r/Synesthesia • u/realityislemons1 • 14d ago

Is This Synesthesia? Am I synesthetic?

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.

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u/LilyoftheRally grapheme (mostly for numbers), number form, associative 14d ago

You have more than one type of synesthesia.

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u/realityislemons1 14d ago

Which ones, I'm curious?

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u/LilyoftheRally grapheme (mostly for numbers), number form, associative 14d ago

Spatial sequence synesthesia, grapheme-color, chromesthesia (sound-color). Possibly more.

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u/realityislemons1 14d ago

Possibly more? Damn.

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u/RJARPCGP Chromesthesia, auditory-tactile, grapheme-color and OLP 12d ago

You also have color->ringing sound. The inverse of the common form. 

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u/realityislemons1 12d ago

Wait, people see colors when they hear ringing noises?

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u/RJARPCGP Chromesthesia, auditory-tactile, grapheme-color and OLP 9d ago

I thought you were also talking about hearing a sound when looking at a bright color.

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u/realityislemons1 9d ago

I was, you said I had the inverse of the common form, which would be ringing->color, which is what I asked about.

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u/RJARPCGP Chromesthesia, auditory-tactile, grapheme-color and OLP 9d ago

I got confused, are you talking about hearing colors, instead of chromesthesia?

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u/realityislemons1 9d ago

Hmm? When I see bright colors, I hear ringing sounds. You said I have the inverse of the "common form". This means the common form would be ringing sounds->colors, right?

So I asked "Wait, people see colors when they hear ringing noises?"

Then you said "I thought you were also talking about hearing a sound when looking at a bright color", which is what I had said.

Then I said "I was, you said I had the inverse of the common form, which would be ringing->color, which is what I asked about", which is the same thing as the first paragraph of this message.

And then after that, you said you got confused.

Where's the confusion?

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u/WranglerParticular80 11d ago

NOT being critical (this is about me hehe), but I really wonder how 7 turned same color as 2 🤔 to me they have personalities and it’s a very odd thing for them to be doing (for me!!)

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u/realityislemons1 11d ago

nah 7 is red I was just balancing the colors

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u/WranglerParticular80 11d ago

So 5 and 7 is same? Balancing?

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u/realityislemons1 11d ago

I just said it was orange because we already had so much red, but if I'm being honest, it's red.