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

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)

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.