r/Synesthesia

Hi, I (19f) am questioning if I have synesthesia. Here are things I have noticed that make me even raise this question:

- Visual-Gustatory
- Auditory-Gustatory
- Visual Personification
- Calender
- Concept Color
- Things that are just the same (idk what the term is for this)

I will be going in order of the list.

- I can taste the texture of the word Gettysburg (it has the texture of whatever elmos nose is made of).

- Whenever I see the blueprint for building mode on Fortnite I can taste the texture of that too which is a very smooth texture, but not smooth grainy. These are the only 2 I experience without a doubt that is 2 senses mixing.

- Whenever I hear Bongos, this ones hard to explain but the best way I can describe it is that it tastes like a deep curve texture. Like, in a skater ramp way.

- I also personify colors. Red-Purple are boys (Purple tho is like this emo grunge dude) and Pinks a girl.

- I also see Dogs as boys and Cats as girls.

- The months of the year also have colors, but this one I’m not sure counts because this goes back to this calendar I saw in elementary(?) and so I automatically have the colors assigned. But it comes up as automatic when I hear just the month alone.

- I’m not sure if this counts but Science is Green, Math is Blue, English is Red, and History is Yellow.

- Idk if this counts but some things are just the same to me mostly ? Like a 1940s Steam Train & England Architecture go hand in hand, same with Bongos and Deep curves, and the words Casecadia/Casecade and Windex.

Please lmk your thoughts!! these are the only things I have experienced.

This is just a funny little realization I recently had. I usually cannot spontaneously answer to "how old are you" questions and always have to do some quick maths to be sure.

But this year the number is all orange and pops up bright and clear in my mind when I think of it. I already know that next year I will have to count again because the colours will mix in a way that will make it hard to see the individual numbers ^^

I'm curious - did the title immediately make sense to you (if you have the number/colour thingy)? If so, what number did you see/sense when reading orange/orange?

Here's the song https://youtu.be/mDCmj\_w9pPk?si=0oIini\_sA9fPKEgZ

To me she sounds pale pastel orange but my friend said she sounds gray with a touch of lavender. Curious if anyone else has opinions!

The singer, 家家 , has another song 命运 where I feel like she still sounds orange but a sort of darker earthier orange

Hey, so I've been reflecting on a pretty intense high I had a couple of summers ago. Just weed, but definitely very strong with crazy high THC. For a while, I was convinced it must've been laced because it was so bonkers, but now I'm not sure if it was just because synesthesia made it feel so bonkers.

Now if I smoke and there's noticeable THC, it's kind of like a smaller version of that high. I feel very strongly about certain patterns and shapes, I hear sound effects and gibberish on repeat in my head, see the symmetry of faces and the spatial disorientation feels like switching realities. Then afterwards my pattern recognition stays heightened for a few days.

So yeah, can synesthesia and neurodivergence effect your sensitivity to substances? Has anyone else had unusually wacky highs? Just curious🫶

I have 3 types of synesthesia, audio-visual with 3D shapes moving/timed to music, neuromotor where there a jolt to the nerves to music, and ticker-tape where you see words being spoken. There seems to be a divide. The synesthesia community seems to downplay this and consider this normal (some people have more than 5) Other sources, searches, etc, consider this savant-like.

The title is slightly confusing so I'll explain. I'm genderfluid, and sometimes I feel a shift in gender but I don't know what, so I think about myself and suddenly I get a 'vibe' from this one flag that I know. It's more that the colours of the flag connect with me for no apparent reason. I really can't describe it since it's not appearance based (but appearance can influence it), but idk if that's just normal genderfluidity (I also get vibes for pronouns - I can't really explain it tho T-T)

