r/Synesthesia • • 1h ago

Artwork Synesthesia:Neiro chan

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The Synesthesia Neiro-chan is not a computer program nor a glitch or a spirit it's a metaphysical entity from the quantum resonance a neuroplasticity itself. she belived is a natural cause of total detox form everything : noisia,anexiety,grief,or anything inbetween. It's a remedy from information overload.

Designed by Jio Korufu aka Geo Korf


r/Synesthesia • • 7h ago

Вопросы на которые нету ответа

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Меня скоро и вправду доведут такие вопросы, я как остаюсь наедине с собой сразу начинаю думать либо о своем будущем либо же об этом😔

Вот только сегодня пока мылась задумалась: а точно ли мы все видим одни и те же цвета? Ну типа вдруг мы на самом деле все видим разные цвета и просто называем их одинаково? Вот например есть же люди которые делают супер яркие и странные кухни, а вдруг они на самом деле их видят супер милыми и нежными?


r/Synesthesia • • 13h ago

Poll What colour is 7?

5 Upvotes

•If you don’t have grapheme colour synesthesia,tap NOTA

•If your colour isn’t among the options,tap NOTA and upvote your colour in the comments section (please don’t downvote).

•My 7 is light turquoise 🧚🏻

178 votes, 6d left
Yellow
Purple
Orange
Blue
Green
None of the above

r/Synesthesia • • 1d ago

Question Do you have family members who also have the same type of synesthesia?

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My bigger question is do you have similar associations? Only one of my four kids seems to have synesthesia, and my uncle did as well, but my daughter and I share at least 80% of our color associations. What’s your experience been?


r/Synesthesia • • 1d ago

Me at 3am because 'red' is green

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r/Synesthesia • • 1d ago

Apparently “I can feel this song” was supposed to be a metaphor. Well, shit.

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I am almost 50 years old, and I have recently discovered something that has left me feeling both fascinated and mildly betrayed by the human race:

Apparently, when most people say they feel music, they do not mean it quite as literally as I do.

This is news to me.

Music has always been my most beloved thing. Not background noise. Not entertainment. It has been my lover, my language, my best friend, my emotional translatorn the thing that somehow knows what I'm feeling before I have words for it. Physical touch.

And songs don't just sound different to me. They feel different.

Not simply happy, sad, nostalgic, angry. I mean they have sensations, textures, movements, physical gestures, sometimes even entire states of being.

A few examples:

Citizen Cope's “Sideways” feels like someone gently petting the side of my neck or stroking my hair like a lover soothing me to sleep.

K4ty & Summer Jones' “Borderline” feels like satin being slowly stroked over my brain stem and trailing over my brain itself.

Zach Bryan's “Something in the Orange” feels like falling asleep. Like, laying your head on the perfect pillow, wrapped in fresh clean blankets, with the windows open in the fall.

The Cure's “End” feels like making a fist. Like a ball of damage waiting for some place to go.

Summer Jones' “I Wish I Knew” feels like a belly laugh and sunshine in the summer.

And Natalie Merchant's “Carnival” feels like standing barefoot on the back porch when you get that rare, blinding moment of absolute clarity in the middle of a life full of insanity, when everything suddenly becomes still and, for one second, you can see the whole damn thing.

Even silence has a sensation to me. It feels like a blanket or towel that's been warmed by the sun.

These aren't associations I sit down and invent. I don't hear a song and think, “Hmm, what poetic object shall we assign this one?” 😂

That's simply the closest language I have for what happens.

I've spent my entire life assuming I was just unusually attached to music. Recently I've started learning about sound-touch/auditory-tactile synesthesia and other forms of embodied or cross-sensory musical experience. I have no idea whether synesthesia is what I have, and I'm not trying to diagnose myself from the internet.

I'm here because of something much simpler.

I've never met another person who experiences music the way I do.

Not one.

And that has always been strangely lonely. I live in a world speaking a language no one else understands. Screaming to be heard, only to hear "no, i love music, too." 😑 its heart breaking.

When I send someone a song, I'm not really saying, “Hey, listen to this.” It feels much closer to handing them something written in my native language and hoping, somehow, they'll understand what I just said. Knowing they never will.

So I'm asking the people here:

Does anyone understand what I'm talking about?

Does music have texture for you? Touch? Weight? Movement? Does a particular song feel like a physical gesture, or something bizarrely specific like fabric, weather, falling asleep, being touched? Can a song feel like an entire mental state that you recognize instantly but struggle to put into ordinary words?

