I definitely have some form of synesthesia. I first learned about the concept while studying psychology in college. I can remember it from earliest childhood but probably outgrew it a little bit as I got older due to life getting busier. Specifically, being a musician, I was teaching myself how to recognize different keys before I learned the note names, because each specific key would remind me of a place, like B major reminded me of the grocery store or D would remind me of the kitchen in somebody’s house. Certain textures would feel like certain musical instruments, such as ice cream sounding like a music box, and strawberries and cake and ice cream sounding like all kinds of different Christmas bells. Depending on how smooth or rough the texture is, I can also hear different kinds of voices, such as paper sounding like an older woman or a Christmas card sounding like a young child. And if I picked up objects and shook them or waved them around playfully, I could hear the tempo and beat of a song in my head and I would try to write songs that way. I would also take objects and use things like the sound of the voices I heard to add character to them and give them personality such as how tall they were, and I would use these concepts as character development to make up stories and train myself in the arts.
I actually have it, the signs: - I'm left handed and a female - I'm born with it - Seems like i'm the first one in my family to have it - When i get sick i somehow get more hyper - I can see numbers in colors, taste words, and smelling colors.
I'm a left handed woman with synesthesia and ideasthesia, but in my case, it was a lot more prominent as a child. However, I love my synesthesia and the way it affects my life, so I actively teach myself synesthesia through meditation and association exercises. Since my synesthesia is mild and mostly associative, I don't have intrusive bad tastes or sensations, so it's actually a very nice experience for me. I can also remember a series of sounds or colors a lot easier because of it-- I'm some cases, I've been able to draw a series of shapes I associate with certain sounds and by "reading" the shapes, I can experience those sounds again. Synesthesia is incredible! I definitely recommend trying to learn it for those who want to stimulate their creativity. One obscure benefit I have: I'm a writer, and because I associate certain letters with certain personalities and colors, naming characters and other things becomes much easier. For example, the name "Belle" makes me think of calmness and blue or yellow, so if I have a calm character who loves the color blue or yellow, "Belle" pops up in my mind. When creating fantasy names, it's even more effortless, and I simply find a string of syllables that sounds like the character's personality feels.
Wow, I'm a left handed woman with synwthsesia aswell and I get the same thing when it comes to letters having personalities and colors. I have associative synethstesia.
One thing that surprised me was letters having the same color or personality in other languages, such as the Korean alphabet. It's quite simular to the English alphabet in my brain so it was easy to learn how to read and write Korean for me.
This condition has always fascinated me! I had no idea that most people are born with this. I think it would be so beautiful to experience something like this 💜
0:38 Most are born with it and it runs in families. 1:20 Left handed people and women are more likely to have it. 1:45 When Sick their “Abilities” can change. 2:12 There are over 80 different kinds of it. 2:58 You can teach yourself Synesthesia. 3:40 Ideasthesia vs Synesthesia.
@@teamanisongirlblogg C is definitely green for me, it just looks like it could be a green vine or something. To me it bends the same way and all. Vines to me also look like they could be a 3 so for me C is green and 3
I literally cry when music hits every sense just right. The paintings I see in varied colors is pure magic. It’s being overwhelmed in pure joy (even with a decidedly somber piece, music is just that important to me).
Same. Acoustic guitar, in particular, has a profound effect on me. I think it's an experience entirely separate from synesthesia, but certain combinations of sounds, vibrations, or colors can feel as if they've put everything around me in alignment. I usually feel music in my chest or stomach. It's a double-edged sword though--hearing a song I don't like can sometimes make me physically sick or as if my entire world is thrown out of wack.
yess this is the same for me. Electric guitar gives me a rush of euphoria when played right because of all the pretty colors, and some songs have the most beautiful color combinations :)
Thank you for delving more into this subject instead of just explaining what synesthesia is - As a synesthete, I usually find videos targeted to non-synesthetes that just talk about what I already know. This offers a lot of extra insight
I have it, it's really strange you explain it. I have the most common with music being colors and numbers. I also taste certain things that are colors, like pink and pink is gross! I thought that everyone had it when I was a kid, but found out no... I didn't even know the name of what it was. Lol. I went online and found a professor to ask about what was wrong with me. He told me I have synesthesia. 🤗 I like the colors I see with music but the others, like tasting them or that 13 is green... It's kinda moot. Great video!
