OMG !!! I thought it was normal for everybody!!! I had to call my mom to ask if it's normal to think about letters, numbers and forms in colors. She was as surprised as I am that I actually have that.

This makes me want to cry. I spent my whole life pushing it down and blocking it out, it made my will like iron and my life harder. Numbers had gender, personality and age, math problems became stories. In order to have a normal life, I had to block it. Feeling and seeing sound only increased with age, especially after motherhood. If I don’t like someone’s voice, I can feel in my own sinus cavity every crevice being vibrated and can almost taste the viscosity. I’m a voice bigot. I can’t help it. I’m so glad there are others..

Who else feels very special now?

Synesthesia is not a disorder it just means you brain works a little bit differently,

I thought *everyone* saw months, days of the week, decades, numbers, in patterns around them. I was stunned to learn that is not the case. Misophonia? OMG yes. THAT is a curse!

This was very interesting to watch. I am also a synesthete, and It blew my mind the different colors you saw. For w I see a majentaish purpleish color that i can't really describe and for 9 I see a navy/ very dark purple. I love having this because it makes reading very interesting.

This helped me learn why I’m so good at remembering numbers (phone numbers, number patterns, 9x9) it’s because I see them in color so it helps me remember them

This is a really good general introduction to synesthesia, and I love that he gave a few different examples for each form he covered. It really is, at it's core, just a different way that the brain can perceive the world and organize data.

Breath bud. You’re here cause your worth hearing

He describes this so well. Like, certain colors I can only see in my brain. They can be clearer or thicker. I also love how the more "dominant" letters project their colors. It is so hard to explain that to others.

I have the best kind of synesthesia: I hear colors, shapes, and patterns 👍😊😄 and I love it. I also see music notes in color. The reason why I love the key of F major so much is because F is dark green, A is brown, and C is scarlet. The colors of each note are consistent regardless of the pitch. A squealing high F is dark green, a medium F is dark green, and a deep, rumbling F is just as dark green as the high and middle ones. My favorite melody, the hymn tune FOREST GREEN by Rafe Vaughan Williams, is in the key of F major. But I loved the key of F major all my life, whereas I have only known the tune FOREST GREEN since Advent 1988. I think the first composition I liked in the key of F was Praise the Lord O Heavens (tune: Hyfrydol) or As with Gladness Men of Old (tune: Dix). But I love FOREST GREEN even more than Dix and Hyfrydol (especially in the past decade). Dix is my third favorite melody after Forest Green and Grafenberg, and Hyfrydol is somewhere in my Top Twenty Favorite hymn tunes. Forest Green is *the musical love of my life (along with the organ)*

Fuuu.... I knew I had grapheme color synesthesia, and the personification thing with numbers (letters aren’t as strong) but I had NO IDEA about spatial sequence. I had always seen the months as going in a triangle from left to right. Weekdays are in a circle. I just realized that is a type of synesthesia. I thought it was just a thing that most people did in their heads. Maybe that’s why my family game me a weird look when I asked if their months were in shapes..

Thanks for sharing your experience as a synesthete. I have a little of it. For example, if I pet the white fur of a cat, I taste coconut cake frosting. I can also hear sounds related to things I'm seeing. Daniel Tammet, the famous British savant who can learn any language in a short amount of time, had an ease with math because he saw every number, up to somewhere around 240 I think, as a different sensory experience. In his mind, they were individuals, like playmates.

This is exactly what I have. Every example he displayed on screen is what I experience, but his graphemes are different. A is green B is yellow, etc. The temporal spatial synesthesia is the weirdest to explain to other people. Sounds have color, colors have personalities, and flavors have shapes for me. I am very good at memorizing many things, so that def helps. Where I work, I don’t need paperwork, I have orders memorized into the thousands.

I was surprised to discover that not everyone sees the world the way I do. I also find it very interesting that time space synesthesia, which is what I have, seems to have greater uniformity in what is experienced than grapheme color. I can confirm that it greatly aids my memorization and also recall of when events took place, and that's a pretty cool advantage to have.

I have Synesthesia. I can see music, it’s really cool.

It helps so much, I have a job that I have to remember 8 digit numbers to run line tests, find it so much easier than the other engineers cos I’m just remembering the colours of my numbers instead

How amazing :D

omg i have this!!! I’ve always seen colors for words, numbers, and days of the week. it’s cool and I’ve discovered a somewhat practical use for synaesthesia: i can put my debit card info, bank acct and routing number in my notes in the form of colors and phone thieves won’t figure it out but i haven’t failed yet (haven’t had to look up my account/routing number in years!) that and it’s just fun to know that you have something rare that you can call your own :-)

Misophonia is something I’ve experienced my whole life. He says Synesthesia has more good than bad but I’ve never experienced that to be true with Misophonia. Anyone else? Any thoughts?

