hello! i’m 20 and have a neurological condition that effects just about everything in my body. i experience synesthesia so such an extreme degree it effects my daily life, also schooling.

TLDR: i have extreme synesthesia that effects my day to day life, anyone else have this?

this is quite simple but in highschool i was insanely bad at geography because certain countries had certain colors that meant the went certain places. example, i didn’t know spain was in europe until 9th grade because spain is such a red country (yes the flag is red, that’s unrelated) so in my mind, that put it down in south america. italy was also in south america, i can’t exactly remember my struggle ones anymore cause it was a while ago.

i sat in front of my mail box for 2 minutes before i could find mine. the number was 213, i was actually looking for the color yellow on the mail box. before i realized, its a number not a color. there are many many more examples but its too much to explain, but it has genuinely effected my ability to do certain things.

it’s been frustrating recently while trying to talk about music. because i see music in such abstract ways that no one else can understand. i can physically see the breakdown of the notes, it moves in a certain shape and certain colors push the song into certain shapes. ex is the picture ive attached.

scars by akugetsu has a hopeful inspirational tone. i tried to explain that i really enjoy that part of the song, and had to explain it was a cream line pushing the song upwards. the shape is 3d, it’s a slope angled away from me, imagine rainbow road from mario, it kinda looks like that??

basically wondering if other people experience it to this extreme, there are many instances where it effects me i just can’t put them all down. lemme know

I honest to god thought it was normal, I learned about it cus I was reading an interview with frank ocean and he mentioned he had it, pretty interesting stuff.

im bored, if you drop your name ill give you an image that looks like your name to me:]

Is there any broad correlation between such synaesthesia (involuntarily seeing colours) and the music causing it?

From what (little) I have read there is a correlation between low musical frequencies and darker colours and higher frequencies and brighter colours.

This made me wonder if there is some synaesthetic relation between tying the respective wavelengths of auditory frequencies to the colour spectrum equivalent.

(I am an audio engineer and musician, and I realise that Hz is not the units colour/light is measured in, but I don’t know much else re: colour/light. That said, all music can be broken down to frequencies (pitches) each with with amplitude (volume/amount) over time, and the same must hold true for vision if not in the same words)

For example:
The smell of olive oil is named Charlie.
The signature smell of the inside of a boat cabin is named David.
The smell inside that one salon near my home is named Natasha.
The smell of cheesy pasta is named Henry.
The smell of expired crackers is named Tay.

alright so i just found out uh... whatever this is, this thing ive had my entire fucking life, is a form of audiotactile synesthesia. as you saw by the title, whenever i listen to music i feel PHYSICALLY PULLED in different directions, partly by what direction the sound is coming from and also the pitch and other various things relating to it. like tempos (if they change too fast or too awkwardly) can make it feel *physically gross* for example, pitch goes up/down normally, loudness can go in whatever direction really but its generally consistent, and time signatures are sometimes felt in the front for the top and back for the bottom numbers but it isnt entirely consistent, but i do consistently feel both beats. its wierd and i actually wonder if it ties into why im so overtly sensitive to rhythm and tone and really everything surrounding it... cus i literally feel it 😭

i genuinely just assumed this was normal for the longest time but apparently its not???????????

also heres kinda a representation of what i feel i guess??? hopefully this makes sense, also its WILDLY more complex than what is shown here, but this still holds.

the center btw is NOT based on an ABSOLUTE pitch like c4 or something, its based on the "average" pitch of whatever song i am listening to. i have no idea how my brain comes to the conclusion of what COUNTS as average, i just believe thats what it is. fucking wild.

ALSO left in this case counts as BACKWARDS whether its lower or quieter or whatever. right counts as FORWARDS whether its higher or louder or whatever. this is just wild dude-

I'm just curious honestly

I am unsure if I have synesthesia but I certainly draw (pun intended) a lot of emotion and color from music.
All of the paintings have a piece of music paired with them.
They are in order! The first one is the opening piece and its song is Wave of You by Surfaces
Here is the playlist if anyone is interested: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTsgQbEUEWVE&si=umw2rUKtEYqKaviF

Thanks for looking 🥹

Hi !