I also have synaesthesia, and your experience seems super cool! I mostly just taste music, which doesn't seem as interesting in hindsight, but I love your descriptions of different colours and how they taste to you. Thank you for sharing!!
I have chromesthesia. Ever since I was a child, I thought everyone feels it. So didn't ever talk about it. It's such a blessing to have it. Recently I've been using my sensations to learn my biology. Like Learning is easier. Say for example I see a group of fungi named Ascomycetes and RED. So I took a Red sheet and wrote all the examples in red colour. Similarly basidiomycetes is green. This helped so much. I feel really blessed to have it. 🦋 I can tell Amanda's voice (the voice artist of psych2go) is definitely pale yellow foamy sheet. It's basically like Monday. Edit: Coming to the last part of the video !!!!!! Damn !! Right now I discovered that my feeling of seeing 2- as a female is also synesthetic ! Thanks Psych2Go. I never knew that !!
Thank you! You inspired me to try to use my not "diagnosed" synesthesia when studying. When I meet people or hear words I "feel" different colors. People are often red, blue or red.
I thought chromesthesia is the ability to see colours when you hear music but that's what I have. I took a test and it said I have mild synaesthesia and it's definitely beautiful to see the colours of music.
@@youtubecommentergal4346 Yeah I also have this sound/music one. Not specifically for each note of an instrument but the instrument itself. Say for example. The sound of drum with high bass is like deep brown spike. Or a soft piano would be like cream colored marshmallow dissolving into water, etc. (Edited cuz I comprehended wrong lol)
Hi! I'm a right-handed girl that has synesthesia. As you said in the video, it can be inherited. I got it probably from my mum (left-handed), that also had it when she was a child. Unfortunately, she didn't use it often, and now she doesn't have this ability. I can see letters and numbers in a specific colour. Maybe it's not a lot, but it's helpful! For example, when there's a test in school, I sometimes make some colourful dots or symbols on my hand and use them as a cheat sheet. Teachers don't notice them because they think it's just a drawing made in boredom. My synesthesia also is used when I'm trying to remember something. I only have to memorise the colour combination and think of it when I have to use the information. Oh, oh, also! Ideasthesia is something that all of us have! For example, it's associating colours with temperature. Red is hot, blue is cold. Or association sounds with objects. There was a test where you had to name the shapes. One was more round-shaped, and the other looked like a star. It's the Buba-Kiki test. Most people chose the name Buba for the rounded shape and Kiki for the star one - we think of the high or quick sounds as sharp and low or slow as round sounds. Because of ideasthesia, we also stop at the red lights and drive on the green. Isn't it cool? P.S. Sorry if my English is bad! I'm still learning.
this is so cool! as a kid i definitely had it. i would associate colors and sound and it helped me a lot! i remember whenever someone sneezed, i thought of lemons and even tasted it 😊
I learned about the concept a few years ago and it amazes me everytime. I am left-handed and female. But I know I don't have synesthesia. But I have always been able to associate taste and sound with shapes. People around me always find it weird or sometimes funny when I say that something tastes round or if something sounds square. It's hard to explain lol.
I would consider that synesthesia, but I'm the same way! It becomes especially noticeable when talking about voices. I'd hear a singer and go "oh, I don't like their voice" and when asked why, I would say "it's too round" or "it bounces too much". It took me a while to realize other people didn't associate sounds with shapes (consciously, anyway.. there are studies on shape language that show that most people can associate words with shapes and shapes with personalities) I personally find it fascinating, though I see associative synesthesia less as a mental condition and more as a creative thinking process. Anyone is capable of synesthesia
I have Aspergers, and ever since I can remember, I've been feeling the taste of words & seeing different numbers (prime/even/odd numbers) in different colors. Thank you for the interesting video!
I used to have this when I was a kid I grew out of it but looking back I thought it was all in my head because I was a child and you know how oblivious and one-dimensional kids are when it comes to their own experiences
Mine is audio-visual. I have perfect pitch and I hear and see shapes in sounds. I hear and picture the shape of someone's moods in their voices, especially the shape their mouth and throat makes when speaking. It's actually rather beautiful
I've been a sound/color synesthete all my life and still am, today. Up until my early 20's, I never knew there was a name for it. All I did know, was that ever since I was young, I always saw music in an endless array of shapes and patterns in many different colors, shades and hues, every time I listened to music, whether it was on the radio, a cassette, a phonograph record a Compact disc or even a live performance. Even looking at pictures and videos without any sound or music to accompany it would put sounds and music in my head.
