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- I hear color.
Eh...sort of.
I have grapheme-color synesthesia, which is a common form of sensory pairing. Being a musician, and understanding what semantics go into understanding and learning music add a whole dimension to the idea of metaphor, perception and language. I hope you enjoy this video essay on everything Synesthesia.
The book I referenced the most in this video - definitely check it out if you enjoyed my video. A great overview!
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If you really dig this video, DEFINITELY check out Dr. Ramachandran's lecture, this is amazing.
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Thin-thick languages versus high-low in english
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Jamie Ward's paper on the multi-modal basis of synesthesia
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HOW DO WE KNOW SYNESTHETES AREN'T JUST MAKING IT UP? Well...Stroop interference for one.
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Are you a Synesthete?
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Table of the different kinds of synesthesia and their occurance
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Prevalance of synesthesia
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That Tommy Edison blind guy color video I mentioned.
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fMRI scans of synesthetes
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Cross-Modal Perception
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Synesthesia is in fact ideasthesia - experiencing of concepts
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Adam
I also associate taste with food.
how do you edit videos
*DID YOU JUST ASSUME MY GENDER!!?!?!?!?!?*
me too ^^
Adam Neely HHAHAHA
Adam Neely OH ME TOO. *I CAN TASTE FOOD TOO.*
I do not taste like earwax
im telling you
that is a Hello Internet podcast reference, they had a feedback from somebeody with that gastatorial thing, that is what he wrote :)
Do you not consider your very own earwax a part of yourself? =P
Rip my boi
your ears do
PROTIP: Make sure the notes and the colours are in the SAME KEY
Oh my god this is so good 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You already made my day! And its 1:48 am xD
LMAOOOOO
No not like this thought
Ex: The A4 is different than A5 I couldnt Explain but the A5 its more lightcolor
i'm color blind and i think you're all nuts
What kind of color blindness? There are 8.
Probably a joke but if not I'm interested
I'm colour and I think you're all blind nuts.
I'm nut color, I think you're all blind
Bill Westfall Goddammit you beat me to it.
I also associate school with hell.
Lanceランス OMG SAME, but I also associate my teacher as Satan
Mamma mia mamma mia, Ill be firing 9mms in my brainerria.
Omg!! I've punched 666th like!
haha me
Vина FBI OPEN UP
I'm starting to have vsausthesia. I associate Adam Neely with Vsauce
omg I think I have that one
Michael stevens made a video on Qualia
Are you a ''Synth'' Ai!
I bet having a bass with colored frets would be hella satisfying for you
Julian Cavaleri and someone tuning that bass to drop D would make him go insane
If the frets weren't colored to my synesthesia, it would be hella not satisfying.
Yeah I was just thinking what if you had one colored to match your perception and then went to drop D. That could be confusing.
wingracer 16 super AMOLED frets are the solution that no one asked for.
what if they were interchangable in a way?
Hey, MusicSauce, Adam Here
Is that "p" in your profile pic from the supreme logo, by any chance?
srsly tho y u like supreme its so overpriced and overrated
are you ok?
Adam really is just Michael, but for music.
Exactly what I was thinking! It works, though. He'll be in the millions of subscribers if he keeps it up.
*_JazzSauce_*
OH MY GOD AS A CHILD I ALWAYS CAME UP WITH PERSONALITIES FOR NUMBERS AND I NEVER KNEW THAT WAS A THING
OMG SAME. what did you see. i saw:
1: very uptight old and wise
2: wife of 1 very fashionable and wears makeup. posh.
3 the toddler of 1 and 2 very annoying
4 the older brother of 3 less annoying. is into ben ten is about 8
5: the older sister. hates her brothers and is very stereotypically millennial
6 the friend of 5. very shy and doesn’t talk much. she has long hair
7 the older older sister of the family. very very sophisticated and knows what she’s doing
8: a man who’s a bit nervous and shy and stumbles on his words (has a crush of nine
9 very uptight women. won’t take anyone’s shit
and then it repeats
I'll have several categories.
-NUMBERS and PERSONALITIES/QUALITIES-
1: A asshole with a big ego.
2: That person who just gives and gives and gives and is super nice. Basically Keanu.
3: A midget asswipe. Has a nasally voice and is pretty uptight. Egotistical.
4: A nice person, not too wise but nice. Doesn't take initiative. 4 is friend with 5.
5: A young person, who is intelligent and is somewhat gullible at the same time. They have large ambitions. Easily led astray.
6: A somewhat popular but yet nice person who wants to help. A deep and intellectual person.
7: A giant cunt billionaire that lives in a penthouse
8: A very tall and somewhat overweight person who has a low voice and is a little annoying because of their clumsiness and stupidity, but has their heart in the right place.
9: Circus magician.
10: Basically Albert Einstein, very smart.
11: An old, and wise wizard. A hermit who lives atop a tower in a field.
12: Kinda like 8, but more big and stupid than anything else. Will ever so often save the day.
13: A cunty superhero who gets all the fame.
14: A superhero who gets less fame than 13 but isn't a cunt.
anything beyond that falls into these statements
Odd: Greedy dirtbag
Even: Nice
-unless-
Is divisible by ten. If divisible by 10, then is a clone made my 10. And is basically the crossing of 10 with whatever number. It is a giant, moves slow and is somewhat wiser that the plain number you would get when dividing by 10.
ie.
70: A giant somewhat Lovecraftian iteration of 7, who is wise and godlike, and beyond understanding.
(7 is the worst and also best of the numbers if you haven't caught on.)
-INTERACTIONS BETWEEN NUMBERS-
These actions are represented by multiplication. Also as a note, there is something important to say before going on. For example, take 2x5: 2 is being nice to 5 and makes 5 feel better about self and makes 5 be nicer to others as a result. 10 is the output of this and is the now the nicer 5. It is important to note that this 10 is different from the scientist 10. This 10 is completely independent and represents the result of the interaction between 2 and 5. Therefor, for any other number that can be created by multiplying two numbers 1-14 together doesn't inherently represent the interaction of those two numbers, but is that number and falls into the 1st category, unless it is in a problem, ie. 2x5=10. Only when written in a problem that way, will the number be the result of the interaction between those two numbers. Also, the first number in the multiplication problem will be the determining number that decides what action is happening (excepting special cases.) 4*3 =/= 3*4
3*4 is the 3 * Anything (anything being 4 in this case), while 4*3 is the 4 * Anything. As a result of this, I prefer the 3 to come after anything else (i prefer 7*3 to 3*7.)
