What Synesthesia Feels Like

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Did you know some people 'see' letters in color or 'taste' music? In this video, we’ll talk about synesthesia, how it works in the brain, and why some people experience these fascinating sensory connections while most of us don’t.
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[@Mikhail-e9s]

Someone that has taste-word Synesthesia once told me that my name tastes like strawberry jam. Everytime I think about it, it makes me smile 😊❤

[@Techydad]

Now you just need to find someone whose name tastes like peanut butter and two people whose names taste like bread. 😁

[@Mikhail-e9s]

@Techydad I'll do my best to complete the sandwich! 🥪

[@TheDopekitty]

That sounds like a super fun version to have

[@matthewboire6843]

You’re Litterly sweet, wow.

[@itsgonnabeanaurfromme]

Too bad because strawberry is a flavor, not a taste. Having the neurons overlap with association and the area for taste can't have flavor because it includes scent, and jam makes no sense.

[@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88]

At 2:30, when you start listing the different types of synesthesia I couldn't help but imagine that this is where people got the idea for auras. Back when we humans assumed everything was controlled by a higher power, we decided that the people who see colors around other people must have some kind of mystical power. Nope, we're just wired a bit different, that's all.

[@NesoOnyeuche-vj1sf]

That actually makes a lot of sense

[@Sadenshard]

Maybe they are able to see something that most of us have lost sight of because its difficult to understand and process and traditionally not as good for survival as using that brain power for other usages or just preserving energy.

[@shanonfrancis5071]

Careful you might offend the pseudo science nerds that think that's superstition

[@WesaY07]

You might be onto something.

[@Techydad]

"Hi smart people, lunchroom spaghetti here!"

[@BaronVonQuiply]

How does it feel to be loved by my entire high school? (Don't get too excited, that was a quarter century ago)

[@Shadshar]

When I was a child my parents regularly bought a TV programme magazine. The days of the week in the magazine were colour-coded, and Friday always was purple. So for me, Friday is purple even without synesthesia 🙂

[@charleswolfe8896]

I see Friday as green

[@Izzboy-d3t]

@@charleswolfe8896 me too

[@tymmezinni]

I think this association (like the colors of the magnet letters) is what's happening way more often.

[@a_personme]

i see friday as blue

[@10thdoctor15]

If anything, they should go Monday to Sunday in the colours of the rainbow, as there are '7' of each.

[@howdy4504]

I had very strong synesthesia up until my early 20s ( still have numbers and colors, but most of the other ones have faded). My sister had it too. We would discuss word color synesthesia and agreed on most, but she and I differed greatly on the color of "science" she said it was red and I said it was green. She also disagreed on "math" which I insisted was blue but she insisted was yellow. My number synesthesia is sometimes a bother because many of the colors have slight overlaps. For instance, 2 and 9 are a very similar shade of dark blue (2 is dark blue, but 9 is more navy blue) so I used to mix those two numbers up all the time. 4 and 5 were different shades of dark green, and 6 and 7 were slightly different shades of an orangeish golden yellow. My math teachers were always confused why I would randomly write down or read numbers wrong. I never could explain it to them in a satisfactory way. I also used to have "people" synesthesia. People had their own colors (more like color and pattern). This was bothersome because some people had really tacky colors/patterns. I knew a girl who was bright yellow with pink daisies, it was so ugly, but I felt bad because she was so nice ;-;

[@Random_Nobody_Official]

@@howdy4504 I agree that math is blue, but science is yellow.

[@roseopheliashepherd8379]

I won't trust anyone reading my aura unless I get bright yellow and pink daisies 😅

[@MelissaThompson432]

​@@Random_Nobody_OfficialI'm with you. Science is definitely yellow. And math is, indeed, blue.

[@vivipyt]

"If you are hungry, you just read dictionary" that was epic!😂 Wonderful video, been reading about synesthesia since many years and always in awe about such mystical yet beautiful complexities of our neurological system!

