What color is Tuesday? Exploring synesthesia - Richard E. Cytowic

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How does one experience synesthesia -- the neurological trait that combines two or more senses? Synesthetes may taste the number 9 or attach a color to each day of the week. Richard E. Cytowic explains the fascinating world of entangled senses and why we may all have just a touch of synesthesia.
Lesson by Richard E. Cytowic, animation by TED-Ed.

[@maryberry1517]

Okay, this is just a really cute story ( it's really long though): So I work with a voice coach named Jillian. She knows I have sound-color synesthesia, and I even wrote a really REALLY bad song about it called music to my eyes. So she was teaching her 8 or 9 year old niece a song a little bit ago, and her niece (we'll call her Mia) could not, for the life of her, remember the chords to this song. So Jillian tells Mia to think of a word or something to remember the chord. Like, a lyric or something. So Mia pauses for a second, then says "Can it be a color?" So she writes down the color for each chord, while Jillian is starting to make the connection. The next time she plays the song, less than five minutes later, she doesn't miss a single chord. Jillian asks her if she sees colors when she hears music, and she gets really quiet and suddenly says "I thought everyone did..." So Jillian let me talk to Mia and she just asked questions and told me about her favorite songs and how all of her best friends have the prettiest colored voices and that's why they're so close to her. It was one of the cutest and more pure interactions I've ever had. Thanks if you're still reading. This is totally pointless, but I thought it was cute.

[@miriambucholtz9315]

It's not pointless. Synesthesia is thought to occur more frequently in very young children, but it tends to be lost as they become more socialized. A few of us keep it. My brother also has it so we reinforced it in each other.

[@arcanjoribeiro6709]

This tottaly made my day, thanks aa:)

[@rosesrosie8564]

MaryBerry15 aw I read the whole thing . How cute ❣️

[@shannond5350]

Totally precious. You should share this positive vibe on more platforms :)

[@andoryuubushido7191]

That's so cute!

[@josephmartins1067]

I've legit done this since I was like 4 I thought everyone did it

[@lancebrightmire1653]

Sameeee

[@YoomarTuNoOmar]

The video explain everyone does it, but at lower levels. 3:04

[@emmag7488]

I've had it since I was 4 also and I just thought I memorized a chart or something and was going off that. I did my get diagnosed till 2 years ago

[@vietcongpornsurfers]

I'm so jealous

[@squidoodle4627]

Jose Arguello Same, I haven't told anyone yet just in case I'm wrong but music has colour and so do words.

[@protonpowergaming]

The true synesthete experience is finding out your friends also have it, and constantly arguing with them about the colors of everything, while the other people around us give us really weird looks. All jokes aside, I really appreciate having friends who perceive the world similarly to me, and I really wish I would have came out about my synesthesia to them earlier. If you're all the way down here, thanks for reading and happy summer

[@Warongpustaka]

hey can I ask, do the colors you see from the sound others make the same as the one your friend sees?

[@protonpowergaming]

@@Warongpustaka Usually no, but when they do line up, it's very satisfying to agree on lol

[@Warongpustaka]

@@protonpowergaming Thanks for the reply, its just that I'm trying to understand if synthesia is the same with our senses. For example, when I smell something sweet others will likely say it is sweet. In the case of synthesia, if the color varies from one another, how do we confirm that the color of one particular sound is actually real and not just our mind playing with it?

[@hellofrominside8524]

A friend of mine sees 4 as yellow and as someone who's 100% certain 4 is green I find it infuriating.

[@ninersfan2112]

"hello welcome to chili's how may I take your order?" "uh yeah can I get your voice, I think that would taste pretty good!" ok comin' right up

[@user-ii6yf1cj6h]

OK that's pretty funny

[@oneofthetrue]

Welcome to chilis

[@kaylee8722]

The welcome to chili’s man died yesterday :(((

[@dailycomplaintsanimationst837]

Lol, I always thought the sound of walking on concrete would taste really good,

[@Silverwind87]

Me: Can I have your name? Chili's Guy: It's Gary. Me: That's a cool name. Chili's Guy: Thank you. -Me- Gary: No, thank _you._

[@alejandramadrigales9300]

yooo anyone else feel hella left out because they don’t have synesthesia?

[@-_ShayraAnastasyaShafwani]

Me

[@iCat4Ever]

me 😂 even tho i have it 😂 i always feel left out

[@alexk9642]

i want synesthesia it looks cool :(

[@alexk9642]

@@katiagrella7035 you can't stop me

[@alexk9642]

@@katiagrella7035 still want synesthesia

[@bakugousimp4582]

Every month has a color, every day, music, even my feelings are described as color. I thought everyone described color.

[@noahterrell7599]

I don't have synesthesia but I'm basically obsessed with colors. Obsessed with how they correlate to emotions and such that I've started writing a book series about 7 people from different eras in time that represent a color and emotion. Anne blah blah blah time travel magic all that but I jus am addicted to color

[@trixibeu]

I don't get it with music, but I do with everything else you mentioned

[@tatidominguez9326]

January is yellow, February is a kind of blue ( like baby blue prob), may is orange, August is blue, December is green, july is purple.

[@franny6945]

Monday:blue Tuesday:green Wensday:yellow Thursday: turquoise Friday: purple Saturday: bright red Sunday: maroon

[@flowery3693]

Aaahh, I relate so h a r d. I have such a hard time explaining my emotions because they're usually a bunch of textures, colors, and stuff. I can't even explain those to people sometimes. So confusing

[@gabriellehollington5163]

When I was a child I saw the days of the week as various colours. This had faded from my memory until I recently read an item about this subject. Thursday was very strong blue & Saturday red. Sunday yellow, Monday orange, Tuesday a very weak yellow & Wedsnesday a brighter yellow. Fascinating subject.

[@ericvdr7104]

i couple monday with a grayish blue, tuesday with deep red, wednesday wtih light orange, thursday with a dark, mossy green, friday with yellow and, i dont know why, but both saturday and sunday are white... just plain and boring, it really fascinates me

[@em.mp3130]

Monday= LIGHT BLUE Tuesday= Lime green Wednesday= Lilac Thursday= just a tint darker than Tuesday- t’s are just really green Friday= purple, deep dark purple - colour of an eggplant Saturday= green-brown Sunday= yellow(?) or white

[@your_obssesion7839]

Whooaaaaaaaaaaaa😂😂 its very relatable😂 💯

[@_noorf3]

for me, saturday was light blue and green but tuesday was orange and it looked like a braid while wednesday looked like a pea pod 💀💀

[@tafadzwabopoto8033]

Tuesday is obviously blue tf

[@Skdndnsmsm]

I'm color blind and having synesthesia is something i find difficult yet unique

[@kck.Schrodinger13]

Lola Nidora hits the nostalgia✋😩

[@marialynnala7264]

Lola Nidora, what ya doin over here? Lol

[@butbetter7593]

Well colorblind ppl still see at least 2 colors, and even if you can't, there's other senses other than vision lol like tasting words

[@automatonlabs7841]

Oh, that is why your icon has so much color

[@danilopablo9848]

having synesthesia is not only color-related.

[@sleepyysleep]

“It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.”