I hear music when i see a person, i smell people without have contact, i feel pain or electric impulses in different parts of my body depends what i see. I can feel when someone is coming and is close to arrive, colors have smells and taste and there's a halo around everything that has any form of energy of life it looks beautiful although is very distracting.

I relate to this guy, I also have grapheme-color synesthesia l and LOVE filmmaking and acting. Integrating the sound, sight, and emotion of film just comes naturally when you're a synesthete, I guess :D

As a synesthete, watching these videos always feels so wrong. Like why is your W blueeeee thoooo?

I always ask my friends to explain to me what they picture when they think of months, days of the week, the alphabet etc. I find it difficult to imagine not having synesthesia. I have time space synesthesia and it’s almost a comfort to me in a way, the fact that each January I move along my minds timeline slightly is very satisfying lol. As time moves on my view of the timeline does too, so I also find it difficult to get my head around the fact that in 30 years I will be very far along my timeline and the view will be very different to now. If that makes any sense.

Orange is number 4, orange and orange is Brown or 8. I suffer from Misophonia, the sweeping of water with a hard bristle broom makes me recoil with disgust; the thought from just typing that made me cringe! Am also on the spectrum. I've often wondered whether the increased sensitivities to light, sound, smells, touch was linked or related to synesthesia!

broooo i havethis and i have it so much like youuuuuu

Anyone here being able HEARING MOVEMENT? i feel its like the rarest type of synesthesia that ppl talk about. I barely find anyone talking about it when i look up synesthesia

Quite bold of him to say there are only two types of grapheme color synesthesia, there could be more we just don't know about

I do not have any synesthesia but I can feel his nervousness through the screen and it makes me nervous

Valerie starts with a golden yellow V, but the overall name is pink, and it tastes faintly of cake frosting. Also, the number 216 is red,white,and blue-- in that order.

Synesthesia is not a disorder, it is a condition because we have a different variant of axonigenesis genes. I have synesthesia since childhood. :-)

I have a really weird one. I can see smells as irregular shapes. That way I can rlly remember what a smell is if people ask," what is that smell?" I can be like oh that is a vertical oval. People always think it is so cool and say oh what shape is this and most of the time its rlly annoying. Please if u dont have it and hassle people who do please don't it gets really irritating

Misophonia is a form of synesthesia?? Great I have the worst one....

I see colors with music and scents.

Ecellent reveal of the matter, well done young man, 4℅ today i expect to be 70℅ pluss in time, thanks, very infomative, thom in scotland.

Thank you for this. I just discovered that not everyone has this and my husband asked if I have brain damage and I camt sleep because I'm not sure. This helped. Thank you.

I have mirror.touch synesthesia and it sucks just hearing words can trigger it

do people see the pattern in the light beams when sunlight reflects off a car for example? i dont think its just me. got kids shows showing sun beams n things. but theres a definite pattern if you look at a bright light kinda like a magic eye painting... not just me is it? not just the beams but the pattern inside/between the beams...? cant really find a word for it on google

I can't hear if i can't see clearly. Is it the same?

1(white), 2(blue), 3(NONE-is this normal? 3 is a little OCD with me), 4,(green), 5(red), 6(brown), 7(yellow), 8(purple), 9(orange), 0(black)

I have synesthesia too!! I have Object personification, OLP, grapheme, and a few others I can’t remember. Almost every object has a personality, numbers, letters, words, days, and months have personalities and colours. Object personification is a bit overwhelming, everything has a personality, it’s really crazy lol (it’s been amplified in quarantine). OLP is super fun, I have stories for my number friends :). Grapheme is cool lol. Also it made me super upset when you showed the different colors and personalities because those are mine, and I guess it feels so wrong for them to be that colour.

I’m not diagnosed with anything. But every day has a personality and flavour. Every number has a colour. And every person has a number, colour, shape and time. Is that weird?

Hello. I am not a synesthete in my waking life, but I had a synesthetic dream. I had pitch color. D major was dark green, G flat was dark red, and middle C was dark blue. Does having a synesthetic dream give way to having synesthesia and not knowing it? Does anyone know why or how I had this experience? Any answers?

I tried to Google what is wrong with Me and why i feal a satisfaction and need to taste of feal something satisfying, something that you cant reatch or taste like a star , or a vew, or glitter ,a shining and etc satisfying looking things and imagine them,- that shining lite, glittery shining , or vew, or a colour ,or painting actualy tastes like something godish, smels like something delicious but didnt find anything simmilar to it accept pica disorder and this synesthesia but its just not it its not even synesthesia and i dont know am i the onely one that way am i an alient or something or what or is it some sort of new disorder that is simmilar to pica and synesthesia both combined . and if it would be edable i could eat even a whole bunch of galaxy millkie ways and i just feal like that would and does taste some tipe of magic. and as i said before my problem isnt pica or synesthesia its something verry simmilar to synesthesia but its just not it , so can someone plz tell Me what is going on with Me or is i just crrrrraaazy and ofcourse i hope not but... i also have other weard habbit a habbit to draw, write alien-ish letters symbols as if they would mean some letter or word or is just a symbol. i hope that someone reads my comment and explains it to Me. also i draw those symbols weard shrifts almost like a maniac on my school notebooks its just that i see them or imagine them and write them down and they look so like they would be some actual language letters, or symbols meaning something in a some sort of mysteryous language but its also relaxing really , and i am an artcy person . So like i said i dont know , so i just hope that someone can help Me figure out those things and no its also not an OCD or shizophrania just mentioning. ( I'll really wait for responses)( mostly from someone who knows that cind of stuff).🙃🤗😇👍🕵️🤗 Or mabie it is a synesthesia į dont know🤷

