What's actually the strangest thing about synesthesia, is that other people think it's strange. To a synesthete, it's everyone _else_ that must have a strange experience of things. Imagine trying to explain color to someone who doesn't realize they're color blind? Then imagine how strange it would be, to realize that _everyone _*_except you_*, actually *is* color blind. ;-)
Hector De la cruz Lol...that works just as well. For me, it's actually like nose-blindness for color. I have tactile/visual/olfactory associations. Colors for me have a flavor-texture that I can inhale and roll around on the back of my tongue. When I was a kid, I used to bury my face in things and just breathe them in...my favorite flavors are deep fuzzy purple, and bright glass green. ;-)
This is pretty amazing. When i showed my mom the 360 VR youtube clip, first she was confused in how to use the 360 gyroscope, but secondly she was astounded, and so she wondered, maybe this mutation is what Beethoven had.
very convenient she's a skillfull musician. I know of some people that have this that don't play, so bit of a shame they can't express their condition to other people. she's a star.
My condition isn't as organized. I associate song melodies with colors, but specific notes don't have a specific color. Since songs are mostly based on a certain scale of music, I usually categorize the whole song. So for example, I would say that "Here" by Alessia Cara is an orange sound with hints of red. Anyone else?
+MartyMcSkywalker FINALLY SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS... "Jar of Hearts" by Christina Perri is dark purple and rich blue. I see rain when I hear "Hello" and "Someone Like You" by Adele. My favorite songs are purple and blue. Rich dark colors. :3 Everyone's synestheisa experience is different though! Im sorry if my claim has nothing to do with yours.
Lol!!!! I always see the fucking colors of the ringtone before paying attention to the sound of it; and even more awesome is that I have a noise app to play the sound of rain while im doing stuff, I also always have a fan on "high" while im doing stuff to mask the distracting sounds. I feel understood. Thank you for this... gets me emotional.
My ex gf found out she had synesthesia when she was in school. She asked something along the lines of "why is the letter A red?" She does some awesome paintings of songs! Very abstract and unique!
+Jade Palacios Haha yeah same for me. I was oh shrooms, the colors on this video I was watching at the time were pulsating through my body and I heard some really relaxing sounds. One of me best trips.
+Jade Palacios I wonder if there is a scientific backing to that, does the effect of drugs emulate what people with synesthesia have, well on top of all the other bad things.
Just watched the video! My god Kaitlyn you are blessed to have this amazingly beautiful skill! I cried. Thank you for sharing your wonderful experience with us.
When I'd read sheet music while I was a trombonist, I could literally hear the actual song in my head almost immediately, in almost the precisely manner it would sound once mastered. They call this 'seeing sounds', or an example of 'Synesthesia'. It's probably the most interesting of the different abilities I experience - and there are many. For example, I hate mustard, so certain shades of 'yellow' will prompt me to avoid certain foods based on being able to 'taste/smell/experience a gag reflex' the mustard in relation to the color; the same is true with the particular shade of white, even the clumpy texture visually tied to mayonnaise. Another example is how the smell of food, particularly ones I'm about to try, will mean I can already 'taste' it with my nose, etc., and might also mean that I associate it immediately with something else I've eaten or smelled in the past. I have what some call 'photographic memory'. It can be a voluntary function, but most of the time it is involuntary. And based on the 'living flow of information', the feel of the type of day and the particular social environment surrounding me; or watching the turmoil of something seemingly unconnected to me (the slightest hint at a potential 'slippery slope'), I can foresee the future consequences with stunning (on occasion, unerring) accuracy, and often when it results in someone or a nation/society/culture meeting a horrible end. It is depressing because I understand after a while that there is nothing I can do to deny the natural progression of things from playing out by trying to stop someone from doing something they'll regret, given most people will scoff at the mere mentioning of such things. I call this my 'Cassandra Effect'. There is also my obsession with large numbers, angles and shapes, even circles, spheres, cones and cylinders, that I will mentally manipulate (like bend, mold like clay) to break apart in order to 'cut against the grain' like a Rubik's cube with respect to my artwork, or how I might fashion a new poem or essay, and will even influence the articles I write. Numbers, in numerous ways, can go into all sorts of directions, in ways you can't even imagine. This is particularly the case when I listen to a single song dozens of times on repeat for several days, in which I transform the entire song into a bluish-purple sphere that I mentally 'peel apart' like an orange or onion that appears dark and 'metallic', then 'bend' into different angles or direction that are 'open' in order to see the different options available to me when determining how a poem might be structured. In my mind, I feel like I am tearing down the natural order into the lowest common denominator(s) of what it is I'm focusing on, in order to rebuild it in the discipline and structure that will serve me. These are often so complex that it is structurally impossible for me to find the dimensions needed on a sheet of paper to illustrate what exactly these might look like. For a long time, I thought this was a normal thing. Apparently, it is not, not even for accomplished professional musicians. And if Myers-Briggs has any significance here, I am also an INTJ. Go figure that one out.
