6 Fun Facts About Synesthesia
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Date: 2023-08-20
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Erin
I have grapheme-colour synesthesia, and two other types that I haven't been able to find the names of, plus one I forgot:
Grapheme-Colour: I see days of the week, numbers, etc. as different colours, and every word has a general colour, (for example: iron - i is sort of transparent to me, so it usually blends in in the word, but on it's own it's white. r, purple, is dominant in this word, so i see iron as purple. o is also transparent, usually black, and n is yellow)
I can also feel colours, like how dark purple is almost jello-like and light purple is a swirling mist that you can almost feel, but is dissipates when you pass your hand through it. Purple is also to the right of me, and I can only feel it with my right hand.
I have the spacial one, forgot its name, but the months are in a clock formation and I'm in the middle, with January being to the right and back, just out of sight so I have to turn to see it. It goes counterclockwise all the way to December, which is like January but to the left. There's nothing behind me, just gray, which I guess represents the new year. It's like that too for days of the week, with Sunday in December's spot and Saturday in January's, except it goes clockwise. Colours are also grouped on either side of me, which I'll talk more about later
Finally, tastes and certain sensations have colours. Like when my hands are cold, all I can see in my mind's eye are salmon and vibrant lime colours, and I get a bitter taste in the left side of my mouth. For me the two sides of my body have different colours almost, like the left side of my mouth & hand are light colours like yellow, lime, bright orange, and the right side/hand is purple, red, black, darker colours. So if I'm eating, say, a plum, the flavour is an eyesore neon yellow and orange, so I'd only eat in the left side of my mouth, and my left fingers would feel uncomfortable and sour. Usually each finger has it's own colour/flavour associated with it, with the left thumb being the bitterest/sourest and the right one being the most sweet/savoury, but it changes a lot when i'm sick and messes up how i eat. Also, since every flavour has a colour, and every colour one or more numbers, I think of foods as numbers. Example: Hot cocoa is four, six, and two because it tastes purple and brown, and two is just. there idk, so when I drink cocoa I drink it on the right side and my mind focuses on those numbers so much that I have to incorporate them into whatever I am doing. What I usually do is I'd take four fingers on my right hand, and tap them against the mug or something nearby six times, and do that twice. Once I'm done, I can enjoy my cocoa until the urge comes again. This particular type kinda sucks honestly, but my synesthesia itself is so intertwined and interesting, I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Edit: oh shit that's a lot of text, sorry if you had to read that all lmfao
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I have grapheme-colour synesthesia, and two other types that I haven't been able to find the names of, plus one I forgot:
Grapheme-Colour: I see days of the week, numbers, etc. as different colours, and every word has a general colour, (for example: iron - i is sort of transparent to me, so it usually blends in in the word, but on it's own it's white. r, purple, is dominant in this word, so i see iron as purple. o is also transparent, usually black, and n is yellow)
I can also feel colours, like how dark purple is almost jello-like and light purple is a swirling mist that you can almost feel, but is dissipates when you pass your hand through it. Purple is also to the right of me, and I can only feel it with my right hand.
