name is very closely related to their colour, so it’s like their coloured name (or initial letter, often) would be kind of floating in the air beside their head! I think if the colours you perceive for the letters in the person’s name are similar to the colours you perceive for their personality or other aspects of them and don’t conflict with it, it can create that kind of an image because it makes a very strong – and harmonious - impression. It’s perceived slightly differently for each synesthete, of course, but what you say makes sense to me. <br /><br />To find out more about all your different types it might be useful for you to use the “Synesthesia Finder” linked at the top of the side bar, I think you would find them all there.<br />Pauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-25415132340477930272024-02-07T20:59:30.816+01:002024-02-07T20:59:30.816+01:00i am <18 years old but since i started doing mu...i am <18 years old but since i started doing music when i was 5/6 years old a little after i started primary school, i started playing piano and in the back of my mind the notes sort of just had personalities. sometimes colours, or even stories (i was a very imaginative kid and still sort of am so never thought much of it) but mostly a personality, or the relationships between the notes. i cant see shapes colours or believe the music altogether has a personality just the notes. i am average playing skill level for my age i music, and dont have perfect pitch (possible relative pitch??) so its not really a recognition thing, more when i am playing the music myself. i never had to think about these like actively or outside of playing (aka i forget about it right after until pretty recently), but sometimes i can like understand how they are all connected. their personalities, characteristics, and relationships change all the time though. sometimes another note changing like f sharp to f can change another notes personality like d. if im just thinking about a certain note thats like the set point like a is kind of a bitch and f follows it around like a total wannabe etc. etc. but when i play the note like in different ways with different articulation it can fluctate a bit, or change completely. these can sometimes change depending on the octave, but not as much, its pretty dependent on where the music is going and the jumps between the notes that form the relationships which further impact the individual personalities if that makes sense. its also different when i play like scales, chords, pieces, etc, and the chords have personalities themselves sometimes, or sometimes its just the notes, but basically depending on what i am playing it can change a little or a lot. i also sometimes associate numbers (mostly single digit) with personalities, or if theyre in an equation they sometimes have certain relationships, but not as much as the music. numbers, and sometimes letters as well have colours, but they can change a bit more so i would say the music thing is the main bit. the thing that seems to match this the most is <br />"ordinal linguistic personification" and i read the page on here and it sounded pretty similar to me but im honestly not sure because a lot of the things i have been reading elsewhere of peoples experiences sound a lot more like they can hear the music and understand the colours and traits but not as much just playing it. i also play trumpet and half tried to teach myself other instruments a bit like a little guitar and the notes are different there, so i think it has something to do with the orientation of the instrument and the way i visualise it impacts how i can understand the traits. its always strongest when im playing piano though, i think because i can see all the notes and understand everything better all layed out i also sing a bit but dont really experience this as much as the others (sometimes through the occasional sheet music reading though). its also probably helpful to mention that autism runs on one side of my family and it is very likely i am on the spectrum somewhere, so this may be related to that in some way? apparently synesthesia can be pretty common among autistic folks (but i would have to be diagnosed with autism to base anything properly) if i make myself i can also sometimes see the colours of the months but not the months as people or with traits and feelings like everything else like today i looked at this pink cup and asked myself like what month of the year is this and after a couple seconds i came to the conclusion it was june, but not all months have this<br /><br />my real question is does it sound like this sort of personification thing could be synesthesia/olp (as many online quizzes (as very valid as they seem lmao) have told me i am not because i cant find one that tests what i am experiencing therefore making them very helpful lol) or does this all seem like a pretty neurotypical/overall sensory experience?? let me know :))))))beck :)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11321551644258794729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-56422427810364481012024-02-06T19:05:05.746+01:002024-02-06T19:05:05.746+01:00Hello,
As with most people here, I'm trying to...Hello,<br />As with most people here, I'm trying to figure out if I have synesthaesia, haha. I'm almost certain I have at least one type, because I associate days of the week with different colors (Monday is red, Friday is green, etc.). I also do that with numbers (7 is banana yellow, 9 is a grape purple, 8 is royal blue), but some numbers are less "strongly" associated with a color (like when I think about 7, it is always just the yellow number, but if I think about three, the fact that it's a bubble gum color is a bit secondary to me), but that might also just be because the yellow is a very bright color, while the bubble gum is paler. I also have this with certain words and certain letters, but not all of them.