As a musician I would find this very advantageous. Although I do have a visualization complex with playing music and how I memorize things, just not that distinct enough to describe it.
My name is Kaitlyn too! I’m reading A Mango Shaped Space and it’s about a girl named Mia and she has synesthesia and hears colors and sees letters as colors. I really like the book and I recommend it if you want to see more of what it’s like. I know it’s kinda a children’s book but it’s reallygood
I have proprioception-photoception synesthetia, which allows me to see my own body even in pitch black darkness. And just like her, I didn't think anything of it until I learned it was a form of synesthetia. Though, it never gave me any advantages, besides an improved sense of spacial awareness in darkness.
Someone like this should write stage light patterns according to sound for live entertainment. I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned because they were so close when mentioning concert lights. Great idea folks.
I link taste to color, and things (like franchises, book universes, etc.) to body types. I know that sounds super weird, but it makes it easier for my brain to compare stuff.
So I started to watch this video yesterday and I have always saw letters in colors. Thought that maybe I had just created my own color coordinates for the alphabet to remember easier. So while watching the first couple minutes I wrote down the alphabet and wrote the color below each letter that I saw. Then I got so interested I tabbed out real quick to google synesthesia alphabet. Loaded one that had tested like 6k results averaged. Soon as I saw it I got spooked because nearly every letter appeared to mirror what I felt they would be by first glance. So I grabbed my paper I wrote on and began to match it up. Match on 22 of them and got so weirded out and uncomfortable I stopped video and went to sleep. Thought about it all day. I just couldn't imagine going through day to day life without experiencing this. Then realized there was nothing to feel uncomfortable about because I've always been like this so nothing's changing, nothing to worry about. Consciousness is weirdddd
Mozart is thought to have had an emotion-auditory synaestesia in which he would hear tones and music based on his emotions and state of mind. He said he always had music playing in his head and when he was happiest and sated the best music comes out.
What Kaitlyn said about loosing Synesthesia to depression is true. I had it myself and then got diagnosed with severe depression which I've had for almost 5 years now and I lost it. It's really weird to see the world without all the colours now.
She's so lucky. She can actually see the colors, I hear them and I actually hear a song or a voice but it's in my mind, like I don't *see* it i *hear* it
Seeing sounds. Because you don't hear a sound when you see a colour, but do see a colour when you hear a sound. Edit: responded before they talked about hearing colours. But I've never read anything about it (yet).
I've been watching a series of documentary things about the brain and one episode was about decision making. Me and my dad both have synesthesia and we started talking about how we have another factor of decision making: the colours of things. For example, if I am asked whether I would like to have £6 or £7 I would choose £6 because I prefer the colour. It's interesting.
I would be very interested hear someone talk about synesthesia who has it and has also tripped on psychedelic drugs like LSD or magic mushrooms. People who have used psychedelic drugs claim they experienced synesthesia while tripping and I'd like to know if it's the same experience, just intensified?
I have it and I have done psychedelics. However....the one I have (that i was born with) was the number/letter color thing not the music one but I have experienced the music one on psychedelics. I feel like it would just make it more intense.
I wonder if perfect pitch is a kind of ''light'' synestesia where isntead of association of pitch and color, it's an association of pitch and words. It stroke me when she said it's a passive response, cuz when I hear a note, it's like the note is saying it's name.
feel sounds! (not all the time, or I'm just so used to it I don't notice.) though there are certain sounds that I tend to always feel. the common ones being: bass tones being in the stomach/gut area. with kicks feeling like a pop, or continuos as a rumble. and also voices I often feel as a sensation in the face and sometimes arms or legs, depending on the voice. most other sounds feel like a sensation across the arms, legs, and/or torso. (lots of variation to it but that's the most common: and also just talking in conversation doesn't normally trigger the sensations) so I can pretty much literally feel music
I remember as kids when me and my sister would have discussions on what colors each numbers had, for example sometimes we agreed that seven was yellow for example, or we'd disagree she'd say 74 is blue, I'd say 74 is gray
I believe I have associative synesthesia, which means that I can listen to a song and have a strong feeling that it for example sounds blue. I don’t see shapes or colors directly, I feel them inside of me with my «inner eye».
Well i don't know that this really qualifies, but the key a song is played in can evoke an emotion when played on a real piano. The more sharps the brighter/happier it makes me feel. The more flats, the sadder, etc. So when songwriting, i decide what key a song will be in based primarily on the lyrical content. Computerised keyboards however do nothing for me, so on that note i agree with Freddie Mercury. In terms of vision, the only thing i see are my hands on piano keys!
Lsd will do this to you temporarily i specifically remember seeing purple haze by hendrix with my own eyes. its crazy that some people can be born with it though
the thing about having synesthesia, you really see how a lot of people are not making good music. clearly you can see an architect's structures, and clearly you can see how it is built and how it will hold up. But, music, not many are musical architects, their musical structures would fall because of the poor costruction.
Notes don't have colors to me. But songs do. Like,for example, the song "lights" is gold and green. And the number 4 is blue,8 is purple, 6 is sometimes green or orange and it tastes like lemon. Do I have synesthesia?