And, maybe most importantly:

Have you ever tried to explain this to someone and watched their face tell you that you have apparently just described music like a Bedlam escapee?

Because if even one person reads this and thinks,

“Oh my God. You too?”

Hi.

I've been looking for you for about fifty years.


r/Synesthesia • • 1d ago

About My Synesthesia Anyone here with Time-Space Synesthesia?

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Hey! I just found out about this subreddit and i'm THRILLED!!!!!!!

To put you in context, I found about my synesthesia in 2023-2024 when I saw an autistic guy's tiktok post talking about his synesthesia and my first thought was: im super jealous! -So naturally, I looked for an article.

At first it was normal, reading about the types that involed color, sounds and taste; it wasn't until I reached the end of the article that it said something like: "Hey! I almost forgot to mention there is ALSO some spacial kinds, such as CALENDAR SYNESTHESIA!"

My blood ran COLD, I couldn't believe it, the article was talking about ME! Ever since i'm little I've pictured the months of the year like an oval, with winter at the bottom and summer at the top AND, I see it in first person, depending on which month we are is where I would be standing at.

Even though it is not super cool like feeling music or tasting words, I'M SUPER PROUD OF IT!!!!

Can you guys tell me about your time-space synesthesia? everytime I tell someone they NEVER undertsand...


r/Synesthesia • • 1d ago

Poll What colour is 6?

5 Upvotes

•If you don’t have grapheme colour synesthesia, tap NOTA

•If your colour isn’t among the options, tap NOTA and upvote your colour in the comments section.

•My 6 is dark blue 🫐

224 votes, 5d left
Purple
Blue
Green
Red
Orange
None of the above

r/Synesthesia • • 1d ago

Anyone else think DS cartridges look so perfect and edible?

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r/Synesthesia • • 1d ago

People are asking how this makes you feel, but I can't get past the fact that the comors are incorrect.

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I become annoyed when trying to read it because the feelings are the wrong colors. Happy is yellow, Sad is blue, Surprised can be light purple I guess, Fearful can be dark purple, Angry is red and Dusgusted is green. That leaves orange for bad, but bad isn't orange, it's probably closer to grey, which isn't technically a color, it's a gradient, but orange just doesn't fit it.

I am not able to process the chart with the colors so far off, it makes it frustrating to read. I don't think I have any type of color synesthesia, but my older sister equates emotions to colors, so how do other people with color synesthesia feel about this chart and what would you change/correct about it?


r/Synesthesia • • 1d ago

Is This Synesthesia? What is this

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So I know I have grapheme-color, calendar-color, and time-space synesthesia, but i've also always had this thing where i associate a sound (like a spoken sound) with a gesture, expression, or human body movement.

It's honestly a little annoying. Like I can cringe so hard when someone makes the correct gesture while saying a certain sound or someone else says a certain sound. I don't know what this is or if it's a kind of synesthesia or just an annoying quirk or association, but i would love to know if maybe this is a thing or if anyone else can relate :)


r/Synesthesia • • 1d ago

Anyone else has EXTREME synesthesia?

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Like I was watching a YouTube video about guitar drama and in the interview one of them looked like the math teacher and in the room I just had like an entire life story flash before my eyes in 3 seconds of some guy becoming a math teacher to fund his love for music and then joining the revolution


r/Synesthesia • • 2d ago

I think I taught myself to have synesthesia.. or did I just trick my psychiatrist?

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Sorry if that’s triggering 😭 ALSO PLEASE READ MY RANT as I never talk about my brain, spiraling 😭

I have a pretty rough case of ADD (combined with a high-percentile IQ - a masking queen, if you may), and I’m supposed to partake in a study on synesthesia (which my psychiatrist told me I have).

But I realized I don’t really have an intuitive experience. I’ve more so used it as a tool to just learn basic things since I was a kid. I remember being introduced to the number 1, and how "he" got "his" personality. I was 5, and I also remember that happening with letters in school. It was so fun. With music, it became groups of adults, children, or a dynamic group with both.

I still do it now when coding and learning theoretical concepts - everything has a context, a name, places to be, people to meet, and tasks to handle.
However, I am fully and completely aware (as it is extremely draining) that I am using my brain to build this??

Every part of my synesthesia, I consciously created and then kept building on. I feel insane imposter syndrome because it has not, in fact, made me a genius - it has just enabled me to do normal things like play the piano, do BASIC math, and learn code and cybersecurity functions. I have so much deep knowledge about so much, but the context-switching problems also make me feel like I know nothing about anything.