So i'm a student in applied mathematics, mostly statistics, and since 1 year i've started seeing colors and shapes when i do math. The thing is that when i talk about this with others students they look at me like so kind of crazy number lover. So... Am i alone ? (i hope not)

I know i don't have synestesia, because it's not consitent, and it only aplied to math. I see mostly rectangular shapes, planes, lines color with red, orange, green and sometimes some blue and purple. They also not necessary related to the problem i work on, it's not just i magine a graph of a function. I don't think it help me being better at math but i like having those visual, it's super stimulating.

To give some context, i study math and computer science applied to cognitive science at uni. The math aspect was not the most attractive for me at first, but he has really grow on me for the past few month after a inferential statistics class.

So yeah, if you have an idea of what i'm experiencing, or if you have similar experience i would like to hear it !

PS: i'm french so my english is far from great.

For a while now I have been wondering if I could have synesthesia. You have probably even seen one of my "is this synesthesia?" posts. It just seems like I have a little bit of everything though. Like it's really weird. I think that I maybe have little bitty baby synesthesia, or just a really strange brain that makes weird connections.

I think the main thing is that so many things have a vibe. Months, days, letters, numbers, names, songs. So many things. When I think of something, for example the month April, I get a vibe from it. I will try and match the vibe to a color, and somethings feel really wrong, but others feel fine. It is rare that something has a obvious color though. Like April is pretty obvious to me, it's a shade of bright yellow, and if I try to match it with like red or something, it just feels so wrong. Like April is not red! But other things like Wednesday, they don't really have a obvious color, just a vibe that I can't place. And Olivia Rodrigo's song Drop Dead has a color too. It is like a darkish navy blue. The problem is that the album cover from the song is like all light blues and pinks. It just feels very wrong, because I am looking at that picture, while the song does not match the cover. Her other song Stupid Song, also has a vibe, but I don't think it's strong enough to match with a color. Also fun fact! Olivia Rodrigo has synesthesia! Some things have pictures too. Like in Stupid Song when she sings certain lyrics, pictures pop up into my head. They are always the same, and I think it happens almost every time I hear the song, unless I am zoned out or not really paying attention to what's around me. It also happens when I read. I sort of see the scenes that I am reading, and I can get pretty immersed into it. Please don't say that this is hyperphantasia though, because I have looked into that, and I know I don't have it!

There is some other synesthesia type stuff too though. One is that when people say names, or I think when I think them too, I see them spelled out like subtitles in my head (ticker tape?). It only happens sometimes though, and only with some names. I feel like it is happening less often now though.

Oh, and also when I was really young someone told me that his name was Michael, and I always remembered his name because of the image that came to mind with that name. (Turing gears) I think that every time someone would say his name that image would come up. Not sure though, because it was many years ago. I still can kind of picture the wheels and gears! I know it happened with at least one other name, but not sure about if it ever happened again.

Sorry thought of another experience! I am kind of just plopping all the stuff I notice about my brain, and hoping someone can tell me if any of it could be anything. Basically, this one time I was super upset, and so mad, but even more sad. It was super intense, and thinking about it, I kind of just knew what color the feeling was. A blue so deep that it was kind of screaming.

Okay, this is all I can think of for now, but thank you so much to anyone who read all of this, and can do anything to help me!

Edit:

I thought of another thing! When I think about eating something specific I can kind of taste it. Some things are stronger, like lemons. And lemons linger longer than something like cookie. Although I just realized that I can't really taste chocolate. And with Jolly Ranchers I can kind of feel the candy pressing into the roof of my mouth. I have to be focusing to notice this though.

I’m looking to connect with people who experience conceptual ideasthesia, especially if you also have multi-sensory aphantasia and SDAM.

I’ve been feeling a lot of doubt lately because whenever I read about ideasthesia or synesthesia, people talk about letters having bold colors, or numbers having specific human personalities. My brain doesn't do that at all. Because my mind's eye is completely dark and silent, my ideasthesia is purely conceptual and situational.

To me, everything has a distinct vibe, but it’s mapped out in real-world logic, social ecosystems, and highly specific structural metaphors rather than random "fluff" like colors or shapes.