I have synistisia and what she says in the video is what I experiance, I have the same kind(music letters words numbers) and I'd be Awsome to get to talk to her because I've been wanting to talk to another synisteid since I found out I had it
For me, certain touches feel like a very low hum inside my ear, though that could also be some sort of muscle in my ear contracting, I don't know for sure.
Great interview. I wish she would have said (or maybe I missed it) if she also sees the colors in the dark/with eyes closed. I'd imagine so but don't want to assume. If yes, does the perceived spacial location - and/or other properties - vary between eyes open and eyes closed? If so, in what ways? Also, with letters and numbers, is it the characters themselves that take on certain colors or do the colors hover in space, like with words? If in space, are the colors in the same spacial area(s) as those created by sounds? When hearing the word "four", for example, how does the visual experience differ from seeing the number "4"? Oh man, I could ask so many more questions. Please do a second video answering questions in the comments. There's so much more to explore here!
Yes. In fact in the dark or in low lighting is when it is most vivid. "If yes, does the perceived spacial location - and/or other properties - vary between eyes open and eyes closed? If so, in what ways?" I guess so. One time I was listening to a song with my eyes close and there was just a huge wall of pink vibrating spots with barley any spaces between them taking up my whole vision. This other time though I was listening to a song with my eyes open but in a dark room and I perceived the colors blue and purple going all around the room but in a feathered 'psychedelic' kind of way. Nothing distracting though. And no when reading a word or letter you don't actually see the colors you just associate it with that color so it's all in your head. There is no sensation of color/number synesthesia when you hear the word "four" or see it written because that would interfere with all your number associations :)
I don't have it, I found out I have dysgraphia which is trouble writing words.. I'm also more visual than most the population tested in that I can visualise locations and such with good accuracy.
I think language learning tends to have some of these similar effects on the brain...especially with sign language. in Brazil I could understand words if people could fingerspell them...but also I think and take written notes in sign language and other signers do to. I've actually found that some of my shorthand is understood and even other signers will use similar symbols for the same word. like writing the "world" as w with an @ sign....anyways not the same but interesting
I used to get in trouble for writing the days of the week in different colours haha. Once I refused to write Tuesday because I didn't have the right shade of pink, it was so frustrating
is this related to schizophrenia? also I had this when I was very young but it when away sometime in the middle of elementary school. but I did go through very bad depression when I was 9 so yeah.
when i was in first grade and learned the numbers from 1-10 in school i gave each numer a family role like 1 was the baby and 10 was grandpa and 7&8 were parents is that synesthesia or is it childish fantasy :D
I've always had synesthesia with letters and days of the week and months. A - Red B - Yellow C - Turquoise D - Purple E - Orange F - Pink G - Purple H - Blue I - Clear/White J - Red K - Green L - Orange M - Dark Blue N - Yellow O - Transparent/White P - Dark Yellow Q - F R - Dark Red/Brown S - Dark Green T - Brown/Red U - Pink V - Purple W - Green X - Dark Green Y - Yellow Z - Yellow
Wait, can someone explain what they mean when they "see" color? Do they see it in their mind, like a picture, or do they physically see it manifest in front of them?
They showed synesthesia on a show named limitless. The show is about a drug that makes your brain go in overdrive and he taught himself to rewire his brain to have synesthesia where he saw smells as colors. I think heroes had a woman that could see music but that was more of a superpower on limitless they tried show how a real people with synesthesia might see the world.
Now that I think about it I've always had like week days in a D shape (and my name is Dan, connection?) where saturday and sunday is the straight line and weekdays the others.. and I remember when I was little I always thought of a green # when I heard a burp.. Does that mean anything? Maybe helping with the theory about everyone has it as a kid? Edit: Also shape of numbers. Can best describe it as if you decide to walk on a path of numbers, numbers 1-10 is straight ahead (north), 11-20 is right (east), 21-100 is straight (north), 101-1000 is right (east), 1001 and up is backwards (south).. Hope that makes any sense
my synesthesic traits are very similar to the ones that this woman has: i associate colors to numbers and i see wavy morphing grey shape, texture and brightness-changing, moving filaments on space, each shape in a determined point of my sight spectrum its associated with a sound and also sometimes i associate timbres of determinated instruments to colors, because of the sensation that they give to me ... ...but hers... hers are on steroids... i dont associate colors to notes :(
I guess it's like I never really understood I was growing up with terrible vision until I asked my parents if objects were actually supposed to have fuzzy lines around them and I always thought it was normal Then I never wore my glasses and now my vision is absolutely horrible and I regret not wearing them
Plus I don't know if it's anything like synesthesia but like if I see someone else getting touched or like in a movie or something it always makes me like feel ticklish in that spot 😹
But the touch thing happens all the time so i think I'm just sensitive Like if someone makes tickling motions even if thtey aren't touching me I move away and laugh
Pascal Mirchev i know this is an older comment but some people think that you can (mainly letters/numbers to colors) you could possibly rewrite the pathways by associating each letter or number with a color and every time you see/use it think of that color. (color coding may help for example use whatever you want but think like A= green B= red. like they mentioned with the fridge magnets)
Grayson Phillips I think maybe you could trick your mind to think that way, but probably not actually develop it. (Btw I am saying this as someone with it, I don't want to sound rude. It's pretty cool to have, so if you really want to try go ahead)
Sami Johnson I'm aware, the reason I said it is some studies have suggested (nothing actually conclusive) that people who do see letters as colours, have probably had some sort of toy when they were younger (like I said previously the coloured magnet letters, or blocks). Of course in early childhood the brain is elastic/ is learning lots so it would be easier then. So there could be a possibility, but nothing definite to what I stated.