[@Beryllahawk]

Fascinating to understand the difference here between a strong association and true synesthesia. I recall the first time I ever learned about the condition - in a creative writing class of all things because one of my classmates developed a character with synesthesia, and gave them a line about how purple sounds like whales. I read their piece and went "That is a fantastic sentence." And they grinned and then said "Synesthesia can be fun." So - of course I had to ask since I'd never even heard the word before, turned out they themselves did have synesthesia. So all their writings for the class involved that - and how folks react to "crazy people." I really hope that fellow kept writing, to be honest. For me I always had strong - and odd - associations, but nothing that would get called synesthesia. Just weird, haha! Such as "the number four is female because she's wearing a princess hat." (depending on how you write a 4, of course)

[@rimaco196]

It's so weird this dropped. I looked up information about synesthesia late last week. I'd come across the word and had never heard of this. I should have just been patient and waited for Joe.

[@AbhishekShukla-dj9bl]

Data leak .

[@XxTesla21xX]

How long ago would it not have been weird? If you had looked it up 2 weeks ago or a month ago would it still have been weird that this dropped yesterday?

[@WhiteSpatula]

When I was in grade school, numbers had texture. But by the time I was in high school it had completely disappeared. I have, however, had a few very brief yet vivid flashbacks. They always occur when I’m utterly exhausted and mentally frazzled. Once when I had been driving for over six hours, I saw a Motel 6 sign and suddenly felt that old sensation on my fingertips. I had forgotten how velvety 6 was. It was simultaneously startling and nostalgic.

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

6 is velvety? Fascinating. Do you remember how 7 felt?

[@WhiteSpatula]

@@bartolomeothesatyr 7 was like pumice. 2 was wet. 3 sandy. 4 like citrus rind. 5 (my favorite) was like walking through a forest with fresh and soft young fern brushing your fingertips. 6 velvety. 8 like a flagpole (brushed metal). And 9 like healthy skin. 0 and 1 didn’t do anything. Nor did combinations. Like 23, for example, wasn’t muddy. I imagine that’s why my brain pruned those connections. They were just so arbitrary. But I swear, they were vivid. At the mere sight of any numeral from 2 through 9, all by itself, would literally FEEL their texture at my fingertips.

[@NewMessage]

I experienced it for a few months after a head injury as a child. I could smell that certain color of goldenrod that they used in some school handouts back in the 70's, and I still remember the smell vividly, even though I haven't smelled it in decades.

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

Was the smell recognizable, or totally unique to the color?

[@NewMessage]

@@bartolomeothesatyr It was unique, but had familiar elements. Mostly it smelled 'fuzzy'.. not like the feeling, but like... alcohol can smell 'fuzzy'... anesthetic-like, y'know? There was a hint of cinnamon, but not piquant, and overall very pleasant, but very 'in your face'. I couldn't ignore it. Unless I looked away.

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

@@NewMessage Thanks for answering! It's wild the effects crosstalk between neurons can have!

[@captainveeee]

I remember when I first heard about synesthesia in a children's book I read while growing up, and its so fascinating to always hear about it. I also think these kinds of books about fictional children talking about their different ways they viewed and experienced the world is always such an important thing.

[@aliceinmansonland448]

I always saw days of the week in Bar Graphs... The height of the bar would relate to how much I regularly enjoy that day! Constantly seeing patterns and graphs... THAT WAS MY CHILDHOOD!

[@hunterG60k]

Ooh, interesting! I see periods of time as shapes too. For me the week is represented by "bars" but they're much more fluid in shape than those on a graph. They also differ in size depending on how much I like the day!

[@Astronomy_Nerd-ip5te]

I had very strong mirror touch synesthesia as a kid. It was so strong that whenever I saw a scene in a movie where someone got stabbed, I used to feel actual pain and I had to leave the situation

[@rokess5053]

I feel that more and more strongly over time.

[@Rawilow]

Is that what mirror touch is? I always feel pain when injuries are described to me, be it someone that tells me about it or something I read in text, I always thougt it's to do to with being overly empathic, but maybe it'a a form of synesthesia?