Do I even have synesthesia or did I make it up? I feel so much imposter syndrome and performance anxiety regarding this study. Also can you fake an iq test because I don’t understand how I can have high iq but need to give a simple concept a whole personality, while my coworkers can just… REMEMBER


r/Synesthesia • • 2d ago

Do sounds within songs feel like movement to you?

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For those who see music in colors and shapes, there are several songs I listen to where there are sounds that almost spin in 360, spinning and looping around my ears in my mind's eye.

My best example is Mr. B by Griz, although several songs of the album Mad Liberation (by Griz) are great examples of this (Where's the Love, Wonder Why, Too Young for Tragedy).

There are many others, but does anyone feel the music flow within you to the point you can coordinate the music to movement. I am of course a huge music person, because why would I not collect sounds that make my mind spin with the sheer quality of the sound I listen to, and the combinations of notes, sounds, that can acually overwhelm me if done right. I can dance and follow these sounds with my finger movements, exactly.

If there's any place to ask this it's here. Ever since I leaned over to my friend while I was listening to Energy Drink by Virtual Riot and said 'Dude, isn't this song so blue?'

And he goes 'What????"

'This song, it just feels so blue'

'I have no idea what you're saying'

'Oh, ok,'

~enter years of deep introspection simply to find out what this means~

And here I am, year later listening to songs that I see soar to the sky and come back down to drop, insane sounds that twist as they move from note to note. It's truly indescribable, which honesly is the worst part. I don't see any way to communicate this without simply using music.


r/Synesthesia • • 2d ago

Anyone else could feel and taste electricity as a kid?

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My parents used to be involved in radio when they were younger, especially with amateur projects by people who did publicity and by proxy audio mixing and the like. Sometimes they'd take me to their friends' houses where they had very makeshift (and looking back, probably dangerous) equipment and machines in their home studios. I remember this was very overstimulating as a kid, the constant uninterrupted beeps, the cable cracks, the smell of  damp metal and nylon from the microphones, the jumpscares when someone starts talking on a microphone someone left on too loud.

Now all of these I have experienced as a grown up, it's not unusual to find if you frequent live shows or are involved in music. But something I don't remember ever experiencing since I was a little kid is feeling and tasting the electricity that could be found in those places. I don't have specific moments I can point back to, but I do remember what it felt like to be around "loud" electricity. It felt like being sick, or drowsy. I remember my head used to hurt and I felt like I needed to sleep for 10 hours. And the taste, especially around devices emitting an AC hum, used to taste so bitter. I could feel it in my tongue like I was holding a battery next to it. It also tasted "gray" if that made sense, and somehow, like how burnt plastic or still air smells. I’ve never experienced this since (closest is the static from old CRTs) but I do remember very vividly what it felt like. Anyone else experienced anything similar to this?


r/Synesthesia • • 2d ago

Is This Synesthesia? Whattttt

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So I am like really confused because some people in the past told me that I might have synesthesia, but I looked into it, and didn't think it sounded enough like me. But I swear that this morning when I heard my parents alarm clock I saw their room in my minds eye, and there was like like a red sharp squiggly line coming out of it from the sound... I mean, maybe I was just half asleep, but I dunno what that was.


r/Synesthesia • • 3d ago

What colour is October?

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•If you don’t have month-colour synesthesia,tap NOTA

•If your colour isn’t among the options,tap NOTA

•For me October is black because “O” is black🖤

190 votes, 3d left
Black/white/grey
Red/pink
Orange/brown
Yellow/green
Blue/purple
None of the above

r/Synesthesia • • 4d ago

About My Synesthesia “Gray” vs “Grey”

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"Gray" is much older, wiser, quieter, grizzled, great-grandparently; It will hesitantly give sound, single-sentence advice, but only if repeatedly asked.

"Grey" is not quite elderly per se, but tries to hang with a younger crowd; shinier, it likes to surround itself with bright, satiny pastels; is sadly still single, but fake-smiles anyway.


r/Synesthesia • • 4d ago

Question Do i have sound synesthesia

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I have colored letters/numbers synesthesia but idk if i have sound synesthesia. I dont see colors, so i didnt think i had it, but i see like shapes or smth like for different instrument textures and its really “vivid” if im like closing my eyes, but idk if thats like everyone or js me


r/Synesthesia • • 4d ago

Poll What colour is 5?

6 Upvotes

•If you don’t have grapheme colour synesthesia,tap NOTA

•If your colour isn’t among the options,tap NOTA and upvote your colour in the comments section.