People say 'neurological condition' like synesthesia is some horrible mental handicap. Maybe the word condition comes off as a more negative term for me, but either way, I have it, and I'd say it's a gift and a curse. Sometimes its annoying, but most of the time it's pretty nice
Omg I think I might have this!! I never even thought this was a real thing! All the numbers to me have unique personalities I always saw most odd numbers as being more innocent whereas even numbers seemed more proud just because they can be halved. For example 1 is very young and innocent and super cute like a baby, it's a baby blue colour. Then I don't like the number 6 because it's very sassy, I see the number 6 as a girl and she's not very nice and acts a little bit stuck up and over proud, I think 6 is red. Seven is nice and its green but I dont like it that much.... I was trying to learn hiragana letters sometime ago and I found some letters nicer than others and I remembered them by thinking "ke" was the mean letter because I kept writing it wrong. My memory is really bad though
Very interesting she sees human speech as grey or brown, dull colors she said. The human brain is wired to identify the decibel range of human speech, that is why you notice when people are talking. For such a highly evolved mechanism, it is kinda sad that the colors are dull.
What's actually the strangest thing about synesthesia, is that other people think it's strange. To a synesthete, it's everyone _else_ that must have a strange experience of things. Imagine trying to explain color to someone who doesn't realize they're color blind? Then imagine how strange it would be, to realize that _everyone _*_except you_*, actually *is* color blind. ;-)
Don't you mean color deaf?
Hector De la cruz
Lol...that works just as well. For me, it's actually like nose-blindness for color. I have tactile/visual/olfactory associations. Colors for me have a flavor-texture that I can inhale and roll around on the back of my tongue. When I was a kid, I used to bury my face in things and just breathe them in...my favorite flavors are deep fuzzy purple, and bright glass green. ;-)
Mike Stavenes That sounds weird and fucking awesome.
Being colourblind doesn't make everything grey m9
This is pretty amazing. When i showed my mom the 360 VR youtube clip, first she was confused in how to use the 360 gyroscope, but secondly she was astounded, and so she wondered, maybe this mutation is what Beethoven had.
Sorry! Forgot to actually add the link!!!1 It's there now.
ISNT KAITLYN THE BEST?!
oh yeah!
+Trace Dominguez LSD
very convenient she's a skillfull musician. I know of some people that have this that don't play, so bit of a shame they can't express their condition to other people. she's a star.
Very very cool. I always found this to be so interesting. You guys should talk about sudden sevants some time! love the show.
+Trace Dominguez Indeed she is. Synesthesia sounds so cool.
My condition isn't as organized. I associate song melodies with colors, but specific notes don't have a specific color. Since songs are mostly based on a certain scale of music, I usually categorize the whole song. So for example, I would say that "Here" by Alessia Cara is an orange sound with hints of red. Anyone else?
+MartyMcSkywalker FINALLY SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS...
"Jar of Hearts" by Christina Perri is dark purple and rich blue. I see rain when I hear "Hello" and "Someone Like You" by Adele. My favorite songs are purple and blue. Rich dark colors. :3 Everyone's synestheisa experience is different though! Im sorry if my claim has nothing to do with yours.
Natalee Larson Omg thanks! For me, Hello is green and brown, and the filter on the music video kinda helps with that!
Lol!!!! I always see the fucking colors of the ringtone before paying attention to the sound of it; and even more awesome is that I have a noise app to play the sound of rain while im doing stuff, I also always have a fan on "high" while im doing stuff to mask the distracting sounds. I feel understood. Thank you for this... gets me emotional.
I don't see a certain color for a certain note, either. It's more like a certain colorful texture, etc. for each type of sound, etc.
Oh well. . .
She's so lovely and thoughtful and attentive.
My ex gf found out she had synesthesia when she was in school. She asked something along the lines of "why is the letter A red?"
She does some awesome paintings of songs! Very abstract and unique!
I have had Synesthesia for like 5 hours on LSD ;)
FUCK YEAH X)
+Jade Palacios Haha yeah same for me. I was oh shrooms, the colors on this video I was watching at the time were pulsating through my body and I heard some really relaxing sounds. One of me best trips.
+Jade Palacios I wonder if there is a scientific backing to that, does the effect of drugs emulate what people with synesthesia have, well on top of all the other bad things.