[@Astronomy_Nerd-ip5te]

@@Rawilow Yes, it could be synesthesia if it occurs every single time you witness or hear someone getting an injury or if you feel the sensation of touch if you see someone else getting touched

[@rokess5053]

@Rawilow I called it pain synesthesia because it only happens with traumatic things. I think mirror touch is any kind of touch. Maybe what I'm thinking of as pain synesthesia is really just a common phenomenon of like physical empathy.

[@Etrancical]

This episode made me realize that I actually have a lot of synesthesia. Seeing turning into feeling? Giving colors to smells? Even pain when going to the dentist registering as a sour taste simultaneously

[@Kyser09]

11:40 I chose the same names for the shapes, but I based them off how steeply the pitch changes as you say the word

[@madhavikolte3651]

Same

[@LambdaCreates]

I don't have synesthesia, but I associate multiplication problems with places. For example, 4 times 8 makes me think of a cozy cafe, 9 x 8 makes me think of a beach with some cliffs further in land and the water rushing in, 7 x 8 makes me think of a cannon firing somewhere on a big plainy field, 9 x 9 makes me think of another beach, just this time without cliffs and a first person perspective etc.

[@TheJttv]

There is exactly one song. Which I can see colors/shapes. Its the opening notes of Maggie Rogers "Alaska". But only that song.

[@scorpionpizzaandcheeseextract]

I also feel the color Black with light sparkles, like a glitter gold, from the opening to a KZbin track called Blind by Cemetery of Pets

[@johnjoxx]

Great artist!

[@guahlg2834]

Wow I'm early! Looks like yet another interesting intellectual video!

[@sirlight-ljij]

I've learned about baba/keke experiment after playing "baba is you" and now associate the shapes accordingly

[@anispinner]

no, baba is you

[@AkariTheImmortal]

To me tastes have colors, which is why some foods just don't mix, just according to the color profile. It's sometimes very hard to describe, especially since I can taste colors that I can't even see. Colors I only know by taste. Like the color of saline solution. I can't really describe it. Or the color of the mixture of Banana and Coconut, the closest way, I could describe it would be that it tastes like rose gold liquid sunshine.

[@Kodack-ki2im]

I have sight sound synethesia and it's no big mystery to me whats happening in my head. Consider which sense can give you more information about something, looking at it, or listening to it. Looking at a car engine gives you one set of information, but listening to a running engine tells you a whole lot of other information including problem sounds. You have different parts of your brain that specialize in analyzing sound, or analyzing visual data, and they are very good at those things. But what if your brain could route sound through the visual cortex, or visual information through your auditory centers? You might be able to detect patterns and gain new insights into something that you would not if you simply looked at it without what you see, also resulting in you hearing something with your eyes. For me, as a musician, hearing things that I see makes me very aware of any rhythmic component in my field of vision. Things like flashing lights, or rotating wheels and gears, I can glance at them and tell if they are at a constant rate, speeding up, or slowing down, because I hear them like a drum beat. It's really easy to tell audibly if a beat is steady, faster, or slower. Your brain is very well adapted to processing sensual stimulus and synesthesia is just another way to throw more of your brain at a signal to understand it.

[@_demosthenes]

Look up Solomon Shereshevsky, he was a Russian mnemonist who had five-fold synesthesia, apparently he could recite an entire lecture by memory!

[@jvillan94]

Somewhere, Matteo is finally validated and Nick is rolling his eyes.

[@AlexCobb44]

The jump scare at the beginning spooked me. I audibly said "red" when he asked about 'A,' and it freaked me out.

[@0Shanna]

Sound-touch here... With pain. Imagine a door slamming closed to be more painful than if that door actually slammed closed on a body part. Horror.

[@arche2460]

I have mirror-touch and it's awful. I'll see someone get injured in a movie or YT video and feel it so viscerally it makes me nauseous... It's not JUST pain but pain is always the most prominent

[@rykehuss3435]

I read that as anesthesia, and was here for a good journey into anesthetics. I was still on board when he started with "what color is the letter A?", having seen some general anesthesia patients being put under

[@SpaceEngineerErich]

Mine was a colored alphabet that was strung along the wall of my Kindergarten. A is red, but S is light blue. Until junior year of high school I thought everyone saw letters and numbers in their heads the way I did. Until a friend of mine told me he was writing a paper on synesthesia. After he explained to me what that was, I responded, "Um, my brain does that." Never really helped me in life. I can't memorize entire books like I have heard some people can. I do work with databases recording lots of part/serial numbers and I could memorize them for short periods of time. I rarely make an input error.