1 * Anything: Nobody gives a fuck about 1 because 1 is a cunt, so nothing happens.
2 * Anything: They say some encouraging things and are nice to the number.
2 * 7: 7's birthday cake.
2 * 8: 8 is trying to help make 7 a birthday cake, but fucks up.
3 * Anything: 3 is being combined with the other number (which is being made happen by 10). In 3x5=15, 15 is the abomination you get when you combine 3 and 5. It is important to note that with the output of 3 * Anything, that it will bare more resemblance and a more similar personality to the Anything than to the 3.
4 * Anything: 4 is kinda just reluctantly going on an adventure with the other number.
5 * Anything: 5 is using the other number as a tool to progress more towards their goal, but not harming anyone while doing so.
5 * 4: Since 4 is friends with 5, they decide to help 5 make a house. 20 is the friendship.
5 * 6: 5 likes 6 and helps them in their personal journey to find inner peace.
5 * 7: 7 invited 5 up to the top of their penthouse, and they are both in a bathtub. 7 is trying to lure 5 into becoming their apprentice.
7 * Anything: Doing what 5 does, but actually harming other numbers.
9 * Anything: Does a magic trick.
10 * Anything
-or- The whole cloning thing.
Anything * 10
11 * Anything: 11 does it's magic and creates a perfect clone of the anything, instead of a Lovecraftian monster.
-ADDITION-
Order doesn't matter here anymore, it just determines from which point of view everything is seen.
8 + 6: 8 holds a surprise birthday party for 6. It's badly put together and the other number think it was kinda shitty, but 6 realizes 8 tried and comforts 8 while 8 is crying because 8 is sad that they couldn't make 6 a nice cake or party. 6 says that doesn't matter, and that matters is the 8 tried.
8 + 7: 7 takes pity on 8 and decides to help them make a birthday cake for 6, but 8 is clumsy and fucks up something and 7 gets pissed off and leaves.
-SQUARING-
Basically its the number getting a power-up. 7*7=49, 49 is the power-up.
The guy who invented the "why was 6 afraid of seven" joke probably had that.
Well, I had it as well:
1. Overall nice guy, not much of a big personality, buy charismanic nonetheless
2. Too nice for her own good, she usually tries to please everyone and ends up hurting because of that. She's the best number, though. Polished in her manners, a qtpie.
3. Fierce, but not that much of a friend. He's more if a solo type of guy, and doesn't talk that much.
4. Just like 2, he's a real nice person. When paired with two, it's like a match made in heaven.
5. He's a tryhard, but nice to hang out with, I guess. Not much to say about him.
6. A big cunt, but less of a cunt compared to 7 and 9.
7. The 2nd biggest cunt of all numbers, he's prideful and the symbol of vain.
8. He's as nice as 4, but not 2's friend. He only talks to 4 for some reason.
9. The biggest cunt of em all, but for some reason not as prideful as 7
0. He's, like in real life, a big meh. He's blunt and vague, and doesn't have much inspirations. He's got very good manners, though.
I always felt like odd numers (1 3 5 7 9) are masculine and even numbers (2 4 6 8 0) are feminine. I never reached the point of realizing it _in words_ it felt like that to me, but I came to a verbal conclusion some months ago
if i see another Yousician advert i'll smash the fucking screen in
TheAwesomeGingerGuy agreed - I really don't hate many things, but those ads have only caused a seething hatred in me that steadily grows for anything and anyone related to that piece of shit :o
I always wanted to associate colors with letters and numbers, but the beginning seemed so slow and frustrating.
TheAwesomeGingerGuy you fool, it's seafoam green and nothing else
Aww, but how can anyone hate that tinkly glockenspiel melody? :3
Just kidding I use Yousician (for my sins) and I hate the adverts so much
Imagine if they taught people how to play that cutesy crap in the background, then ... I dare not think about it
*B O U B A*
bouba bouba bouba
K I K I
That was, without a doubt, my favourite part of the entire video. I can't define why it was so funny.
It's because he sounds like a Teletubby for that one mouth noise.
Kiki, do you love me
*Person:* "Hey Adam, what key is this tune in?" *Adam:* "Robin's Egg Blue."
He cant do that, he doesn't have absolute pitch
I lost it when you slowly said kiki and bouba
Same
Ｓ Ｙ Ｎ Ｅ Ｓ Ｔ Ｈ Ｅ Ｔ Ｉ Ｃ
Just so you know, the British spelling is (syn)aesthetic.
thank you for that bird persson
*guy persson
ＣＡＮ ＹＯＵ ＦＥＥＬ？
S U N D A Y S C H O O L
I agreed with all your colorings of the letters until you gave my boy E the color purple
E is light green. M is very bright azure blue. I don't give colors to most letters tho, just numbers
nah E is orange, kinda crunchy but also like a rude sunlight
My E is black.
e is like really bright lime
E is definitely orange to me 🍊
*OH MY GOSH!* Yesterday in band class, we were warming up and playing chorales, and the band director said *"The band is playing yellow. Can you play more purple?"* AND I SMILED SOOO BIG!
Ace of Spades I don't know if he has it, but the class was confused on what he meant at first, but we got it on the first try.
Holly crap a year old comment. Idc I’m still gonna reply 😂
I assume when they said it was yellow that it was a too bright and didn’t hold a solid tone like a darker color would mean a deep whole tone.
Mega late but it might mean to play it darker/warmer.
If music could be composed using colour swatches, I would sign up for that. I’m a visual artist and I find sheet music to be a bit intimidating, but colour palettes? I’m all about that shit.
did you just explain why boobs are called boobs?
Jonas Alberto underrated comment
TheWetToaster very, very underrated
*thinking emoji*
"Boob":
B
Is nobody gonna talk about the fact that that car explosion at 4:00 is from the music video from All Star...
I was going to say! I just noticed that for the first time re-watching this today. It doesn't surprise me at all he would include a joke like that.
@@threenplustwo9105 I didn't want to admit it to myself....
