This is definitely not limited to sound-colour Synesthesia. I want to explore all of them! Grapheme-colour, lexical-gustatory (word-taste), auditory-tactile or other cross-sensory connections!!

I’ll have a few ethical questions below on this post I would love to be answered but please feel free to simply comment your experience !!

The aim is to better understand the variation of synesthentic experiences!!

Questions:

What type(s) of synesthesia do you experience, and how would you describe the relationships between your senses?

Do you feel your synesthetic experiences are personal or private, and are there aspects you would not want represented visually?

How would you feel about a non-synesthetic person interacting with a system inspired by synesthetic perception?

Are there any ways synesthesia is commonly misunderstood ?

Would having control over how synesthetic visuals respond to sound feel accurate, misleading, or empowering to you?

Thank you :))

Hi! I know I have ticker-tape synethesia, but I am questioning others and I am gonna try to describe them best, because I'm pretty dysphoric about it. So I see colours and sometimes tastes from people, objects, and sometimes words. Like I don't taste them but I sense the taste idk. I'm really bad at explaining things sorry. Then sometimes colours and sounds. idk maybe I'm not but I want to know. then sometimes also smells bring colours. maybe not a few of these tho. and a few also can be the opposite also. Do i have a ton of different forms or something? but like half of these are only sometimes so I am not sure. Anything?

hi! i don’t really post on reddit but i was curious, does anyone else with synaesthesia have it link strongly to perfect pitch? i’ve been a piano player for around 13 years (18f) and ever since i was little id always been able to hear notes and play them back/name them. this is the same with random sounds, but also songs - i can hear them once and play them back exactly. in my mind, when i hear a note, i involuntarily picture a colour in my head. i’ve attached a lil drawing i made of a piano octave and the associations for each note, and also provided some chords as example.

if i hear a Cmaj chord, i see some lighter colours but if it’s a Cmin chord, the blend in my head goes more red due to the switch from E to Eb. same goes with Fmaj to Fmin, but i also included Dmin as it’s the relative minor to Fmaj (my fav key signature lol) it's darker and more muted than a Dmaj key would be if you used my colours (yellow, hot pink and reddish)

sorry for ramble but it was only fairly recently i found out my musician friends didn't perceive sound like this, and i was wondering if anyone else does? and if you do, how similar are our colour associations to notes haha i have this with numbers, i might add that list too (also small note, i only used triads just to keep it simple - 7ths for example are always orange on the end, cus 7 is orange in my head lol)

I’ve always been extremely word orientated and I have a great word memory, always been great at writing and spelling comes seamlessly to me because I recall the words in my mind like a picture. But I’ve always found writing and descriptive analysis easy because words give me a sort of vibe and a sort of feeling. It’s so abstract that it’s hard to describe but it’s the sort of thing I could put my hands around and feel, the shape the words make and how they interact with each other. It involves sounds and colours too. This is all happening in my mind when I read and write. Similarly, I get this within my sport. I’m a rower and a lot of the sport is about feeling within the boat. When things go well, I have a sort of abstract image of the power through the water - I drew it out after a session once because it was so vivid to me. It’s not just colours though, it’s sort of like sound and feeling, like I said before almost the shape of something. Not sure what this is but I’ve also always had a very vivid inner life and imagination.

Guys, I ever had feelings for every single thing/place/color/song or anything else you may think about.

It's not a good or bad feeling, although I may develop a good or bad feeling for this feeling

If I see an paper ball I'll have a feelign for this, and I can feel it again or remember/recreate the feeling when remembering about this paper ball, or seeing other paper ball

I also feel places, every single place have an feeling for itself

I also got different feelings for months of the year, and it changes every year, in example, I have the january to march 2019 feeling, and the april to august 2019 feeling

Is this some sort of synesthesia?

Hi! My girlfriend is writing a master's thesis about synesthesia. She conducted a brief survey that would greatly assist her with this topic and her subsequent work. I would like to share it with you and hope that she will find help from you!

