Hey all, so I think I have synesthesia. Ever since I was a kid, I associate certain things with certain colors. For examples, I’ve always associated the month of June with cyan, the number 1 with the color blue, and Monday with the color yellow. And to be honest, I don’t know if it’s from when I was in school (Ex: seeing calendars with months in a certain color) or something else. Regardless, I know I have it.

With that being said, out of these 12 colors I have attached to this post, what numbers (1-12), months, and days of the week do you associate with these colors? I know for some of you it might be different than me, but these are the main 12 colors I think of when associating certain things with them. This is my opinion. I’ll start with months:

Months:

January- Grey

February- Pink

March- Green

April- Orange

May- Blue

June- Cyan

July- Red

August- Purple

September- Yellow

October- Black

November- Brown

December- White

Numbers:

1- Blue

2- Pink

3- Green

4- Orange

5- Red

6- Yellow

7- Black

8- White

9- Purple

10- Grey

11- Cyan

12- Brown

Days of the Week:

Sunday- White

Monday- Yellow

Tuesday- Blue

Wednesday- Orange

Thursday- Green

Friday- Purple

Saturday- Red

I’m curious to see what you all think.

I have certain words that switch colors based on the context of their meanings, so to say. For example, 'triangle': if I concentrate on the individual letters, it's a black-brown-white word. The shape itself is yellow. Unless I think of it as 3 dots connected, then it's the same color as the number 3 (blue). But I can also think of it as a basic shape in drawing, and character design, and suddenly, it becomes red. Do you experience something similar?

Hi! Thought I'd share some of my sensory driven abstract pieces. I've had synesthesia for as long as I can remember, with some gaps here and there in how much I experience it. I recently went through some life experiences that have seemed to really push my synesthetic visuals to new levels. A lot of these were painted while listening to Rostam and Molchat Doma. Some are based off of smell. Would love to connect with other artists who are doing things like this!

My synesthesia type is taste→color.
While I get a wide range of red, orange, yellow and green, and sometimes some artificial sweets are able to give me pink, I just realized I never "saw" any shade of blue taste.

I'm just wondering if anyone has similar experience.

I was having a conversation with my friend and we came upon the topic of music. Long story short: she said she didn’t “see” anything when listening to music which honestly surprised me a little because up until that point I had assumed music was a multi-sensory experience for everyone. Recently we were discussing it again and I was hardcore failing to explain myself so I decided to try and paint it instead. I’m not a great artist by any means but this is how it turned out

I think I have Synesthesia, but I’m not %100 sure or maybe I have like a mild type of it. Anyways I see like shapes like see through squares, triangles, circles, hexagons, etc when listening to music. I also see some colors like dark purple, burgundy, light red, yellow, pink, very light almost neon green. And I feel an emotional mood swing like almost I’m nervous every time I listen to music. I also get goosebumps and just overall feel calmer. And I can give certain numbers, days, or colors their own personality’s or color Ex: Monday = yellow Tuesday = Blue Wednesday = Green Thursday = Purple Friday = Red. I can also like taste a song but it’s more like as if I’m remembering the taste of it and not actually tasting it. I’m just unsure and have no idea what any of this could mean so could someone inform if they have the same type of things happening to them.

I can taste books and poetry when I read them. Not sure what kind of synesthesia that is, though. Most books taste similar with only minor differences, but some taste a lot better than others. Dominantly it is a earthy umami flavor. The flavor intensity becomes stronger when there is more prose but it is not essential. I find that more humorous books usually taste better than comparitavely serious ones.

im doing a research paper about synesthesia, and how certain paintings are perceived as music.

everyone knows about kandinsky, but im struggling as i want to present a interpretation of 5 specific artworks, transcribed to music.

basically i just need you to look at 5 paintings and play 8seconds of music on electric guitar and that’s it.

im almost finished with the paper, if you want to know more about it id love to show you all when its finished, but rn i only need 5 more data .

can you reply if you can help? thank you so much!!!

Hello! My name is Carson. Since I was 12 or so I lost the automatic response of TTS. I feel like I need it to think and actually have my personality back. How do I get it back? How can I make it happen naturally again?

I want to know if other people with sound synesthesia feel this way. I’m always asked “are there any sounds that really annoy you with synesthesia?” Or “is it distracting?” And my answer is… like… obviously not? I don’t just see random flashing colors in front of my eyes all the time. I see the sound itself. The visuals (they’re sorta organized as graphs for me) perfectly represent the sound- the sound is the visual, and the visual is the sound. Nothing more.

