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How does one experience synesthesia -- the neurological trait that combines two or more senses? Synesthetes may taste the number 9 or attach a color to each day of the week. Richard E. Cytowic explains the fascinating world of entangled senses and why we may all have just a touch of synesthesia.
Lesson by Richard E. Cytowic, animation by TED-Ed.
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Okay, this is just a really cute story ( it's really long though):
So I work with a voice coach named Jillian. She knows I have sound-color synesthesia, and I even wrote a really REALLY bad song about it called music to my eyes. So she was teaching her 8 or 9 year old niece a song a little bit ago, and her niece (we'll call her Mia) could not, for the life of her, remember the chords to this song. So Jillian tells Mia to think of a word or something to remember the chord. Like, a lyric or something. So Mia pauses for a second, then says "Can it be a color?" So she writes down the color for each chord, while Jillian is starting to make the connection. The next time she plays the song, less than five minutes later, she doesn't miss a single chord. Jillian asks her if she sees colors when she hears music, and she gets really quiet and suddenly says "I thought everyone did..." So Jillian let me talk to Mia and she just asked questions and told me about her favorite songs and how all of her best friends have the prettiest colored voices and that's why they're so close to her. It was one of the cutest and more pure interactions I've ever had. Thanks if you're still reading. This is totally pointless, but I thought it was cute.
It's not pointless. Synesthesia is thought to occur more frequently in very young children, but it tends to be lost as they become more socialized. A few of us keep it. My brother also has it so we reinforced it in each other.
This tottaly made my day, thanks aa:)
MaryBerry15 aw I read the whole thing . How cute ❣️
Totally precious. You should share this positive vibe on more platforms :)
That's so cute!
Every month has a color, every day, music, even my feelings are described as color. I thought everyone described color.
I don't have synesthesia but I'm basically obsessed with colors. Obsessed with how they correlate to emotions and such that I've started writing a book series about 7 people from different eras in time that represent a color and emotion. Anne blah blah blah time travel magic all that but I jus am addicted to color
I don't get it with music, but I do with everything else you mentioned
January is yellow, February is a kind of blue ( like baby blue prob), may is orange, August is blue, December is green, july is purple.
Monday:blue
Tuesday:green
Wensday:yellow
Thursday: turquoise
Friday: purple
Saturday: bright red
Sunday: maroon
Aaahh, I relate so h a r d. I have such a hard time explaining my emotions because they're usually a bunch of textures, colors, and stuff. I can't even explain those to people sometimes. So confusing
The true synesthete experience is finding out your friends also have it, and constantly arguing with them about the colors of everything, while the other people around us give us really weird looks.
All jokes aside, I really appreciate having friends who perceive the world similarly to me, and I really wish I would have came out about my synesthesia to them earlier. If you're all the way down here, thanks for reading and happy summer
hey can I ask, do the colors you see from the sound others make the same as the one your friend sees?
@@Warongpustaka Usually no, but when they do line up, it's very satisfying to agree on lol
@@protonpowergaming Thanks for the reply, its just that I'm trying to understand if synthesia is the same with our senses. For example, when I smell something sweet others will likely say it is sweet.
In the case of synthesia, if the color varies from one another, how do we confirm that the color of one particular sound is actually real and not just our mind playing with it?
A friend of mine sees 4 as yellow and as someone who's 100% certain 4 is green I find it infuriating.
@@Warongpustakafrom what i've heard, you can know from it being involuntary and consistent.
everyone's synesthesia is different in a way also, from what i heard.
When I was a child I saw the days of the week as various colours. This had faded from my memory until I recently
read an item about this subject. Thursday was very strong blue & Saturday red. Sunday yellow, Monday orange, Tuesday a very weak yellow & Wedsnesday a brighter yellow. Fascinating subject.
i couple monday with a grayish blue, tuesday with deep red, wednesday wtih light orange, thursday with a dark, mossy green, friday with yellow and, i dont know why, but both saturday and sunday are white... just plain and boring, it really fascinates me
Monday= LIGHT BLUE
Tuesday= Lime green
Wednesday= Lilac
Thursday= just a tint darker than Tuesday- t’s are just really green
Friday= purple, deep dark purple - colour of an eggplant
Saturday= green-brown
Sunday= yellow(?) or white
Whooaaaaaaaaaaaa😂😂 its very relatable😂 💯
for me, saturday was light blue and green but tuesday was orange and it looked like a braid while wednesday looked like a pea pod 💀💀
Tuesday is obviously blue tf
I've legit done this since I was like 4 I thought everyone did it
Sameeee
The video explain everyone does it, but at lower levels.
3:04
I've had it since I was 4 also and I just thought I memorized a chart or something and was going off that. I did my get diagnosed till 2 years ago
I'm so jealous
Jose Arguello Same, I haven't told anyone yet just in case I'm wrong but music has colour and so do words.
The worst part about being a synesthete is getting annoyed while watching videos like this, thinking,
"NO, "Denise" is ///CLEARLY/// YELLOW, not green!"
Totally feel them on 9 being a vain, elitist girl though.
I see colored letters all the time, and I drives me crazy because they so rarely match what I see in my head.
No, it's CLEARLY brown! xD
What color is Pelle? i really want to know XD
+PNI GAMING Pelle is pink and green, for me
oh. i like those colors!
I thought everyone could see that. One day, I just realized that no one around me also associated the school subjects and the seven days of the week with specific colors. Additionally, digits/numbers, letters/words, months, people, geometric figures, tastes have colors... Most abstract things have colors in my head. This is so intriguing and interesting that I'm sure I would be very sad if I couldn't see it, so I'm very proud to be synaesthetic.
you are lucky
When I was in school, I had a specific-color folder and notebook for each subject. Red was history/social-studies, blue was science, green was math and yellow was English. It always stayed the same. To me, each subject just "fit" those colors.
I honestly wish I was at sysnesthetic bc it sounds so cool
"hello welcome to chili's how may I take your order?"
"uh yeah can I get your voice, I think that would taste pretty good!"
ok comin' right up
OK that's pretty funny
Welcome to chilis
The welcome to chili’s man died yesterday :(((
Lol, I always thought the sound of walking on concrete would taste really good,
Me: Can I have your name?
Chili's Guy: It's Gary.