Watch Mystery men, its a fun movie.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Is that why the car exploding in the video is a completely different car from the one in the rest of the music video? That being that it's from a movie?
What about enharmonics? Is F# a different color than G-flat? Would the context matter? (I.e. in a piece with other notes, vs. all by its lonesome?)
I actually would really like to see an answer to this. Nice question!
I would assume so, since he said he associates letters, not the notes themselves, with colours.
David Beamer
You can read my comment to this video anove/below.
In my version of this phenomenon they are certainly coloured differently.
The accidentals are to blame I believe - It's mosly about how the notes are writted on the page and organised on the keyboard to me.
For me, they aren't perceived differently. While I perceive the letters of the alphabet and the musical alphabet mostly the same, whether or not a note is enharmonic doesn't change the color of it. I know that F# is an indigo purple, while the regular alphabet letter G is orange but making it Gb doesn't change how the sound sounds (A, B, C, D, E, and G are the same for both, musical F is totally different than regular alphabet F). Gb on paper is still orange because it is a G, but the sound remains the same.
Sometimes notes can be perceived differently in context. For example, in really dissonant chords, no matter the root note of the chord itself, it will always be perceived as some shade of gray or of a really muddy dark reddish brown color. If the chord is more consonant, notes tend to sound more...metallic? Can't really think of how to describe it.
When he said bouba, I felt it.
Same 😭😂
To be fair, the latin alphabet "agrees" The B in Bouba looks a lot like the Bouba and the K is similarly sharp like the Kiki shape. That's hardly a coincidence.
I'm bilingual (Spanish is my motherlanguaje), and synesthesic, so, for me the numbers, the sound of the letters, the days of the week and the chords sounds different in both languages, for example: Tuestday is purple, meanwhile 'Martes' (tuesday in spanish) is green
to me Tuesday is yellow, martes is red
To me they are black
Thank you for answering this. I’ve always wandered that.
To me tuesday's gone...
For me Tuesday is green and martes is orange. In general, English is green, blue and purple, and Spanish is red, orange and yellow. And French is red, purple, and yellow
Anyone else who read "Synthesia"?
:')
Yeah lmaoo
Yeah.
YUp
I thought he was gonna play a song using multiple keyboard parts like real life synthesia lol
Sen-thye-sia
I learned that my synesthesia on the circle of fifths makes a perfect rainbow.
Edit: For anyone who is curious, here are the colors I see based on each note:
C-chartreuse to lime green
G-cyan to sky blue
D-azure
A-blue
E-navy to indigo
B-dark lavender
F#/Gb-dark magenta to quinacridone magenta
C#/Db-burgundy
G#/Ab-blood red
D#/Eb-orange
A#/Bb-butterscotch orange
F-goldenrod yellow
That's neat.
YO WTF SAME ?!?!?
@@ameliashandcraftedmemes7888 I wonder if there's a connection there or if that's just a coincidence
@@mopishlynx2323 Likely a coincidence.
@@mopishlynx2323 But look up Scriabin. His synesthesia on the cycle of fifth look good, too.
When I was a kid, I thought everyone experienced music this way. When I was like 16, I was in a band, and at practice during a songwriting session, I started talking about "yellow" part of the song, and everyone looked at me like "wut." I struggled to explain what I meant. Didn't find out about synesthesia until a few years later, and everything clicked.
I misread the title as Synthesia
Romantique Tp so did i
Luiz Fernando Paes AHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!
lol I thought this was about synthesia
Me too, and I thought it was a VSTi plugin review.
ikr
Seeing other people have it too make some more comfortable.I see it as being a superpower :)
cynosurlesthesia seeing other people have it make me feel uncomfortable. i want superpowers too >:(
I laughed so hard at 7:22
I don't even know why xDD
same
I did too, I think he was aware
Not to be rude or anything, but when he said bouba he kinda sounded Nigerian.
Bouba, Bouba, mon petit ourson,
Tu fais la joie et l'admiration de ta famille !
Bouba, Bouba, mon petit garçon,
Tu cours et tu vas à travers les champs et les bois !
uh sorry, childhood cartoons.
Pet Of War || HUAHAUAHUAHHUAHUAHH
yep, definitely.
KEE-KEE
BOO-BAHHH
@Spanish Moustache Tell me you'll never ever -play the viola-
Oops, wrong music channel. (TwoSetViolin inside joke.)
People often focus on colour when talking about synesthesia, but for me, though there are overarching colours for some songs, my visual representations of sounds are more about texture than anything else.
Delphine Joyce Same here!! Some songs are more vibrant or thicker than others....😊
Yeah like the number 297 is light pink and lemon yellow with the textures of thick, chewy, sticky candy
I also sometimes associate sound with volumes. Like a cluster of materia. Deeper sounds are bigger and pitchy sounds more like dots. Much of how like radiowaves or heart beats would appear. But more 2D.
Absolutely. I also pursue more textural music and art mediums because I feel it so much more profoundly.
Same here, I don’t always see colors with sounds but I always see textures/patterns like ripples and waves and blots
RUclips: what do you want today?
ME: a double portion of Vsauce please.
RUclips: All right, here's what I have :D
ME: wtf, he's normally talking about music xD
9 minutes and 41 seconds later
RUclips: Sooooo?
ME: Well, holy shit, it was fucking good, thanks youtube :D
excellent video Adam :D I really enjoyed it :)
Narice both posted today right? lucky us!
Yes, we really were xD
So now I understand why numbers, the letters of the alphabet, days of a week all line up to form some weird geometrical shapes in my mind. I have tried to draw them on paper before to find out if they have any meaning - they don't.
Georg F same haha
3:45 my mom has this, and because of it people in our house have to be careful about playing too many sounds at the same time. you can't have music playing, the tv going, and a conversation at the same time cause it'll overwhelm her too much with all the colors lol
Is the explosion at 4:03 from all star by smash mouth
+Games FTW
Yup.
Was looking for this. Second from the bottom
I’ve always loved that in musical metaphorical language, when describing tone, bright is the opposite of warm.