[@fluffyou9276]

I use it to remember my pin codes for my credit card/debit card and smaller things like that.

[@jennim7]

You just dropped my jaw 9:10 . I never knew this was a type of synesthesia, and I literally just blurted out "oh s**t!" When hearing this. I just thought it was how my brain worked, kinda normal.

[@LangThoughts]

When I hear a melody, my mind traces out a line, that can double back on itself, in my head.

[@alexandersage6261]

I take issue with that. Fridays are a nice sunset yellow that smells like the heat of a summer afternoon. Also A's are purple, F's are pink, and U's are neon green

[@tomsenior7405]

E is a fluid, a drink in a pint glass. A is red. The word Dog is a fluffy pom-pom. Friday is Blue. Bad spelling appears as green. Word Search Puzzles are a nightmare, they give me a flashing headache.

[@ahmarjatt2242]

I imagine animations visually while solving or comprehending mathematical problems or equations... And it is crystal clear and intentional and they are cartoonic style in their physics.

[@yomaddy]

For me Sunday is red or orangish red. Monday is sky blue. Tuesday is bottle green. Wednesday is white. Thursday is leafy green. Friday is lavender. Saturday is black.

[@mikeroni]

I have spatial-sequence synesthesia. So common sequences like days of the week or months of the year have a distinct shape in my head. I kind of see it like I moving along a board game as time passes.

[@hunterG60k]

I have this too! Didn't know the specific name for it though, cool.

[@Quasar-v8h]

Thats so weird i see it the same way too no way

[@rebeccamay6420]

This is a fascinating topic. I find it interesting that later in the video, it was suggested that understanding synesthesia could help us understand Autism. I recently discovered that I'm Autistic with ADHD, and watching this video brought back to mind some experiences that might be related to synesthesia: I've experienced spinal sensations when listening to certain kinds of music, especially classical piano. There are times when I can feel the color of someone's personality. The light brown appearance of dried hydrangea flowers triggers a flavor. It took me a while to connect what food my mind was "tasting" -- Grape Nuts Flakes cereal. 😅

[@Sergio_Math]

I have synesthesia. My experience of seeing sounds is very much akin to the way we hear sounds. At any point in time you can hear the birds, a truck passing by, the hum of a computer, the neighbor’s crappy music… but you can choose to ignore all of those and LISTEN to this video while still hearing all the other sounds. I can decide to ignore the swirls of color I hear, but it can be overpowering in some situations, like when hearing a sudden explosion. In that case, it really ruffles me for a few seconds. Other than that, it’s great. It helps me learn songs by ear because I can see the note I have to play when I hear it. You just match the colors!

[@MelissaThompson432]

My niece knew someone who saw music as color. She painted her sheet music because it made more sense than trying to read the little dots....

[@Kleineganz]

Years ago I remember reading about synesthsia in one of Oliver Sachs' books (I forget which one, I've read several of his books). I believe the case study he talked about was one of the more unusal cases, of an adult acquiring it after a traumatic brain injury. I've always found the concept of blended senses fascinating.

[@VoidHalo]

I had a weird synesthesia experience years ago where I was reading about alkanes in an organic chemistry book just for fun. I never learned any sort of chemistry at that point, so I was curious. As I read, the alkanes they described, methane, ethane, propane, butane and pentane each became their own distinct color. I don't mean the words were colorful. I mean the word itself, the symbology of that sound and combination of letters BECAME the colors. Methane was a sort of pastel green, ethane was a bright yellow, propane I can't recall, butane was a deep navy blue, and pentane was vibrant crimson red. Needless to say, it made the text a lot more interesting and I thoroughly digested that textbook in a month. The synesthesia or whatever it was only lasted the first time. But I had a voracious apetite for knowledge about organic chemistry after that. It was really cool. I never really worried about why it happened. Brains are complex. Things are bound to go haywire in them once in a while.