*Having had synesthesia in the asymptomatic ways, it wouldn't feel too alien knowing I would be happier looking at the word 'cat' than, say, 'rat', or pausing to smell 'pink' perfume. Musical notes on an octave would vary just like colors on a palette (eg. C note would be a kind of lighter shade of blue whereas C major would embody a chocolate brown). Say my breakfast is fire engine red one morning, I'd probably consider it*
When I was a music major (I dropped out) we learned about "the colors of music" and how every piece of music has various colors associated with it. They used billy eilish to teach us the concept because alot of her older stuff had these deep purples and blacks and blues that if you concentrate you can vivedly see in your head. Then when you apply that concept to classical music you start to see all these different colors all over and it's really cool :)
I have sequence-space synesthesia, so anything related to time or lists have a location in my mind’s eye. For example, my number line is left to right from 0 to 9, then goes vertically to 20, then backtracks leftwards, and continues to wind around. I didn’t even realize I was the only person to see the number line like that until this past year when I learned about synesthesia
omg i have something similar with the number line thinggggg but with years as well and it’s like really hard to explain but i can see it really clearly
I don't have it but I've always find it quite interesting, there are also some visual alterations like seeing everything in gray scale or like TV static. I find funny the heavy influence colors have on me, I feel really happy seeing colored things, specially bright or even neon colors. I also have chills with certain songs, instead of ASMR videos.
I have synesthesia and I’m proud of it. I have the kind where I can see music as colors and I associate numbers with colors and personality and I’m so glad I found a video that explains it to others! Having synesthesia really is a gift, not a problem, because the abilities that come with it enhance creativity so I’m glad to have it, although sometimes the senses can be overwhelming. Thanks for making this video
Thanx for this...I'm also a female leftie. I've always seen odd numbers as male. in shades of blue and green. Even numbers are female with warm colors of orange and red. Vowels are female warm shades, consonants are male with shades of blue and green. Thought everyone saw this as well..just another good trick for memorizing the alphabet or multiplication tables as a kid and remembering numbers and letters as an adult...what a trip!!
I'm a right handed highly sensitive female and I have associative synesthesia since I was born. In my case, I associate colors with: -> music and the sound of a voice. Sometimes I instinctively associate a color with a whole song, only parts of it or even with someones voice. -> my own emotions, especially when they're really intense. Then I can feel emotions as colored things located somewhere in my body, for example a red whirling fog under my chest when I was feeling very angry, sad and guilty at the same time. -> numbers/letters (ideasthesia). Even whole words and names can have a significant color to me. When it comes to this point, I also associate genders and character traits with the numbers and as a result some numbers eben had relationships to each other. This was a thing I was experiencing in childhood in a more intense way and when I talked about it to my parents they were completely confused because was saying stuff like: "The 2 is a yellow woman and very self assured. The 4 is a pink woman and a very arrogant diva. She doesn't like the pregnant yellow 6" xDD Yeah, I see why my parents were extremely confused, but back then I thought everyone is experiencing it like me. Actually I seem to be the first one in my family to have it. I also can relate to the fact with getting sick because when I have a very high fever I'm experiencing all of this stuff even more intense. Anyways, that was a long text, damn... xDDD I really liked this video - there were actually facts I didn't know yet, even though I'm reading much stuff about this condition. For example I didn't know that its called ideasthesia when it refers to abstract concepts like letters or numbers. I know that it's more likely to affect women, but I didn't know that the lef handed ones also have a higher chance to have it. Thanks for this video :3
I began playing piano when I was 7 and ended up being a piano teacher for 16 years and studying classical music at university, and for my entire musical life, I always associated notes and keys with different colours, and they are always been the same colours. I even used the different colours for the keys and notes when I taught piano, which the students found interesting. It kind of bothered me at first, but it kept happening, so I just accepted it. I always thought that it was a bit strange, and I never knew what it was. For instance, I never understood why A is red, Bb brown, D is orange, G is royal blue, E is green, Eb is dark green, F is purple, F# is dark purple, and so on. 🤷♀️ This was a very interesting video.
