synesthesia

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I've always been able to feel sounds in a way. Just for example I don't like words like crunch, crutch, or really anything with cr in it anywhere because it likes to feel like that crunch you get when you get sand in your mouth, and hissing noise sends chills down my spine like when a fly buzzes by. It only seems to involve voices though I haven't found to many other things that sets it off like speaking does.

It has it's problems sure but it can make listening to music quite an experience to just sit back and let the sensations run over you. For some reason sad songs are really nice feeling which gets me a few odd looks with I tell people I like those songs. They're sad to others but relaxing for me since I can tune out the meaning of the song and just feel it instead.

I hear sounds when I see motion (for instance, I hear a little "click" when a traffic light changes), and I'm pretty sure I also hear sounds when I feel things like textures or bodily sensations.

Oddly enough, these two can overlap-- visual static, for example, generates the same noise for me as when a body part falls asleep. It's not the same noise as white noise or TV static but instead it's more of a buzzing.

I always tell people I got the boring type of synesthesia-- it's not really pleasurable or interesting, although I did stim a lot with it when I was younger.

Glad to read that i'm not the only one! I don't know anyone in my environment who understands that to me music, people, numbers and the alphabet, the days of the week and al the months have colors. That colors have tastes, and personality's, and certain situations have a scent and taste. I also find it very hard to explain to people who don't know this. The more i read about it, the more it makes sense to me! But in my town i guess i'm still that 'weirdo' that nobody understands *lol*

I used to taste colour when I was young. I'm still not keen on yellow because of this.

I can feel sounds, physical-like sensation... not the vibration self either, that is separate. I can see some kinds of sound in vague shapes of color dancing about, to really see it though I have to close my eyes or focus really hard on it. Ephemeral.

I too have had some weird sensory crossovers while under the influence of stuff, even not normally considered hallucinogenic stuff. Sometimes also while really tired.


I thought synesthesia was a semi-common thing? /shrug

I have the unfortunate problem of sometimes tasting what I see, so for example if I look at a brick wall its almost as if my tongue is licking at it and I can taste the bricks Its particularly gross if you pass a spot where someone has thrown up or spat mucous onto the floor, I have to quickly look away before I start to taste it

I don't see colours with music, its more like I can sense the air moving around the music, like an invisible force that shapes and folds the music in the air. I quite enjoy that part

I do as well, and I often have difficulty verbalizing my "thoughts".....I'm not big on reading, but the internal experience of music is very rich and dynamic for myself. A constant flux of indescribable feels & emotions that I have no words for, different shapes, colors, textures, abstract sensations fluttering about my conscious.


I don't know the technical terms for these types of synesthesia...but with music/sound I'll often experience what I described above. I have a spatial synesthesia of sorts where I experience the date/time around me, the months are aligned around me in an oval like shape almost like the earths orbit around the sun. I also have a strong "sense of place" (don't know how to describe?) that seems like a spatial synesthasia, every place I go, everywhere, I'm constantly experiencing a different "feel" or "vibe". Every room or hallway in a building, every city block, every aisle in a store, every mile of open highway, everywhere....I'm constantly experiencing a flux of different "feelings" I can't describe. This feeling gets attached to the space, so I have a mental map of every place I've been that's based merely off of "feelings", I also have a good mental/visual map, so I have a rather good sense of direction...I also think this plays a roll in me having good memory as well.



The times I've experimented with psychedelics, all of this get turned up even more so with LSD in particular. One really falls into the unfiltered sensory soup ....Fascinating stuff though.

I might have it as I see the letters having colors

A: Red
B: Blue
C: Orange
D: Brown
E: Mustard
F: Teal
G: Teal as well
H: Grey
I: Yellow
J: Gold
K: Royal purple
L: Gold
M: Beige
N: wood brown
O: Black
P: Purple
Q: Lilac
R: Dark grey
S: Dark green
T: Grey-Green
U: Turquoise
V: Velvet
W: Cream
X: Black
Y: Yellow
Z: Gold

My daughter can taste people's voices (gives her clues as to whether they are nice or not). Unfortunately, strong emotions also can leave her with (literally) a bad taste in her mouth.

I think, that more autistics has it, than non-autistics, - but it isn´t entirely an autistic trait. Many artists of any kind has it, because they are "sensory" people. They have to be.
At the music school, where I had my basic training, we (all young adults) had a class discussion about it, - and most of us "heard" colours. Intervals had colours, chords had colors, phrases had colors and they were somewhat close to uanimous, so, there seems to be some psychological "laws" as to how we percieve it.

I hear symphonic sound when I paint and see colors when I play or listen to music.
More idiosyncratic: When I was a child and a youngster, my brain produced musical phrases by the sight of faces (The uncle Erik phrase, the aunt Ellen phrase and such), and in 1-2nd school year, I handeled numbers as coloured bricks moving in rytms.

im a musician too and ive noticed a fair amount of synesthetic phenomena. Without the presence of mind alteration I perceive some sounds as having physical properties. For example the sound of glasses being scraped against each other is accompanied by a satisfying sensation as is the sound of a hand dipping into a sink full of water. This is centred in the mouth region. It isnt an actual sensation - its more of a phantom textural taste phenomenon. I'd say its a form of mild synesthesia. This might explain why my reaction to certain sounds is mmmm ahaha theres a sort of sweet spot where the sound resonates physically with me

I remember noticing it during the composition of my first piece of electronic music where I was trying to create sounds which had a specific quality - they were muddy wet sounds but I was trying to capture a physical sensation more than a timbral quality

When tired I also have a bizarre phenomenon where when I close my eyes my consciousness morphs into shapes. Impossible to render in language but if you imagine ones field of awareness being a sort of cloud with form and shape mine coalesces into shapes. Its an unpleasant sensation and I remember experiencing it during a fever

I also used to associate phrases with people which ive literally just this second realised is probably not typical. My cousin was "rotten egg". This has largely discontinued though

On weed I also experience synesthesia as standard. It is consistent and . It enhances the first example and widens the palate.

My letter colors:

A: Red
B: Brown
C: Yellow
D: Brown
E: Green
F: Blue
G: Orange
H: Blue
I: White
J: Purple
K: Green
L: White
M: Red
N: Dark blue-green
O: Red
P: Dark blue-green
Q: Dark rust-gold
R: Dark green-blue
S: Yellow
T: White
U: Beige
V: Light beige
W: Dark beige
X: Dark beige-gold
Y: White
Z: Gold-beige

For the most part words will take on the color of their first letter, like my name Cattails is a yellow word.
I also see music as a moving display in my head. Organ music is usually erratic lines and sometimes puffs of color.

I would be pretty disappointed if this were to go away!

I have it. I see and feel sounds, I taste, in lack of a better word, anticipation, and I smell emotions. My thoughts are to a large extent visual and they´re often mental representations of actual places that I´ve seen/felt that sometimes traduces into words, sometimes not. Sometimes they can be traduced into tones or movements (music and dance) if they don´t correspond to a word. I don´t think that there is a real difference between different types of sensory input.

I have this

Numbers are colored to me, as are letters. Music is very colorful, and sometimes voices are too. When it comes to voices, the majority of the time that I see colors is when I find them grating or annoying (my brother's voice as a child was a striking white line that made it almost impossible for me to see. When his voice changed it went away which I am happy about, because I didn't want to be around him because of it ).

Tastes have color also, along with motion (not sure if that's included in the definition of this?). I love wasabi because it has a very fast upward motion and the color is very intense- it's the same green but it's still nice.

Smells have colors and colors have smells, too. Textures have tastes as well so it was really great to learn that other people experience that! (The post about the bricks!)