I have the spacial one, forgot its name, but the months are in a clock formation and I'm in the middle, with January being to the right and back, just out of sight so I have to turn to see it. It goes counterclockwise all the way to December, which is like January but to the left. There's nothing behind me, just gray, which I guess represents the new year. It's like that too for days of the week, with Sunday in December's spot and Saturday in January's, except it goes clockwise. Colours are also grouped on either side of me, which I'll talk more about later
Finally, tastes and certain sensations have colours. Like when my hands are cold, all I can see in my mind's eye are salmon and vibrant lime colours, and I get a bitter taste in the left side of my mouth. For me the two sides of my body have different colours almost, like the left side of my mouth & hand are light colours like yellow, lime, bright orange, and the right side/hand is purple, red, black, darker colours. So if I'm eating, say, a plum, the flavour is an eyesore neon yellow and orange, so I'd only eat in the left side of my mouth, and my left fingers would feel uncomfortable and sour. Usually each finger has it's own colour/flavour associated with it, with the left thumb being the bitterest/sourest and the right one being the most sweet/savoury, but it changes a lot when i'm sick and messes up how i eat. Also, since every flavour has a colour, and every colour one or more numbers, I think of foods as numbers. Example: Hot cocoa is four, six, and two because it tastes purple and brown, and two is just. there idk, so when I drink cocoa I drink it on the right side and my mind focuses on those numbers so much that I have to incorporate them into whatever I am doing. What I usually do is I'd take four fingers on my right hand, and tap them against the mug or something nearby six times, and do that twice. Once I'm done, I can enjoy my cocoa until the urge comes again. This particular type kinda sucks honestly, but my synesthesia itself is so intertwined and interesting, I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Edit: oh shit that's a lot of text, sorry if you had to read that all lmfao
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sh3lby
omg! i was just talking about this (:
my friend has it and can see friends names in different colors as the way they associate socially evolves, so they will feel a sense of reassurance when they notice that an acquaintance has become a more intimate kind of friendship when they see that person's name change color in writing as they think of them!
i personally experience what's probably a more projective synesthesia since i associate physical touches with sensory stimulus. this is probably cause i'm ND, most of my neural pathways had to be formed from association due to a lack of social understanding, and i'm hypersensitive/reactive to sensory input. glittery sparkly fluorescent stuff feels like candy to me, like the sensation of watching something sparkle or seeing iridescence / rainbows in light makes me feel like magic is real and im looking at it. if i can choose something to be in a particular color, i'll choose light blue or pink, because not only are those my favorite colors, but they make me feel safe, they wake me up, get me excited and inspired, to the point where everything i have collected over my life just matches this pallet of sparkly iridescent baby pink and blue, like cotton candy, pop rocks, baja blast, ocean spray sea foam beach smell mixed with stepping into a pool on a summer day with a pink flamingo pool floaty and a strawberry daiquiri.
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omg! i was just talking about this (:
my friend has it and can see friends names in different colors as the way they associate socially evolves, so they will feel a sense of reassurance when they notice that an acquaintance has become a more intimate kind of friendship when they see that person's name change color in writing as they think of them!
i personally experience what's probably a more projective synesthesia since i associate physical touches with sensory stimulus. this is probably cause i'm ND, most of my neural pathways had to be formed from association due to a lack of social understanding, and i'm hypersensitive/reactive to sensory input. glittery sparkly fluorescent stuff feels like candy to me, like the sensation of watching something sparkle or seeing iridescence / rainbows in light makes me feel like magic is real and im looking at it. if i can choose something to be in a particular color, i'll choose light blue or pink, because not only are those my favorite colors, but they make me feel safe, they wake me up, get me excited and inspired, to the point where everything i have collected over my life just matches this pallet of sparkly iridescent baby pink and blue, like cotton candy, pop rocks, baja blast, ocean spray sea foam beach smell mixed with stepping into a pool on a summer day with a pink flamingo pool floaty and a strawberry daiquiri.
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JustHannah
I'm an ambidextrous girl and I'm synesthesic. I think its associative? (E. g. I hear certain music and I see a colour in my mind but not in my eyes) The things linked for me are words and colours, numbers and colours, colours and textures, and colours and music. If that didnt make sense then heres some examples of what I personally experience.
Words and colours: monday is a deep purple for me
Numbers and colours: the number 3 is green for me
Colours and textures: green is sharp
Colours and music: this ones a little bit hard to explain without a physical piece of music and me telling u what colour each part is but when I was in my dance class we had to do a dance to some music and I remembered it by the colours. A part was yellow. Another part was blue. Another was green. And I remembered it in sections like the colours were sectioning off the music. Ik that sounds rlly odd but anyone else with synesthesia will probs get it. My brother has it too and so does my grandma I think. Definately inherited.
Its rlly cool and I love it.
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I'm an ambidextrous girl and I'm synesthesic. I think its associative? (E. g. I hear certain music and I see a colour in my mind but not in my eyes) The things linked for me are words and colours, numbers and colours, colours and textures, and colours and music. If that didnt make sense then heres some examples of what I personally experience.