[@ValerieFulmer]

Very interesting. I do not associate any letter with a color. I’m fascinated some people do.

[@danielsac6316]

I'm autistic and recently discovered that other people don't see personalities in numbers and letters. I always associated personalities based on graphemes' faces, but other people don't even see faces in graphemes! Apparently, that's grapheme personification synaesthesia. 😅 By the way, both autism and synaesthesia are linked to reduced synaptic pruning in neurodevelopment. Synaesthesia is more prevalent in autists than in the general population.

[@TheOriginalFaxon]

The first time I ever took MDMA, it was mixed with a little 2c-b without my knowing. The combo resulted in me experiencing sound-color synesthesia for several hours. Basically I was seeing colors that had their own associated sounds, or i was hearing a particular color, I can't exactly say which it was as that night is a blur lol

[@Sevenfeet0]

My daughter who is now a college freshman has synesthesia, the graphemes kind (letters, words and numbers trigger colors). There can be downsides to this. Her grades have always been stellar but her standardized test scores, while very good never quite matched her grades. Her calculus professor figured out that she has dyscalculia which is a form of dyslexia where a person transposes digits in math formulas. Recently the drummer for U2 revealed he has an extreme case of it. We found out that dyscalculia is often associated with synesthesia. Nevertheless, she is working around this and loves math….enough that she now tells us she wants to be a math major.

[@Jaffjv]

Sunday is the color of the sunset (reddish orange). Because “sun” is in the name and the week is setting

[@annekeener4119]

It’s also interesting how much childhood stimuli affect synesthesia. Aside from alphabet magnets affecting the colors letters appear as, the smells people with synesthesia associate with certain colors lines up pretty well with Crayola’s scented marker line. So this childhood association remains in adulthood in people with synesthesia.

[@MontgomeryWenis]

My reasoning for choosing round for bouba and sharp for kiki is simply the shape of the words themselves. Kiki looks like the sharp, spiky shape. I could turn the word kiki into that shape. Same with bouba. It looks like a soft and fluffy cloud.

[@vangu2918]

Right, bouba sounds round, and kiki sounds sharp.

[@quiestinliteris]

Except the experiment has been conducted with people who don't use any written language and were never shown the word in text, only asked to listen to it spoken. There does seem to be a limited set of innate human associations between sound and shape.

[@Demetrius900000]

So me seeing shapes when listening to music as a kid was some kind of synesthesia?

[@GoldenEDM_2018]

Yess! I also have one, songs had always been colourful for me since childhood

[@kevinreardon2558]

Ah, this explains a lot. I'm able to sense body language and sound. So I'm able to "hear" what other people are doing based on their body language.

[@DatNapk1n47]

4:09 I am now 20 and have very vivid and conscious memories (which my parents have corroborated not to be fabricated) from back when I was learning to walk. I did not have any sort of synesthesia then and I certainly do not have any now. I do remember seeing in more detail, having an almost perfect recollection and a way quicker and deeper ability to analyse what I was sensing (which I miss), but my fundamental sensory experience was not all that different.

[@TheFAKATA]

Love these video's!!!

[@hi-jr2pz]

Best science channel

[@alexv3357]

I've always thought sounds have both colours and textures. For example, the Be Smart intro music is definitely rainforest green, with a bit of silver, a texture like sanded but unpolished wood.

[@wanderingsilverrose]

I think music is just tied to everything for me. It's the strongest constant in my entire life. I see it, I feel it, I taste it, I smell it. Drums in particular are like a lullaby, because I fell asleep to crashing bowling balls as an infant when my parents would go bowling. And also, they both loved music. Even just words alone are connected in fun ways, too.

[@robjeh1]

The Bouba and Kiki thing might have to do with the shapes of the letters, Bouba letters being soft/round and Kiki hard lines?

[@alericjohansen6775]

im not a synesthisic (spelling?), but when he asked about those, i thought kiki was the spiky one because of both the shape of the letters AND how it's spoken is very sharp.

