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Spatial sequence synesthesia: readers’ comments

This page contains all the readers’ comments on the “Spatial sequence synesthesia” article, received between 2022 and 2026.

 

Comment by: Adelaide. September 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM

Hi - I just found out a Substacker - Jay Rollins - has this type of syn.

 

Comment by: Anonymous. February 10, 2024 at 10:43 AM

Wow... I feel dumb.. I got hit by a car when I was five and got brain trauma. Ever since then I've been able to see space, time is a little fuzzy as it's intertwined with space. But this explains everything from my eidetic memory, sound and pheromone residue etc etc.. but every night at about 8pm est earth is swamped by a strange green glow. Never finding any information on what it is.. or why some but not all street lamp posts have black and purple beams radiating upward and never changes with the angling of the perceived space. But the green fog is like ambient energy more like a light cloud..and seeing that it's not hallucinations... They have to be caused by something

. But it's never a sound, number, symbols spoken words or tastes..

 

Comment by: Anonymous. June 2, 2024 at 4:42 PM

WOW I'm amazed at the colors for the Months, Almost matches how I see them.

 

Comment by: Anonymous. June 3, 2024 at 1:50 PM

i have this for the year, week, day, time and other things like if you talk about a country, city etc its involuntary, not sure if I have any other type of synethesia, pretty sure my father was also synethetic

Reply by: Anonymous. July 4, 2024 at 8:42 AM

Me too!!!

 

Comment by: Anonymous. July 22, 2024 at 7:41 PM

I don't know if I'm synesthetic but I have the calendar one, like, all times, hours, days, weeks, months, etc. it's all 3D, and the numbers one appears as a downwards spiral, and all the numbers line up, like, I can rotate the spiral, and underneath 1 is 11, then 21, 31 etc. also letters. It's like a rope that starts ahead of me, and then I'm standing right next to N, and then the rope continues backwards.

 

Comment by: Susan. September 10, 2024 at 3:18 AM

I am 63, and found out a month ago that I have the Spacial Sequence Synesthesia. I had no idea not everyone thinks this way! That explains my freakish memory of dates and time. Lol

My SSS goes all the way back to my first memories. Pretty interesting!

 

Comment by: Anonymous. October 7, 2024 at 3:17 PM

I'm completely blown away after knowing I've had this for years, but finally coming across this picture which actually perfectly describes how I 'see' things. SO hard to explain to others.

 

Comment by: sideways. November 6, 2024 at 7:54 PM

I have a timeline one that has been with me as long as I can remember [deep into childhood, and I can remember lying in my pram as a baby]: I tried to draw a diagram of how I see the years of my life in space - at least in my head - and it only kind of represented it: when I look at it, it's just plain wrong as a gestalt, even though it is as close to externalising as I can get. It's like when I try to explain it to someone else, simply trying pushes the image further from my mind until I don't see it...

Reply by: Ihearyousideways. February 4, 2026 at 7:05 PM

I think I know what you mean…. Mine is sideways too.

 

Comment by: Anonymous. May 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM

During a discussion about another friends concussion, the brain topic came up. I told some friends, “August is down there”, they laughed. Then they asked about another month and I told them January was above my right shoulder. I got odd looks. I was perplexed, I thought everyone looked at the months like I do. I go up to Wednesday slide down to Friday, up to Saturday, etc, etc. Now I know.

 

Comment by: Anonymous. February 4, 2026 at 5:26 AM

For me, time is a deep ocean Blue. My memories are a staircase, if I go down the bottom floors are a deep indigo, if I go up they are red. I see most concepts and thoughts on a 3 dimensional holographic plane. My thought train starts with an idea or concept -> motion -> colour -> temperature/texture/tone/hue(saturation level)/emotion -> then into internal weather which I translate via poetic metaphor. Have been doing this for almost five years now. Time is a substantial variable in my frame of mind, it’s on a sliding track from left to right. (Can be contacted raindcole@protonmail.com if need be)

 

Comment by: Anonymous. February 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM

I see time and numbers and the alphabet as a sideways ladder or line with colours as well

 

Comment by: Anonymous. February 4, 2026 at 6:51 PM

Is that just me?

             

Comment by: Anonymous. March 23, 2026 at 1:44 PM

This is SO COOL! I was just asking my friends about how they visualize the days of the week, and nobody could understand what I was explaining, then I stumbled upon this while researching something else. I don’t see color, but the arrangement of months, dates, numbers and weekdays are all in different spatial sequences.

             

Comment by: Anonymous. April 25, 2026 at 11:04 PM

I only recently discovered that I had this when my son taught me what synesthesia was! He sees numbers and days in colours. When discussing this with my husbands family, somehow the dates and months etc came up and I explained how I saw them in a 3d pattern around me (numbers almost in a spiral staircase formation, months and days of week in a circle formation around me and every day/month has its particular spot and shade). Turns out, not everyone thinks like this! I had assumed it was my brain as a kid helping me memorize these things, and that everyone had their own similar patterns. Seems as though my son inherited his synesthesia from me, although no idea who I inherited mine from.

 

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