Words and colours: monday is a deep purple for me
Numbers and colours: the number 3 is green for me
Colours and textures: green is sharp
Colours and music: this ones a little bit hard to explain without a physical piece of music and me telling u what colour each part is but when I was in my dance class we had to do a dance to some music and I remembered it by the colours. A part was yellow. Another part was blue. Another was green. And I remembered it in sections like the colours were sectioning off the music. Ik that sounds rlly odd but anyone else with synesthesia will probs get it. My brother has it too and so does my grandma I think. Definately inherited.
Its rlly cool and I love it.
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Leaf
I've heard about Synesthesia before but idk if i really have it. I have a hyperactive imagination that is especially triggered to listening to music, I involuntarily color my thoughts or think of a certain background alongside the thought, when I intake information I visualize it in a very specific area with very specific details, and even certain tonalities, pitches, octaves, and keys can change the brightness setting and of something im visualizing with a very slight color change. This color change can also trigger a touch sensory response in me as well (ex: im listening to a song in D# and the brightness in my room suddenly tones down and becomes slightly gray and i shiver even when im not cold at all. This was way more prevalent when I was younger but idk if i really have it b/c its not like i assigned a specific color/visual setting to a musical key/pitch before.
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I've heard about Synesthesia before but idk if i really have it. I have a hyperactive imagination that is especially triggered to listening to music, I involuntarily color my thoughts or think of a certain background alongside the thought, when I intake information I visualize it in a very specific area with very specific details, and even certain tonalities, pitches, octaves, and keys can change the brightness setting and of something im visualizing with a very slight color change. This color change can also trigger a touch sensory response in me as well (ex: im listening to a song in D# and the brightness in my room suddenly tones down and becomes slightly gray and i shiver even when im not cold at all. This was way more prevalent when I was younger but idk if i really have it b/c its not like i assigned a specific color/visual setting to a musical key/pitch before.
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The
I can hear changes is size. When I see a shape increase in size, its pitch also becomes higher (Like for example, the battery charging symbol on a phone)
Also, I can strongly associate music with ideas, colours or people. I like listening to music while I work on something, but now, whenever I hear the Giants theme from the Legend of Zelda Majora's mask, for example, I think of the artist Yayoi Kusama, orange, bright pink and polka dots.
Also, hearing music can put very specific images in my head, like for example Hotel California creates pictures for me that I don't think anyone else can see. It is orange/yellow in the first verse, brown/beige/white/air texture/subdued sunlight in the second, and pink/silver/shade in the last
Are these Synesthesia or ideasthesia? I'm confused.
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I can hear changes is size. When I see a shape increase in size, its pitch also becomes higher (Like for example, the battery charging symbol on a phone)
Also, I can strongly associate music with ideas, colours or people. I like listening to music while I work on something, but now, whenever I hear the Giants theme from the Legend of Zelda Majora's mask, for example, I think of the artist Yayoi Kusama, orange, bright pink and polka dots.
Also, hearing music can put very specific images in my head, like for example Hotel California creates pictures for me that I don't think anyone else can see. It is orange/yellow in the first verse, brown/beige/white/air texture/subdued sunlight in the second, and pink/silver/shade in the last
Are these Synesthesia or ideasthesia? I'm confused.
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olympia
Whats cool is that Ive had synesthesia since birth, and instead of the most common ones, my form is a bit different. I can watch a video, read something, or think about something, then I can physically smell it. Or. i could. For whatever reason, it changed in the past few months. Its gotten stronger, so now I can not only smell what I think about, but i can also taste it. I cant command it to happen, and it doesnt happen every time, but it happens often enough. (You may think its really awesome, it it really is! But sometimes its disgusting, like this one time i was reading a fantasy book that was talking about how bad a potion smelled, and i could smell AND taste it just like the character did! Blech )
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Whats cool is that Ive had synesthesia since birth, and instead of the most common ones, my form is a bit different. I can watch a video, read something, or think about something, then I can physically smell it. Or. i could. For whatever reason, it changed in the past few months. Its gotten stronger, so now I can not only smell what I think about, but i can also taste it. I cant command it to happen, and it doesnt happen every time, but it happens often enough. (You may think its really awesome, it it really is! But sometimes its disgusting, like this one time i was reading a fantasy book that was talking about how bad a potion smelled, and i could smell AND taste it just like the character did! Blech )
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Tomura
I definitely have ideastheisa! Me and my friend are constantly arguing about weather 3 is green (me) or orange (them)
Our other friends and family are completely baffled by this. I see/associate people with colors, their personality or voice or even appearance sometimes gives me some idea of their color in only a few minutes. For example, the person narrating this videos voice was either a saturated yellow or dull orange. Definitely a warm, pastelly soft color. People can also be numbers or letters, or all 3! Some numbers and letters also have colors, some have basic personalitys and genders as well.