Me: That's a cool name.
Chili's Guy: Thank you.
-Me- Gary: No, thank _you._
after reading the comments.. my world feels so dull now :(
Same 😪
It’s not something you see physically
Same
@@katiagrella7035 it ain't a curse either
I have the really common one where I see numbers, days of the week and months as different colours.
It doesn't make life any more exciting. 😂 Trust me you're fine.
“It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.”
Alright buddy U deserve more likes than this
This is an underrated comment.
Go up!
Seems annoying to have I rather not bother with it
@@bungiecrimes7247 ok
I'm color blind and having synesthesia is something i find difficult yet unique
Lola Nidora hits the nostalgia✋😩
Lola Nidora, what ya doin over here? Lol
Well colorblind ppl still see at least 2 colors, and even if you can't, there's other senses other than vision lol like tasting words
Oh, that is why your icon has so much color
having synesthesia is not only color-related.
I have this, but it was more intense when I was younger. I used to be able to taste music, but only songs that really connected with me. But now, when I listen to songs from my childhood it triggers such nostalgia that I can taste them again. It's amazing.
Heyy so i have a question for you about synesthesia. I think i have it mildly - days of the week,letters,numbers can be colours if i ask myself, but i dont see them by just looking at them. But like for me thursday is definitley dark green and 2 is definitley blue etc.. I was wondering what your take on this is- do i have it or not? Sorry to bother you but you were one of the few comments i could find from recently in this video :)
yooo anyone else feel hella left out because they don’t have synesthesia?
Me
me 😂 even tho i have it 😂 i always feel left out
i want synesthesia it looks cool :(
@@katiagrella7035 you can't stop me
@@katiagrella7035 still want synesthesia
It's so cool having it, but I confuse capital F and 4 all the time since they're the same color to me. I've written "4or" so many times it's ridiculous.
I do this all the time!!
Oh my gosh same
@@johnsimmons3006 purple for me
@@johnsimmons3006 Deep green for me
What taste is Owen?
Imagine being like “Hold on, need to clean my palette, AIRPLANE... aight we good.”
Lol
Idk why but “Airplane” seems green
airplane taste fresh like clouds and the color blue, because their associated with the sky.
@@Lynn-ip9sh for me the word airplane tastes like mashed potato’s and it’s a sage green color with light pink swirled together with white dots. It also could taste like sorta bland and soggy cinnamon rolls.
@@Lynn-ip9sh that’s forced association lol
Very informative. My wife described our daughter as having this trait so I had to investigate. Her associations use color and shapes/ motion for things like specific people and their voices, events and words. She also has an amazing ability to remember things from as early as age late two (she is now 14).
All children "have" that
i always had colors for my school subjects so when i got binders or folders i would buy the corresponding color for the subject so i didnt even need to label them
Conny Spiess I would jokingly argue with friends that their folder colors were wrong while secretly being really bothered by it. MATH ISNT GREEN JULIA
Annonimoose Q MATH ISNT GREEN im sorry you went through that, i do too. i for so long thought everyone knew math was orange
mATHS IS GREEN
math is BLUEEEEE
Same
I have synesthesia and I told my math teacher and she was so interested she gave personalized tests/work so I would have an easier time with math because my synesthesia would give me anxiety with the negative signs disappearing and all the numbers being close together so I didn't know were to look. I also have ADHD so that made things even harder
send my respect for your teacher.
So much, so much respect for that unnamed teacher.
Give her my love :)
Kathryn Gephart my Spanish teacher gave me a revision sheet but it's all colour coded and it just makes everything harder!
Hi Kathryn many thanks for your post i am currently a trainee teacher and watched this video to understand the pupils I may come across in my career it's great to see what a difference one made for you
I know! Like if someone colors a letter L blue, I'm like don't they know that L's are always pink?!?
One day I was like "who was that girl with yellow name again" and my friends were like confuse af
I just wanna know... Yellow are names like Anne, Jessica, ect. How about you?
For me, (predominately) yellow names are Eric/Erik, Eve, Selena, Ella/Elle ... you see the pattern, the yellow/very light orange E dominates. Your "E" is probably another color though :D but I do the same thing, I remember the colors first and then translate into letters
for me it's names like miranda, maisie, mia, kayla (more orange though)
this made me crack and I would be confuse as well HAHAHAHA!
M names, A names and K names are almost all yellow for me
Your voice sound like purple/blue, like thursday, december and 8. It's profound, calm and wise.
I agree!
December is brown for me and October is blue
To me Thursday is more of an orangish yellow, December is a greenish blue, and 8 is a navy blue
His voice is 5 and red
I don't really associate voices with sounds, but, while Thursday is purple to me, December is dark green and 8 is orange. To me, April is the purple-blue month
I remember hearing a door slam and saying to my parents: "Wow, that was really bright white!" That was the moment I realised not everyone sees sounds 😅
Charlotte Bowe pretty objects such as lights and crystals and glitter make my favorite musical sound, the repeated high-pitched three-note trill E-F-E. Regardless of the color, if it's cute or shiny, it makes that sound.
You're is similar to mine. I'm 23 years old and just now found out that this had a name after a lifetime of secretly believing something was wrong with me. When I hear a sudden loud noise like a door slamming, glass breaking, or any noise that is generally displeasing it will cause varying colors to flash in my vision. Usually bright yellow or white. Similarly there's a few colors that make me hear certain noises.
Do you actually see the colour?
Haya Kassab depends, one person might see it in there mind but not there vision, others can see it in there vision
I remember drawing mother nature for my school project with all the trees and grass and mountains and sky and sun, then showing it off to my classmates only to be laughed at because my colors were off (grass and leaves were brown). Thats when i started to suspect i was colorblind. Oh well, just a comment passing by. Lol
My name does NOT taste like earwax!!
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah it does--for me actually haha. it's also green ;)
Its pink with green stripes and it feels smooth
actually I think you'll find its OBVIOUSLY blue
Your name tastes like iron rust...
your name is bright orange
when you meet someone but their name isn't the same color as your perception of them
Omg so relatable
I see. I've always asked my friends if they also feel music as a physical sensation when they listen to it and I feel sad every time they tell me they don't understand. I'm happy there are people out there who do.
Wait that's not everyone!?