[@vsus42]

Alright buddy U deserve more likes than this

[@fuwafuwarifuwafuwaru7481]

This is an underrated comment.

[@user-ii6yf1cj6h]

Go up!

[@bungiecrimes7247]

Seems annoying to have I rather not bother with it

[@hasanmuhammad6651]

@@bungiecrimes7247 ok

[@neoculturetea2486]

after reading the comments.. my world feels so dull now :(

[@-_ShayraAnastasyaShafwani]

Same 😪

[@christencummings1568]

It’s not something you see physically

[@helloworld-sl2lw]

Same

[@helloworld-sl2lw]

@@katiagrella7035 it ain't a curse either

[@tiat3137]

I have the really common one where I see numbers, days of the week and months as different colours. It doesn't make life any more exciting. 😂 Trust me you're fine.

[@KrispieC]

I thought everyone could see that. One day, I just realized that no one around me also associated the school subjects and the seven days of the week with specific colors. Additionally, digits/numbers, letters/words, months, people, geometric figures, tastes have colors... Most abstract things have colors in my head. This is so intriguing and interesting that I'm sure I would be very sad if I couldn't see it, so I'm very proud to be synaesthetic.

[@royahashimi2409]

you are lucky

[@DixieDee]

When I was in school, I had a specific-color folder and notebook for each subject. Red was history/social-studies, blue was science, green was math and yellow was English. It always stayed the same. To me, each subject just "fit" those colors.

[@pixelzebra8440]

I honestly wish I was at sysnesthetic bc it sounds so cool

[@robinbowie8093]

Imagine being like “Hold on, need to clean my palette, AIRPLANE... aight we good.”

[@orsinidorf]

Lol

[@Hyblup]

Idk why but “Airplane” seems green

[@Lynn-ip9sh]

airplane taste fresh like clouds and the color blue, because their associated with the sky.

[@spicynachoss684]

@@Lynn-ip9sh for me the word airplane tastes like mashed potato’s and it’s a sage green color with light pink swirled together with white dots. It also could taste like sorta bland and soggy cinnamon rolls.

[@Cloud-kf2dp]

@@Lynn-ip9sh that’s forced association lol

[@SuriOokami]

The worst part about being a synesthete is getting annoyed while watching videos like this, thinking, "NO, "Denise" is ///CLEARLY/// YELLOW, not green!" Totally feel them on 9 being a vain, elitist girl though.

[@jordanc9551]

I see colored letters all the time, and I drives me crazy because they so rarely match what I see in my head.

[@kali.9255]

No, it's CLEARLY brown! xD

[@Pellwers]

What color is Pelle? i really want to know XD

[@therandomfamily1620]

+PNI GAMING Pelle is pink and green, for me

[@Pellwers]

oh. i like those colors!

[@DerekMac96]

My name does NOT taste like earwax!!

[@huntermayo6454]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah it does--for me actually haha. it's also green ;)

[@not_dava9038]

Its pink with green stripes and it feels smooth

[@caramelzip5731]

actually I think you'll find its OBVIOUSLY blue

[@pangpengmaster]

Your name tastes like iron rust...

[@Trickybun]

your name is bright orange

[@ellasophia2651]

I have this, but it was more intense when I was younger. I used to be able to taste music, but only songs that really connected with me. But now, when I listen to songs from my childhood it triggers such nostalgia that I can taste them again. It's amazing.

[@elisemcdouall886]

Heyy so i have a question for you about synesthesia. I think i have it mildly - days of the week,letters,numbers can be colours if i ask myself, but i dont see them by just looking at them. But like for me thursday is definitley dark green and 2 is definitley blue etc.. I was wondering what your take on this is- do i have it or not? Sorry to bother you but you were one of the few comments i could find from recently in this video :)

[@clarab.7680]

when you meet someone but their name isn't the same color as your perception of them

[@patrickplsxo]

I remember hearing a door slam and saying to my parents: "Wow, that was really bright white!" That was the moment I realised not everyone sees sounds 😅

[@claireforestgreenorgangeek2464]

Charlotte Bowe pretty objects such as lights and crystals and glitter make my favorite musical sound, the repeated high-pitched three-note trill E-F-E. Regardless of the color, if it's cute or shiny, it makes that sound.

[@chrisbrigmon7517]

You're is similar to mine. I'm 23 years old and just now found out that this had a name after a lifetime of secretly believing something was wrong with me. When I hear a sudden loud noise like a door slamming, glass breaking, or any noise that is generally displeasing it will cause varying colors to flash in my vision. Usually bright yellow or white. Similarly there's a few colors that make me hear certain noises.

[@hayadawkassab6949]

Do you actually see the colour?

[@aidenoliver1681]

Haya Kassab depends, one person might see it in there mind but not there vision, others can see it in there vision

[@sameris6581]

I remember drawing mother nature for my school project with all the trees and grass and mountains and sky and sun, then showing it off to my classmates only to be laughed at because my colors were off (grass and leaves were brown). Thats when i started to suspect i was colorblind. Oh well, just a comment passing by. Lol

[@connyspiess9665]

i always had colors for my school subjects so when i got binders or folders i would buy the corresponding color for the subject so i didnt even need to label them

[@annonimooseq1246]

Conny Spiess I would jokingly argue with friends that their folder colors were wrong while secretly being really bothered by it. MATH ISNT GREEN JULIA

[@insertname1857]

Annonimoose Q MATH ISNT GREEN im sorry you went through that, i do too. i for so long thought everyone knew math was orange

[@radical6491]

mATHS IS GREEN

[@oatmeal7563]

math is BLUEEEEE

[@rocksrock7173]

Same

[@rebalssideprofile8234]

One day I was like "who was that girl with yellow name again" and my friends were like confuse af

[@marvik3743]

I just wanna know... Yellow are names like Anne, Jessica, ect. How about you?

[@JUMALATION1]

For me, (predominately) yellow names are Eric/Erik, Eve, Selena, Ella/Elle ... you see the pattern, the yellow/very light orange E dominates. Your "E" is probably another color though :D but I do the same thing, I remember the colors first and then translate into letters

[@carine448]

for me it's names like miranda, maisie, mia, kayla (more orange though)

[@user-rh5qj8tc3t]

this made me crack and I would be confuse as well HAHAHAHA!

[@mixntysmyle9780]

M names, A names and K names are almost all yellow for me

[@joy_astr]

Your voice sound like purple/blue, like thursday, december and 8. It's profound, calm and wise.

[@derstud9732]

I agree!

[@secretunknown2782]

December is brown for me and October is blue

[@Violetgalaxyshimmer33]

To me Thursday is more of an orangish yellow, December is a greenish blue, and 8 is a navy blue

[@yashvivashi_]

His voice is 5 and red

[@seanskoog388]

I don't really associate voices with sounds, but, while Thursday is purple to me, December is dark green and 8 is orange. To me, April is the purple-blue month

[@theonlythinghere8653]

For me, days of the week, numbers, letters, and school subjects have colours, while the bodies in our solar system had genders.

[@theonlythinghere8653]

*have

[@apotato6278]

just how do you get the idea that for that?genders for planets or colors for numbers... it would be fun tough. instead of waking up to Naturvetenskapprogrammets dark cold embrace, math for 6 hours and science for 4, you would wake up to a world of vibrant color filled with colorfull numbers, pretty fun...