Yes, I'm so glad I've found out what this is. I always associate names with colours, for example Georgia = green or Abbie = red! And now I've realised I definitely can associate tastes with places or day to day actions can also trigger colours/sounds/tastes to come to mind. It's never massively aided me when it comes to remembering things I actually want to remember!
I learned about synesthesia from reading A Mango Shaped Space in elementary school. It’s about a girl who has synesthesia. It was really helpful to understanding it and I would recommend it if you want to understand it further. It is for older kids but it might be worth your time.
Synesthesia helped me pass my Algebra class in 7th grade! Numbers always reminded me of colors and somehow those colors paired together reminded me of relationships. Some relationships were romantic, some were difficult, some were happy, etc. For instance, in my mind 6 is purple, 4 is pink, and pink and purple reminded me of flowers. Somehow 6 was masculine in my mind and 4 was feminine, so it reminded me of a proposal with a bouquet! 24 also had pink in it, but 2 is brown, therefore pink and brown equaled a warm color/warm feeling. Joy and love after the proposal!
I also have synesthesia. I'm a lefty. Every letter and number has its own color. And when I see them together, the colors also mix up. There are more and less dominant colors in mixing and they make a whole system. It's hard to explain. First I also thought that everyone has it. Another issue, that wasn't mentioned its affect on languages and language learning. For instance, the days of the week and school subjects have their own colors regardless to the letters they're made of however it works only in my native language. In English, these words also behave like every other: the letters' colors mix up. And I started to learn Russian, I'm curious what colors the cyrillic letters get. For now it seems like the soundings of them determine the color.
I'm autistic, and looking back throughout my life I've always had grapheme-color associations but when I got to 8th grade I started training it stronger and by 10th grade I got a really strong setup with numbers, to the point where full-on visual percepts be starting I also did a ton of sketchy experimentation on myself---including with both legal and -less-than- substances--caffeine was a big part of that because I also have ADHD and it does crazy sh*t to me The idea of Feedback Loops is really important for all of this, stuff has to work both ways to become passive/subconscious, and you really gotta get ingenuitive with it. ... complex trauma might have played a slight part in some of this
i have Chromesthesia & Grapheme Synesthesia with the days of the week & months. I've experienced it all my life. Having it makes me feel like my brain is beautiful i love that my brain does it so much^^!!
Please please please do more videos about this! This is so interesting, and I'm pretty sure I have synesthesia as well! It really helps me to learn more about it! ❤️
When I was a kid I always knew I was different. Now that I’m a bit older I’ve come to understand why. This was a big one as a kid. I was laughed at for calling a certain song pink, orange etc. I even told my mum and she was confused about what I was talking about. Now there’s videos on this, it is helpful.
i've heard colors since i was young enough to remember hearing music. super helpful as a musician, i can tell when something is out of tune because of the color. it's why my music taste is so weird, i like hearing the most interesting color combinations.
Fascinating. I know that in almost all people the senses of smell and taste are connected, so it makes sense that the brain could develop in ways that would connect other senses too. The idea that most if not all people are born with synesthesia is very interesting, and I can attest that as a small child I would be reminded of certain senses with certain stimuli, such as being reminded of tastes when hearing certain words.
I first discovered I'd Synesthesia playing music as a teenager. Thankfully I heard it was an actual thing and I wasn't going crazy. Over the years I've noticed a correlation between the audio spectrum and the visual light spectrum. Red.... Bass Orange... Low mid. Yellow.... Mid Green... Upper mid Blue... Treble. Since music is never pure tones but combinations of multiple frequencies this is only a rough outline to how I hear/see sound. I'm a left-handed male.
I have perfect pitch and can use synesthesia to associate musical notes to colors based on a color coded keyboard I used to play when I was young C=white C#/Db=black D=light blue D#/Eb=red E=orange F=light green F#/Gb=purple G=yellow G#/Ab=dark blue A=light brown A#/Bb=dark green B=pink And my perception of tempo slightly varies when sick, so there’s that
I have both ideasthesia and synesthesia. I can legit taste colors and hear images. Which I thought was normal. And I associate colors with numbers and letters. I thought it was normal. And then I found this. Thank you!