Here are a few exact examples of how my brain works:

Objects as Conceptual Webs: If I look at my teal and black hair diffuser, my brain triggers a whole cloud of related cultural tags and vibes: Nana, mom, girl, bracelets, acrylic nails, white lady. It’s an instant, non-visual blueprint of what the object represents, but because I feel the "vibe" of the object, I have to think for a second about what shares a similar "vibe" that I can feel.

.Hyper-Specific Metaphors: When a movie is disappointing, I don't just say it’s "bad" or feels like "wet concrete." I told my friend it felt like "ordering food and they give you a spork, and you try to scoop something from the bottom of your bowl but the ridges in the spork let the food slide through." My brain maps the abstract feeling of frustration straight onto a mechanical failure.

Vibe-Matching People: When my friend asked what she reminds me of, while others listed her hobbies, my brain instantly accessed her energetic signature and matched it to an entire aesthetic ecosystem: Frank Green bottle, light blue, tank tops, sandals, beach.

Abstract Units of Time: Tuesday doesn't have a personality, but it feels like a "filling day." It feels like it's sunny but not warm, and writing the full date on a book on a Tuesday feels completely weird, whereas Thursday feels satisfying to write.

Does anyone else experience vibes as raw, non-visual data like this?

Is viewing a name having a specific colour like the colour was connected to the name and when hearding the name, imagine it written with the colour consistent with synesthesia?

This past week I attended a five day music camp, and one of the activities was a class about synesthesia, in which we all listened to different genres of music and drew what we saw fit. I had known what synesthesia was for quite some time before this, but this class is really what got me to wonder if I myself have it. I listen to loads of music, and if I’m really concentrated on it, I usually think of a scene, or more often than not, a pattern, usually a colorful one, but most everything I think of is a bit vague. I also associate songs with certain times of day or feelings, like for example, I feel “West End Girls” by Pet Shop Boys feels clean or cold.

When I drew out what I thought of for the different music, a lot of it was, as I noticed, related to the pitch, the rhythm, the tempo, or the general feel of the music. A lot of it was also unrelated, however, and the colors I thought of (despite not being specific) were what really made me wonder if I have synesthesia.

That night, a competition was held in which different students played music to win a scholarship to the next camp. I didn’t perform, but I was in the audience, and though it could have very well been my being tired, I closed my eyes and imagined different patterns and colors for the pieces I heard. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a paper to jot these down, but they were there, so much so I could almost physically see them, if that makes sense.

Attached is a picture of what I doodled in class, it was about five or so songs including a jazz piece, a choral church song, an orchestral piece, et cetera. *The colors aren’t really what I wanted at all because the entire group was sharing a box of markers, but I tried to find darker colors for what I saw as darker, and vice versa. All of what I drew is on one sheet, my apologies.

Anyway, if anyone here could tell me if I am mistaken or not, it would be much appreciated. Thank you for your time!

Ok so I liked to call the feelings I get for things "vibes". And so, like everything, people have vibes too, and my sister has the strongest vibe out if anyone I've ever met.. this is a bad thing. I try to have a normal convo with her and I get flashbanged by her vibe and it's so overwhelming and frustrating I almost cry out of anger for some reason and I need to distance myself. I also get flashbanged by her vibe when I'm doing the laundry and find a shirt that's hers and I again get rly uncomfortable and begin to tear up and tense my muscles. Her vibe is just so bad for me and idk why. Please j need to know if anyone else feels the same way

Bem, isso é basicamente um trecho de "Dream sweet in sea major". Eu não vejo os sons em si, mas quando um som me provoca alguma emoção, eu vejo a emoção. Parando pra pensar, eu vejo a emoção que o som me provoca? Ou vejo o som só quando ele me dá uma emoção, então eu vejo o som ou a emoção? Enfimm

Bem, não está 100% fiel porque não consegui muitos efeitos pada representar, mas dá pra ter uma idéia

I have always visualized the past as a path of events stretching to the left, like in this image.  My teen sees a grid-like calendar hanging in space, thinking of a time makes the grid slide up and down to that point. My spouse says they don’t see anything at all, they rely only on memory.

Opinion question: how do others visualize the timeline of history? What does your Mind’s Eye “SEE” as a shape or construct?

Synesthesia runs in the family. My grandpa, mom, and sister have a type where they can physically feel people's emotions. It presents differently for each of them. My mom has described feeling fiery sparks against her skin when someone's angry, or like something incredibly heavy is pressing against her chest when someone's sad. The intensity changes based on the person's proximity.