[@ComputerGarageLLC]

This is informative and insightful, much like the (for lack of a better choice) opposite condition - aphantasia.

[@cjsun7871]

I immediately thought of these fridge letters!

[@DamagedButManaging]

Numbers have colors, textures, and densities. And music most definitely has textures and colors

[@AryadiSubagio]

There are people who literally see subtitles as others speak? That's cool! Does it work in other languages or just the ones they know?

[@leeeorama]

On the subject of post adolescents not being able to develop synesthesia, I've experienced some music, namely stuff by Autechre, which evokes colors to me, and that other people experience similar things with Autechre as well.

[@orinblank2056]

I have some synesthesia, but it's mainly in my mental images and not a physical one. It's also generally associated with music, and I largely attribute it to taking a lot of psychedelics as a young teenager (By the way, if you are under the age of 18 just avoid drugs, ideally avoid them in general, though I have gained a lot from mushrooms. I started taking mushrooms at 12 and LSD at 13, and while I am still sane, educated, and able to function, that is not the norm. Be careful). Psychedelics have a very interesting synesthetic effect at times, where they can turn music into fully three dimensional structures when you close your eyes. Some music would form these large, ever-shifting objects floating in space that were reactive and flowed with the music. Even today, music gives me strong impressions of shapes, colors, and motion. I've even avoided some music for the way my mind interprets it visually. My friends and I would also play a game we called "What does the music taste like?" where we would listen to songs and try and guess the flavor. It was honestly a lot of fun, especially because sometimes a song would come on and everybody would immediately, without speaking to each other, be like "oh this tastes like chocolate cake with cherries" and we'd all be in complete agreement. Honestly still a fun game as an adult, even without the drugs.

[@josholt61]

I have aphantasia. So even the thought of seeing something that isn't there is weird, and the color of letters is just whatever keyboard that is front of me, mostly black or white.

[@isalesiiibarrynicholasd.1191]

I can imagine the shape of the voice, by just hearing it, in my head I don't visually see it, its just how i sense, these kind of voice is thin or thick, pointed or grainy with some sort of its own unique shape or texture.

[@feldinho]

I felt some forms of synesthesia while REDACTED. One of the weirdest was feeling the texture of music in my skin while wearing headphones.

[@TheFalconerNZ]

I first heard about Synesthesia from the show 'Heroes' (2006) & instantly wished I had it as I have a bad memory & could see the benefits of dual input for learning (hearing what I read or seeing what I heard). However I also saw the down side as in the possibility Van Gogh had it & it drove his depression due to his inability to handle it & the refusal of those around him to understand why/how he reacted to some stimulus. they way he did. It also reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend about how we see colours, I argued that if (in my mind) I had seen blue as red but had been told my whole life that the red I saw was called blue so called it blue, how would anyone know I didn't see what they saw or they may see blue as green.

[@benjaminbeard3736]

I get numbers in the form of shapes and/or textures. It only goes up through 100 or so , and then only certain numbers get a shape. Usually round or important numbers. I've had full-blown audio/visual synesthesia a few times while on "a heroic dose" of the fun mushrooms.

[@maxxie84]

That is a great video, thank you! Sounds to me like a possible root cause of the Psychology of languages, as people would develop differently depending on the country and language they were born in, hence why their view of the world is very different!

[@davidroddini1512]

In answer to the thumbnail question, no Friday isn’t purple. That’s Sunday; Friday is green.

[@charleswolfe8896]

For me Sunday is red and Wednesday is purple

[@yomaddy]

For me Sunday is red or orangish red. Monday is sky blue. Tuesday is bottle green. Wednesday is white. Thursday is leafy green. Friday is lavender. Saturday is black.

[@Izzboy-d3t]

SAME

[@felipesato9045]

I think this depends a lot on what each day of the week, and what each color, means to each person

[@momokhong31]

for me days are days

[@gearslingger]

I had the amazing experience of seeing sound.