I think I might have a form Synesthesia. Often times when I listen to music and I want to describe a certain song, I say things like "This song sounds a bit like pink" or "This is giving me blue vibes." My friends and family look at me like I'm the craziest person in the world. This video describes Synesthesia so well. If it happens that I do have Synesthesia, I don't think I would want to get a "cure" or anything like that. I'm afraid that I have grown too attached to this unique condition. 😅 Carry on making such amazing videos @Psych2go~ 💖💖
for folks who see letters as colors: do you find yourself getting tripped up when you read the names of colors? I know what color the word "green" is referring to but "g" is brown to me and "e" is yellow so it's a bit of a mess when I try to read it sometimes.
I had a synesthesia that alloted every detail, or collection of details, whether sight or sound, a unique emotion. I felt what something looked or sounded like.
I have grapheme color synesthesia, the letter-number-color one, and I have ordinal linguistic personification, the letter-number-personality one. Every letter and number except D and G have very distinct colors in my mind. For me, most personalities depend on how you write them, but there are a few that are always the same like a capital E will always be judgmental, a capital Y will always seem like a kind teacher, a lowercase l (L) will always look shy, and a lowercase f will always look like an angsty teenager. I love having these abilities, they seem like superpowers to me.
Not sure if this is the same thing but I have this thing where all the numbers and letters have personalities?? It helped me learn math a lot easier as a kid so I use it all the time for everything now- for example 1= confident nerd that has a crush on 2 2= over the top cheerleader who messes with 1 and 3 3= shy and lazy bookworm/ besties with 4 4= cocky but small and sticks up for 3 5= thinks they're the best but is sweet to 4 6= flamboyant and outgoing but doesn't do well with conflict/ besties with 7 7= kinda edgy and rebellious/ is jealous of 8 8= preppy/ mean girl who likes 9 9= is better than everyone and knows it/ bully kid 10= the peacekeeper or parent of the group- loves everyone
I have a similar thing but as seeing positive numbers as being good and negative numbers as being bad. Also I feel like 9 has a good relationship with 3 and I use 0 instead of 10 since its just 1 and 0
This is beyond eerie for me, I did the same thing with numbers when I was a kid... Except 3 was the flashy one and 4 was the shy, yoga loving kinda hippy of sorts. But OMG 5 was always cocky and was number 1's antagonist sometimes, and it's spot on that 1 had a crush on 2, and 9 WAS 100% THE BULLY OMG. Are we...the same person? 😅😅😅 Do you also have colors for the numbers? For me: 1 is blue 2 is pink 3 is yellow 4 is green 5 is blue 6 is pink 7 is green 8 is blue 9 is pink 0 is yellow
@@aliciamoon9816 Oh wow😳 Yeah that is quite odd that had some of the same stuff lol and I do use a lot of different things for colors with letters and numbers. Mine don't match yours but it's pretty cool that we both do!
I found out recently I have spatial sequence synesthesia. So not only does every day of the week and month of the calendar year have a colour, they're also placed in a designated space. It was always like this for me, but I never had a second thought about it until I learned it had a name and that others have their own spatial sequences. Truly fascinating.
I definitely have ideastheisa! Me and my friend are constantly arguing about weather 3 is green (me) or orange (them) Our other friends and family are completely baffled by this. I see/associate people with colors, their personality or voice or even appearance sometimes gives me some idea of their color in only a few minutes. For example, the person narrating this video’s voice was either a saturated yellow or dull orange. Definitely a warm, pastelly soft color. People can also be numbers or letters, or all 3! Some numbers and letters also have colors, some have basic personalitys and genders as well. Take care, ya’ll!
I see pain in color, shapes and tones. For example, I can remember the pain of a headache and can tell if it’s regular headache or not. Usually, headache displays as a bright yellow triangle and the tone E. Sometimes even different levels of light or even wind strength, but it’s rather uncommon. It’s weird, but useful to some degree. When sick, I often just feel numb, though I do sometimes see the pain. I’m right-handed and it doesn’t seem to run in the family. Even though I was diagnosed with depression, it still works properly. Synesthesia is quite interesting, yet so complicated. It’s a neat topic to discuss about.
For me, every music note has a color, and if a song is played I can see the color in my mind. Songs played Major don't change the colors below, but songs played in Minor make some colors swap or change. It's weird, but pretty cool. C = Yellow C Sharp = Black D = Red D Sharp = Brown E = Light Gray F = Orange F Sharp = Purple G = White G Sharp = Black (again) A = Light Green/Beige A Sharp = Orange/Brown (again) B = Dark Gray/ Dark Purple
Lifelong synesthete here (I've never heard of "ideasthesia" before), of the "grapheme-color" variety: I see and imagine letters and numbers on various "colors" that helps to tell them apart . . . or confuse them. In reality, it helps far more often than it hurts, such as when a spelling error shows up as a different color (even when flashed on-screen at high speed). I'm not left-handed, but I *am* cross-eye dominant (right hand, left eye), so there is that to consider.