@@cinnamonfluff594 nope! I'm just your cup of joe admiring the experiences of people with synesthesia
Why feel sad? Not everyone CAN understand it.
I am reading a book called A Mango Shaped Space and it's about a girl with a common form of synesthesia
Iasia Norris oh I love that book!!
I have owned that book for years and read it so much!
I want to buy it. Its so good. So relatale for me.
I read that in 7th grade! I really enjoyed it
Iasia Norris I read that too
I have synesthesia. I associate painful feelings with colors or patterns. For example, I sometimes get a painful feeling in my foot that I identify as red and black fuzz. The feeling of being punched in the chest is yellow. The feeling of a metal bar being hit on my arm is light blue. It's weird.
That must hurt. I have sound-color synesthesia.
+Ninjagamer1080 Somehow I don't think it would work that way; for me, I only see the colors when I hear sound, never the other way around. Although, it could be different for him, seeing as there are different types of synesthesia.
I have synesthesia too, mostly sound to color, but sometimes I also have this pain to color or pain to texture synesthesia. How would you describe sensitive teeth to cold? I feel it like some sort of thin blue lines overlapping on top of a purple background. Do you feel any sounds too?
when im listening to the ocean on my noise machine i feel like im floating and being rocked the sound is a soft silky grey color also some words are different colors my name is savannah and i think its orange. sometimes when i feel pain i see colors, like when i feel face first it had a tingling feeling and i saw streaks of a bleak grey color, when i poked at my face i saw little dots of blue mix in with the grey
sometime i taste random things like when i was in the hall at school i tasted soup kinda random...
It’s so amazing seeing people with synesthesia like me
omg that's what it's called I have a grapheme synesthesia!
numbers, letters, punctuation, days, months, years are all colours
SAMEEEEE
me toooo
Same,nn
The problem for me is that I usually don't associate words with the color of their first letter but with a mixture of all of their letters (and sometimes an outside color influenced by the actual color of the word, if it is a physical thing) - for example, D is brown, E is yellow, N is brown, I is white, S is green, and E is yellow again. The result is a yellowish brown - but more so than a mixture of the colors, I see bits of each color interspersed together. So when someone asks me what color a word is, it's often too difficult to describe.
LuxMashups 👍👏That's very interesting; if letters (other than the musical notes) had colors for me, the whole alphabet would be in earth tones.
Why the hey are the music notes emojis blue and pink instead of earth tones? Shame, shame!
LuxMashups Mash up the wrong-colored music notes. I use them because I love music symbols but I think the colors are wrong. 🎼🎶🎵
Turn them earth toned if you can. ( *Add yellow* so the treble clef and the eighth note turn *green* and the tiny eighth notes turn *orange* .)
Me too! Some words are the combination of each letter's colours but others get the colour from the first letter only
The exact same thing happens for me! It still helps with memorization (especially science vocab) because I can relate words together if they are overall colorful or dull. Also, the colors of letters become less distinct for me when they are in words, so the word itself still has fragmented colors but it kind of blends together more.
THIS. THANK YOU. People ask me "What color is my name" expecting a simple answer like red, but in reality each of their letters has a different color which even depend on the surrounding colors. And the colors aren't even 100% defined except for the vowels. As for the video, "Tuesday" isn't one color - it's a variety of many colors found in the letters.
I actually realised I had synesthesia not long ago when my Literature teacher praised me for using so many deep metaphors and explained to me that not everyone could see "the round scent of rain on the ground", feel "the rest that offered the colour red" nor "the needle created by two pieces of foam rubbed together entering their skin ". It really caught me off guard as I thought these kinds of association were something everyone had.
Maybe some of the world's best poet and authors have synesthesia...hmm??
That's so cool, those are some really pretty poetic sentences indeed!
That sounds so cool how you wrote that. You should be a writer or a poet
Wow, I have the same thing. You must be feeling it, too. For me,It is not just about describing what I see in my mind but what I feel living through it. ❤
Really cool! I always saw single characters as having colors, but only some of them for some reason. For example A is always red, B is blue, C is colorless, D is green etc.
Edit: Lately I've been noticing that some of the colorless characters I mentioned do have a color, just a very soft one. C is sort of light grayish for instance. They're just less pronounced and it doesn't bother me as much to seem them in other colors.
Yesss
P is in orange? and S is yellow?
N is in green?
@@joegoldberg8185 Nope. P is blue/purple, S is colorless, and N is orange.
I’ve done this forever. Since I was a kid, I would associate numbers with certain colors or days of the week with certain colors. Growing up I would also identify people and their personalities with certain colors. Now as I am a musician, I now associate sounds more often with colors too. Crazy stuff.
For me, days of the week, numbers, letters, and school subjects have colours, while the bodies in our solar system had genders.
*have
just how do you get the idea that for that?genders for planets or colors for numbers... it would be fun tough. instead of waking up to Naturvetenskapprogrammets dark cold embrace, math for 6 hours and science for 4, you would wake up to a world of vibrant color filled with colorfull numbers, pretty fun...
When I was little, I didn't know they were named after gods, so Venus and earth were female, because everyone called them the "sister planets".
Yeah, school subjects have colours for me too. It makes buying binders for your classes needlessly difficult, doesn't it?
+KingMeteorStudios That is so true!! I think Math would be blue and History is red , Science is orange, but I also thought English was Red too.
I don't have synethesia, but i do associate the days of the weeks and certain lessons with colours.
Monday is red and tastes like strawberries but it smells like blood eew Tuesday is Lemon yellow
+Ruby Moore , I have that too lol
That is synesthesia :-)
Ruby Moore you have synesthesia.
Girly Nerd that' s exactly same for me! and I also see wednesday as dark green 😁
I used to draw math terms as gendered, personalitied characters in my sketch book haha
But I always felt music was like "painting a picture" of colors, like the bass had deep undertoned colors and the fluttery instruments spotted over the deep colors. I also related them to a forest, with the fluttered instruments as budding flowers and the depth of the bass as the earth beneath it, the harmony chords of the middle instruments as a sunrise, etc. I also found food to be like "painting a picture" of colors as well.