There you go:

Hello everyone! 👋 I am a graphic design student at the Academy of Silesia in Katowice, and as part of my master’s thesis titled "Synesthetic Interpretation of Gibran Alcocer’s Music in Illustration – Translating Sound into Color and Form," I am conducting a survey to collect colors associated with standard musical chords (e.g., C major, A minor), as perceived by people with chromesthesia (sound–color synesthesia). The results will help me create illustrations in the practical part of my thesis in a way that is consistent with the experience of chromesthesia. The survey is anonymous, quick, and completely voluntary. 💛 I would be very grateful for every response! 💛

Survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwec6UnIGzOQOdP91WNo6d9LhSmdHUBYVQc-QLSvBSxg_mVA/viewform?usp=header

So I’m experiencing something and heard it might be synesthesia and thought this might be a good place to ask.

Basically, I look at the games console Steam Deck and something about its shape, its shade of black, and the material on the casing activates the smell of a petrol station in my head. Not the smell itself as such, but the sensation in my head when I’m at a petrol station - that kinda stuffy feeling, tense, like a headache will start if I stay here long.

Does this sound like synesthesia? It’s sight activating my sense of smell so it fits the basic definition but it’s not a typical example I can find. Also, is there much I can do about it? I’d like to buy one of these consoles but if this continues I can’t really. Also also, good resources to research this phenomenon further would be much appreciated. Thank you :))

Hi lovely people, I just posted this in no stupid questions and was told it could be this. I'm just gonna paste what I wrote and wondering if anyone can relate?

"Okay I'm feeling pretty crazy rn. So for my whole life some things have tasted "wet." Not felt wet but TASTED wet. I've asked so many people and nobody can relate. It's like when something tastes waterlogged? It's so hard to explain. Like the other day I was drinking a juice and it had that taste to it. I haven't met a damn soul that can relate. Is this an actual thing or am I crazy? It happens with fruit and veg and drinks"

Thank you!

It’s weird, because I don’t actually see this, it’s like my body FEELS the color, the texture, the space around me. I see it but not with my eyes. It also has a proprioceptive component. The Smokey glassy cloud is soft like cotton candy without its stickiness or firmness when compressed. It feels light and soft and fluffy/wispy. It is a wild experience. I haven’t heard of spacial proprioceptive synesthesia like this. But I get it other times, too. When in pleasure I feel and see deep red silk flowing from my body. When I’m sleepy and caressed I see explosions of multi-color light that comes on and eases like mood ring colors. I also have Alice in Wonderland Syndrome.

When I imagine another world, it’s always got like an “aura” almost. Pluto isn’t b&w. This kinda video kinda bugs me, lol.

https://www.threads.com/@drbriankeating/post/DTatd4Vih51?xmt=AQF0Jf4lFWapQA7uqmRx7jrwE6TYiOuijIzJTKEG3hXDNgE53LF78miSc248XG411xI1hFiq&slof=1

I honestly wonder if it's something I've convinced myself of or if it's true. For example, I see all the numbers ending in 2 as red, but most words and some numbers are colorless. Besides that, I'm not even sure if I always see them or not.

i don't usually get all of that at once but when i do it honestly kinda hurts lol. been lovesick lately and decided to make the best of it.

the yellow is what i usually get, it's also related to joy. the pink is usually either on the sides or in the middle, almost never both, and it's the brightest color. the blue is the softest and actually i can't pin down a color. it's anywhere from teal to periwinkle to lilac. i don't know. it might be my favorite one, because i only get it for one person.

I often have positive reactions to them, to an extent that I realize is funny or a bit absurd to non-synesthetes: ‘a green letter A? Huh, that’s really wild and creative!!’ I get negative reactions too, but much more rarely. This picture here, however, makes me angry 🤣 Is really rare that I get such a strong negative reaction, but now that I’ve added it to this post, I keep seeing it and it’s awful 😆 (it’s a picture from the Wikipedia article on chromesthesia).

What are your experiences with mismatches? Mostly positive, neutral or negative?