+fartzinwind shrooms connect parts of your brain that usually don't communicate which is how she sees color so it's basically the same thing.
+My Own Spaceship (Mao) i meant to say hears color.
the 360 degree video was really awesome
+Goldmeteora where's the video?
It's on Dnews
+Goldmeteora Have you found the link?
Jon It should be www.youtu@be.com/watch?v=obrBA@ysVef0(remove the @s)
Thanks
Just watched the video! My god Kaitlyn you are blessed to have this amazingly beautiful skill! I cried. Thank you for sharing your wonderful experience with us.
Being anaphylactic I have found that describing symptoms and what's happening using colours is a good way to get a point across.
Synesthesia is one of my favorite art vocab words....soooo cool! ok now I'm listening
When I'd read sheet music while I was a trombonist, I could literally hear the actual song in my head almost immediately, in almost the precisely manner it would sound once mastered. They call this 'seeing sounds', or an example of 'Synesthesia'. It's probably the most interesting of the different abilities I experience - and there are many. For example, I hate mustard, so certain shades of 'yellow' will prompt me to avoid certain foods based on being able to 'taste/smell/experience a gag reflex' the mustard in relation to the color; the same is true with the particular shade of white, even the clumpy texture visually tied to mayonnaise. Another example is how the smell of food, particularly ones I'm about to try, will mean I can already 'taste' it with my nose, etc., and might also mean that I associate it immediately with something else I've eaten or smelled in the past.
I have what some call 'photographic memory'. It can be a voluntary function, but most of the time it is involuntary. And based on the 'living flow of information', the feel of the type of day and the particular social environment surrounding me; or watching the turmoil of something seemingly unconnected to me (the slightest hint at a potential 'slippery slope'), I can foresee the future consequences with stunning (on occasion, unerring) accuracy, and often when it results in someone or a nation/society/culture meeting a horrible end. It is depressing because I understand after a while that there is nothing I can do to deny the natural progression of things from playing out by trying to stop someone from doing something they'll regret, given most people will scoff at the mere mentioning of such things. I call this my 'Cassandra Effect'.
There is also my obsession with large numbers, angles and shapes, even circles, spheres, cones and cylinders, that I will mentally manipulate (like bend, mold like clay) to break apart in order to 'cut against the grain' like a Rubik's cube with respect to my artwork, or how I might fashion a new poem or essay, and will even influence the articles I write. Numbers, in numerous ways, can go into all sorts of directions, in ways you can't even imagine. This is particularly the case when I listen to a single song dozens of times on repeat for several days, in which I transform the entire song into a bluish-purple sphere that I mentally 'peel apart' like an orange or onion that appears dark and 'metallic', then 'bend' into different angles or direction that are 'open' in order to see the different options available to me when determining how a poem might be structured. In my mind, I feel like I am tearing down the natural order into the lowest common denominator(s) of what it is I'm focusing on, in order to rebuild it in the discipline and structure that will serve me. These are often so complex that it is structurally impossible for me to find the dimensions needed on a sheet of paper to illustrate what exactly these might look like.
For a long time, I thought this was a normal thing. Apparently, it is not, not even for accomplished professional musicians. And if Myers-Briggs has any significance here, I am also an INTJ. Go figure that one out.
As a musician I would find this very advantageous. Although I do have a visualization complex with playing music and how I memorize things, just not that distinct enough to describe it.
I love the idea of synaesthesia class for children! what a gift to learn. maybe include it in arts/ music.
My name is Kaitlyn too! I’m reading A Mango Shaped Space and it’s about a girl named Mia and she has synesthesia and hears colors and sees letters as colors. I really like the book and I recommend it if you want to see more of what it’s like. I know it’s kinda a children’s book but it’s reallygood
I have proprioception-photoception synesthetia, which allows me to see my own body even in pitch black darkness.
And just like her, I didn't think anything of it until I learned it was a form of synesthetia. Though, it never gave me any advantages, besides an improved sense of spacial awareness in darkness.
TSCTH Hmmmm... I associate darkness with bumping into things...
Like ur bones
Someone like this should write stage light patterns according to sound for live entertainment. I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned because they were so close when mentioning concert lights. Great idea folks.
I link taste to color, and things (like franchises, book universes, etc.) to body types. I know that sounds super weird, but it makes it easier for my brain to compare stuff.
No its not there .. please put the link in i really want to see that :D
So I started to watch this video yesterday and I have always saw letters in colors. Thought that maybe I had just created my own color coordinates for the alphabet to remember easier. So while watching the first couple minutes I wrote down the alphabet and wrote the color below each letter that I saw. Then I got so interested I tabbed out real quick to google synesthesia alphabet. Loaded one that had tested like 6k results averaged. Soon as I saw it I got spooked because nearly every letter appeared to mirror what I felt they would be by first glance. So I grabbed my paper I wrote on and began to match it up. Match on 22 of them and got so weirded out and uncomfortable I stopped video and went to sleep. Thought about it all day. I just couldn't imagine going through day to day life without experiencing this. Then realized there was nothing to feel uncomfortable about because I've always been like this so nothing's changing, nothing to worry about. Consciousness is weirdddd
Mozart is thought to have had an emotion-auditory synaestesia in which he would hear tones and music based on his emotions and state of mind. He said he always had music playing in his head and when he was happiest and sated the best music comes out.