No one:
Everyone in the comments section: OmG, I hAvE SyNeStHeSiA bEcAuSe I aSsOcIaTe ThE cOlOr OrAnGe WiTh OcToBeR, i ThOuGhT EvErYoNe ElSe DiD
October is bright red
October is a very dull purple, and tastes like artificial sweeteners.
would it make you feel better to know a psychologist told me and my parents i had it? how else can i get your approval elizabeth? i really love people who tell others they know what goes on in their head. its funny to me.
I think September with yellow
i associate october with the color of those grape jolly ranchers
I'm just discovering this whole new world i didn't know i was part of.
Same lol
Same!
paula beri same
Me too 😂
Ikr
FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT!!!!! so many people have given me weird looks when i comment on how the number 4 is blue!
It hAs 2 colours to me, it's a dark navy blue when I'm happy and a dark red on sad ones , it's often blue tho lol
YES ITS BLUE
7 is blue...
YEEPPP
4 is orange but go off!
I have synesthesia! People always ask me “how does it work?” But it’s super hard to explain. You explained it perfectly tho.
After 18 years living here on Earth, finally know about this thing, growing up I'm always thinking why I see colors in months, like january(green), february(violet), march(red), april(blue), may(lighter pink). A whole year for me is an oval shape, a decade is a rectangle. In school, I see subjects as colors too like, Math(strong red), science (green), english(white), History(orange). THANK GOD, GROWING UP I ALWAYS THINK I AM DIFFERENT TILL FOUND THIS!
bruh, January is obviously red, February is yellow, an march is blue!.
To me some numbers have personalities.
Odd ones are evil and even ones are good.
I also have a weird good smell-taste conecction.
I wanna meet someone who thinks odd numbers are good because I just can't picture it! Haha
+juustop woah lol I think odd numbers are good
To me, even numbers are bit mean and self-centred, and odd numbers are kind and sweet. No idea why
+Lizzy Simba This is not pathological syntesthesia, everyone does it to some degree. "Numbers have personalities" is pretty common (i do it myself, 9 is a douche), and smell and taste are supposed to be linked together, since the human sense of smell is primarily there to detect rotten/bad food.
Esther Beckley Same! I thought it was just me
When I was in orchestra, this is how I memorized the music. However the notes had different personalities and stories that would combine to make the whole piece.
Yeah same! Sometimes i qouls literally play an e instead of a c or vice verse because they had such a similar color and it was ridiculous XD. A lot of my orchestra music has colors to go with it and its amazing
I definitely feel the stories thing. Each individual note and sequence has a color or mix of colors, while the piece itself has a story.
Same! I feel so normal now haha
Same
I personally hate having synesthesia sometimes, and love it other times! It's such a weird thing to have, but at the same time I couldn't imagine not having it. I feel like the world would be more dull without it, but at the same time I feel like it would be more colorful. Synesthesia is so complicated, but at the same time is super simple.
Heyy so i have a question for you about synesthesia. I think i have it mildly - days of the week,letters,numbers can be colours if i ask myself, but i dont see them by just looking at them. But like for me thursday is definitley dark green and 2 is definitley blue etc.. I was wondering what your take on this is- do i have it or not? Sorry to bother you but you were one of the few comments i could find from recently in this video :)
When I was in Elementary I started to dress up accordingly to the color of days of the week:
Monday: Orange
Tuesday: Blue
Wednesday: Green
Thursday: Grey
Friday: Red
Saturday: Yellow
Sunday: White
I AGREE THIS THIS, I see the days of the weeks like this too. But I've never dressed up according to that >~
@@trixi5329
:o
that sounds like more OCD rather than synesthesia
Wait. I think that was almost exactly what I thought each day's color corresponded to...
But tuesday is red actually (jk, i don't know why for me tuesday sounds red)
wow, it sounds like to me these kind of people have a blast in everyday life, and a much more colorful and interesting life.
I see numbers, letters, certain names, weekdays and months in colours and to be honest i barely even think about it :p It just happens so naturally :P
Me too
I enjoy colors/shapes with my music but not real find of my second form which is hearing pain. I experience pain with the sensation of frequency sounds. Some are high pitched, low pitched, oscillating, static sounding, etc.
+Szabo Tamas It makes math a WHOLE lot easier, that's for sure. I just feel like its normal for me. I never really noticed till 6th grade when other kids didn't think the same way I did.
+Szabo Tamas I have associative grapheme-color synesthesia which is different from projecting synesthesia. I don't visually see words, letters and numbers in color, I just unconsciously think of them as having inherent colors. I think most synesthetes are like that. Even when I can't recall a word, I'll always remember its color.
I don't have this but I always though that 8 had a huge crush on 16 and 4 just thought it was weird
Also Monday is yellow Friday is purple and Tuesday seems green
Genevieve Dellamano for me, Tuesday is also kind of green, but Friday is the colors of the Irish flag and Monday is beige and red
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_linguistic_personification
Check this page out.
That is synaesthesia, my friend. Welcome to the club. ;) :)
To me 4,8 and 16 are related. Also 9 is 6's older sister
Since I was a kid, every time I heard the name of the days Monday, Wednesday and Friday, immediately a yellowish color would come to my mind. For the days Tuesday and Thursday, it was more like a dark blue. For Saturday it was orange (nowadays it's orange-brown) and for Sunday it was like a pale blue.
Through out my life, I studied other languages and the same pattern happened to the names of the week in Spanish, French and English (my native language is Portuguese), but not in Japanese (it's a long story).
Anyways, I'm 30 now and until this day I never told anyone about this. I never thought it had a name. Now I'm watching this video and reading the comments and I know I'm not the only one!
Heyy so i have a question for you about synesthesia. I think i have it mildly - days of the week,letters,numbers can be colours if i ask myself, but i dont see them by just looking at them. But like for me thursday is definitley dark green and 2 is definitley blue etc.. I was wondering what your take on this is- do i have it or not? Sorry to bother you but you were one of the few comments i could find from recently in this video :)
@@elisemcdouall886 I don't think I'm the right person to answer your question since I know so little about this topic.
Maybe you could research forums or even TH-cam about this matter and see what you find.
Probably there are lots of people talking about this with more depth.
Hope you're doing fine and hope you find your answers, Elise =)
@FlyingMonkies325 That's interesting!