[@onbearfeet]

It's great to see so many synesthetes in the replies! The only other synesthete I know irl is one of my brother's children. We both have number-color synesthesia, although we perceive different colors for the same numbers (two is GREEN, dammit!), and I have some kind of spatial synesthesia where both numbers and linear time have distinct locations and properties in space. I could give you turn-by-turn directions to the 18th century, which is Delft blue. And yes, we're both artists of some description. I write novels and make textile art, and my nibling makes visual art and works with fiber. We enjoy going to conventions in costume together and arguing good-naturedly about what color each room number is.

[@ncammann]

I have sound/Sight synesthesia. Sounds create a kaleidoscope of shapes and colours in my head. The purer the sound, the simpler the colour and pattern, and the easier it is to describe. Conversations can be so many shapes and colours, so fast, it would be impossible to describe. If I get someone somewhere quiet and hear them talk softly, I can tell the colour of their voice and the shapes it makes in my head. Better still if I can close my eyes. My Spaniel barking is stars - Green centre with a purple outline - growing from bottom right to top left, like a firework. At night hearing the radiator cooling down, the pops are pink dots with hazy yellow edges that pop and fade to disappear. My Wife's voice is mostly yellowish with green tinges.

[@kingcong5754]

If we could forget it, i imagine we can learn it again?

[@DazLeOneink]

11:03 the letter K has a sharper hit to it. So the spiky image fits

[@blackmagician7645]

0:21 🤔Interesting. With me. B's are green and D's are blue. But A's are red and C's are yellow like everyone elses perspective by the chart.

[@genkisudo]

Does psychedelics give you synesthesia? I once was able to see the waves in music and it matches what you’re describing

[@marselyte]

They do

[@notyou1178]

Wow the first question I got was instantly got right without even realizing what this video was about! I immediately thought red for “A”

[@ThoraninC]

I want to say that in Thai, There are specific color assigned to the day of the week based on Hindu gods that assigned for each day. And royalty pretty much use their birthday as flag color. So for all Thai (at least domestic) Every day of the week has assigned color.

[@magneticsnail7218]

All movement makes noise for me, even when it's silent movement (like blinks, smiles, someone far away walking). Most of the time, I experience it as music, like repeating notes or tunes.

[@wanderersnightmare8745]

Synesthesia is like the perfect opposite of Aphantasia (the inability to visualize in your head).

[@AlexWalkerSmith]

False claims of synesthesia are almost as common as false claims of ambidextrity, and both are usually due to a misunderstanding of the term.

[@Random_Nobody_Official]

Only 1 in 25 people? I thought it would be alot more common than that for some reason...

[@gailaltschwager7377]

Thank you!

[@Олексій-г1в]

Yes, I have this. Occasionally. Under some special circumstances. I'd even say under of influence of special circumstances. Seeing music is most awesome. 3d visualization of shapes is also kinda cool. Fractalisation is fascinating when see it it's on plants, but on humans not so much.

[@bomafett]

Watch the movie Ratatouille. When Remy eats food, he hears music and sees color explosions. This is a fantastic visualization of synesthesia.

[@MelissaThompson432]

I had an illness at about 2 1/2; it caused amnesia, and I had to relearn how to do the things a two year old can do. Later I read in an article that if you have brain damage between the ages of 2 and 3, you probably end up with more synapses than you would otherwise, because there are new synapses formed when the originals aren't working, but then the originals recover due to brain plasticity at that age. I have always had a sense of connections between unrelated things, but not to the degree that I would call myself a synesthete.

[@74Gee]

Synesthetes are cool!

[@Docmain3]

A is typically red because a for apple and apple being mostly associated with the color red Listened to a 19 min video on the Accidental Genius around 10 last night so I was a bit surprised to see this video uploaded today.

[@Random_Nobody_Official]

@@Docmain3 B is blue, M is maroon, V is violet, and Y is yellow!

[@RebeccaStock-r3b]

I think we need to look at the connection between taste and smell. Perhaps that will help understanding mixed senses?