[@theonlythinghere8653]

When I was little, I didn't know they were named after gods, so Venus and earth were female, because everyone called them the "sister planets".

[@km_studios]

Yeah, school subjects have colours for me too. It makes buying binders for your classes needlessly difficult, doesn't it?

[@toodlesavabel5904]

+KingMeteorStudios That is so true!! I think Math would be blue and History is red , Science is orange, but I also thought English was Red too.

[@paulaberi2132]

I'm just discovering this whole new world i didn't know i was part of.

[@sel5595]

Same lol

[@Marticore]

Same!

[@ingridode7488]

paula beri same

[@kittencritter7914]

Me too 😂

[@lilijanamae1540]

Ikr

[@rw7532]

Very informative. My wife described our daughter as having this trait so I had to investigate. Her associations use color and shapes/ motion for things like specific people and their voices, events and words. She also has an amazing ability to remember things from as early as age late two (she is now 14).

[@dieselboy.7637]

All children "have" that

[@TohmaYuu]

I see. I've always asked my friends if they also feel music as a physical sensation when they listen to it and I feel sad every time they tell me they don't understand. I'm happy there are people out there who do.

[@cinnamonfluff594]

Wait that's not everyone!?

[@Username-le4eq]

@@cinnamonfluff594 nope! I'm just your cup of joe admiring the experiences of people with synesthesia

[@umaynatanveer7243]

Why feel sad? Not everyone CAN understand it.

[@lauradonnelly1131]

It's so cool having it, but I confuse capital F and 4 all the time since they're the same color to me. I've written "4or" so many times it's ridiculous.

[@sophiaweeks]

I do this all the time!!

[@juliekindersepp2289]

Oh my gosh same

[@ella5968]

@@johnsimmons3006 purple for me

[@alyssasun6334]

@@johnsimmons3006 Deep green for me

[@owenquinn38]

What taste is Owen?

[@emmag7488]

I have synesthesia and I told my math teacher and she was so interested she gave personalized tests/work so I would have an easier time with math because my synesthesia would give me anxiety with the negative signs disappearing and all the numbers being close together so I didn't know were to look. I also have ADHD so that made things even harder

[@pangpengmaster]

send my respect for your teacher.

[@miloblackmetalhate]

So much, so much respect for that unnamed teacher. Give her my love :)

[@curlyclubb7535]

Kathryn Gephart my Spanish teacher gave me a revision sheet but it's all colour coded and it just makes everything harder!

[@JHerkowyi]

Hi Kathryn many thanks for your post i am currently a trainee teacher and watched this video to understand the pupils I may come across in my career it's great to see what a difference one made for you

[@lilijanamae1540]

I know! Like if someone colors a letter L blue, I'm like don't they know that L's are always pink?!?

[@aureliarolin8348]

It’s so amazing seeing people with synesthesia like me

[@seaworldwaters]

omg that's what it's called I have a grapheme synesthesia! numbers, letters, punctuation, days, months, years are all colours

[@aarna6853]

SAMEEEEE

[@juliamendonca8423]

me toooo

[@iasianorris4292]

I am reading a book called A Mango Shaped Space and it's about a girl with a common form of synesthesia

[@annikedowney9825]

Iasia Norris oh I love that book!!

[@avakunnath6867]

I have owned that book for years and read it so much!

[@lake-om5ss]

I want to buy it. Its so good. So relatale for me.

[@jaxcrax358]

I read that in 7th grade! I really enjoyed it

[@firefly_person6412]

Iasia Norris I read that too

[@JohnnyGiddingsCubed]

I have synesthesia. I associate painful feelings with colors or patterns. For example, I sometimes get a painful feeling in my foot that I identify as red and black fuzz. The feeling of being punched in the chest is yellow. The feeling of a metal bar being hit on my arm is light blue. It's weird.

[@SkyEGofAir]

That must hurt. I have sound-color synesthesia.

[@SkyEGofAir]

+Ninjagamer1080 Somehow I don't think it would work that way; for me, I only see the colors when I hear sound, never the other way around. Although, it could be different for him, seeing as there are different types of synesthesia.

[@leokastor]

I have synesthesia too, mostly sound to color, but sometimes I also have this pain to color or pain to texture synesthesia. How would you describe sensitive teeth to cold? I feel it like some sort of thin blue lines overlapping on top of a purple background. Do you feel any sounds too?

[@microwavablecat7481]

when im listening to the ocean on my noise machine i feel like im floating and being rocked the sound is a soft silky grey color also some words are different colors my name is savannah and i think its orange. sometimes when i feel pain i see colors, like when i feel face first it had a tingling feeling and i saw streaks of a bleak grey color, when i poked at my face i saw little dots of blue mix in with the grey

[@microwavablecat7481]

sometime i taste random things like when i was in the hall at school i tasted soup kinda random...

[@foxdawg1113]

I used to draw math terms as gendered, personalitied characters in my sketch book haha But I always felt music was like "painting a picture" of colors, like the bass had deep undertoned colors and the fluttery instruments spotted over the deep colors. I also related them to a forest, with the fluttered instruments as budding flowers and the depth of the bass as the earth beneath it, the harmony chords of the middle instruments as a sunrise, etc. I also found food to be like "painting a picture" of colors as well.

[@justinhenke5127]

I’ve done this forever. Since I was a kid, I would associate numbers with certain colors or days of the week with certain colors. Growing up I would also identify people and their personalities with certain colors. Now as I am a musician, I now associate sounds more often with colors too. Crazy stuff.

[@Livia-ih9lq]

FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT!!!!! so many people have given me weird looks when i comment on how the number 4 is blue!

[@iCat4Ever]

It hAs 2 colours to me, it's a dark navy blue when I'm happy and a dark red on sad ones , it's often blue tho lol

[@laraa.7760]

YES ITS BLUE

[@oliviajohnson1401]

7 is blue...

[@3ambere]

YEEPPP

[@famguy222]

4 is orange but go off!

[@karenmoore3934]

I don't have synethesia, but i do associate the days of the weeks and certain lessons with colours.

[@seignee]

Monday is red and tastes like strawberries but it smells like blood eew Tuesday is Lemon yellow

[@piotrnowak1414]

+Ruby Moore , I have that too lol

[@annaf3915]

That is synesthesia :-)

[@Elizabeth_-lq3jk]

Ruby Moore you have synesthesia.

[@noutsakh.2135]

Girly Nerd that' s exactly same for me! and I also see wednesday as dark green 😁

[@commenturthegreat2915]

Really cool! I always saw single characters as having colors, but only some of them for some reason. For example A is always red, B is blue, C is colorless, D is green etc. Edit: Lately I've been noticing that some of the colorless characters I mentioned do have a color, just a very soft one. C is sort of light grayish for instance. They're just less pronounced and it doesn't bother me as much to seem them in other colors.

[@naomivamilo5335]

Yesss

[@joegoldberg8185]

P is in orange? and S is yellow?

[@joegoldberg8185]

N is in green?

[@commenturthegreat2915]

@@joegoldberg8185 Nope. P is blue/purple, S is colorless, and N is orange.