When I listen to music, i see colours in movement in my mind very beautiful. Objects linked to experiences create life lessons and i thoroughly enjoy it. At times, an object part of an experience often brings all 5 senses and life to create a poem or lyrics to a song. Each sense lead to something creatively different and it is wonderful when we embrace that childlike mind. Creating becomes the fruit of curiosity and wander linked to our own inner God given childhood innocence people tend to neglect as they grow old! That is what I experience not knowing it could or not be this and certainly, not seeing it as a health issue!! Have an awesomely and joyfully blooming day!
I don't have synesthesia, but I've been interested in the idea for a long while. I do follow someone on TH-cam who experiences it, and is a musician. He experiences sounds also as colors and textures. I do use similar terms to describe some things, though, often describing non-visual things with shapes, like sounds and tastes.
Omg this is how I had to learn in secondary school as I found it difficult to remember things, but it’s not every single thought that is remembered this way though.
I always have some sort of color connected to a word, and somewhat music notes. When I picture the name "Psych2Go" it's a cheerful shade of red! Each name of the month has one for me too, same with years. 2021 was sky blue, 2022 red, and 2023 yellow. (months in case someone is curious): January: bright red February: lavender March: green April: blossom pink May: deep green June: yellow July: deep red August: dark blue September: orange October: sky blue November: brown December: light blue
The concept of learning things like this reminds me in a way how I trained my subconscious from a young age to lucid dream in a way to counteract my repeating childhood nightmares really fascinating when you consider the inner mind an art as well as a tool. Still find it a strange concept to think some people have no inner sight and hence no ability to 'imagine' something not often explored is what imagination is.
I have Chromesthesia (seeing color/sounds) and it’s really cool! Sometimes a little distracting, but I like experiencing life differently from others :) I’m also left handed and I play piano lol
I'm left-handed and female so may have an explanation for my rudimentary synesthesia. I always see light flashes when I hear loud noises (very annoying) and tend to believe thay grey/silver tastes horrible. I'd say I have ideasthesia since primary school. Always coloured my subjects and still do it to visualise and remember new concepts and ideas. I'll need to read up more about it. Great video that made me curious!
Me and my brother might have ideasthesia/synesthesia.We used to have talks with each other about how certain numbers looked like certain colors, and he is left handed and I'm a woman too! It's so weird, I just recently realized I remember things way better and quicker when I associated it with a color, specifically music. What usually takes hours or days to remember a forgotten song, takes me like a few minutes when I Associate it with colors!
I have color coded my school subjects in this sense so I just have to yk remember what the subeject reminds me of. For me, this thing happens with lot of things other than color too!
I can't believe they actually made this video! When I first found out what synesthesia was, I was so excited! I associate numbers and vocals with colours, but I remember also associating sound volume with tact when I was younger, and man, was it uncomfortable, I remember having nightmares in which all that happened was I alternately "touched" high sounds and low sounds (imagine trying to explain that to your parents when you waked up scared at night). Even though looking back at it now seems cool, I'm glad I outgrew that particular one; associating symbols with colours is far more comfortable. Also, I think I'm kind of lucky to be synesthete, cause I'm a guy and right handed. Just because I never get to tell this, here's my synesthesia: 1: yellow or white (varies from time to time) 2: marble pink or white 3: green 4: red 5: blue 6: orange 7: light brown, almost golden 8: dark (it's not black, it's more like the colour of the night sky in cities, kind of purplish black, you know?) 9: lilac or light, smooth purple 0: black Now vocals are far more strange: a: kind of like 2, sometimes white, sometimes pink, and sometimes even red e: tones of bronze i: definitely light yellow o: same as zero or eight (up there) u: sometimes blue, sometimes green
i see noise which has different colours I can see. it's especially annoying when someone on my class scrapes their chair and it hurts my eyes 🙄 I thought everyone could do it?? Until I talked about it with my friends, they said they could not do it. So I looked around on the internet and find this video, it's very helpful!! Thank you psych2go
im a musician and music producer and i've had associative synesthesia for as long as i remember. it has gotten more pronounced as i've gotten more actively involved with sound. i visualize shapes, textures and brightness with different sounds, not so much color. my perception is influenced by what i've learned about visual reprisentations of sound, like frequency spectrum analysers and how different audio waveforms associate with different sounds.