Take care, yall!
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I definitely have ideastheisa! Me and my friend are constantly arguing about weather 3 is green (me) or orange (them)
Our other friends and family are completely baffled by this. I see/associate people with colors, their personality or voice or even appearance sometimes gives me some idea of their color in only a few minutes. For example, the person narrating this videos voice was either a saturated yellow or dull orange. Definitely a warm, pastelly soft color. People can also be numbers or letters, or all 3! Some numbers and letters also have colors, some have basic personalitys and genders as well.
Take care, yall!
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Sky
Synesthesia helped me pass my Algebra class in 7th grade! Numbers always reminded me of colors and somehow those colors paired together reminded me of relationships. Some relationships were romantic, some were difficult, some were happy, etc. For instance, in my mind 6 is purple, 4 is pink, and pink and purple reminded me of flowers. Somehow 6 was masculine in my mind and 4 was feminine, so it reminded me of a proposal with a bouquet! 24 also had pink in it, but 2 is brown, therefore pink and brown equaled a warm color/warm feeling. Joy and love after the proposal!
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Synesthesia helped me pass my Algebra class in 7th grade! Numbers always reminded me of colors and somehow those colors paired together reminded me of relationships. Some relationships were romantic, some were difficult, some were happy, etc. For instance, in my mind 6 is purple, 4 is pink, and pink and purple reminded me of flowers. Somehow 6 was masculine in my mind and 4 was feminine, so it reminded me of a proposal with a bouquet! 24 also had pink in it, but 2 is brown, therefore pink and brown equaled a warm color/warm feeling. Joy and love after the proposal!
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Rey's
I went into this video wanting to learn about a new term I never heard of before and I was until it got to ideathesia. Oh my gawd! I think I might have that. I have currently been learning spanish for over 2 years now and one of the most hardest things for me to learn from knowing english my whole life was certain words being masc. or Femme not because the concept was so hard to grasp but because certain words I already so strongly associated with a certain gender already it was hard for me to learn it as the way it os in the Spanish language-
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I went into this video wanting to learn about a new term I never heard of before and I was until it got to ideathesia. Oh my gawd! I think I might have that. I have currently been learning spanish for over 2 years now and one of the most hardest things for me to learn from knowing english my whole life was certain words being masc. or Femme not because the concept was so hard to grasp but because certain words I already so strongly associated with a certain gender already it was hard for me to learn it as the way it os in the Spanish language-
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Reelivac
i know this may not be related but is there a word or term for if a certain sound or music being played reminds you of a certain place or event? for example, this one song on my playlist reminds me of an old bus stop on my way to school. i supposed i used to hear that song on the way to school a lot. also, certain sound of songs have connotations to them. And when having different color notebooks i would always have math - blue, english-red, science -green/yellow. not sure how to explain but if anyone knows of this please let me know.
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i know this may not be related but is there a word or term for if a certain sound or music being played reminds you of a certain place or event? for example, this one song on my playlist reminds me of an old bus stop on my way to school. i supposed i used to hear that song on the way to school a lot. also, certain sound of songs have connotations to them. And when having different color notebooks i would always have math - blue, english-red, science -green/yellow. not sure how to explain but if anyone knows of this please let me know.