[@DionnaHayden]

I’ve had this all my life and thought everyone thought this way, until I got crazy looks for saying 67 tastes like cherry cola 😂😂😂. I use it in my art all the time, even playing certain music to get my ideas to the surface.

[@sugar-and-stardust]

Yeah!!! I've tried so many times to explain to people why the word "stuff" tastes like cottage cheese without sounding crazy, and it never works haha

[@butbetter7593]

32 is way more like cherry cola, I even can smell it rn

[@rq96]

For me 2 is Mexican cheese, 8 is blueberry infused dark chocolate, and 11 is Christmas cookies

[@clarebell5926]

YAAAAAAY……..another person with luxical gastrophy synaesthesia!! 🙌 we’re super cool! 😁❤️👍

[@LM11116]

The problem for me is that I usually don't associate words with the color of their first letter but with a mixture of all of their letters (and sometimes an outside color influenced by the actual color of the word, if it is a physical thing) - for example, D is brown, E is yellow, N is brown, I is white, S is green, and E is yellow again. The result is a yellowish brown - but more so than a mixture of the colors, I see bits of each color interspersed together. So when someone asks me what color a word is, it's often too difficult to describe.

[@claireforestgreenorgangeek2464]

LuxMashups 👍👏That's very interesting; if letters (other than the musical notes) had colors for me, the whole alphabet would be in earth tones. Why the hey are the music notes emojis blue and pink instead of earth tones? Shame, shame!

[@claireforestgreenorgangeek2464]

LuxMashups Mash up the wrong-colored music notes. I use them because I love music symbols but I think the colors are wrong. 🎼🎶🎵 Turn them earth toned if you can. ( *Add yellow* so the treble clef and the eighth note turn *green* and the tiny eighth notes turn *orange* .)

[@juustop]

Me too! Some words are the combination of each letter's colours but others get the colour from the first letter only

[@maya-pena-lobel]

The exact same thing happens for me! It still helps with memorization (especially science vocab) because I can relate words together if they are overall colorful or dull. Also, the colors of letters become less distinct for me when they are in words, so the word itself still has fragmented colors but it kind of blends together more.

[@vrisket771]

THIS. THANK YOU. People ask me "What color is my name" expecting a simple answer like red, but in reality each of their letters has a different color which even depend on the surrounding colors. And the colors aren't even 100% defined except for the vowels. As for the video, "Tuesday" isn't one color - it's a variety of many colors found in the letters.

[@LizzySimba]

To me some numbers have personalities. Odd ones are evil and even ones are good. I also have a weird good smell-taste conecction.

[@juustop]

I wanna meet someone who thinks odd numbers are good because I just can't picture it! Haha

[@destineeramos6728]

+juustop woah lol I think odd numbers are good

[@esther8227]

To me, even numbers are bit mean and self-centred, and odd numbers are kind and sweet. No idea why

[@TaliboyWray]

+Lizzy Simba This is not pathological syntesthesia, everyone does it to some degree. "Numbers have personalities" is pretty common (i do it myself, 9 is a douche), and smell and taste are supposed to be linked together, since the human sense of smell is primarily there to detect rotten/bad food.

[@destineeramos6728]

Esther Beckley Same! I thought it was just me

[@goofball2228]

I have synesthesia! People always ask me “how does it work?” But it’s super hard to explain. You explained it perfectly tho.

[@cowabungas6247]

No one: Everyone in the comments section: OmG, I hAvE SyNeStHeSiA bEcAuSe I aSsOcIaTe ThE cOlOr OrAnGe WiTh OcToBeR, i ThOuGhT EvErYoNe ElSe DiD

[@yaoyorozuswaifu689]

October is bright red

[@isle-unto-thyself]

October is a very dull purple, and tastes like artificial sweeteners.

[@oatmeal7563]

would it make you feel better to know a psychologist told me and my parents i had it? how else can i get your approval elizabeth? i really love people who tell others they know what goes on in their head. its funny to me.

[@nyometurner2005]

I think September with yellow

[@archiviscera]

i associate october with the color of those grape jolly ranchers

[@genevieve6652]

I don't have this but I always though that 8 had a huge crush on 16 and 4 just thought it was weird

[@genevieve6652]

Also Monday is yellow Friday is purple and Tuesday seems green

[@saucyboi9871]

Genevieve Dellamano for me, Tuesday is also kind of green, but Friday is the colors of the Irish flag and Monday is beige and red

[@OokamiKageGinGetsu]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_linguistic_personification Check this page out.

[@LTD0913]

That is synaesthesia, my friend. Welcome to the club. ;) :)

[@gabyfenwick3104]

To me 4,8 and 16 are related. Also 9 is 6's older sister

[@rage4558]

I actually realised I had synesthesia not long ago when my Literature teacher praised me for using so many deep metaphors and explained to me that not everyone could see "the round scent of rain on the ground", feel "the rest that offered the colour red" nor "the needle created by two pieces of foam rubbed together entering their skin ". It really caught me off guard as I thought these kinds of association were something everyone had.

[@Username-le4eq]

Maybe some of the world's best poet and authors have synesthesia...hmm??

[@lian_boo]

That's so cool, those are some really pretty poetic sentences indeed!

[@pixelzebra8440]

That sounds so cool how you wrote that. You should be a writer or a poet

[@valerielion]

Wow, I have the same thing. You must be feeling it, too. For me,It is not just about describing what I see in my mind but what I feel living through it. ❤

[@emma-dm3xz]

I personally hate having synesthesia sometimes, and love it other times! It's such a weird thing to have, but at the same time I couldn't imagine not having it. I feel like the world would be more dull without it, but at the same time I feel like it would be more colorful. Synesthesia is so complicated, but at the same time is super simple.

[@elisemcdouall886]

Heyy so i have a question for you about synesthesia. I think i have it mildly - days of the week,letters,numbers can be colours if i ask myself, but i dont see them by just looking at them. But like for me thursday is definitley dark green and 2 is definitley blue etc.. I was wondering what your take on this is- do i have it or not? Sorry to bother you but you were one of the few comments i could find from recently in this video :)

[@oralkoby4392]

When I was in high school I had a hard time memorizing the years and events in history class - so I decided to "cheat" at exams and write combos of four colored dots on my hands representing the year numbers. So to me it was a hand with a bunch of years written on it and to the teachers I was just being artistic and had colorful dots all over my hands lol

[@SzaboDTamas-ki4wu]

wow, it sounds like to me these kind of people have a blast in everyday life, and a much more colorful and interesting life.

[@Whooooooops]

I see numbers, letters, certain names, weekdays and months in colours and to be honest i barely even think about it :p It just happens so naturally :P

[@EmperorGurkiman]

Me too

[@bdruggan]

I enjoy colors/shapes with my music but not real find of my second form which is hearing pain. I experience pain with the sensation of frequency sounds. Some are high pitched, low pitched, oscillating, static sounding, etc.

[@emileepennington8854]

+Szabo Tamas It makes math a WHOLE lot easier, that's for sure. I just feel like its normal for me. I never really noticed till 6th grade when other kids didn't think the same way I did.