Imagine that. Totally have it. Didn’t know it was a thing they study. Just thought its was tied into a higher form of empathy. And being able to see/smell auras and energies.
When you work on anything about music or music production (mostly the later) you tend to associate sounds with certain feelings, and those feelings sometimes are associated with colors. Music is a wider experience than many people think.
Ooh yes!! I think mine's associative when it comes to music by sensory when it comes to words I guess? And numbers and letter definitely have genders and colours, too.
Wow just wow! In late 2020, I had a very bad of COVID. It due to severe hypothermia, I got brain damage. For a time I could not taste, hear, or smell anything. I ended up being completely losing hearing in my right ear. However, ever since my senses starting coming back, I "acquired" certain unique " abilities"I can " touch" or "taste" music. I can "feel" or "smell" certain changes in the weather & can either "see" or "smell" a person's. auroras or a person' s conversations, even when they are speaking another Language & in a text. I also tell when people who are up to no good by either see their black or blood red auras or I get a sudden nosebleed J just though it was another symptom of "Long Haul COVID" (which is dealing with the disabilities COVID left behind. ) or my Empathic abilities kicking in. COVID left me in a crippled state, but it also gave me certain "gifts." These include making my Empathic abilities stronger (such as precognitive abilities & be that 1 person that everyone talks to about anything (even NSFW subjects or something I never experienced) I can predict certain aspects in life by a mere riddle...(Since I had Covid, I have done this 3 times usually 3- 4 weeks before the event happens with pinpoint accuracy, & I'm 3/ 3 on this) I was told that I have acquired tetrachromia & my Empathic abilities have been woken up. It would surely makes since if I "aquired" this ability as well. Thank you, PsycyoGo, for this enlightening information.
I've always had this! I never knew the names of songs when I was really little, but I associated them with shapes and colours, according to the melody. My fave song had pink triangles and purple dots bouncing on black zigzags
Omg thank you so much for this video! I always wondered why some of my favourite songs sounded yellow. All my friends and family thought it was kind of weird. Maybe I could go and check to make sure that I do have this, so people can understand why I keep saying that the songs sound red or purple!
i have ideasthesia?? i always kinda knew things about numbers... 1 - warm red; he is kind and selfless 2 - light blue, almost white; she is mean and annoying 3 - dirty green, earthy color; they are frivolous and relaxed 4 - saturated blue; he is calm and always very serious 5 - bright yellow... with an admixture of ocher; she is the ringleader and soul of the company 6 - blue, but closer to purple?? I know few names of color shades in English. he is a loner, detached from everything 7 - bright scarlet; she is an arrogant selfish person who doesn't care about anyone else but herself 8 - lilac; he is good-natured, but does not often interact with others 9 - olive green; they consider themselves superior to others and are often annoyed that things don't go the way they want them to. 0 - white/transparent; no one takes them seriously, and they prefer to merge with the environment and not interfere in business, while closely watching everyone my piano teacher tried to use it to help me learn bass clef but it didnt work XD a few months ago someone on twitter freacked out when i wrote something about number 9.. and thats how i found out that people dont know number colors
I actually have this! I see letters names and numbers in colour in my head but out loud I hear the colour of ppls voices, and touch and emotion trigger colours too
Hi, I’m commenting here because I think might have some form of synesthesia, but I want to get some opinions. I am left-handed and female and since as long as I can remember I’ve associated words and things with temperatures. For example, the word travelling would remind me of the cold wind that comes around at the end of autumn/beginning of winter. Or pumpkins, which reminded me of a place at room temperature but without any airflow so it felt stuffy. More recently I’ve noticed that some words and letters have colors to them although they mainly branch off from the temperature thing, taking travelling as an example again, it’s like the color of clouds tinted with blue, cool colors for a cool word. Then there’s also musical notes, ever since I began to read music I noticed that each note had a personality or kind of a story I suppose, it’s difficulty explain. But it’s like the note B is kind of timid, and it’s older sibling is the note C, who often bullies B for being younger or lower on the scale, and then there is D, who is like their other sibling who is a mediator between the two. It’s a lot more complet and hard to explain but I hope you get the idea. So what do you guys think? I’ve been questioning this for about a year now and I’d love to understand more!