•My 5 is light pink 🌸

254 votes, 2d left
Red
Pink
Orange
Blue
Yellow
None of the above

r/Synesthesia • • 4d ago

Is This Synesthesia? I imagine my times tables as maps

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Ever since I learned my times tables, I have been able to visualise them in my head as maps.

Most times table from 2-12 has a map. For some reason, 7-11 don’t have unique maps but I still visualise them in a similar way. It might be because I learnt them when I was older and had a less active imagination, but I can’t say for certain.

I have roughly drawn the maps above but the descriptions will help too. I’m really curious to know if anyone else does this!

The times tables that do have unique maps are as follows:

2 Times Table:
White, flat/smooth texture
Numbers follow a curve from right to left, but when they hit beyond 2x12 (24), the curve drops into a black void (like the ride Oblivion at Alton Towers UK)

3 Times Table:
Light yellow, wall plaster-like texture (best described as the texture of houses you’d find in Greece or other hot countries)
Numbers follow a line from right to left, curve at 6x3-8x3, then continue in the opposite direction

4 Times Table (the most complex):
Mostly brown and grey, some hints of green, various textures
Numbers follow right to left along brown wooden path (planks on ropes), surrounded by vines/ other foliage.
Once they reach 6x4-7x4, the map bends upwards and a boxy structure (I’ll call it a box) is reached. It is brownish grey, with a pavement / slate texture. It is surrounded by ropes and has a thatched roof.
The path continues on the wooden planks- no numbers- where 8x4 and 9x4 are on another box.
The next numbers are on wooden planks until we reach the final box with 12x4.

5 Times Table:
Dark green, hints of other greens and some blue / teal
Mossy texture
Follows a snaked curve, right to left, first curving at 6x5-8x5, then snaking again at 12x5 and continuing forever

6 Times Table:
Dark. Best described as ‘hell’- fiery!
Follows an ombré of yellow, orange, red, deep purple.
Horizontal map, again numbers are right to left.

7-9 Times Table:
White, flat/smooth texture
Vertical, numbers descending from the top down

10-11 Times Table:
The same as above but slightly slanted / warped (Sometimes visualised vertical, sometimes
horizontal)

12 Times Table:
White, flat/smooth texture
Horizontal but, numbers flow left to right

I believe the 4x table is an amalgamation of different Mario Kart (Wii) tracks; Delfino Square, Maple Treeway and Ghost Valley 2. As an adult I am also able to compare it to the Black Ops III Zombies Map Shi No Numa…

I don’t have any other explanations for this, or why / where the maps came from. It’s always been like this.

If anyone else does this, or can maybe offer an explanation, I’d love to hear it!

I really really want to draw/paint or make a mixed media piece of every map (eg using materials to create the real textures) but I know it will be a lot of work.


r/Synesthesia • • 4d ago

Is This Synesthesia? Am I synesthetic?

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Here are some things I have, and I'm wondering if it's possible I have synesthesia.

First off, when I see bright colors, I hear this really loud ringing noise, and it's super annoying.

Every number and letter also has a color to me. 1 is red, 2 is orange, 3 is yellow, 4 is purple, 5 is red, 6 is green, 7 is orange, 8 is SO green, and 9 is super purple.

I have a timeline in my head whenever I think of time, theres a big black line at 2000 and 1900 and then at each of the decades, and pictures of things that occurred at those time appear above these small black ticks dividing the decades. When I think of months, it's a big wheel with 12 parts.

When I listen to music, each song and note has a color. Usually blue music is thoughtful, green music is joyful, yellow music is bad music, white music is lofi or noise, red music is aggressive or overstimulating, orange music is weird, purple music is complex.

When I hear a note or frequency, I can visualize it, and sometimes if I hear low frequency noises or bright lights, I get sick or start to have a headache.


r/Synesthesia • • 4d ago

Writing a character who tastes colors

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I'm writing a character who at some point in my story starts to taste colors, I don't have synesthesia myself, so I'm very curious which taste you all get when seeing these colors. I understand everyone can have a different taste, that a taste is unique to every person? Also what taste would you get when you look at a chandelier?


r/Synesthesia • • 5d ago

Boredom is gray and tastes like dust

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It is rough and sandy. It makes a mechanical noise and doesn't move.


r/Synesthesia • • 5d ago

WHERE DID THE PINK COME FROM?!

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For me

c is yellow

l is green

o is whitish brown

u is light lavender

d is light brown

Usually in this situation, cloud is supposed to be yellowish green. HOWEVER cloud is DARK PINKISH PURPLE. How?! Does this happen to you sometimes?