[@liquidmantle]

+Szabo Tamas I have associative grapheme-color synesthesia which is different from projecting synesthesia. I don't visually see words, letters and numbers in color, I just unconsciously think of them as having inherent colors. I think most synesthetes are like that. Even when I can't recall a word, I'll always remember its color.

[@kvalitetavindija8869]

Wait,,,so giving numbers colors and personalities is not what everyone does?

[@flyingspacebrainedidiot]

giving numbers personality is what enneagram does

[@finleylawrence3299]

I've definitely always done that with numbers and letters

[@izzylacroix4131]

APPARENTLY NOT. This is what I thought until I was like... 10? That’s why math was so distracting for me, because there was basically a circus going on on a page

[@inkspillled]

i dont have synesthesia (at least i highly doubt it) but i still kind of get reminded of things when i think of numbers/days of the week if that counts? maybe its like a half-formed connection from my childhood that never fully developed into synesthesia, idk. but there's at least kind of a trickle of information

[@MM-te1kk]

firefly.petals Ever since I learned how to count, two is yellow, three is red, four is orange, five is blue... It goes up to eleven which is grey. I’ve been wondering if it might have been some sort of game I made up when I was little.

[@chilltunes3343]

After 18 years living here on Earth, finally know about this thing, growing up I'm always thinking why I see colors in months, like january(green), february(violet), march(red), april(blue), may(lighter pink). A whole year for me is an oval shape, a decade is a rectangle. In school, I see subjects as colors too like, Math(strong red), science (green), english(white), History(orange). THANK GOD, GROWING UP I ALWAYS THINK I AM DIFFERENT TILL FOUND THIS!

[@oliverdiamond6594]

bruh, January is obviously red, February is yellow, an march is blue!.

[@lena4772]

Best explanation I have ever seen. Have the first type, graphics in colour

[@graceyd8646]

1:16 my jaw dropped it was so accurate. I’ve always associated inanimate things with colors and personalities and genders etc. and this is so cool to see that this is a real thing lol

[@meat_doughnuts3457]

My brain gives names and personalities to plants along with gender, if I watch a movie I can taste a perticular food that will always be linked with that movie or show, there are colors in music and in names. I think I might be ansothegic or what that big word is

[@zzzz44400]

Same!

[@melsher347]

Same I thought everyone did that lol

[@a.f.2330]

@@meat_doughnuts3457 Same here! I can remember particular foods that I had when I watched certain shows in my childhood

[@jimmythekid2734]

To me 7 is athletic

[@charchar234cj]

When I was in orchestra, this is how I memorized the music. However the notes had different personalities and stories that would combine to make the whole piece.

[@anjaligunturu405]

Yeah same! Sometimes i qouls literally play an e instead of a c or vice verse because they had such a similar color and it was ridiculous XD. A lot of my orchestra music has colors to go with it and its amazing

[@seahorse0009]

I definitely feel the stories thing. Each individual note and sequence has a color or mix of colors, while the piece itself has a story.

[@brendavcs1134]

Same! I feel so normal now haha

[@acpiggy8201]

Same

[@assuma0411]

When I was in Elementary I started to dress up accordingly to the color of days of the week: Monday: Orange Tuesday: Blue Wednesday: Green Thursday: Grey Friday: Red Saturday: Yellow Sunday: White

[@trixi5329]

I AGREE THIS THIS, I see the days of the weeks like this too. But I've never dressed up according to that >~

[@assuma0411]

@@trixi5329 :o

[@helix2331]

that sounds like more OCD rather than synesthesia

[@dailycomplaintsanimationst837]

Wait. I think that was almost exactly what I thought each day's color corresponded to...

[@juliethi5992]

But tuesday is red actually (jk, i don't know why for me tuesday sounds red)

[@user-we9hs7cl7m]

Very well presented

[@renaebeam5354]

I am kind of jealous, this is so interesting.

[@Lee-eb5fo]

Also, I know I definitely have synesthesia, but I couldn’t conclude which senses I had, to me, it’s more like feelings, textures, taste, smell, colour, images, ...... all smashing up together

[@d1stantfeelin716]

YES! YES! That's me

[@eleiyagiarde6065]

Do you know the texture of a food even if you haven't tried it before?

[@Lee-eb5fo]

Eleiya Giarde not really,

[@sorryididntknowwhattochoos2678]

@@eleiyagiarde6065 I do. The taste most of the times too but thats probably not synesthesia

[@eleiyagiarde6065]

@@sorryididntknowwhattochoos2678 oh, I wonder what that would be called!!

[@zma_music]

I just found out today that one of my friends also sees colours in graphemes and we spent a full hour and a half arguing about which word is which colour. It was crazy how different we saw things

[@SirKyrex]

I had a real hard time understanding this concept until I found this video. The brain is fascinating

[@itsheath2157]

I always think of Tuesday as a something like a yellowish orange Edit: I have started a political uprise

[@siricraftscorner3497]

Same!

[@The_New_Abnormal_World_Order]

OMG same!!!! You must be my synesthesia twin! My identical twin sister was was called Alex as well, that's funny.

[@Chris-zv1ct]

Sameeeeee

[@sophiaabraun]

same!

[@moose_sauce2938]

Siri Crafts Corner nah man, it’s more of a green blue

[@adniaquila1093]

When I was younger, I was never brave enough to say that F# sounds light green because I thought everybody else would think that I'm crazy XD

[@luuh9761]

It sounds pink though ; )

[@seahorse0009]

F# sounds dark green to me

[@stardustslimes4920]

Omg same, except for me the actual letter F is light green

[@claraboe2755]

Wait so you have perfect pitch or does it have the colour if you know its an f#?

[@someoneunspecial1729]

Finally something I can relate

[@lemueljunior]

Since I was a kid, every time I heard the name of the days Monday, Wednesday and Friday, immediately a yellowish color would come to my mind. For the days Tuesday and Thursday, it was more like a dark blue. For Saturday it was orange (nowadays it's orange-brown) and for Sunday it was like a pale blue. Through out my life, I studied other languages and the same pattern happened to the names of the week in Spanish, French and English (my native language is Portuguese), but not in Japanese (it's a long story). Anyways, I'm 30 now and until this day I never told anyone about this. I never thought it had a name. Now I'm watching this video and reading the comments and I know I'm not the only one!

[@elisemcdouall886]

Heyy so i have a question for you about synesthesia. I think i have it mildly - days of the week,letters,numbers can be colours if i ask myself, but i dont see them by just looking at them. But like for me thursday is definitley dark green and 2 is definitley blue etc.. I was wondering what your take on this is- do i have it or not? Sorry to bother you but you were one of the few comments i could find from recently in this video :)

[@lemueljunior]

@@elisemcdouall886 I don't think I'm the right person to answer your question since I know so little about this topic. Maybe you could research forums or even KZbin about this matter and see what you find. Probably there are lots of people talking about this with more depth. Hope you're doing fine and hope you find your answers, Elise =)

[@FlyingMonkies325]

I'd say it's still influenced by the things we see growing up and back in primary school they used to put all the pretty colorful things and posters around the classrooms and they have us sort our folders into colored bins, hang up our coats where there's colorful labels on the rack, the folders were colored too they let us pick a color, and they used color codes for other things too including the weather, teaching about the months and the seasons, why on earth do they ruin that in high school? lol. None of that is unnormal really because without colors and color coding there's no sense of differentiation and organization, why does the world go back on that after we leave primary? so weird lol. I find myself still really influenced by the way they do things in primary school and all the pretty colors and how cute and nice it all looked😊it made things a lot more fun just being in the room and felt cozy. I miss the arts and crafts we used to do too we did lots of cool things. I'm now 32 and for years from high school onwards they made me confused and lose touch with all of that but i never forgot, i started using color coding in full force when i just finally threw in the towel cos i wasn't getting anywhere lol and don't regret it because it's the key to learning things and a lot faster using colors for certain parts i feel i need to add importance to.