My dad is the only person she's met who's emotions she's never been able to feel (which she suspects is part of why she ended up with him). And apparently I'm similar, where the vast majority of the time, she can't feel my emotions, and I must have inherited that from my dad.

My favorite song: Arrived by Doc Aquatic, feels like blue and white glass sphere and some orange and green towers beside

My mom suggested I might have synesthesia with taste. I made the post linked here to describe what I experience and try to get a bigger data pool for what's normal.

Synesthesia in general runs on my mom's side of the family.

I've done some research on synesthesia in the past, and one potential issue is consistency.

The flavors don't always appear the same, like the flavor of a type of yogurt for example isn't always the same shape/color/motion.

But that can also be due to the simple fact that every batch is different, no two apples are the same, etc.

Another thing is that I don't see it every time. But that could be due to my incredibly severe ADHD. Like, maybe it's always happening but it's background noise for me/I'm not paying attention to it. With the chili mentioned in my other post, I didn't realize that the flavors were making shapes/colors/motions until after I added the jalapeños and got smacked in the face with black spikes and was forced to pay attention to it. Or if someone asks me to taste test something, I can describe the imagery that's formed, but if I'm just eating someone else's cooking for supper, I don't notice any imagery, unless something smacks me in the face like with the jalapeños.

alright so I don't usually see/feel things in color but one day a few years back while I was high, I was listening to some songs and started to associate them with colors and decided to write down those colors. I did 23 songs this session but only started seeing/feeling the colors during the 4th song:

• Lights And Sounds - Yellowcard: yellow and black
• Live & Learn - Crush 40 (Sonic Adventure 2 OST): black and red (...... yes, like Shadow the Hedgehog)
• Who I Am Hates Who I've Been - Relient K: red and green (like a watermelon!)
• Waiting for the End - Linkin Park: yellow and black. blue
• The Ghost of You - My Chemical Romance: Grey, Red and Black
• Happier Than Ever - Billie Eilish: different colors for certain parts of the song, first half is red and yellow, second part (the part that starts with "you called me again, drunk in your benz...") yellow and black, and the last bit with the music drowning out her yelling was black and red
• Monster - Lady Gaga: Yellow and rainbow
• Money - Mystery Skulls: Blue and rainbow (yes... I am aware of how strange [color] and rainbow is considering those colors are part of the rainbow but... that's just what high me said the songs felt like)
• Monster - Skillet: Yellow, Red, Black
• New Divide - Linkin Park: Yellow, black, red
• Discord (Remix) - Eurobeat Brony, The Living Tombstone: Red and Blue
• Just Dance - Lady Gaga: Yellow, Blue, Red and black
• Thinking Of You - Katy Perry: Blue, red
• Time to Dance - Panic! At The Disco: Red, Blue, Yellow, Black
• Here (In Your Arms) - Hellogoodbye: pink, blue and red
• Stage 09: Frog Forest - Jun Sunoue (Sonic Heroes OST): Green, Blue, Red
• Escape From the City ...for City Escape - Ted Poley ft. Tony Harnell (Sonic Adventure 2 OST): Blue, Red, Yellow
• Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off - Panic! At The Disco: Yellow, Red, Blue, Black
• Sunflower - Post Malone ft. Swae Lee: Blue, Yellow, Red
• Boom Clap - Charli XCX: Pink, Blue (I think this all happened because I read that Charli mentioned seeing her songs in color

What do the colors mean? Who knows, only high me from that day in 2022 can say lol. BUT, I am curious about what others see these (and other) songs as, if any of you can make sense of the colors, what the specific order of them mean (I notice that the Panic! songs have the same colors but in a different order), and why some are capitalized and others are lowercased, I'm curious to hear about it.

For two years I know that there is a name for my visual week and year. I never thought there was a name for it. I took is for granted, but its nice to see there are more people who have these visuals. For me its a bonus, ik helps me with reminding things. I see no colors but the week is horizontal clockwise, the year is also horizontal but counterclockwise.

I feel comfortable in a northwest area; in a room, in an office, anywhere. By chance I was born in a month which is there in my visual year. Would that be a coincidence?