No it's not bright and warm are compatible. Bright and dark are opposites. Just as warm and cold are when describing timbre and tone
Sometimes I think I have some sort of limited sound-emotion synesthesia. Certain music and tones cause me to get highly emotional, but in ways that don't make sense. Like I'll spontaneously start crying at some random music in an ad, or sometimes even just a sustained chord on strings. But it's not like "sad" chords or music. It's just a normal sound, or sometimes even "happy" music -- but I get this weird uncontrollable tear-jerking reaction.
Have you reported this to science? This sounds really interesting.
i associate music with color, but it never appeared in my field of vision
so many people lie about having this
would you believe me if I told you the feeling and touch of a shoelace gives me a weird feeling in my mouth and tongue?
that's too damn specific to be a lie
As a musician and clarinet player different tuning and notes have different tastes. If the note or ensemble is sharp I taste something along the lines of mayonnaise always or in tune is buttered popcorn. I never really realized it had a name until stumbling upon videos like that. Not trying to self diagnose just an observation
Foop Doop that sounds really cool
everyone wants to be unique. some people just can't accept that they aren't (including me lol)
To your question regarding
"do multilingual synesthetes have different perception according to different language"
I speak Japanese and Portuguese as my main language since young age, and now I mainly speak in English.
My perception related to Synesthesia experience is very cohesive across all languages.
The other day I said to my partner that
"I don't like Mozart music because it's too pink for me. I feel link I'm biting into chunk of sugar" (and of cause, he didn't understand what I meant lol)
I clearly see colours in music, I can "taste" colour and see personality in numbers. But I don't have any synesthesia related perception with alphabets.
Instead, I see Chinese characters as puzzle. No one so far agreed or understood me when I explained how I see Chinese characters as puzzle. So, I think that might be the synesthesia related perception difference in different language for me.
I have no idea if anyone else has this but for me when i play guitar it's like the diffrent notes are trying to fight for popularity and i memorize riffs by remembering what notes are more popular than others
ninja koala omg okay so this is a type of synesthesia but i forgot what its called. I have it too!
Cool, I though I was crazy
yes!!
not sure if this is the same as what you're saying but I find myself gravitating towards certain keys, not just because I am comfortable and know them well but yeah it almost feels like this key has been fighting for the limelight for so long, when going to learn a few of my favourtie songs I found them to be either in the key or within a few half steps
That's almost how I taught myself how to braid my own hair: each strand of hair is battling for a chance to be the middle strand.
I have synesthesia aswell, but the colours are completely different than yours. It hurts watching you putting the ""wrong"" colours haha. For example, A is definitely Blue for me, so seeing Red A is very strange. Anyway, great video!
bongzilla I've always felt that A = red, B blue, C yellow and D green, just like Adam. I find that so cool.
Nooo! A is bright green, B is yellow, C is a brighter, paler yellow and D is dark crimson/brown. This stuff makes no sense. :P
A = blue
B = Green
C = Red
D = Yellow
E = Red but brighter xD
F = Green but brighter xD
G = Orange
Listen here buds, A is red. B is blue. C is gritty and teal. D is a dark color between red-brown and dark purple. E is obviously yellow. F is green. G is purple. H is light orange, and so on. This is the only truth! ;)
A is blue for me too. So is Monday.
I straight up thought that synesthesia was like another word for synthesizer, and that’s why all those youtube piano tutorials are called them, because they use a synth piano.
Joshua Jones Synthesia is the name of a commonly used midi player, which is why it’s used in youtube piano tutorials. Synesthesia, however, is the topic of this video.
I don’t know if the names are connected, but it’s more likely that that synthesia is connected to the word synthesizer. Interesting nonetheless :)
"That flute sounds light and airy"
Me: Hmm. I sense a correlation here.
1 is just plain boring.
2 is more like a super star
3 is is an evil one
4 is a bit of a jerk, but a friendly one.
5 is the neutral one, trying to keep peace.
And so on. I could sit down and write down personalities for each number up to about 48.
22 and 37 are the green allies, trying to improve the world they lock in.
7, 26 and 43 are the „Mafia“, up to no good.
13 and 27 are lovers, 13 Male, 27 Female.
I fucking knew 13 and 27 were together,,,,
2 is my favorite, all evens and odds are at a kind of race war, 2 is pink/orange being head of evens, 3 being head of odds and blue, 1 is neutral and green, 0 doesn't exist (black). 5 (orange), 7(red), and 9(light green) are arrogant pricks, 4 and 8 are good friends of 2, 6 is a traitor (I think because it's a multiple of 3) 11 is a freak, and 13 is a complete psychopath. This pattern repeats via multiplication. I've had these thoughts since I could first count, and I thought I was insane. I used to make like mini kingdoms in my head ruled by numbers and were constantly in a battle over which had the greatest grip on the nature of the world and math.
Michi Lo oh my God that is so different from mine. Also my numbers have colours, and genders as well. To me 5 is energetic and kinda crazy
1 is the team leader, but isn't very imposing, and no-one believes what he says.
2 is easygoing and extroverted, but quite simpleminded.
3 is loud and kinda annoying. Also really stupid.
4 and 6 are very similar; relaxed, kind and intelligent. They are close friends, although 4 is male and 6 is female.
5 doesn't have emotions, but is strong and reliable nonetheless.
7 smirks at numbers lower than itself, but is secretly scared of 8.
8 gives a very powerful impression because of it being so tall and heavily built, but doesn't talk much.
9 is the oldest, slightly snobbish, and never talks to anyone because he knows he's the biggest and best.
Numbers with more than 1 digit always have the same personality as their first digit (except 11-19; those are all super competitive as well).
All these associations are just nuances of the way the brain works - by making connections. As a child, your imagination is overactive, so you often randomly associate unrelated things together - numbers with personalities, or letters and notes with colours.
Some of these connections become permanent after a time, if they are brought to mind very frequently. They remain even in adulthood, when you no longer have the imagination to create these random links.
Everyone probably experiences this phenomenon to some extent, but in some people it's significant enough to be classified as a mental health condition.
tl;dr it's random connections that you make in your childhood which become permanent.
When you played the f major chord I automatically thought of the Soviet anthem.
it is in c major though... i thought of Ob-la-di Ob-la-da intro
I always heard it in E flat major... but there’s probably multiple versions out there
E flat and C, most versions, and I found one in d flat
I have the grapheme colour synesthesia thing and I got so frustrated every time you mentioned the colours you see in letters. NO, F IS NOT GREEN AT ALL IT IS SO ORANGE!
