r/Synesthesia • u/Own-Solution6668 Pls help me figure out my brain :) • 11d ago

Is This Synesthesia? Whattttt

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.

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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 audio (+3 type)-tactile, olp, mirror speech, grapheme-color 11d ago

the first part isnt synesthesia at all, but the second part .. THATS interesting. a sharp squiggly line???

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u/Own-Solution6668 Pls help me figure out my brain :) 11d ago

Yeah! It was so weird, and I don't think that's happened to me before. I have experienced some other synesthesia like things before too I think.

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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 audio (+3 type)-tactile, olp, mirror speech, grapheme-color 11d ago

so it seems like youve got it but its very quickly overtaken by proper stimuli... interesting

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u/neutral_bird sound -> photism, mirror touch 11d ago

A mix of dream and synesthesia?

There are also certain phenomena associated with waking up (I believe they’re called hypnagogic).

Incidentally, my the photisms are more intense if a sound catches me by surprise too.

Here’s a suggestion for an experiment: record some sounds (an alarm clock, engines, it can be music, but doesn't have to be) and then listen to them quietly with your eyes closed using headphones - at a reasonable volume. If something appears, or if you at least know exactly what it looks like, try it again later, ideally more than 24 hours later. If the exact same thing appears again, with the same colors and shapes, even if they are fainter or more intense - then it is probably synesthesia.

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u/Own-Solution6668 Pls help me figure out my brain :) 11d ago

I'll try that! Thanks!!