[@owenb6914]

1:07, that letter type made me read speech as speeeh because the c looks like an e

[@Nethaura]

I don't have synesthesia, but I agree that 'A' is red. Firstly, Apples are red (by default in our minds anyways), which is what most of us were taught to associate A with For me specifically, English was always Red in my elementary school. The workbook was red, and our notebooks were covered in red paper. And 'A' is often used as a shorthand symbol for English, so I also made the connection there

[@10thdoctor15]

Apples are also green. Most school subjects use red books. For some reason, MFLs were yellow and Maths was grey. Never heard of English being A.

[@cannonaire]

@@10thdoctor15 A is absolutely orange for me. Pretty much every letter has a color! In preschool, A stood for 'Ape', which is a bit different from the usual. Might have been an orangutan. B is pink or red, and c is cyan. And so it goes...

[@alexsiemers7898]

And also red is the first color we have in the visible spectrum, as is the letter A in the alphabet

[@KateSuhrgirlPlays]

I wish I could taste colors. That'd be cool.

[@Mezo4]

Friday is either brown or yellow, letter A is red and D is green B blue C is cyan S is definitely red U is navy blue W is cyan and this is my personal opinion so no hate 😊

[@tilakvenugopal4044]

Most people learned the letter A representing an apple which are red

[@everestjarvik5502]

I don’t know if I actually have grapheme color synesthesia- I probably don’t but I do associate the first 7 letters of the alphabet with colors. Why the first 7? I guess because I’m a musician and so I’ve spent a lot more time forming connections around the letters used as note names. A= light red B= blue C= yellow D= dark red E= green F= purple G= orange

[@BeeWhistler]

Yeah, I’ve had the letter-color one my whole life. I remember as a kid seeing each letter as a certain color. Numbers, too. I figured the red A was to do with our ABCs… A is for apple, y’know? Especially since I see B as bubblegum pink. But I also had those magnets, which could explain others. It was weird because as a kid I would discuss with my sister what color letters were, and hers were different but she did see the colors. We never thought at the time that it was unusual. Later I heard about synaesthesia. The vexing bit is that it sounds cool but is just one part of my mixed up, inefficient brain. I don’t store memory right. I’ll remember details of events based on what I remember thinking about them, not the actual memory of the event. Or I’ll forget something when viewed from a straight-forward context, such as, “What do I have planned for today, the 30th?” Nothing, blank slate. But ask, “What were you planning to do two days before New Year’s Day?” and I’ll remember New Year’s is in the dead center of the week, which I see as a shape in my mind, therefore two days before is Monday, and now I’ll have access to any number of memories. View it from another view, first thing in the morning, I may remember nothing, not even the day of the week or month. My life is a constant struggle to maintain a grasp on memory, and to find the correct path to recall them, if I can. I have to sing “toilet paper” over and over to remember to get a new roll. It’s been like this my whole life. What does this have to do with the topic? Imagine trying to remember a street name when your brain goes by colors, and all street signs are green. Or you know it starts with a blue letter… pretty sure it’s c… and sort of a compound word… Coleridge… Cottonmouth… Cattleprod… Commonwealth! The years I spent trying to remember it wasn’t Coleridge, though…

[@TatsumiOga682]

Is perfect pitch/ absolute pitch a form of synesthesia?

[@Random_Nobody_Official]

Yes, Friday is purple. the days of the week are the colors of the rainbow, in order, starting with sunday.

[@abraz_]

Monday is red, Tuesday is sky blue, Wednesday is yellow, Thursday is gray, Friday is green. Saturday and Sunday seem to be changing alotta times.

[@AFCEvanz]

Me and my brother could always agree on TV programmes having certain patterns to them. Some would be zig zags, some wiggly lines and others straight lines.

[@lisarodriguez6966]

Diagnosed with synesthesia since age 9. Visual, auditory and sense of taste blurred.

[@zero213kt]

Monday is always blue. Tuesday is grey and Wednesday, too.

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

Thursdays, I don't care about you! It's Friday I'm in love....

[@OMJ_the_Show]

😅

[@carlsoll]

Pretend there all Thursdays, than Friday just shows up

[@emilstvring7577]

Where does the fact that most people know what something feels like on the tongue, just by looking at it, even if they have never licked it?