MarsLos10 F IS WHITE
F IS GREEN FIGHT ME
Wtf, f is blue and f# is a majestic blue mixed with my purple dude
No F is lavender
Ah F IS BLUE AND F# IS DARK TEAL
I've never heard about synesthesia before, but i do associeate almost all sorts of things with colors, for example, i can say a day was dark blue, or yellow depending on how i've felt it was. I do associate color to people in general too and the mood they're in the moment i'm seeing them. I always catch myself thinking ''This guy looks purple'' depending on what sort of thing I associate to him. Days of the week, months of the year and even hours have their own color to me.
But I don't actually associate musical notes with colors when they're on the staff, I just do it with chords, like, Am is sort of a dark green for me, C Is dark blue and Em is always red.
a yellow day sounds like a bad day :(
Elias Rosa i am exactly the same!!
A yellow day sounds pretty good to me, it's the dark blue ones that get me lol.
There's no strict structure to the associations I make though, and it usually only happens involuntarily to a minor degree mostly in very common ways.
a yellow day to me would be a sunny one. One where the sun is pouring it's rays down on me... a golden shower if you may... :/
If we couldn't show the right emotional expression, the teacher would stop rehearsal, and ask "what color is this?"
"I dont know if I would call synesthesia a 'disability', but I can see what you're saying"
An example I love to show how we're all a little synesthetic is to ask "If a lemon could move, would it be fast or slow?"
Almost everyone says fast, because lemons are sour and sour is sharp and sharp means pointed and pointed is fast.
I just imagine it rolling wobblily
Take some psychedelics and listen to music, then you will feel some Synesthesia. Trust me
oh yeaaahh!
Well obviously, because the main point of psychedelics is to connect different kinds of senses to other ones. Psychedelics rewire your brain, causing you to feel what's not there. They're pretty cool, but often harmful because of the whole rewiring thing.
@Vape The rewiring is a little bit bullshit, because psychedelics doesn't rewire your brain but makes parts in the brain start interacting with one another in a different way.. It's not harmful..
Most of the time you will actually feel better with your self and your life after taking psychedelics. (Coming from someone who read a lot of research papers before trying mushrooms)
That's cool, I don't blame anyone for doing shrooms :p I just wouldn't do them myself cus my mind can get pretty fucking dark
Vape The word "rewire" is incorrect and probably a little dangerous to throw around. Your brain is already hard wired-- before and after you take any kind of mind altering drug. Can longterm or imprudent use cause "wiring" (again, a poor metaphor) to change? Sure, that is possible. But when used with care and responsibility, psychedelics can lead one to long lasting and very helpful insight. I'm not promoting the use of anything, just trying to more honestly characterize the potential benefits and risks.
As someone with Synesthesia this is the best explanation I’ve heard so far. Everyone I try to explain it to just look at me like I’m crazy. I have a lot of the forms except the taste and word one. I used to think everyone felt/saw color when they listened to music or when thinking of numbers and letters or days of the weeks and months. I also didn’t used to know that not everyone felt/saw a geographical map of all the numbers and that they have personalities until like 2 years ago. Now every time I have to explain it I will just show this video.
That assumption that everyone else is a synesthete is super common! In fact, most people with color-grapheme synesthesia (the most common type) who find out before adulthood are diagnosed in pre-k or kindergarten because they complain about the colorful calendars or alphabets on the classroom walls being "wrong" & don't understand why the teacher would put something incorrect up *at school* of all places.
I totally agree that this is one of the best explanations of the sensation of synesthesia I've come across. I've always described it as seeing the colors 'behind' my eyes instead of in front like normal sight, but he's right that it's more that the referent (to use a psycholinguistics term) is colored rather than the actual real-world object """looking""" that way
I'm Canadian, and I have this weird sort of thing when thinking of the provinces.
When I imagine the maps of each province/territory in my head, each one has a specific colour.
NS: Brown
PEI: Orange
NB: Green
NFL & L: Brown
Quebec: Green
Ontario: Blue
Manitoba: Purple
Saskatchewan: Yellow/orange
Alberta: Red
BC: Blue
Yukon: Red
NWT: Dark grey-ish purple
Nunavut: Yellow
It might be because I saw a map with colours like this, but the map didn't look like each region had the right colour to me...
As a geography student, I tend to have this thing with all countries and it's very annoying to see a country as "the wrong color" on a map, but it's not synesthesia as much as a logical association due to history and knowledge. Former and current communist countries are often red, for example. When I see a blue Russia on a map it just feels very wrong.
Interesting.
I'm guessing you're from the eastern side of Canada?
Ryan Sullivan that is a form of synesthesia.
Same! It probably has to do with maps we see as kids, I remember a lot of maps looking like the colours you described
I never knew this was a thing, I thought I was just slightly odd... I also give subjects in school colours, so e.g physics is dark blue, RS is purple, Drama is maroon
Yeah, same
Physics is pink tho.
I do too, but i make up the colours and just get used to them. Physics is banana yellow btw.
Nah y’all got it way wrong... any science is green, math is red/black, English is white, history is blue :P
@@nickjones6843 close but
Science is green
Math is red/black (mostly red)
English is b l u e
History is beige
Biology is green, history is yellow, math and chemistry and spanish are red, English is blue, drama and photography are purple, guitar and psychology are orange, piano is lilac
I... actually explained this concept (qualia) to my parents when I was 6 or something before learning the word 'philosophy' shit
I personally find sensory phenomena like this fascinating to discuss, especially with accounts from people who experience them. Great video as always.
Simon The Human there is a chance you can experience synesthesia through psychedelics, I have had one with LSD which was very mild and short lived, but I vividly remember looking at the laptop from which we were listening to some music and then started experiencing some strange coloring in my retina, I don't remember the details exactly, but I definitely felt* as if it was a sense that was coming from the music, it was like little spontaneous colored flames coming out of the speakers and it strongly felt as if it was tied to what my ears were picking up.
*It just felt connected somehow, just like tasting something, it was completely new to me.
Anyway, it's hard to put it in to words, it may be possible that it wasn't synesthesia but I read that you can get a feeling on psychedelics so I took it as a yes.