<br />Additionally, I think I might have some type of synesthaesia related to sound -- if I hear certain sounds, I feel specific sensations. I'm not sure how to describe it generally; I find it easiest to give certain examples. The sound of pages turning smoothly feels similar to when I drink a warm cup up tea and the liquid warms my stomach. Two pieces of plastic causes tingling in the arch of my left foot. The sound of rain is like the feeling of if you have to sneeze, but it's in my right arm. (I'm not sure if any of these descriptions make sense, it's just what first came to mind.) Occasionally, certain sounds trigger unpleasant sensations (Velcro is the worst for me -- it feels like something inside my ear is being pinched), but that might be because I have sensory processing disorder, so maybe the sensations themselves aren't unpleasant, but my brain gets overwhelmed by all of the input and then decides to perceive it as uncomfortable? I don't know.<br />Also, I'm not sure if this is actually synesthaesia, but if someone/something touches me, I can feel it elsewhere in my body. For example, if someone puts pressure on my right hand, I will feel it there and also in my left elbow. If someone touches my shoulder, I also feel it on my stomach. Again, not sure if that's an actual thing, but I figured I might mention it.Annanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-3083762355300116072024-02-05T17:08:15.783+01:002024-02-05T17:08:15.783+01:00Thank you!Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-86792578034920162332024-02-05T03:24:55.050+01:002024-02-05T03:24:55.050+01:00Hi I’m the same person I forgot to add that sounds...Hi I’m the same person I forgot to add that sounds have texture for example a clarinet in the low register feels like a soft blanket. I also wanted to be more specific in some areas. I typically see someone’s color as their name written in said color but I think it’s more related to the person than the name itself because it only really develops when I know the person and two people with the same name can have different colors. For words I specifically associate months with color as well as seasons and times with color.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-73743508967407909462024-02-05T03:11:36.643+01:002024-02-05T03:11:36.643+01:00I’ve had multiple people say I could have synesthe...I’ve had multiple people say I could have synesthesia and there is increased likelihood I do because I have autism but I’m not completely sure. The first time was at a summer camp. I said my favorite number is 21 because it looks like pearls. I associate number with images but I don’t know if it could be synesthesia because I don’t “see” the image but I do know what it looks like and for it to look like something else would be incorrect. One girl responded something along the lines of “oh you have synesthesia? That’s so cool!” The second time I was talking to my friend in band. I told her I named my flute violet because that what color the sound is. She said something similar to the other girl and told me her sister has synesthesia too. With sounds i again don’t see it but it does have a visual attached to it. For example when I play flute I notice a visual difference in different tone quality, and when I listen to music I can close my eyes and become immersed in the sort of mental movie of the sound. This leads into my last example where I showed my mom a song I said looked really cool and she brought up synesthesia. Some other things I’m unsure if could be related are associating words or letters with images or colors, letters and numbers having personalities, and people having colors. Is this synesthesia?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136131884445465464.post-43851665531144317572024-02-04T12:40:01.475+01:002024-02-04T12:40:01.475+01:00Hi, and thanks for telling us about your case!
Ha...Hi, and thanks for telling us about your case!<br /><br />Having associated colours, patterns and shapes for music and the different notes, yes, that’s synesthesia, that isn’t just a normal part of being a musician. If you also perceive a colour/colours for each emotion then it would be clear that you’re a synesthete! If you haven’t already, you could take a look at the Tree pages on tone-colour synesthesia and also the different types of musical synesthesia to find which types you identify with most:<br /><br />https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/musical-synesthesias.html<br />https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/03/tone-colour-musical-note-colour.html<br /><br />Acquiring tics when you’re interacting with a person with Tourette’s or watching them on a video, yes that sounds to me like it could be mirror touch. Technically for it to be mirror touch there has to be some kind of contact or action which you then feel in the same part of your body (or face, etc.) as the person you’re watching, but I think Tourette tics would be in that category as they tend to be sudden and emphatic. So if you are getting them – even if a milder version of them – in the same place as the person you are watching, then I would say it probably qualifies for mirror touch. If you do have mirror touch however, you would also notice more examples of it happening in other situations though, not just exclusively the tics, so you could think about whether you sometimes get the typical mirror touch reactions when you see people touch, hit, stroke each other, etc., to rule out that it’s not just a one-off thing.<br /><br />On the other hand, mirroring characteristics that don’t have the action/contact aspect such as not being able to help automatically mirroring their accent or gestures of someone when you spend time with them, or feeling an emotion when you see somebody else feel it, wouldn’t be considered mirror touch or a type of synesthesia.<br /><br />There may indeed be a connection with you being on the autism spectrum, it seems to me like that is probable, or at least that this kind of thing affects people on the spectrum more than those who aren’t (although both can have it). My knowledge isn’t very exhaustive in that area though so I think you might get some good answers on ASD forums where you’ll probably find a few people who have something similar, or maybe they can point you in the right direction with some links where you can find out more.<br />Pauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17389099605044345005noreply@blogger.com