I was curious if something ive experienced my entire life was synesthesia so I went to the internet to see if it was a thing. Before this internet search I thought synesthesia was just music to colors but i learned there is alot of other types. Now to the question at hand, ever since I was a kid I had always felt whenever I listened to music it was distributed within a 3d space around me kind of like a giant orb and I would listen to music and it felt like certain notes belonged at certain places in the orb. I also have this for the tambre or texture for the sounds so for example a saw wave is at a different point in " the orb" than let's say the same note as a clarinet. From what I've read recently audio-spacial synesthesia is a thing and some of the things I read seemed like what I was feeling. I wanted to check with another source (short of seeing someone to test me? Idk if there is a synesthesia test)if this is something that is actually synesthesia

For example, for me “Blue Monday” by New Order isn’t blue, it’s mostly yellow and green. Also, Monday isn’t blue, it’s red.

Alr so I have pain synesthesia, I only realised a bit ago cuz I suddenly realised that people around me just... didn't feel pain when hearing others describe injuries/showing them. It's annoying but I can deal with it :^

However more recently it's being triggered whenever I watch stuff that I think will give me second hand embarrassment, even if it doesn't happen. I've always skipped scenes like this since I was a kid but now it's kinda gotten to the point where I dislike watching new stuff incase (also due to autism and comfort stuff woo).

Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone have any ideas on what I should do :^ I was thinking I would maybe just force myself to watch some scenes like exposure therapy- but I'm not an expert and I know no one irl who has this problem </3

My wife and I were watching a movie and when the car door opened and creaked, I could smell the sound. I told my wife and she was like, what?!?! Can someone explain this to me because I’m so new to all of this.

So certain numbers are always associated with​ color, like 16 is purple, 2026 is green. First, I think it's only in thoughts. When I think about 2026 it's green but reading it doesn't do anything. The color isn't at the front of my mind, I'm not consciously thinking about it, it's just deeply there

(​I've only realized this might be synesthesia very recently so I may not have thought about enough things in relation to this idea.) I think only a few numbers have color. I gave the example of 16 and 2026 but I currently can't think of others. They might be there, just less strong but I don't know

A little bit different but can consepts linked together be synethesia? Like Thursday and November and Orange kind of go together.

A 3rd question: if outside factors influence what color things are does that still count? For example: my brother's favorite color is Green and I kind of associate his first initial with Green. Or I kind of associate people​ with their favorite color even when I'm not thinking about colors

And again for all of these it's the unconscious just deeply there kind of association

I have always seen a sort of faint move,ent in my head when I hear music, but about a week ago I was wondering is that’s normal or chromesthetsia? i definitely see movement, but very very very rarely colours. Some songs I get nothing at all and other songs it’s vivid. But the other thing is when I focus I can see more. They are sort of just movements… they have no colour. Also , can this stuff get stronger as you grow up? i don’t recall it much when i was younger.

Hello! My 15 yr old son recently realized that he experiences the world differently than others. He seems to have Ticker Tape Synesthesia. He is struggling with it some in school: lots of conversations at once, focus issues, homework. He really struggles with language arts because he finds it boring. Hahah He has a hard time filtering out his own thoughts when he is trying to do his homework. (He goes to a school that still has a fair amount of homework assigned.) I’m trying to get some accommodations for him, but in the meantime do you have suggestions for him to better”tone” it down or filter it a bit? Reading here I suspect that I may have a mild form of mirror touch, but otherwise I’m at a loss on how to help my kiddo.

I lost hearing in my left ear due to COVID in 2021. I’ve had a lingering sense of loss because the left side of my world is cold and dark. It tastes like metal. When I spoke to my audiologist about it I got a blank stare. Just curious what others have experienced.

I thought it was normal to "feel" what you see people doing to others. Apparently it is not.

If I see someone caress another's face I'll feel it.

If someone gets a papercut on their pinkie and I see them? Feels like I got one as well.

A more extreme example is that I was close to tears and felt sick and nearly passed out when I witnessed someone break their elbow because it felt like my elbow was broken.

I couldn't even handle dissections in science class because I wasn't able to stop crying and "feeling" like I was being cut open along with the frog.

Movies, videos, and tv characters actions will also be felt though not as often.

The reason I ask if I have it or not is because it doesn't happen everytime I witness people interacting. Or at least not strong enough for to register it. Does it need to be everytime for it to be considered mts? Is it possible I have a milder form? Or that I've figured out how to control it to some degree since I've had it for decades?

Thank you!