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Nancys
We accidentally figured out my son has it. Id never heard of it before but my son mentioned something once and my ex bf knew exactly what it was! Hes got the color/sound type. Hes right handed and to my knowledge no one on my side of the family ever had it but years ago nobody probably knew what it was. Im glad to read that its an ok thing to have, I didnt realize he had it til he was 16 years old maybe? I was worried about it. Thanks so much for the video and comments, Im gonna keep reading the comments
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We accidentally figured out my son has it. Id never heard of it before but my son mentioned something once and my ex bf knew exactly what it was! Hes got the color/sound type. Hes right handed and to my knowledge no one on my side of the family ever had it but years ago nobody probably knew what it was. Im glad to read that its an ok thing to have, I didnt realize he had it til he was 16 years old maybe? I was worried about it. Thanks so much for the video and comments, Im gonna keep reading the comments
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hana_stars
A few months ago I found out I have grapheme color synesthesia which means I see numbers, letters, days of the week, etc. as colors. I also sometimes think of music as colors. Like, higher notes are lighter and lower notes are darker but its not as vivid. Anyways, my whole life I thought it was normal to see the world like that. Now that I know that, I feel like my synesthesia is sort of evolving. Now I sometimes (but not often) would taste a sound or hear a place.
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A few months ago I found out I have grapheme color synesthesia which means I see numbers, letters, days of the week, etc. as colors. I also sometimes think of music as colors. Like, higher notes are lighter and lower notes are darker but its not as vivid. Anyways, my whole life I thought it was normal to see the world like that. Now that I know that, I feel like my synesthesia is sort of evolving. Now I sometimes (but not often) would taste a sound or hear a place.
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Ina
I'm left-handed and female so may have an explanation for my rudimentary synesthesia. I always see light flashes when I hear loud noises (very annoying) and tend to believe thay grey/silver tastes horrible. I'd say I have ideasthesia since primary school. Always coloured my subjects and still do it to visualise and remember new concepts and ideas. I'll need to read up more about it. Great video that made me curious!
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I'm left-handed and female so may have an explanation for my rudimentary synesthesia. I always see light flashes when I hear loud noises (very annoying) and tend to believe thay grey/silver tastes horrible. I'd say I have ideasthesia since primary school. Always coloured my subjects and still do it to visualise and remember new concepts and ideas. I'll need to read up more about it. Great video that made me curious!
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Manalay
I'm ambidextrous but i still wonder why I'm in 5th grade I see shapes of with electric blue like outline when I touch someone's body specially in the near bones, thankfully it disappeared but replaced with feeling of body pain like when I see a man with broken arm my arm too suddenly hurt, something like I involuntarily mirrored their pains. What's this I'm confused and desperate because it's a weakness for me.
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I'm ambidextrous but i still wonder why I'm in 5th grade I see shapes of with electric blue like outline when I touch someone's body specially in the near bones, thankfully it disappeared but replaced with feeling of body pain like when I see a man with broken arm my arm too suddenly hurt, something like I involuntarily mirrored their pains. What's this I'm confused and desperate because it's a weakness for me.
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psych2go
I learned about the concept a few years ago and it amazes me everytime. I am left-handed and female. But I know I don't have synesthesia.
But I have always been able to associate taste and sound with shapes. People around me always find it weird or sometimes funny when I say that something tastes round or if something sounds square. It's hard to explain lol.
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I learned about the concept a few years ago and it amazes me everytime. I am left-handed and female. But I know I don't have synesthesia.
But I have always been able to associate taste and sound with shapes. People around me always find it weird or sometimes funny when I say that something tastes round or if something sounds square. It's hard to explain lol.
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paperface
i see noise which has different colours I can see. it's especially annoying when someone on my class scrapes their chair and it hurts my eyes I thought everyone could do it? Until I talked about it with my friends, they said they could not do it. So I looked around on the internet and find this video, it's very helpful! Thank you psych2go
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i see noise which has different colours I can see. it's especially annoying when someone on my class scrapes their chair and it hurts my eyes I thought everyone could do it? Until I talked about it with my friends, they said they could not do it. So I looked around on the internet and find this video, it's very helpful! Thank you psych2go
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education
When I was a kid I always knew I was different. Now that Im a bit older Ive come to understand why. This was a big one as a kid. I was laughed at for calling a certain song pink, orange etc. I even told my mum and she was confused about what I was talking about. Now theres videos on this, it is helpful.