What Kaitlyn said about loosing Synesthesia to depression is true. I had it myself and then got diagnosed with severe depression which I've had for almost 5 years now and I lost it. It's really weird to see the world without all the colours now.
depression or meds?
I went undiagnosed for two years and during that time is when I lost that ability.
Interesting. Well, I've had depression most of my life so Idk... Some weak synaesthesia still maybe? Who knows...
She's so lucky. She can actually see the colors, I hear them and I actually hear a song or a voice but it's in my mind, like I don't *see* it i *hear* it
Parker McElvie Color to sound? Finally another person like me
"Hearing Colors" or "Seeing sounds"?
Marius Bonciu *you are a* *meatball*
Seeing sounds.
Because you don't hear a sound when you see a colour, but do see a colour when you hear a sound.
Edit: responded before they talked about hearing colours.
But I've never read anything about it (yet).
Seeing sounds.
Smelling colors
I've been watching a series of documentary things about the brain and one episode was about decision making. Me and my dad both have synesthesia and we started talking about how we have another factor of decision making: the colours of things. For example, if I am asked whether I would like to have £6 or £7 I would choose £6 because I prefer the colour. It's interesting.
I would be very interested hear someone talk about synesthesia who has it and has also tripped on psychedelic drugs like LSD or magic mushrooms. People who have used psychedelic drugs claim they experienced synesthesia while tripping and I'd like to know if it's the same experience, just intensified?
I have it and I have done psychedelics. However....the one I have (that i was born with) was the number/letter color thing not the music one but I have experienced the music one on psychedelics. I feel like it would just make it more intense.
I wonder if perfect pitch is a kind of ''light'' synestesia where isntead of association of pitch and color, it's an association of pitch and words. It stroke me when she said it's a passive response, cuz when I hear a note, it's like the note is saying it's name.
hi I wanted to know what was the website she mentioned to test and see if you have this?
He really liked her omg
one of the things a like the most on psychedelics is the synesthesia effect
I hope we can somehow make people have this in the near future
feel sounds! (not all the time, or I'm just so used to it I don't notice.) though there are certain sounds that I tend to always feel. the common ones being: bass tones being in the stomach/gut area. with kicks feeling like a pop, or continuos as a rumble. and also voices I often feel as a sensation in the face and sometimes arms or legs, depending on the voice.
most other sounds feel like a sensation across the arms, legs, and/or torso.
(lots of variation to it but that's the most common: and also just talking in conversation doesn't normally trigger the sensations)
so I can pretty much literally feel music
i wonder what dubstep would look like
+Collin Carter thats cool
Dubstep is absolutely amazing, its like whatching a color explosion but controlled
+aabbccddeeffgg1234 A fucking rainbow! Seriously! I put it on and I'm on a trip through the stars!
its pretty amazing tbh
+Anetix me too! dubstep usually has 3 + colors for me because of all the epic beats
I can see words when people talk and i can also see colors in music
The position in space thing is something I relate to. A lot of my sense are crossed with proprioception
that sounds cool! I experience the hearing colors, the move in a 3D space
I remember as kids when me and my sister would have discussions on what colors each numbers had, for example sometimes we agreed that seven was yellow for example, or we'd disagree she'd say 74 is blue, I'd say 74 is gray
this was a great episode! Loved it.
i lost a bit of mine, used to taste some colors as well as see colors of letters, now i just do the letters->colors
I believe I have associative synesthesia, which means that I can listen to a song and have a strong feeling that it for example sounds blue. I don’t see shapes or colors directly, I feel them inside of me with my «inner eye».
Well i don't know that this really qualifies, but the key a song is played in can evoke an emotion when played on a real piano.
The more sharps the brighter/happier it makes me feel. The more flats, the sadder, etc. So when songwriting, i decide what key a song will be in based primarily on the lyrical content. Computerised keyboards however do nothing for me, so on that note i agree with Freddie Mercury.
In terms of vision, the only thing i see are my hands on piano keys!
Lsd will do this to you temporarily i specifically remember seeing purple haze by hendrix with my own eyes. its crazy that some people can be born with it though
lol
the thing about having synesthesia, you really see how a lot of people are not making good music. clearly you can see an architect's structures, and clearly you can see how it is built and how it will hold up. But, music, not many are musical architects, their musical structures would fall because of the poor costruction.
Do the colors match the notes like emotions and colors match? Like an A mino,r is too me, is more minor than D minor.
she has the most beautiful smile
Mine is just related to words that taste, certain letters n a few colors that I can hear
Notes don't have colors to me. But songs do.
Like,for example, the song "lights" is gold and green.