That explains the program's name
Thats synthesia not synesthesia
I have gustatory-auditory synesthesia, meaning sound-to-taste. I often listen to and make music that, too me tastes good as a result. I also like to listen to specifically similar tasting music when cooking. None of this is important or anything, but it's not often that people talk about synesthesia in a public context and so I figured this was as good a place as any to post this.
Whoa, that's so cool! I wonder, could you describe the music that tastes good to you?
what kind of music do you hear? is it like a melody or a bunch of pitches? also, does spicy food sound spicy to you?
@@husnainali-gn8bo Well first of all, it's the other way around. I don't hear the things I taste, but taste the things I hear. But as far as spicy goes, there are many sounds that taste "spicy", though often they have other flavors woven in as well. For instance, the sound of paper rustling is a bit spicy, but mostly sweet, kinda reminds me of aztec hot chocolate
@@SamanthaAdalia Generally, music with heavier bass frequencies, darker melodic structures, and more experimental sound design, like riddim and hybrid trap, offer flavors that I enjoy more due to their more salty and savory characteristics. I also enjoy, and make, modal, more melodic music, usually in modes or scales like dorian, aeolian, mixolydian, mixolydian flat 6, or the melodic minor scale. Specifically pentatonic melodies, as well as melodies with quartal and quintal structure, like the scores of studio ghibli films, tend to taste almost like warm tea or coffee. Also saxophones are amazing, they taste like melted guda in the alto range, sharper cheddar in the bass range, and almost like a mix of colby jack and some sort of bread-like taste in the soprano range. Hope all that helps!
@@phrygid5978 that's cool
4% ?? Man I honestly thought it was much more, almost everyone I've discussed synesthesia with were like "yeah exactly I do the same thing". So I'm a part of a very small percentage of the population. Huh.
Super interesting video btw. Probably one of your best ones :)
Nils Jourde it's like he said in the video. Everyone is synesthetic to some degree. Some people are just more synesthetic than others. Like I associate single numbers with specific colors, but I lose that when a number is greater than 9. Like if I look at the number 52, it has no color. But if I look at 5 I think green and 2 I think blue. My brain can't separate a number into two colors and since I have no color associated with 52, it's colorless.
of course the majority of that 4% has some musical endeavour, in fact all my life I met one synesthete who didn't play any instrument. Of course you see more of them among musicians
goclbert ok, that's sort of what i feel too. Thanks for the explanation!
Matt that's really cool! The "most synesthete" person I've heard of (well according to his autobiography at least) is actually an artist, writer and mathematician, his name is Daniel Tammet. You should check him out, he's a really interesting guy
Adam Neely and Vsauce uploading within 5 minutes of each other? Gonna be a long night...
I don’t know if what I have would be considered synesthesia, but for me color and brightness have a STRONG connection with memories, location, and actions. Sometimes it causes me to have a connection between my senses, but the majority of the time it just brings memories.
Anger, he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armour. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him. Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground. Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted, they quietly understand once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready, but wonder why the fight is on. My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war, and ribbons of euphoria. Orange is young, full of daring, but very unsteady for the first go round. My yellow in this case is not so mellow, in fact I'm trying to say it's frightened like me. And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from giving my life to a rainbow like you!
Jimi :)
The Connection to the Video is rather abstract, but that was a very beatiful poem!
Amazing Jimi...
There's a woman painter with synesthesia called Melissa McCracken who paints what she hears and here is her painting for Jimi's Little wing :
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avoqado89 I also immediately thought about this song!
Nice!
I recently read a book called A Mango Shaped Space. Its a fiction story about a young girl who has synesthesia, though through the sound(activates) sight/color. Its a decent story, but I was wondering if you had read it, and what your thoughts on the explanations behind the condition.
Ryan T I've read it! I think it explains synesthesia really well and I found that what I experience is similar to the experiences the book mentions. It's an awesome resource for someone who is interested in learning about synesthesia
Ryan T I read that it’s one of my favorite books
YESYESYESYESYESYES I LOVE THAT BOOK
YESSSS! I love that book!
It is refreshing to hear from someone else with synaesthesia. I thought that letters and numbers, for all people, had this and could never understand why, as a kid, my friends looked at me as if I was crazy, when ai asked them what colours there arithmetic had.. and, yes, it is only when I THINK about the numbers/letters that they get colour. And keys also have colours…and feelings.
OMG ok so i have grapheme color synesthesia too and i play the piano. At first, the notes of the page and on the key board were colorless, but now, as i begin to learn the notes more fluently by memory, colors are developing. For instance, all of the c notes on the piano are yellow, since c is yellow to me. I had never heard about another person that this happened to, and i am so glad I'm not alone!
Ava Animation what about c#/ d flat. Do thoes notes colour change depend on the how they are written.
I see C as more of a goldish colour
Only dumbest sheeple begin a sentence with "OMG"
Huh, C is a blue for me.
@Ambrose Burnside no shit Sherlock. And your name is gay af
Great video, Adam.
i was high during guitar class at my school and i could see the music coming out of the guitar. it was a brown paisley pattern
Holy shit, I’ve thought I’ve been insane all my life. I’m not saying I have sysnaistesia, but the months all have a definite color and spacial shape. I’m always looking down at months from a birds eye view perspective. They form into a really long zero kind of shape. January is on the bottom right, and summer is on top. Spring and fall are parallel, being on the right and left respectively, and most of winter is on the bottom.
Most of winter? Wheres the rest of it? And even more important... Is it coming?
You have spacial sequence synesthesia.
I see music.
Eh...sort of.
I am very offended that Sunday is NOT GREEN and February IS NOT ORANGE! ARE YOU INSANE?
YES ORANGE FEBRUARY GANG but I must disagree as Sunday is a yellow to me.
February is definitely dark blue
It’s pink you fucking bozos
Sunday is cian and february is yellow with red AyE
@@Alenakip absolutely it is!
I don't know if I have synesthesia. When I listen to music and close my eyes, instruments with a crunchy, staccato timbre are lighter colors and muddier, bassier sounding instruments tend to be darker. Guitars are usually yellow to deep red, bass guitars are usually black or silvery, synths are green, blue, and purple, and classical instruments span a range of neutral colors like white, gray, tan, brown, black, and sometimes red.