[@lemueljunior]

@@FlyingMonkies325 That's interesting!

[@FlyingMonkies325]

​@@lemueljunior I think it's because we're like sponges when we're kids and there's a reason they teach all those things, i just don't understand why it's not considered useful when we get to 12+ years old when our world functions on colors, even nature us multi-colored. When i think of all that i do feel a sensation when i'm thinking about colors it's a very warm feeling and i picture a warm sun and a warm orange color, i guess it means colors make me very happy lol and i still remember the layout of the primary school i went to and what the classrooms look like, and i remember many memories because i'm seeing all the colors i was surrounded with and all the trees and grass outside which is lots of green and brown then white and yellow all the buttercups and daisies. When i'm recalling something I'm seeing things in flashes and like video clips playing in my head strolling around the place panning up, down, left, right, but a lot of the time it's faced toward with a wide view if my brain decides that's all i need to see. I don't have photographic memory or anything but the colors bring more emphasis to experiences and they really emphasize the memories to make me remember them. It's definitely not something we can do that we should let go of because of how useful it is, i feel like it's connected to the subconscious cos that's where all our permanent knowledge and memories is stored, so i think synesthesia is coming from there because your subconscious remembers literally everything it's exposed to, i think a little bit we can all sort of consciously access it, while mostly it just seems to have it's own mind. So through colors i think we can do that i feel like they just really transport you by creating an immersive experience.

[@Abigail-mg3nt]

I dont really know if this is right but everybody thought I was weird for thinking this but numbers for me as a child I always thought that for example 6 and 7 were brother and sister 8 and 4 were together in a relationship and 1 and 2 were married and 9 and 10 where brothers. Its weird I know but I always thought that this is how everyone saw numbers and felt the same way..

[@Mad-ik4fq]

When I was in 7th grade, my whole middle school read a book about a girl with synesthesia (the title had something to do with her cat, mango who she named mango because his meows make her see mango spots) and I've found synesthesia so fascinating since then

[@doyoueven2630]

• madison • A mango shaped space?

[@lexhowdie]

I LOVE A Mango Shaped Space!! Ever since I read it in 8th grade, I’ve been totally captivated by synesthesia

[@claireforestgreenorgangeek2464]

• madison • I think it's very interesting. Synesthesia, that is. I have never read...er...(Mango Space? Something like that) Reflectors and lights are the first thing I saw the sound of. I was getting ready to tell the story, but my phone... battery...is.. ...going... I will come back later.

[@Rose-ty6mb]

I love a mango shaped space!

[@randompanda4325]

i read that a long time ago and i thought having genders and personalities with my letters and numbers was normal. so i ignored it haha

[@augustaimperatrix]

I discovered that not everyone feels like this only a few months ago. My friend told me his Professor worked on a project about synesthesia, I asked him what it was, he explained it to me with the classical "words have colours" and I was like: Well, I don't see colours, but letters and numbers have a gender, characteristics and an age. He was shocked and so happy and I wondered why he reacted like that because it's the most normal thing in the world? He answered No, it isn't? Now I know it and I feel silly that it didn't cross my mind that it's something "special" :D

[@LichenJuice]

Yes me too! And what's weird is that everyone I've asked about it says they experience it too and it's totally normal, which made me think it was...

[@kailaphobia2405]

i have grapheme-color and time-space, and my dad has ordinal-linguistic!! the only reason i started learning about it and found out i had it was after reading the book “a mango shaped space” lol

[@kkuugglleesskkooeerr]

I knew about this - I don't have it, but I always thought it must be wonderful -

[@toast1999]

I never knew that I had synesthesia until fourth grade when I read the book " a mango shaped space" I thought it was normal for everyone to see letters numbers and words as different colors and have a different colored calendar always in your mind. When I started telling people they didn't quite belive me, and some still don't. But the people who do think it's really cool. It is, but it ado makes a lot of things hard like ELA and Spanish, because sometimes words just "Don't look right too me" and no one ever gets it.

[@4licity]

TUESDAY IS GREEN FOR ME

[@EchoHeo]

abbigail ITS ORANGE

[@rubialeticia3736]

o range

[@benjaminmarks8765]

Blue!

[@danieljalontzki9216]

Same for me! Wednesday is red-pink

[@daganfox6399]

ITS BLUE SILLY

[@leeeeeen9534]

I have Ordinal linguistics personification and grapheme color synesthesia i actually discovered it last year when i read this book called “a mango shaped space” which talks about a girl also discovering her synesthesia after that i did some research and I realized not everyone assigns colors and genders and personalities to numbers, letters, days of the week and months lol

[@katherineknapp6604]

I definitely want to learn more!

[@violacola]

When I was younger each day of the week had a pattern. Words had color and shape and sounds moved on a line in my brain. As I got older I no longer saw the shape of 'lonely' (a thin blue line) or saw Sunday (a red square with yellow line radiating from a point on the bottom). I remembered them but no longer saw them the way I used to. Now, as I've gotten older yet again I see them again. No all of them, but I see sound now. Pitch and volume lighten and darken colors and harmony shakes the sploch in my head. I like it. The sound of a guitar, for instance, is green, like it used to be. Bumble bees form dotted zigzagging lines in my brain. I express this to friends and they don't believe me. I wanted to share this so people have a better understanding of this phenomena.

[@cydippida]

+Lucy Lyttle Hah, don't worry, not everyone understands. {Also, i'm curious, what's you least favorite sound? Mine's that weird popping noise a bottle makes when it fills with gas or air- such a startling sound!}

[@violacola]

When a fork scrapes on a plate. I just can't focus.

[@cydippida]

Mhhm- and loud sound is bad for me-

[@violacola]

***** If youre eating soup and the spoon scrapes across the bottom of the bowl it makes a high pitched squirming sound. It seems red lighting bolts from the corners of my vision.

[@ilikebandsandcereal7968]

Lonely is a circle that is shaking alone in an all white room

[@Damianscool74159]

I've always felt like letters and numbers had genders and personalities, but I never said that 'cause I thought everyone felt that way. Then I tried to explain to my mom how I think that 2 is a teenage girl who's not easily daunted and that A is a thirty year old womanizer, and she thought I was crazy. At least, now I know I'm not.

[@lonniegabbie]

You're not crazy, it happens the same to me with colors with letters and numbers. My brain makes up personalities for some numbers too now that I think about it, my mom has it as well so we talk about it sometimes but my dad did think I was crazy when I was 5, which I imagine as magenta btw. xD

[@brittsNAY]

I'm the same, only without the personality aspect. I tried asking my mom about and she thought I was crazy too xD

[@charlottellla]

SAME.