When I was in high school I had a hard time memorizing the years and events in history class - so I decided to "cheat" at exams and write combos of four colored dots on my hands representing the year numbers. So to me it was a hand with a bunch of years written on it and to the teachers I was just being artistic and had colorful dots all over my hands lol
Also, I know I definitely have synesthesia, but I couldn’t conclude which senses I had, to me, it’s more like feelings, textures, taste, smell, colour, images, ...... all smashing up together
YES! YES! That's me
Do you know the texture of a food even if you haven't tried it before?
Eleiya Giarde not really,
@@eleiyagiarde6065 I do.
The taste most of the times too but thats probably not synesthesia
@@sorryididntknowwhattochoos2678 oh, I wonder what that would be called!!
1:16 my jaw dropped it was so accurate. I’ve always associated inanimate things with colors and personalities and genders etc. and this is so cool to see that this is a real thing lol
My brain gives names and personalities to plants along with gender, if I watch a movie I can taste a perticular food that will always be linked with that movie or show, there are colors in music and in names. I think I might be ansothegic or what that big word is
Same!
Same I thought everyone did that lol
@@meat_doughnuts3457 Same here! I can remember particular foods that I had when I watched certain shows in my childhood
To me 7 is athletic
i have grapheme-color and time-space, and my dad has ordinal-linguistic!! the only reason i started learning about it and found out i had it was after reading the book “a mango shaped space” lol
I just found out today that one of my friends also sees colours in graphemes and we spent a full hour and a half arguing about which word is which colour. It was crazy how different we saw things
I am kind of jealous, this is so interesting.
When I was in 7th grade, my whole middle school read a book about a girl with synesthesia (the title had something to do with her cat, mango who she named mango because his meows make her see mango spots) and I've found synesthesia so fascinating since then
• madison • A mango shaped space?
I LOVE A Mango Shaped Space!! Ever since I read it in 8th grade, I’ve been totally captivated by synesthesia
• madison • I think it's very interesting. Synesthesia, that is. I have never read...er...(Mango Space? Something like that) Reflectors and lights are the first thing I saw the sound of. I was getting ready to tell the story, but my phone... battery...is.. ...going... I will come back later.
I love a mango shaped space!
i read that a long time ago and i thought having genders and personalities with my letters and numbers was normal. so i ignored it haha
I dont really know if this is right but everybody thought I was weird for thinking this but numbers for me as a child I always thought that for example 6 and 7 were brother and sister 8 and 4 were together in a relationship and 1 and 2 were married and 9 and 10 where brothers. Its weird I know but I always thought that this is how everyone saw numbers and felt the same way..
i feel like i can’t fell if i have this or not. like i can imagine these worlds as feelings but i don’t actually taste them or feel them
There’s two types of synesthesia,
projective synesthesia: people who see actual colors, forms, or shapes when stimulated (the widely understood version of synesthesia).
associative synesthesia: people who feel a very strong and involuntary connection between the stimulus and the sense that it triggers. ( so they may not see 5 as green but they have a strong feeling that it is green)
Hope this helps ;)
When I was younger, I was never brave enough to say that F# sounds light green because I thought everybody else would think that I'm crazy XD
It sounds pink though ; )
F# sounds dark green to me
Omg same, except for me the actual letter F is light green
Wait so you have perfect pitch or does it have the colour if you know its an f#?
Finally something I can relate
I always think of Tuesday as a something like a yellowish orange
Edit: I have started a political uprise
Same!
OMG same!!!! You must be my synesthesia twin! My identical twin sister was was called Alex as well, that's funny.
Sameeeeee
same!
Siri Crafts Corner nah man, it’s more of a green blue
I have this and every letter has its own color. But does anyone else experience seeing the colors mix together when they form words? But if you read the word by letter, you see the colors individually? And I don't exactly SEE the colors, it's more of like thinking about a song in your head, it's like you hear it, it's not faint, you don't hear anything but you have the music pulsing in your head. AGGGGHHHH it's so hard to describe. 😭
I discovered that not everyone feels like this only a few months ago. My friend told me his Professor worked on a project about synesthesia, I asked him what it was, he explained it to me with the classical "words have colours" and I was like: Well, I don't see colours, but letters and numbers have a gender, characteristics and an age.
He was shocked and so happy and I wondered why he reacted like that because it's the most normal thing in the world?
He answered No, it isn't?
Now I know it and I feel silly that it didn't cross my mind that it's something "special" :D
Yes me too! And what's weird is that everyone I've asked about it says they experience it too and it's totally normal, which made me think it was...
I never knew that I had synesthesia until fourth grade when I read the book " a mango shaped space" I thought it was normal for everyone to see letters numbers and words as different colors and have a different colored calendar always in your mind. When I started telling people they didn't quite belive me, and some still don't. But the people who do think it's really cool. It is, but it ado makes a lot of things hard like ELA and Spanish, because sometimes words just "Don't look right too me" and no one ever gets it.
I do this with music, for example a B flat chord is blue, an A chord is red, an E minor chord is pale yellow or blue depending on the song as a whole, and a D chord is brown just to name a few
I have Ordinal linguistics personification and grapheme color synesthesia i actually discovered it last year when i read this book called “a mango shaped space” which talks about a girl also discovering her synesthesia after that i did some research and I realized not everyone assigns colors and genders and personalities to numbers, letters, days of the week and months lol
When I was younger each day of the week had a pattern. Words had color and shape and sounds moved on a line in my brain. As I got older I no longer saw the shape of 'lonely' (a thin blue line) or saw Sunday (a red square with yellow line radiating from a point on the bottom). I remembered them but no longer saw them the way I used to. Now, as I've gotten older yet again I see them again. No all of them, but I see sound now. Pitch and volume lighten and darken colors and harmony shakes the sploch in my head. I like it. The sound of a guitar, for instance, is green, like it used to be. Bumble bees form dotted zigzagging lines in my brain. I express this to friends and they don't believe me. I wanted to share this so people have a better understanding of this phenomena.
+Lucy Lyttle
Hah, don't worry, not everyone understands.
{Also, i'm curious, what's you least favorite sound? Mine's that weird popping noise a bottle makes when it fills with gas or air- such a startling sound!}
When a fork scrapes on a plate. I just can't focus.
Mhhm- and loud sound is bad for me-
***** If youre eating soup and the spoon scrapes across the bottom of the bowl it makes a high pitched squirming sound. It seems red lighting bolts from the corners of my vision.