Jonathan Sefcik that is synethesia
thats alot like the synesthesia i experience
that is synesthesia :)
I don't think that I have any kind of synesthesia, but when I hear music, my mind immediately thinks of movements, and drawings or animated scenes based on the song. Like, every time. Sometimes, the movements will change. But other times, I remember the sequence and accosiate the song with those songs. I think I'm weird. For example, this song I like, Flamingo by Kero Kero Bonito, I feel it's jumpy, energetic, but also chill. My mind will lean towards the feeling, and I'll just construct a whole routine. Another example, a generic waltz probably, would make me want to do a ballet routine. irdk
Annalise Brown DUDE THE SAME THING HAPPENS TO ME!!! Its so weird, but I have no control over it!
Sometimes when I play the piano, I can “hear” the note’s personalities!!
I have experienced chromasthesia twice while under the influence of LSD. It was fantastic.
Me too! I had photisms
i have chromasthesia and lsd triggers different kind of synaesthesia in me, i literally could see color and shape of the touch feeling. that was crazy. i saw how the cold feeling from blowing wind was forming a purplish blue rod and flying away behind my back.
@@xezmakorewarriah that's so wild!!! do you have chromasthesia on just a normal day?
@@funkytomtom yeah
Nice presentation. Good to see a video from you that doesn't give a shitpost vibe :v
I don't have synesthesia, but I do feel more comfortable when in my DAW the tracks are colored by instrument:
Bass is red
Lead is blue or green
Reverb makes for a light blue track
Drone sounds are brown
etc
and I wonder if the possibility of coloring tracks in a DAW made those corelations apparent or if I just came up with a system that now feels good because I've been using it.
Oh, also - put synesthesia in the video tags if you haven't, the way you titled the video might make it less likely to pop up in people's searches.
I also don't have synesthesia but I have a very strong need for color coding. Maybe that has something to do with our brains necessity to organize stuff and make it easier for us. It is kind of an addiction, though.
I have the same synesthesia as you, and I know some people who have it as well
for some reason, everybody agrees on A being red
but everyone has a different perception of the note B
lel
which color does B have in your eyes?
AqareCover I see A as light orange and B as dark brown
AqareCover I don't have synesthesia, but I'd probably settle on a burnt orange.
I see A as more magenta. Red is associated with D for me. B is more a green one would get from a fresh pine needle, an aspen green.
For me, B is a medium blue. However, I associate C as red, not A. A to me is usually a lighter yellow, except specifically in when I'm noodling in C and it's the relative minor, then it takes on a dark blue, indigo kind of color. I think that this is the color of the concept of relative minor however, not the letter A, because I associate A minor with a yellow as well.
AqareCover deep blue
I'm with ya Adam. Because I didn't know what synesthesia was until I went to college studying music composition, I thought every one saw music the way I do. It wasn't until I sat down with my aural perception prof. and talked to him about it that I realized I could "see" music. With his help I was able to learn how to verbalize the color of sounds I saw while listening and/or interpreting music. I actually thought I was tone deaf because I couldn't decipher proper intervals, but I could play them just fine because when I heard them I'd hear a feeling related to a color. I guess from this video I have chromasthesia, though I do not have perfect pitch. Far from it. I hear music in color to the point that I feel I undestand music very easily, but I cannot relate my understanding to other musicians because I can't tell them that I want them to play in Blue. If I say that "play in blue" they automatically play blues, and that is not "blue" to my ears. I'm still learning to transcribe the colors in my head into proper notation and terminology that other musicians can understand.
I always associate sound with taste
FatDoge well thats fucking awesome :D
"that's a spicy chord"
How does jazz taste?
Guy Persson Like honey...
because of The Bee Movie
you are like remy from ratatouille
My girlfriend has synesthesia. Every letter of the alphabet have personnalities for her
me too
MasterSkySparklez
That is awesome. Seriously awesome.
Only some letters have personalities to me, but all the 1-10 numbers have personalities, which is the same kind of synesthesia
0: no color or gender, very shy
1: black, boyish, thinks they're the leader
2: yellow, girly, gentle
3: girly, peach colored, token girl
4: orange, VERY boyish, I just realized Codename: Kids Next Door affected how I saw this number
5: red, switches between masculine girl (butch, perhaps) or a manly guy, 'big guy' character
6: purple, girl, basically three but cuter
7: also purple, teen girl, basically a princess
8: green, male, big soft pal
9: brownish red, feminine, mature compared to everyone else
10: no color, male, will fight 1 for leadership
Nifty.
For me, I don't get colors, but i do get personalities:
0: female, nonchalant
1: gender neutral, confident
2: female, gentle
3: male, clumsy
4: gender fluid, calm
5: male, loud
6: gender fluid, wavers between assertive and mellow
7: gender fluid, energetic
8: female, happy/dancing/seductive
9: female, talkative
t h a t f e e l w h e n n o s y n e s t h e s i a
I thought this video said synthesia.
Anyway, there’s nothing I can’t stand more than when people tell my my synesthesia is “wrong” or “this thing should be this color and you’re an idiot for thinking this way.” Just wanted to say that.
I have synesthesia and the best way I can describe it is this:
Imagine looking at the letter A. Normally you would not associate it with a color, but Imagine the A is red. You can't physically see it the color but it's there in your mind. That's what it's like for me, it's just automatic and I don't have to think about it, it's just there
Thanks for this ive been trying to explain why i dont like a song to my husband by saying it has a grating orangey red in it too much and he just stares blankly at me.
as a farsi speaker i can kinda confirm that thing with "thin and thick pitch", i kinda do have that synethetic feeling of lower notes being thick and higher ones being thin in an odd way (not the fisheye thing you showed though)
Oh i have this! Im so glad its an actual thing. Like i dont have perfect pitch, but i can often tell what the note is by its colour
This garden universe vibrates complete
Some, we get a sound so sweet
Vibrations reach on up to become light
And then through gamma, out of sight
Between the eyes and ears there lie
The sounds of color and the light of a sigh
And to hear the sun, what a thing to believe
But it's all around if we could but perceive
To know ultra-violet, infra-red, and x-rays
Beauty to find in so many ways
Two notes of the chord, that's our full scope
But to reach the chord is our life's hope
And to name the chord is important to some
So they give it a word, and the word is
bird. bird is the word.