[@salmaslp2712]

Damian Robles omg i do too! for each number there're a person or a personnality! damn we're brothers and sisters hahah

[@salmaslp2712]

7 is a selfish handsome young man, its always dark blue

[@MofuTofuMei359]

I have this and every letter has its own color. But does anyone else experience seeing the colors mix together when they form words? But if you read the word by letter, you see the colors individually? And I don't exactly SEE the colors, it's more of like thinking about a song in your head, it's like you hear it, it's not faint, you don't hear anything but you have the music pulsing in your head. AGGGGHHHH it's so hard to describe. 😭

[@gimme_ur_teeth]

I think I have this! It doesn’t kick in for everything, but it’s usually there. I also have misophonia, which means certain noises (and even images) make me feel “negative” emotions. I feel like these are somehow connected.

[@NK-xd4fu]

Anyone else say colours instead of numbers in class by accident and everyone looks at you weird? xD Too many times, I MEANT FOUR NOT BLUE I'M SORRY.

[@ldekker97]

NOOOO FOURS ARE ORANGE

[@NK-xd4fu]

Lianne Dekker breh, s is orange. Come on.

[@xxxGriffling1Dxxx]

+Nicolas K what? No four is purple and s is yellow?

[@NK-xd4fu]

xxxGriffling1Dxxx 3 is yellow and 9 is purple :P

[@momakesmovies3888]

+Nicolas K To me 4 is purple, 3 is light blue and 9 is pink:)

[@rslitman]

Blue, of course. (You were asking what color Tuesday is.)

[@hanatamago3813]

I know right

[@slimeyerin]

I think of it as a baby blue

[@LieutenantSloth]

To me I always thought of Tuesday as blue, i couldn't picture it as any other color. I work as registered nurse, so on different days of the week I would wear a particular color based on what day it is (Monday/red, Wednesday/yellow, Saturday/purple)

[@willsimpsblart]

Monday-Yellow Tuesday-Green (and sharp) Wednesday- Purple or blue and soft and deep Thursday is the same as Wednesday Friday is a red, Saturday is yellow and sunday is nothing

[@emmasol3058]

Haha same for me a pastel blue color

[@kiki-qp7jx]

synesthesia definitely improves my memory! I can remember numbers easily because I remember the colors that I associate with them

[@elisemcdouall886]

Heyy so i have a question for you about synesthesia. I think i have it mildly - days of the week,letters,numbers can be colours if i ask myself, but i dont see them by just looking at them. But like for me thursday is definitley dark green and 2 is definitley blue etc.. I was wondering what your take on this is- do i have it or not? Sorry to bother you but you were one of the few comments i could find from recently in this video :)

[@kiki-qp7jx]

@@elisemcdouall886 i experience the same thing ! although this form of synesthesia is pretty common i think

[@keana172]

i feel like i can’t fell if i have this or not. like i can imagine these worlds as feelings but i don’t actually taste them or feel them

[@hejeko]

There’s two types of synesthesia, projective synesthesia: people who see actual colors, forms, or shapes when stimulated (the widely understood version of synesthesia). associative synesthesia: people who feel a very strong and involuntary connection between the stimulus and the sense that it triggers. ( so they may not see 5 as green but they have a strong feeling that it is green) Hope this helps ;)

[@siennarose420]

It's weird 'cause I don't have Synesthesia, but I still like to compare colors to the days of the week, numbers, or moods. Like Monday is red, Wednesday is Green. Red is odd Black is even. Or like Red is angry, Blue is sad. In Kindergarten we had a specific color for the days, & on the 100 number chart/board thingy the odd numbers were Red, Black was even. So maybe that's were I got this mind set from.... Not really sure, but I've always thought like that.

[@lancebrightmire1653]

Then you have it

[@HiBye-rw1ng]

Sienna H You do have synesthesia, it's just that you don't have the projection type (physically seeing, smelling or tasting something seemingly irrelevant).

[@hellothere4485]

+Hi Bye really because if someone asks me " what colour is Tuesday?" I'd reply brown because I do think it's brown in my opinion however, every time I see Tuesday written some where I don't see brown. Do you think I have it or not? Me personally, I'm divided on whether I do or not.

[@shanemccullough4380]

I do the exact same thing

[@derpface5156]

Sienna H lol that mean you have em

[@lemonlikethefruit]

I found out about this today in neuroscience, I had thought that everyone associated words, subjects, objects, and letters with colors.

[@y.lavendr]

Same

[@babythestarsshinebright]

i think this is association rather than synesthesia, i have colour-smell synesthesia and i can physically smell it rather than just associate a colour with a certain smell :0

[@bloodhound..]

🌌

[@TaraTatangelo]

I thought the same thing. I still feel maybe it is a great technique to use. I use this to remember places and notes or things. a great note taker paints and draws and now I wonder if he too has synesthesia.

[@wendycarballo9539]

I def think it's an association thing for most people@@babythestarsshinebright

[@calsingh4342]

I see songs, months, people and days of the week as colours or personalities, I don't associate certain letters with colours (like Denise. I wouldn't remember her as a name starting with D because I don't associate things like that.) but I do see people's personalities as colours. Tuesday is green.

[@michelleschultze4641]

I physically winced when the letters in DNA popped up. They were all the wrong colors.

[@antspiral]

Oml same

[@claireforestgreenorgangeek2464]

Michelle Schultze for me letters don't have colors unless they are music note names. A B C D E F G have colors. The rest of the alphabet is colorless.

[@claireforestgreenorgangeek2464]

Michelle Schultze *C is red* *D is light green* *E is yellow* *F is dark green* *G is orange* *A is dark brown* *B is olive green* Based on the colors, f# minor and D major are my favorite chords. By the way, the organ beats the piano to a frazzle.

[@gymnastflame8583]

SAME

[@kelseycurrier-dougherty8943]

Same! d is purple, n is yellow, and a is red!

[@sixtysevenhannibal9766]

I think everyone has some form of synesthesia.. others are just so developed while others arent

[@torreygreen6794]

Nope. Everyone does not.

[@stardustslimes4920]

I mean it might be a spectrum, some people have almost nothing but others have a strong version.

[@darkfeather6857]

@@stardustslimes4920 Nope. I have zero synethesia. My senses are as separate from each other as summer and winter. There is no spectrum. You might be on a spectrum, but you are not everybody and you don' t know what others perceive.

[@annav6037]

Dark Feather so you’d be on the complete opposite end of the spectrum

[@darkfeather6857]

@@annav6037 Touche. You got me there.

[@blotchilim1980]

Damn ted ed is really my favorite. A friend of mine recently said she wanted to take the psychology course, and i told them to check you guys out to get a grip--but they refused. It's their loss! But i still feel bitter about it, lol.

[@dulcetsindy]

Didn’t know this existed ...super cool but so hard to understand at first from someone who doesn’t experience this !

[@heyo_xx732]

I memorized the time table with numbers as people with personalities.. like 6 and 7 are close relatives...