Lonely is a circle that is shaking alone in an all white room
Wait,,,so giving numbers colors and personalities is not what everyone does?
giving numbers personality is what enneagram does
I've definitely always done that with numbers and letters
APPARENTLY NOT. This is what I thought until I was like... 10? That’s why math was so distracting for me, because there was basically a circus going on on a page
i dont have synesthesia (at least i highly doubt it) but i still kind of get reminded of things when i think of numbers/days of the week if that counts? maybe its like a half-formed connection from my childhood that never fully developed into synesthesia, idk. but there's at least kind of a trickle of information
firefly.petals Ever since I learned how to count, two is yellow, three is red, four is orange, five is blue... It goes up to eleven which is grey. I’ve been wondering if it might have been some sort of game I made up when I was little.
I see songs, months, people and days of the week as colours or personalities, I don't associate certain letters with colours (like Denise. I wouldn't remember her as a name starting with D because I don't associate things like that.) but I do see people's personalities as colours.
Tuesday is green.
Hello. I am a musician who sees a color-shape for each note. When I was in music school I got into an argument online with Richard Cytowic. This was the late 90's I guess, when there was no uTube or FaceBook or Twitter, etc. They were very fixed, boxy text fourms. I was expalined to Cytowic on his forum that there is an actually consitency in what i see in the notes and shape that parallels the color spectrum. For example, C is one of the most robust, warmest sounding notes. And therefore people naturally (and constantly) write love songs in C. Further, there are 64 squares on a chess board to make up one giant square. Well, 64 hertz frequency is actually a low C (in A-432/C256 scientific tuning). So I explained all of these things to him. How the cold distance of A-flat is spherical and blue. Etc. etc. Richard Cytowic would absoutely NOT hear it. He became very angry in his replies. That dialogue was lost by the time I moved back home from NYC to New Meixco. It is strange to see the man, years later, on TED-X. To see the face of who I was actually talking to. The problem with Cytowic (and i'm not dismissing his work) is that he does not offer any real insights to the condition. Like a good nerd, he merely documents things. I am not saying that synesthiea is intrinsically metaphorical, i'm sayiing that often times IT IS. And there is a pattern in neurology and perception that Cytowic's research shockingly ignores, denies and dismisses. Here is an example on my uTube channel of a visual representation of a song i the key of B major (magenta). th-cam.com/video/om_h5rbZeb8/w-d-xo.html
It's weird 'cause I don't have Synesthesia, but I still like to compare colors to the days of the week, numbers, or moods. Like Monday is red, Wednesday is Green. Red is odd Black is even. Or like Red is angry, Blue is sad. In Kindergarten we had a specific color for the days, & on the 100 number chart/board thingy the odd numbers were Red, Black was even. So maybe that's were I got this mind set from.... Not really sure, but I've always thought like that.
Then you have it
Sienna H You do have synesthesia, it's just that you don't have the projection type (physically seeing, smelling or tasting something seemingly irrelevant).
+Hi Bye really because if someone asks me " what colour is Tuesday?" I'd reply brown because I do think it's brown in my opinion however, every time I see Tuesday written some where I don't see brown. Do you think I have it or not? Me personally, I'm divided on whether I do or not.
I do the exact same thing
Sienna H lol that mean you have em
I found out about this today in neuroscience, I had thought that everyone associated words, subjects, objects, and letters with colors.
Same
i think this is association rather than synesthesia, i have colour-smell synesthesia and i can physically smell it rather than just associate a colour with a certain smell :0
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I thought the same thing. I still feel maybe it is a great technique to use. I use this to remember places and notes or things. a great note taker paints and draws and now I wonder if he too has synesthesia.
I def think it's an association thing for most people@@babythestarsshinebright
No one:
That one girl diagnosing herself in the comments: 👁👄👁
I dont think its supposed to be “diagnosing” because synesthesia is not a mental illness
stan loona!
I agree. Being diagnosed with something means it’s bothering us. So, you don’t have to be diagnosed to know if you have synesthesia. It’s not an illness
@@okokok9127 Being diagnosed with something doesn't mean it's bad....it's still a neurological condition. Yes diagnosis is commonly used as a negative connotation but that doesn't mean everything that is diagnosed is something bad or negative.
what do you mean “diagnosing” you don’t get diagnosed with synesthesia-
Saying “oMG tHeRe’S a GiRL/BoY SeLf-DiAgnOsiNg HiM/HeRseLf, YiKes” to someone is becoming a little common ‘cause some kids think they have depression, anxiety disorder, OCD, or others. But ya’ll better be careful because someone might be listening to you and might have been dealing with something secretly. They might think that talking about their problem to someone else will probably make them be called ‘an attention-seeker’ and keep it to themselves. So yeah, I might be wrong but be careful.
When I was a kid I used to associate words with colors. Writing the word "Math/Mathematics" in color green always brings me pleasure. I don't think any other color would fit to that word.
no it's like a darkish red
TUESDAY IS GREEN FOR ME
abbigail ITS ORANGE
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Blue!
Same for me!
Wednesday is red-pink
ITS BLUE SILLY
I physically winced when the letters in DNA popped up. They were all the wrong colors.
Oml same
Michelle Schultze for me letters don't have colors unless they are music note names. A B C D E F G have colors. The rest of the alphabet is colorless.
Michelle Schultze *C is red*
*D is light green*
*E is yellow*
*F is dark green*
*G is orange*
*A is dark brown*
*B is olive green*
Based on the colors, f# minor and D major are my favorite chords. By the way, the organ beats the piano to a frazzle.
SAME
Same! d is purple, n is yellow, and a is red!
I’m a synesthete and I see all graphemes in colour for instance L is neon green and a semicolon is blueberry purple. I also know other languages so they have connections too for instance Korean ㅅ is purple and Thai ก is orange.
For me the more interesting part is how my synesthesia relates to phonemes. Every phoneme has a colour, emotion, personality, race/nationality (which doesn’t correlate with the colour), and occupation 😂. For example, the t sound is an old east European grandpa constantly wearing green vests who is very wise and personable; t’s occupation preretirement was a chemistry teacher.
Every word has a personality, race, and occupation too which is linked to a mix of the sounds in the word. For instance, Hungary is a gothy SE Asian teen that is actually kinda friendly once you get to know her.