I thought............................................ I'm silly to think number have gender and relationship..... I have synesthesia 😑😐 Well I am quite happy ☺️☺️☺️☺️ In my condition I think all even numbers are female while odd numbers are male except no 9 which is a female for me... and I think no.6 likes no 7, but no 7 likes no.9 Mmmmm numbers falling in love What...??those great physicists had synesthesia.....🎑🎑🎑🎑... I am so happy....

I only get this ability in dmt

Aah sweet! I were not born with synesthesia, but I was born as a "obeserver" and sensitive. A couple of years ago I started to meditate and "develop" synesthesia. during my meditations I feel music, I see color and shapes moving. The color I see the most was the green/grayish he talked about. And my spatial sence gets distorted, so it´s like I am having a little taste of synesthesia, the music/tactile connection is the only thing that is actually synesthetic. But as I go out of meditation, this goes away, wich makes me wonder if it could be developed. Something else that happens if I am in that state though is that I get blurred vision, sometimes I see double and it wont go away for a while after the meditation stopped and I get trouble with balance. So whenever I get a taste of the "synesthetic sensory" it´s on behalf of some of my basic funtiones. This is scary, but so exiting, but sence it´s so powerful I don´t actually know if it is safe. Before I learned about syneshesia, I just thought that I was pushing my self closer to psychosis or something, but I believe it is something different. or is there a link? someone knows about any good research about this topic?

I’m literally a superhuman.

"5 is a little boy who wear caps" so true hahahahah

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Any fellow Sysantiawhatevers love Microsoft Paint?

Who has nubmer Form synesthesia?

I don't see colors (I wish I did!!) but my letters, numbers, days of the week, months of the year, colors, and even objects have a gender. Also, I can smell people on tv sometimes. I know... that's REALLY weird.

time and space may be one everyone has synesthesia with, they just don't notice. I use a technique to help people that involves neuroplasticity, and occasionally I have to use some hypnogrammar. Now they don't go into a trance or get hypnotized. But I do work with their sense of time and space very physically. The illustration above around 5:25...everyone has something like that they're not aware of. I figure out what shape theirs is just to make life easier for me. Then I start using it therapeutically. Sometimes they're like train tracks, or a weird shape, or a path, or a ladder, or who knows! there's some real odd ones out there. Once you start to unravel that there isn't just "now", that there was a yesterday and there is a today and there will be a tomorrow, once our baby brains figure that out, we make a mode of it in a way that makes sense to our own self. That's what we do. Make models. And live in those models and on very rare occasions, actual reality.

I have the same type, but no personification of numbers och letters

I always see W as darker blue instead of light blue , is there something wrong on me as a synesthete ?

He is so anxious!!! 😄😄

I really don't see my synesthesia as a disorder. I have colour grapheme synesthesia and number line/calendar synesthesia. I also see patterns and colours when I hear music (which look a lot like the old Windows XP music player randomisations). However these are all projected in mind's eye rather than onto the outside world. I think it would be far more intrusive if I could taste of smell words. I never knew this was unusual until I saw a woman describing it on TV when I was about 10. She said that Wednesday was red and I shouted out "no it's not its purple!". Anyway my Mom & Dad were confused because they didn't experience the world in this way. Then I became equally confused because I thought EVERYONE saw the world like this. Turns out my sister has it too.

My type of s. Means Only advantages

I have lexical gustatory one

it's not colors for me it's images i have specific images and the words or numbers written somewhere in the image whenever i hear that word or number like when someone says apple the first think that comes to my mind is the image of a red apple with the word apple in red on top of it also i can't focus on what im actually seeing if there's loud different sounds around i don't know if it's synesthesia but yeah....

Synesthesia is not a disorder.

Unfortunately the synaesthesia isn't helpful for the world, this talent is pointless for survive in this cynical jungle society. In the world need be cunning and sly. I am synesthete.

"Indigo Children" - ?

Can anyone else experience velcro on their tongue?

Has anyone noticed a connection to ADHD? I have both

Ohhhhhh I thought it made you smarter . You're brain just works differently then most people. Mehhh not that jealous anymore :D

What! 9 is obviously blue and is a man

I came work with me?

to many drugs