And the number 4 is blue,8 is purple, 6 is sometimes green or orange and it tastes like lemon.
Do I have synesthesia?
I have synistisia and what she says in the video is what I experiance, I have the same kind(music letters words numbers) and I'd be Awsome to get to talk to her because I've been wanting to talk to another synisteid since I found out I had it
For me, certain touches feel like a very low hum inside my ear, though that could also be some sort of muscle in my ear contracting, I don't know for sure.
Great interview. I wish she would have said (or maybe I missed it) if she also sees the colors in the dark/with eyes closed. I'd imagine so but don't want to assume. If yes, does the perceived spacial location - and/or other properties - vary between eyes open and eyes closed? If so, in what ways?
Also, with letters and numbers, is it the characters themselves that take on certain colors or do the colors hover in space, like with words? If in space, are the colors in the same spacial area(s) as those created by sounds? When hearing the word "four", for example, how does the visual experience differ from seeing the number "4"?
Oh man, I could ask so many more questions. Please do a second video answering questions in the comments. There's so much more to explore here!
Yes. In fact in the dark or in low lighting is when it is most vivid.
"If yes, does the perceived spacial location - and/or other properties - vary between eyes open and eyes closed? If so, in what ways?"
I guess so. One time I was listening to a song with my eyes close and there was just a huge wall of pink vibrating spots with barley any spaces between them taking up my whole vision. This other time though I was listening to a song with my eyes open but in a dark room and I perceived the colors blue and purple going all around the room but in a feathered 'psychedelic' kind of way. Nothing distracting though.
And no when reading a word or letter you don't actually see the colors you just associate it with that color so it's all in your head.
There is no sensation of color/number synesthesia when you hear the word "four" or see it written because that would interfere with all your number associations :)
i wonder what colour is used for the very high noted. like 16-20 khz range.
When she said that they think all kids have it and it goes away, that would explain a lot of my childhood thinking.
Logan Sevin I think it is all babies have it but then it goes away. So I still have it because for some people it doesn’t go away.
I don't have it, I found out I have dysgraphia which is trouble writing words.. I'm also more visual than most the population tested in that I can visualise locations and such with good accuracy.
Should look up to see if the creator of the magnet games/ letters was a Synesthesiate?
I definitely want to see an episode with the guy who tastes words. I'm so intrigued... so so frickin intrigued!
I can see taste
Seeing music as colors is way cooler trust me.
I think language learning tends to have some of these similar effects on the brain...especially with sign language. in Brazil I could understand words if people could fingerspell them...but also I think and take written notes in sign language and other signers do to. I've actually found that some of my shorthand is understood and even other signers will use similar symbols for the same word. like writing the "world" as w with an @ sign....anyways not the same but interesting
No link...
He just added it
I used to get in trouble for writing the days of the week in different colours haha. Once I refused to write Tuesday because I didn't have the right shade of pink, it was so frustrating
Alex Simpson I think it's really cool how we could have the same thing, but my Tuesday is green. It's interesting
I see what you are saying.
Awesome Mutation EVER
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I just met a person who has this. I don't have it but am really interested in this.
Where is the link to the VR that shows what Kaitlyn sees?
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+Spencer Kruse there was nothing there when i commented.
He added it
John Smith
Thanks :)
I want to have it
I have chromesthesia and are wondering how many people out there have it?
dude I really want to see that VR video. having your type of synesthesia sounds fucking cool
is this related to schizophrenia? also I had this when I was very young but it when away sometime in the middle of elementary school. but I did go through very bad depression when I was 9 so yeah.
Is it normal to associate numbers to personality traits? Like I always thought of 5 as a strict person and of 7 as a naughty one.
First thing I would listen to If I had Synesthesia : Stairway to heaven.
boring
Suvi-Tuuli Allan You probably listen to some chick who doesn't even sing on her album so I wouldn't mind if you got the fuck out
I listen to metal, biatch! \m/
so if she went deaf she would no longer see the colors with sound?
ok and where is the link?
What if the music is tuned to a different frequency? Like 440 Hrtz
I'd think we could get some great music visualizers from people like that
Is synesthesia like the sciency version of clairvoyance?
Where's the links?? 😑😑
If you can taste words then what the heck are crossword puzzles like?
I play guitar and when I play certain chords, different colors pop into my head
when i was in first grade and learned the numbers from 1-10 in school i gave each numer a family role like 1 was the baby and 10 was grandpa and 7&8 were parents
is that synesthesia or is it childish fantasy :D
I think it is fantasy LOL :D
I've always had synesthesia with letters and days of the week and months.
A - Red
B - Yellow
C - Turquoise
D - Purple
E - Orange
F - Pink
G - Purple
H - Blue
I - Clear/White
J - Red
K - Green
L - Orange
M - Dark Blue
N - Yellow
O - Transparent/White
P - Dark Yellow
Q - F
R - Dark Red/Brown
S - Dark Green
T - Brown/Red
U - Pink
V - Purple
W - Green
X - Dark Green
Y - Yellow
Z - Yellow
Wait, can someone explain what they mean when they "see" color? Do they see it in their mind, like a picture, or do they physically see it manifest in front of them?