Also, for some words (not all), I also get a vibe from them, which is how I remember things from chemistry for example. Like chlorine gives off green vibes (and it is a green gas), but fluorine (yellow gas) also gives off green so sometimes I get confused between them. Bromine is a strong brown (it's actually a red-brown liquid), and iodine gives purple (cos it's a purple vapour) and in some cases orange (iodine solution). This is the same in biology as well since biuret solution gives off like a really nice pale blue/lilac vibe (this is the colour of the solution/results), benedict's solution gives off a strong dark blue (the colour is just blue, not dark blue), iodine solution gives off orange (it's actually orange-brown), and lipids/ethanol give off like a cream/white vibe (it forms a white precipitate when lipids are present). I have no idea if they're related because I've learnt them, but it's weird because they give off a vibe, rather than me remembering them (cos bromine has always been brown, even before I knew it was a red-brown liquid). But like others also give off colours (idk why it's only elements), since oxygen is white/colourless and carbon is yellow-orange. I really don't know if this is synaethesia or I'm just pretending, lol. Pls help :_]

Edit: I just realised that this can happen with other words (e.g. aesthetic is a gentle red, and inspector is a pale royal blueish colour - why I associate 'An Inspector Calls' with blue, lol)

So i tried to suppress it and had depression. Now i regreet it. How fo i get it back?

Hey so I recently realised that what I experience may resonate with the synesthesia experience.

Basically I experience the ‘vibe’ of things, particularly places and my surroundings as a ‘sense’ as clear and distinctly as my other senses. It's as if all the information I take in for things form a distinct extra thing. I often say it's like taste, but it's not taste. I notice it heavily when I go to different countries as the ‘taste’ change is really strong. When I moved for my study exchange abroad it was so intense that I just felt it constantly for like 2 weeks. I had some of the weirdest dreams of my life in those weeks.

Additionally I am obsessed with physical structures and this tangible, emotional kind of physics. As if I can feel the forces trying to force their way through me when I see something like a diagram or imagine a large movement. To no surprise I did 13 years of dance lessons and am now an animator. I see my thoughts and mind in a similarly structured way too.

Does anyone else resonate with this? Would love to hear, I am planning to do a research project on some of this.

0: grey

1: light blue

2: green

3: red

4: orange

5: yellow

6: pink

7: dark blue

8: brown

9: purple

furthermore, am I the only one who see numbers 4 and 6 as female numbers? Literally 😭

So i know colrs of the yesr show what color is consideres fashinable to wear that year but if you were to chose the color of the year based on the color you associate the number like “2026” what colors would you chose for what years? Like for me
2026-brown
2025-red
2024-blue

People with synesthesia , what are other things you jave that come with synesthesia . Things like maladaptive daydreaming, ADHD,Autism spectrum traits, etc. Keep an apropriate language and share your experience !

Hi r/Synesthesia. I've been reading the time-space synesthesia literature (Brang, Simner, Smilek, the Sagiv consistency work) and most of it focuses on calendars, either months in circles or years along lines, that kind of thing. I'm more interested in something that is touched upon by the literature, but not extensively, which is the number placement within your synesthetic layouts, over a broader set than the typical 1-10 range of experiments.

I have some questions, if you don't mind me asking. You don't need to answer all of them. Just answer whichever feel interesting.

1. Shape. Does your number space have a general shape to it? The classical answers include "line," "ring," "curve," "grid." I doubt these are mutually exclusive categories. Does your number layout fit into any of these, or do you have something weirder, more complex. Is it bent/folded or multiple segments, is it 3D, does it become discontinuous between decades? What does it actually look like?

2. Density. Are some numbers in your layout vivid while others are dim? Is this arbitrary, is there a pattern (e.g., primes are vivid), are decade markers bright (10, 20, 30, ...), or do personally significant numbers (e.g., birthdays, home/other addresses) get highlighted?

3. Stability under external conditions. Does your layout change when you are tired/stressed/sleep-deprived/on drugs/etc.? Or does it remain stable regardless of external conditions? The question matters, since many researchers assume full stability, and I doubt that's true.

4. Errors. When you make an error involving numbers (eg.: remembering a wrong phone number digit, mixing up a price, remembering a date incorrectly) does the wrong number tend to come from close proximity in your synesthetic layout to the correct one? Or do the errors come from across the layout?

As I said, most of the literature focuses on calendar synesthesia and mentions number space as an aside, but you know your numbers far better than the researchers. I'd be genuinely interested to hear about the experiences in the community!

Thanks a lot.