Coloured sequence synesthesia: readers’ comments

This page contains all the readers’ comments on the “Coloured sequence synesthesia” article, received between 2021 and 2026.

Comment by: Debbie. July 4, 2021 at 12:10 AM

Wow, these are cool. I didn't know they exist. I only have colored graphemes, but these seem totally possible. Also I just plain like them because I love categories.

 

Comment by: Anonymous. December 8, 2024 at 7:30 PM

Oh wow I have almost all of these! Sooooo cool to know that there is a name for it and that it’s a unique way of experiencing the world ❤️

 

Comment by: Anonymous. February 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM

wow, I honestly think I have this type of synesthesia and the one where you hear colors, and the one where you assign colors to people, also I don't know if this is related but when I think of the months of the year I put them in an order June and July in the middle, anyways I'm too lazy to explain it but is it related?

Reply by: Pau (The Synesthesia Tree author). February 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM

You could look at the description of Calendar synesthesia and see if you have something similar:

https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/02/calendar-synesthesia.html

 

Comment by: Anonymous. March 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM

WOW! I'm still not sure if I have synesthesia, but if I do, I think this is the kind I have.

 

Comment by: aarna. May 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM

I think I maye have this for example with the periodic table I think each element has its own color, and even though I don't see them as that color, I associate them and if I see it in a different color I think it is wrong. For example, the periodic table in my room has Bismuth as green but that looks wrong, and it should be blue. Another really specific example is with triangles, ever since I learnt about the pythagorean theorem in 6th grade I thought of a 3,4,5 traingle as green or a 6,8,10 triangle as dark blue. However this doesn't interfere with my math learning. And, I don't know why this happens, I don't think it's because of a property of the triangles or elements. Also, I sometimes imagine personalities or genders of things. Not with triangles, but still with elements and also with places or planets or something. The specifics of them differs, for example there's a whole story and family for Neon but Oganesson is just a male. Same with instruments, but I think that is based off my own experience playing, however some personifications have no relation with people I know that play it but some do. For example, viola is based off some people I know that play it, but cello is a tall skinny boy that honestly looks like a violist I know. Sorry for the long comment but I just want to know more.

Reply by: Pau (The Synesthesia Tree author). May 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM

Hi, Aarna!

Yes, your colours for the periodic table could be considered synesthesia, if you consistently associate each element with a particular colour. It doesn’t matter if you don’t see the colour physically but just think of it: that is typical of most synesthetes in fact. It’s also quite typical to consider any other colour to be “wrong”, as you say.

Your colours for different types of triangles is likely to be synesthesia too, as the colours just seem inherent to the shapes and have been consistent since you first came into contact with these triangle concepts. It would more clear that it was synesthesia if you had it for more than just two types of triangle, so maybe you could think about whether other triangle proportions have colours too.

Perceiving personalities for series or sequences of things like the elements, cities, planets or musical instruments would also be considered synesthesia too, even if you can see the logical association that made you first think of those personalities. I like the Neon-Helium-Fluorine family you describe in your comment on the other page! What makes it synesthesia is the fact that you attribute these consistent personalities to specific series or sequences of things and not just to one-off random objects.

And letters having personalities – even if the whole alphabet doesn’t have them – is also typical OLP synesthesia (“ordinal linguistic personification”).

So yes, you can certainly consider yourself a synesthete!

 

Comment by: Anonymous. July 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM

I have only grapheme color, but I feel like I learned mine as I learned to read. September, if I just went through the letters, should be purple, but I learned it as orange. So words that I learned before reading have their own colors, usually the color of the thing, but words I learned after are logically colored based on my alphabet.

 

Comment by: Anonymous. September 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM

I think a lot of people have the school subjects to colors but I feel like there’s a fine line between learned association and synesthesia. Because science is green right but that’s learned association and some subjects just have colors because of life example science is green because it has to do with life and plants and stuff. So when is it learned association and synesthesia?

 

Comment by: Anonymous. March 11, 2026 at 10:57 AM

SO Medical conditions have colors:

ADHD Is light yellow

Asthma is the color of vein blood

Diabetes is shining, almost blinding white

Synesthesia is a light, but deep, saturated purple.

Anxiety is a light blue

Depression is black

Flu is a very very light green (WITH LOTS OF WHITE)

Amputated limbs as a concept (Albeit not a medical condition), are definelty a dirty, but also relatively light brown

Aphantasia (Which I have!) is Black with a bright red outline

Et cetera.

Could this be considered synesthesia?

Reply by: Pau (The Synesthesia Tree author). March 11, 2026 at 11:49 AM

Yes, definitely! A classic example, and a very interesting one. Thanks for posting!

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