Yeah we see it in our mind
Marta Bearr I see it in my mind
Some people see an overlay on their vision, some people (like me) just get an intense impression in their head that you just accept as fact.
If you watch her 360 video (forgot the channel) they appear as round flashes, she just explained this ⅓ of the video through.
where's the link?
isn't it her from the 360° video?
They showed synesthesia on a show named limitless. The show is about a drug that makes your brain go in overdrive and he taught himself to rewire his brain to have synesthesia where he saw smells as colors. I think heroes had a woman that could see music but that was more of a superpower on limitless they tried show how a real people with synesthesia might see the world.
they usually get synaesthesia wrong
Test tube plus should do an episode on color blindness and tetrachromacy.
Now that I think about it I've always had like week days in a D shape (and my name is Dan, connection?) where saturday and sunday is the straight line and weekdays the others.. and I remember when I was little I always thought of a green # when I heard a burp.. Does that mean anything? Maybe helping with the theory about everyone has it as a kid?
Edit: Also shape of numbers. Can best describe it as if you decide to walk on a path of numbers, numbers 1-10 is straight ahead (north), 11-20 is right (east), 21-100 is straight (north), 101-1000 is right (east), 1001 and up is backwards (south).. Hope that makes any sense
Does anybody have the link?
I have synesthesia and triangles blue are shy circles red hyper squares sad and green and scuares blue and neutro
this was awesome!
my synesthesic traits are very similar to the ones that this woman has: i associate colors to numbers and i see wavy morphing grey shape, texture and brightness-changing, moving filaments on space, each shape in a determined point of my sight spectrum its associated with a sound and also sometimes i associate timbres of determinated instruments to colors, because of the sensation that they give to me
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...but hers... hers are on steroids... i dont associate colors to notes :(
I guess it's like I never really understood I was growing up with terrible vision until I asked my parents if objects were actually supposed to have fuzzy lines around them and I always thought it was normal
Then I never wore my glasses and now my vision is absolutely horrible and I regret not wearing them
Plus I don't know if it's anything like synesthesia but like if I see someone else getting touched or like in a movie or something it always makes me like feel ticklish in that spot 😹
But the touch thing happens all the time so i think I'm just sensitive
Like if someone makes tickling motions even if thtey aren't touching me I move away and laugh
I always got math so easily, and add and subtract at the speed of driving through the neighborhood (if not faster).
There's no frickin link! You lied to me! D:
Okay question for you Synesthetes, if a letter (or number) is white and that letter is on a white page can you see it?
Yes, it's like a white shade lake if u has a filter on some parts
my question is the source or position of these colours compare to the source of the sounds.... 0-0
No not for me
is that something you can develop
i'm wondering that too
Pascal Mirchev
i know this is an older comment but some people think that you can (mainly letters/numbers to colors) you could possibly rewrite the pathways by associating each letter or number with a color and every time you see/use it think of that color. (color coding may help for example use whatever you want but think like A= green B= red. like they mentioned with the fridge magnets)
Grayson Phillips I think maybe you could trick your mind to think that way, but probably not actually develop it. (Btw I am saying this as someone with it, I don't want to sound rude. It's pretty cool to have, so if you really want to try go ahead)
Sami Johnson
I'm aware, the reason I said it is some studies have suggested (nothing actually conclusive) that people who do see letters as colours, have probably had some sort of toy when they were younger (like I said previously the coloured magnet letters, or blocks).
Of course in early childhood the brain is elastic/ is learning lots so it would be easier then.
So there could be a possibility, but nothing definite to what I stated.
Pascal Mirchev You can’t develop it. It’s a neurological condition in your brain
I see numbers as colours. That's it.
That’s super cool!!
People say 'neurological condition' like synesthesia is some horrible mental handicap. Maybe the word condition comes off as a more negative term for me, but either way, I have it, and I'd say it's a gift and a curse. Sometimes its annoying, but most of the time it's pretty nice
Omg I think I might have this!! I never even thought this was a real thing! All the numbers to me have unique personalities I always saw most odd numbers as being more innocent whereas even numbers seemed more proud just because they can be halved. For example 1 is very young and innocent and super cute like a baby, it's a baby blue colour. Then I don't like the number 6 because it's very sassy, I see the number 6 as a girl and she's not very nice and acts a little bit stuck up and over proud, I think 6 is red. Seven is nice and its green but I dont like it that much.... I was trying to learn hiragana letters sometime ago and I found some letters nicer than others and I remembered them by thinking "ke" was the mean letter because I kept writing it wrong. My memory is really bad though
that is so cool.
Omg I want to ask her if Portuguese music looks different
Did anyone else notice that this video is 17:38 long?
Very interesting she sees human speech as grey or brown, dull colors she said. The human brain is wired to identify the decibel range of human speech, that is why you notice when people are talking. For such a highly evolved mechanism, it is kinda sad that the colors are dull.