Monday is red, cause it's the start of the working week and has a lot of importance. Tuesday is light pink, wednesday blue, thursday is green, friday is yellow, saturday is a bright pink, sunday is brown. They're these colours because each colour makes me feel a particular emotion which i generally associate with the day
Blue, of course. (You were asking what color Tuesday is.)
I know right
I think of it as a baby blue
To me I always thought of Tuesday as blue, i couldn't picture it as any other color. I work as registered nurse, so on different days of the week I would wear a particular color based on what day it is (Monday/red, Wednesday/yellow, Saturday/purple)
Monday-Yellow Tuesday-Green (and sharp) Wednesday- Purple or blue and soft and deep Thursday is the same as Wednesday Friday is a red, Saturday is yellow and sunday is nothing
Haha same for me a pastel blue color
I've always felt like letters and numbers had genders and personalities, but I never said that 'cause I thought everyone felt that way. Then I tried to explain to my mom how I think that 2 is a teenage girl who's not easily daunted and that A is a thirty year old womanizer, and she thought I was crazy. At least, now I know I'm not.
You're not crazy, it happens the same to me with colors with letters and numbers. My brain makes up personalities for some numbers too now that I think about it, my mom has it as well so we talk about it sometimes but my dad did think I was crazy when I was 5, which I imagine as magenta btw. xD
I'm the same, only without the personality aspect. I tried asking my mom about and she thought I was crazy too xD
SAME.
Damian Robles omg i do too! for each number there're a person or a personnality! damn we're brothers and sisters hahah
7 is a selfish handsome young man, its always dark blue
I have really mild synesthesia connected to my autism. Double "ee" is green, the name "Allen" is orange/red, brown/yellow, pink, and navy blue, and "Riley" is pale yellow with dark brown dots. Numbers have genders but they're really hard to place, and when I was younger I asked my dad if he thought the street sign arrows were brothers and he didn't know what I meant.
so i have the sound to color bit, but I thought i was the only person who came up with narratives for the numbers, that was always consistent over the years
I think everyone has some form of synesthesia.. others are just so developed while others arent
Nope. Everyone does not.
I mean it might be a spectrum, some people have almost nothing but others have a strong version.
@@stardustslimes4920 Nope. I have zero synethesia. My senses are as separate from each other as summer and winter. There is no spectrum. You might be on a spectrum, but you are not everybody and you don' t know what others perceive.
Dark Feather so you’d be on the complete opposite end of the spectrum
@@annav6037 Touche. You got me there.
Anyone else say colours instead of numbers in class by accident and everyone looks at you weird? xD Too many times, I MEANT FOUR NOT BLUE I'M SORRY.
NOOOO FOURS ARE ORANGE
Lianne Dekker breh, s is orange. Come on.
+Nicolas K what? No four is purple and s is yellow?
xxxGriffling1Dxxx 3 is yellow and 9 is purple :P
+Nicolas K To me 4 is purple, 3 is light blue and 9 is pink:)
Damn ted ed is really my favorite.
A friend of mine recently said she wanted to take the psychology course, and i told them to check you guys out to get a grip--but they refused. It's their loss! But i still feel bitter about it, lol.
"Derek tastes like earwax"
ew no he tastes like granny smith apples.... could've worded that different.
9 and 8 are the siblings that fight alot.
Stranded Lullaby sounds purple and white, even though the mans voice is orange.
And if you tell me something random, I'll try my best to reply with a color, personality or taste!
What does Aaradhna ft. Savage- they don’t know taste like or what is it’s color? Thank you in advance lol
@@randomrandom8375 That song is so beautiful!! It has such an earthy brown tone, but I feel some red in it. It tastes like a vanilla ice cream with colorful sprinkles.
Thank you for recommending it!! :)
Wow synesthesia is magical😁 it must be so cool having but I guess it has its burdens , I wouldn’t know I don’t have it. Thank u for responding it’s fun to know that the song taste like vanilla ice cream w/ colorful sprinkles loll thxx 😗✌️
Hmm..... What color is the song Wildcard Nightcore? To me its neon green
@@sunnypii Very orange and purple with a hint of yellow
Nightcore songs always mess my head up lol
ive heard that synesthesia develops from an early age when you’re learning things and associating words/colors/sounds together. i have the basic color synesthesia, and this fact explains why i see certain things associated with me as pink. it was my favorite color growing up :)
Heyy so i have a question for you about synesthesia. I think i have it mildly - days of the week,letters,numbers can be colours if i ask myself, but i dont see them by just looking at them. But like for me thursday is definitley dark green and 2 is definitley blue etc.. I was wondering what your take on this is- do i have it or not? Sorry to bother you but you were one of the few comments i could find from recently in this video :)
I associated numbers with gender
Like 1,3,5,7 and 10 were the brothers youngest to oldest,respectively, and 9 and 8 were the gossipy sisters while 2 and 4 were the goody two shoes and 6 always hung out with bad people,woke up in a different bed every night ,had a Mohawk even though her mother 60 didn't approve
All my numbers had a backstory and I still remember it to this day
this is awsome
I really want to read more about those numberstorys of yours!
How do double digit numbers work with that? Like what is 24
same! but for me the female are 2,4,6,9
YESSS
Best explanation I have ever seen. Have the first type, graphics in colour
I do associate days, months, letters, feelings, animals etc with colors, but I think that just is because in Kindergarten we used colors to describe basically everything. So if it was Monday we would have a yellow sticker on the bord, if it was Tuesday a red one, Wednesday a pink one etc. And if you were sad for example you could pick up a blue card to show to your teacher. When learning the alfabet A was red, B was blue, C was green etc. Did no one else had this?
I memorized the time table with numbers as people with personalities.. like 6 and 7 are close relatives...
Just a normal girl I did that too
Just a normal girl sAME
7 and nine for me both sophisticated ladies,, but 7 is the daughter (red) and nine (darker red is CLEARLY the mom) 6 has a dumbfounded look on her face (orange) and shes heavier too... 4 is a young skinny boy (light sand tan),, tried to skip over the number 6 for YEARS cause of a personality clash...