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When I was a kid I always knew I was different. Now that Im a bit older Ive come to understand why. This was a big one as a kid. I was laughed at for calling a certain song pink, orange etc. I even told my mum and she was confused about what I was talking about. Now theres videos on this, it is helpful.
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Claire
Omg thank you so much for this video! I always wondered why some of my favourite songs sounded yellow. All my friends and family thought it was kind of weird. Maybe I could go and check to make sure that I do have this, so people can understand why I keep saying that the songs sound red or purple!
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Omg thank you so much for this video! I always wondered why some of my favourite songs sounded yellow. All my friends and family thought it was kind of weird. Maybe I could go and check to make sure that I do have this, so people can understand why I keep saying that the songs sound red or purple!
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mud
I have grapheme synesthesia and music has colors and shapes. My friend asked me how I memorized the multiplication table so quick and I told her, its easy. For example 6 times 7 equals magenta and white, which is 42. I then asked her what color 42 is for her and she looked at me like I was crazy
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I have grapheme synesthesia and music has colors and shapes. My friend asked me how I memorized the multiplication table so quick and I told her, its easy. For example 6 times 7 equals magenta and white, which is 42. I then asked her what color 42 is for her and she looked at me like I was crazy
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crUnchy
Im seeking help from the internet because no one else knows. Im questioning whether or not I have synesthesia. Ill randomly smells things when theres nothing there and no one else smells it. They are completely random too they can pop up only once for a week then 8 in just a minute
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Im seeking help from the internet because no one else knows. Im questioning whether or not I have synesthesia. Ill randomly smells things when theres nothing there and no one else smells it. They are completely random too they can pop up only once for a week then 8 in just a minute
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May
I don't know whether i have synethesia or not, but whenever I read a book I will always seeing different colors depend on the plot but I will have this accumulative color to describe the book mood (some books are align in color i see with their book cover, but some are not)
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I don't know whether i have synethesia or not, but whenever I read a book I will always seeing different colors depend on the plot but I will have this accumulative color to describe the book mood (some books are align in color i see with their book cover, but some are not)
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Corey
My problem with doing this is when I associate an idea with more then one thing it starts messing with my memory on which one is which. Edit: but taking enough time away from one will end up leaving me with just one of the ideas, until I'm reminded of the other.
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My problem with doing this is when I associate an idea with more then one thing it starts messing with my memory on which one is which. Edit: but taking enough time away from one will end up leaving me with just one of the ideas, until I'm reminded of the other.
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Seven
For me is that i smell, taste and feel the colour of things, and i know how a person sounds idk if that makes sense like i could made a melody of you or the way you look. When i get sick all i smell or eat has a weird colour that frustrates me
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For me is that i smell, taste and feel the colour of things, and i know how a person sounds idk if that makes sense like i could made a melody of you or the way you look. When i get sick all i smell or eat has a weird colour that frustrates me
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toast
I _might_ have ideasthesia so im asking if this is normal:
triangles always green, squares orange, circles blue, hexagons yellow, etc.
Also, 1=male, 2=female, 3=depends, 4=female, 5=male, 6=male, 7=female, 8=FEMALE, 9=male, 10=male.
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I _might_ have ideasthesia so im asking if this is normal:
triangles always green, squares orange, circles blue, hexagons yellow, etc.
Also, 1=male, 2=female, 3=depends, 4=female, 5=male, 6=male, 7=female, 8=FEMALE, 9=male, 10=male.
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Lxchee
I always thought this was a normal thing because when I would hear a word, something completely unrelated would come up in my mind. I remember creating a synth patch that reminded me A LOT of rainbow sherbet and made something with it.
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I always thought this was a normal thing because when I would hear a word, something completely unrelated would come up in my mind. I remember creating a synth patch that reminded me A LOT of rainbow sherbet and made something with it.
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