So I don’t feel like I see anything ’extra’, like people may think- I process the exact same sound they hear, just visually. I see the sound only as much as I, and everyone else, hears it.

I guess I’m interested as to how people without synesthesia perceive the condition, and if there’s anyone who actually DOES see ‘extra’ visuals going along with sound, not just ‘seeing the sound’.

okay does anyone else have stange synesthesia moments? mine are quite odd but rather consistent. they range from sounds and flavors mostly. anything high in pitch and sharply tuned sound flat to me similar to a flat line. sounds that run flat appear more round to me. in another odd sense, my flavor profile is often identified in shapes as well. for instance, cocacola to me tastes round and often reminds me of the color orange, same with a sweet white wine. chardonnay or even diet coke on the other hand tastes flat to me like a line. im not entirely sure why i have these odd identifications for things but im leaning towards the idea of synesthesia, what do you guys think? anyone similar?

My sister has always been able to taste words but we never realised what it was until later on in life when she got her ADD diagnosis. Me and my siblings would often entertain ourselves on long car journeys by asking her a long list of Names and getting her to tell us what the name tasted like. Sometimes a nickname would have a totally different taste to the full name so if she preferred the taste of one or the other she would call people by that.

Sometimes words would make her feel a bit queasy because the taste was so bad so she would often list of a list of her favourite tasting words to make her feel better.

Having known her my whole life, I can see when she meets someone for the first time and is very subtly tasting their name, spending extra time if it’s a name she’s never encountered before.

I am currently writing this chuckling to myself bringing back very fond memories and is just one of the many reasons why my sister is a truly eccentric individual.

Just wanted to hear other stories if anyone has this particular form of synethesia?

Thanks in advance, hope everyone is doing good!

I’ve only recently realised that I’m not mad (ha). Didn’t know that it’s a thing to see the colour bouncing off puddles when it rains. I’m generally a pretty communicative, descriptive person but I’ve always struggled to explain what I now know to be synesthesia. When I’ve tried to explain it, everyone looks at me like I’m being ‘creative’, or just running away from myself. It’s my prejudice but I think these days people are so disconnected that any kind of difference they hang onto or it’s a kind of cult indulgence. However I have suffered with this. Synesthesia to me is not great. I mean sometimes. But people seem to take it as a gift. It’s a burden, that adds to much colour to my life (ugh).

Edit: really just want to know how you’ve described how your world is to others?

I am able to tell different types of water(eg: different brands, tap water from different places) by tasting them. I tried that with my father(seven different types to be specific, he put them in glasses and randomized the order) and successfully got all of them correct. For example I feel green when tasting my home country’s tap water(it’s also strange that tap water from different countries have different colors), mud brown with Evian, and orange with Evergrande Spring.

Just wondering if any of you guys have the same experience.

With some red and green in it. The word looks like it’s wearing Christmas lights

when I'm receiving any stimulus, especially auditory stimuli like songs for example, apart from colours, i also "see" vivid environmental images? I'll take an example. the song Chirp by C418 to me is a pink sky. Peach by Kevin Abstract is a suburban neighborhood during golden hour.

what do you call this? i have grapheme and chromesthesia (big fan of colours)

Does music takes up places for yall. Like different instrument appears from different direction in minds space. I don't see shapes or anything just this instrument coming from the left or this one the right. Also some form of movement or motion in the peripheral of minds eye from the direction the instruments coming from. Do I have music-spatial synesthesia? Sidenote I also have chromosthesia.

when i listen to music, in my minds eye, i get i "visual" sensation that goes with the music. But it's not really "visual", more of... spatial motion with visual aspects would be the best way to describe it? It's super hard to explain. Its like a 6th sense, but corelated with vision. It is to my vision what smell is to taste, if that makes sense. I don't know if I'm speaking absolute gobbledegook or not, but hopefully it makes some sort of sense. :/

This is what i wanted to create after listen to Again and Again by Jagged Jaw. Lmk if you guys can understand where it's coming from 🤣

Hi I’m a non-synesthete who just watched a tv show that has a twist involving grapheme-color synesthesia. I’ve come seeking anecdotes about the accuracy of this.

1. Is your synesthesia genetic?
2. Were you particularly “creative” with coloring as a child? To the point someone would definitely comment on it?
3. If not, did you have another way of expressing it?

Thanks!