I used to (and still) associate numbers with personalities. 3 and 7 are good numbers, while 2 is a bad number and 9 is the evilest number
Cole Christie 3 and 7 were always my lucky numbers
Cole Christie I do as well. Though I don't think 7 is unambiguously good; 7 is clever and ambitious, 9 is as well. 6 is like 9's kinder sister.
What about 666? A legitimate question.
Mezurashii5 that's where my feel for the numbers disagrees with the cultural interpretation. In my mind there's not much different between 666 and 6 personality-wise. Multi digit numbers usually have a personality more or less arising from their components with the exception of 11 being quite different from 1.
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Hmm, never thought about this, but i do have a strong assoziation between music and shapes or maybe even "landscapes" of sort. not in a way that every A is a triangle and every D sharp is a rectangle (and the shapes are more complex, more like the two shapes mentioned in the video), but when writing a song I get a picture of these shapes -often in motion, e.g. rotating, bouncing...- and the Chords need to match up the general shape and motion of the landscape they are forming. For example Am7 may move different than Am9. It's allmost like doing a puzzle. But it's very suttle, like a faint childhood memory and thus not easy to describe (especially, in english, which isn't my nativ language). And it also is more then just the chords, the verse may be more like a river, while the bridge is more like a forrest or hill, while the song as a whole may be something complete different.
Hmm...
A Kiki-Bouba problem for me are the neck and bridge pickup.
The word "neck" sounds much more like the sound you get from a bridge pickup, and vice versa. This makes me confuse the two all the time.
Tjaž Brelih I have exactly the same thing... This is the internet I guess so I shouldn't be surprised to find someone else
You've literally given me way to remember! thx!
This is not synesthesia at all but some songs instantly trigger a single specific memory in my head. For example when i hear kings and queens by 30stm i am on stage with my band and choire, watching them performing it (i was the keyboarder and had no job in that song xD)
Or when i hear firework by katy parry im sitting on the couch next to a cute girl i just watched the entire extended version of the lord of the rings trilogy with and then kissed her while listening to the song (what sounds like a cute memory as long as you dont know that she didnt want to be together with me and i discovered a few weeks ago that i could be gay 😂🤷♂️ but it was still a good time i had dating her. Later it turned out im actually gay so it was better that we didnt get together. Anyway im getting a bit off track, what did i want to tell?)
So these memories always pop up because i listened to the song in that specific situation once. Does anybody else have that? A friend of mine doesnt but we couldnt figure out if hes the "normal" or me
I've not been diagnosed whit it but months, numbers and every day in the week has colors to me.
I thought it was normal or something to do whit how I learned these things when I was a kid
This seems like an incredible advantage to me, especially for a musician.
The rest of us may not see non-existent lights when we hear music.But we feel a lot too.
The high bassoon makes me feel cold(which,considering my country's warm climate,is a pleasant feeling).
Wait - So you want to tell me that there is a weird word for me associating 4 with shyness? 😂😂😂
eww no 4 is an extrovert shes lovely
@@maurahennessy444 extroverts cant be shy? boi
Okay so I have the type of synesthesia where I associate numbers with personalities and here's what I associate with the times table
One is just a sad boi, he does literally nothing
Two is the party maker, all he cares about is making people happy and he does, because he brings others up times 2. Two times Five is where the party starts, and Two times seven makes Seven feel more independent from her sad lifestyle. Two times EIght brings sad grumpy lonely Eight up and yeah that's all I associate with x2 tables
Three doesn't do much until he brings six up, she is happy because she's at 18 and Three secretly likes Six but he'll never admit it. Seven is feeling alternative because she is at 21 with Three and she secretly feels like 21 should be a prime number but whatever.
Four doesn't matter until she meets up with Six to bring her up to 24. Then Four doesn't matter until she meets up with the Army Commander, Nine at 36.
Five goes with the flow and asks Six out and she says yes. They hang out at 30 for a bit, then Seven gets really jealous and crashes the party and makes things weird so now it's Five and Seven but it's at 35 so it's not the same.
(this is where things start to escalate)
Six and Seven are hanging out at 42 and it turns out that Six has liked Seven for a long time and has never admitted her feelings before. Seven smiles and then BOOM Eight, the creepy loner (I think of him like the Jim Carry Grinch kinda) pops out of nowhere, holds Six up like Simba in the Lion King. She escapes luckily, and hides at 54 where she is never heard from again.
Seven gets taken to Eight's lair for a wee bit at 56 but and Eight offers her a job or something and Seven considers the offer but she declines. Seven joins the army at 63.
Eight goes to sulk in his lair at 64, where he reflects on life and realizes that he has no structure. Going off of this, he joins the army at 72, happy to see his old crush Seven, but she pretends to not know who he his and he cries himself to sleep for a while.
Nine sits at his control post at 81, keeping all the military numbers in line.
Eleven is a stoner dude, he just adds the same number to a number twice (like from Two to Twenty-Two) and he thinks it's fricking hilarious
Twelve is like the Collosus Titan, all fear him.
Beware of twelve
you must be really good at math
Haaaa look man, it's, like, y'know, a one, but there's two of them! *toke*
i feel like i just made friends with personified numbers 😂🙌
@@mickey4125 lolol
Synesthesia is like the regions of your brain kind of blend together without clear boundaries.
A little praise for you, Adam:
I forwarded your video to a Professor, who has been doing scientific research about this topic for years. He thinks, it is pretty accurate and particularly likes the visual effects you used. A good insight for non-synesthisians into this extraordinary sense of perception.
What on earth is your profile pic
@@charliek115 its a soman on a pole... duhh
*Oh my goodness we have the same bowl*
We all do
This feels like a really interesting short film. Great job on this, man
I grew up around art all the time so I associate 1,2,&3 with primary colours (red, blue, and yellow) and also letters so 7 is r and also purple. For me also sounds, letters and numbers blend into new products
Synesthesia: 8 feels like a black.
Ideasthesia: 8 is associated with black.
Chromasthesia: 8 is LITERALLY black.
@Elisa Castro i am.
I just saw the wiki and yeah it's a joke.
Holy I’ve had that synesthesia for my whole life I thought it was only me
I have a lot of the same color to letter connects as you too for most
me too
Echo Zero sameee