Ya but 7 is mean n 6 is nice
Edit: the 7 is a boy n 6 is a girl
Omg me too 😭😭😭
I remember talking to my friends about the gender and personalities of numbers in elementary school, I assumed everybody just had that feeling
I thought I had given letters and numbers colors and personalities to try to alleviate the boredom I already felt in kindergarten and first grade.
Yeah me too!! TODAY I learnt the truth. By the way, so you know the love triangle of 7, 8 and 9?
Not really, because such things didn't enter my mind when I was 5 and 6 years old. But I'll take your word for it.
I don't have this really strong but I've always imagined the years in colours, 2017 is green 2018 is orange 2019 is red and so on but I've never tasted a word
that sounds so weird lol 😆
So very true. We all have it to some extent. But some people claim it as their "superpower" which is quite annoying.
I have synesthesia. Letters, words, and numbers have color, and numbers and letters have personality.
By the way, if you have to ask, tuesday is orange
It also feels bumpy
+Dava_doo no!!Tuesday is yellow!!!And surrounded by dark blue!!
+Anaya Morrison tuesday is fuzzy and a baby blue
Thursday is orange for me; Tuesday is yellow.
I think "synesthesia" is just our minds relating a color or taste or sound to something that we subconsciously took note of while we were children. Perhaps even when were babies. Our brains are powerful, we have memories stored and sometimes forget that they're hiding. Say you were 4 years old and heard the song, "stairway to heaven" playing while you were at a park full of green grass... And you now see greens and blues when you hear the song. Or say you had homework in second grade where it asked you to count how many pigs you see, and you counted 4... Which lead you to relate the color "pink" of the pig to the number 4. I don't want to dismiss this idea, because I find it fascinating and feel that I, (as an artist) experience the same thing. I do, however, think this may be caused by past correlation between colors, numbers, music, smells, and emotions.
I think you might be right I had stumbled acrossed a similar idea.
In kindergarden there was always this alphabet on the wall of my class room and the letters on it were colored in different colors. A couple of weeks ago I was taking my little sister home from school and I saw the alphabet in her class room and I relized that the color of the letters on the alphabet were very similar the the color I see every time I see those letters.
No, I don't think so. Like for sound-color, what about songs that were written recently? I don't know if you have syn or not, but it's like an extra attribute to life. For example, the same way you'd say the word "galaxy" is spelled G-A-L-A-X-Y, I'd say it's dark orangey-brown with flecks of red.
Lotta times for me the colors and shapes that appears in my head are so abstract and so hard to define completely, that it cannot be things i've seen before, and also new music which I hear for the first time instantly looks like something. Colored very complex shapes (not just squares and triangles), that often moves in a certain way that (of course for me) perfectly matches the music. Also all concepts of time have an unchanged shape and color as long as I can remember.
+MrWillHustla Yeah, my letters have always been the same, since the earliest I can remember ^_^
That's actually kind of true, but not in the way that you described. A lot of grapheme-color synesthetes experience the same colors correlated to letters as the colors of the letters on old toys or refrigerator magnets that they had when they were kids. I don't think that applies to other kinds of synesthesia, like sound-color and things like that.
To me, 7 and 2 are both different shades of green. I used to sometimes write the number 2 instead of 7, vice versa.
I see the title "what color is Tuesday?" And my mind literally yelled "ORANGE"
Its red for me and Monday is yellow
Tuesday is light blue. Saturday is orange. don't do this to me
For me its yellow but otherwise ikr!!!!
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monday - blue
tuesday - green
wednesday - orange-ish yellow
thursday - dark purple/brown
friday - orange
saturday - redish pink
sunday - blue
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I don't think I have synesthesia, but I've always seen letters and number with a specific color in my head.
One is black, Two is red, three is yellow, four is blue, five is green, six is pink, seven is a mix between brown and green, eight is pink, nine is black, ten is blank or tan.
A is red, B is yellow, C is orange, D is orange, E is gray, F is tan, G is dark green, H is brown, I is black, J is green, K is a slightly darker yellow, L is a slightly darker yellow, M is brownish black, N is tan, O is blank, P is purple, Q is purple, R is black, S is yellow, T is red, U is magenta, V is green, W is tarnish yellow, X is black, Y is pink and Z is green.
thewisestguy1 "One is black, Two is red, three is yellow, four is blue" I have that same exact part right there
***** for me
monday ~ a mix of black/white and gray
tuesday ~ red/burgundy
wednesday ~ yellow
thursday ~ purple/magenta
friday ~ black
saturday ~ white
sunday ~ yellow/orange
***** not really.
thewisestguy1 i dont think i have synesthesia too ,, though i taste waffles everytime i say Canada
***** OMg that's a thing?! I totally thought people just randomly associated them in their heads. I don't actually see them but I associate colors with letters and numbers and I also have my own way of picturing the calendar (which changes deoending on whether I'm picturing a week or a month or a year)(also colors that go with months, and days)
with piano, music notes have always had personalities and colours, when i was young i would get sad because re and do were always seperate and re wanted to be with do but mi always stole him.
I DID THIS WITH NUMBERS 4 liked 6 but 5 was always in the way
3 and 5 are always together and hard to distinguish because they are twins but opposite genders. Three is female and five is male
Ikr!!! I did this with music notes and numbers and objects and- actually I did it with most everything XD
When I see a photo or an image I always can smell it. So strange :)
synesthesia definitely improves my memory! I can remember numbers easily because I remember the colors that I associate with them
Heyy so i have a question for you about synesthesia. I think i have it mildly - days of the week,letters,numbers can be colours if i ask myself, but i dont see them by just looking at them. But like for me thursday is definitley dark green and 2 is definitley blue etc.. I was wondering what your take on this is- do i have it or not? Sorry to bother you but you were one of the few comments i could find from recently in this video :)
@@elisemcdouall886 i experience the same thing ! although this form of synesthesia is pretty common i think
I think I have this except it's with smell. Like when I smell something, I am instantly reminded of a memory. Or when I remember something, I can smell it, but no one else seems to smell it. And then the smell goes away as soon as I stop thinking about it.
I think that's pretty normal cause i have that too. It's just nostalgia. In this video he does explain at 3:04 that all of us have it to some extent.
That's how your memory works, moron.
v Bocaj ahhh okay thx
Ttruth Hurtz wow good to know thx
Ttruth Hurtz
living up to that username I see