[@balsamgubaad5542]

Just a normal girl I did that too

[@mavisdom-animeonpiano]

Just a normal girl sAME

[@joharrison6014]

7 and nine for me both sophisticated ladies,, but 7 is the daughter (red) and nine (darker red is CLEARLY the mom) 6 has a dumbfounded look on her face (orange) and shes heavier too... 4 is a young skinny boy (light sand tan),, tried to skip over the number 6 for YEARS cause of a personality clash...

[@playermouni]

Ya but 7 is mean n 6 is nice Edit: the 7 is a boy n 6 is a girl

[@charchar234cj]

Omg me too 😭😭😭

[@user-we2vv4wv9h]

with piano, music notes have always had personalities and colours, when i was young i would get sad because re and do were always seperate and re wanted to be with do but mi always stole him.

[@pinkpopstarr8580]

I DID THIS WITH NUMBERS 4 liked 6 but 5 was always in the way

[@meat_doughnuts3457]

3 and 5 are always together and hard to distinguish because they are twins but opposite genders. Three is female and five is male

[@sunnypii]

Ikr!!! I did this with music notes and numbers and objects and- actually I did it with most everything XD

[@KC-ct4zl]

I’m so glad I watched this I thought I was crazy my whole life

[@jasonpos1537]

So very true. We all have it to some extent. But some people claim it as their "superpower" which is quite annoying.

[@itsbk6192]

I associated numbers with gender Like 1,3,5,7 and 10 were the brothers youngest to oldest,respectively, and 9 and 8 were the gossipy sisters while 2 and 4 were the goody two shoes and 6 always hung out with bad people,woke up in a different bed every night ,had a Mohawk even though her mother 60 didn't approve All my numbers had a backstory and I still remember it to this day

[@macym4681]

this is awsome

[@juliaheidihorn]

I really want to read more about those numberstorys of yours!

[@bellaforman7014]

How do double digit numbers work with that? Like what is 24

[@oliviageneva]

same! but for me the female are 2,4,6,9

[@tatidominguez9326]

YESSS

[@madisonsloan9570]

I remember talking to my friends about the gender and personalities of numbers in elementary school, I assumed everybody just had that feeling

[@miriambucholtz9315]

I thought I had given letters and numbers colors and personalities to try to alleviate the boredom I already felt in kindergarten and first grade.

[@user-br8jg1jy4e]

Yeah me too!! TODAY I learnt the truth. By the way, so you know the love triangle of 7, 8 and 9?

[@miriambucholtz9315]

Not really, because such things didn't enter my mind when I was 5 and 6 years old. But I'll take your word for it.

[@alaskawoolf3737]

I read about a thing called ideosthesia (don't remember how it's spelled) in which, like a less intense form of synesthesia, you relate, for example, a number with the idea of a color, without actually seeing that color like in more classic synesthesia, which would be a more common phenomenon than sensorial synesthesia. I don't actually "see" colors when I see a number, but I do relate almost everything to a color, letters, numbers, days of the week, months, the personalities of people and also music somewhat. I never really paid attention to it since it wasn't ever relevant. It turned out to be useful when I decided to learn english, because words had colors I could remember them by, many words ended up having similar colors in english to their spanish counterparts, but not quite the same. For example, the word "Tuesday" is a reddish brown, more brown in english because the "T" is brown, more red in spanish because the "M" for "Martes" is fuchsia.

[@soupe.silent_e]

so i have the sound to color bit, but I thought i was the only person who came up with narratives for the numbers, that was always consistent over the years

[@ccyungin]

that animation was everything

[@not_dava9038]

I have synesthesia. Letters, words, and numbers have color, and numbers and letters have personality.

[@not_dava9038]

By the way, if you have to ask, tuesday is orange

[@not_dava9038]

It also feels bumpy

[@anayamorrison958]

+Dava_doo no!!Tuesday is yellow!!!And surrounded by dark blue!!

[@Elizabeth_-lq3jk]

+Anaya Morrison tuesday is fuzzy and a baby blue

[@MatthewEJames4603]

Thursday is orange for me; Tuesday is yellow.

[@jascurry2711]

I do this with music, for example a B flat chord is blue, an A chord is red, an E minor chord is pale yellow or blue depending on the song as a whole, and a D chord is brown just to name a few

[@annafino2325]

When I see a photo or an image I always can smell it. So strange :)

[@abbsterjonesy]

so what colour is everyone's Tuesday? to me, it's yellowy orange

[@ryanwaskneelinginthebathtub]

The tree that holds Jimin 's small pepper bright green

[@mikaadror]

omg same for me

[@andrewpereira888]

The tree that holds Jimin 's small pepper omg same

[@HanaZianiB]

Green, Tuesday is green.

[@kyliemartin7824]

The tree that holds Jimin 's small pepper Mine is a light blue

[@Lovely-qc7pz]

Tuesday is definitely light blue to me.

[@diananegoitz3442]

No I think it's yellow

[@umcimmn4479]

Chiqy NO ITS YELLOW

[@susuandsusu4745]

Rose Frost sAMe

[@hopetabby5612]

Same!

[@RBRCR-se2gz]

yEs

[@krinathakkar4639]

Imagine hearing the beautiful paintings in a museum ! Won't it be fantastic ? I want synesthesia 🥺

[@Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole]

Hello. I am a musician who sees a color-shape for each note. When I was in music school I got into an argument online with Richard Cytowic. This was the late 90's I guess, when there was no uTube or FaceBook or Twitter, etc. They were very fixed, boxy text fourms. I was expalined to Cytowic on his forum that there is an actually consitency in what i see in the notes and shape that parallels the color spectrum. For example, C is one of the most robust, warmest sounding notes. And therefore people naturally (and constantly) write love songs in C. Further, there are 64 squares on a chess board to make up one giant square. Well, 64 hertz frequency is actually a low C (in A-432/C256 scientific tuning). So I explained all of these things to him. How the cold distance of A-flat is spherical and blue. Etc. etc. Richard Cytowic would absoutely NOT hear it. He became very angry in his replies. That dialogue was lost by the time I moved back home from NYC to New Meixco. It is strange to see the man, years later, on TED-X. To see the face of who I was actually talking to. The problem with Cytowic (and i'm not dismissing his work) is that he does not offer any real insights to the condition. Like a good nerd, he merely documents things. I am not saying that synesthiea is intrinsically metaphorical, i'm sayiing that often times IT IS. And there is a pattern in neurology and perception that Cytowic's research shockingly ignores, denies and dismisses. Here is an example on my uTube channel of a visual representation of a song i the key of B major (magenta). kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZ7CmWiol7-YmJo

[@kaylala4695]

I think I have this except it's with smell. Like when I smell something, I am instantly reminded of a memory. Or when I remember something, I can smell it, but no one else seems to smell it. And then the smell goes away as soon as I stop thinking about it.

[@finsimple4396]

I think that's pretty normal cause i have that too. It's just nostalgia. In this video he does explain at 3:04 that all of us have it to some extent.

[@lemonade1791]

That's how your memory works, moron.

[@kaylala4695]

v Bocaj ahhh okay thx

[@kaylala4695]

Ttruth Hurtz wow good to know thx

[@curlyclubb7535]

Ttruth Hurtz living up to that username I see