yes I have it! I always connect numbers with colors and when I smell something sometimes I say it smells soft or rough as I'm touching it while I'm not! Also I see people as colors depending on their energy level
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! People think I'm nuts when I tell them I see rainbows in music, especially live music. Certain frequencies produce a color that I can see traveling across the air, like soundwaves in airwaves. The Radiohead album 'In Rainbows' or Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of The Moon' are quite beautiful to hear/watch. I believe it's the frequencies that are attuned to each specific Chakra, that I am able to see the colors from my own aura vibrate through the music. In the case of being at an outdoor live music event, I'm seeing the soundwaves go through everyone else's auric field and carry the colors of their auras across the air. I'll never forget the first time it happened, 20 years ago at a live outdoor Radiohead show in Wisconsin. I suffered with deep depression and anxiety, the prescribed medications blocked off that gifts and shut out my Clairs. Upon complete and total detoxification of chemical substances, medications, meats, and GMOS, balancing my chakras, and daily meditations, the Clairs are all crystal clear and blending together. I believe a factor I this also is the frequency in which the individual and others around them are vibrating. For instance, someone whom is vegan, does no drugs, smokes, nor drinks, alcohol, is going to vibrate at a significantly higher rate that someone whom is weighed down with toxic habits and foods. I eat high vibrational organic, non GMO foods every day. It's quite incredible to view life from a higher perspective in technicolor, like the energy of creativity, in which is referred to as Joseph. For me, it also helps to eat a rainbow variety of foods to vibrate the inner colors to the outside world. As above, so below. As within so without.
I have Texture Smell projective synesthesia! Any texture I feel is a smell to me, and this is something that changes often. Sometimes a rough texture will be lavender laundry detergent, but other times it will be something completely different. It is also something that messes with my regular sense of smell. The only time I can truly smell what is in the air is if I am completely naked on and not touching anything (which is neither common nor easy since my feet still have a sense of texture).
I can "feel" different colours when I meet people. Different people are different coulors. I don't know if I have a kind of synesthesia, but I don't think so. I can also "feel" different colours when I hear certain words
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John 3:16
Me! I see music XD
i have synesthesia! i personally associate colors with things, primarily words & people
Me :D
I can hear pictures
Does that count?
I definitely have some form of synesthesia. I first learned about the concept while studying psychology in college. I can remember it from earliest childhood but probably outgrew it a little bit as I got older due to life getting busier. Specifically, being a musician, I was teaching myself how to recognize different keys before I learned the note names, because each specific key would remind me of a place, like B major reminded me of the grocery store or D would remind me of the kitchen in somebody’s house. Certain textures would feel like certain musical instruments, such as ice cream sounding like a music box, and strawberries and cake and ice cream sounding like all kinds of different Christmas bells. Depending on how smooth or rough the texture is, I can also hear different kinds of voices, such as paper sounding like an older woman or a Christmas card sounding like a young child. And if I picked up objects and shook them or waved them around playfully, I could hear the tempo and beat of a song in my head and I would try to write songs that way. I would also take objects and use things like the sound of the voices I heard to add character to them and give them personality such as how tall they were, and I would use these concepts as character development to make up stories and train myself in the arts.
Sounds like you have used your ability for you! :)
That’s actually really cool and interesting
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I am not reading that essay
Nice and what a long comment😁
I actually have it, the signs:
- I'm left handed and a female
- I'm born with it
- Seems like i'm the first one in my family
to have it
- When i get sick i somehow get more
hyper
- I can see numbers in colors, taste
words, and smelling colors.
That's amazing! You picked up on a lot of the things mentioned!
I have the same but more, my phyvologist said it's my autism though, what do you think?
“smelling colors” now that’s what I call a whole new way of smelling Froot Loops lol.
@@mjbgames4963 Lmao- but it gets weird sometimes
I swear I’m 100% the exact same
I'm a left handed woman with synesthesia and ideasthesia, but in my case, it was a lot more prominent as a child. However, I love my synesthesia and the way it affects my life, so I actively teach myself synesthesia through meditation and association exercises. Since my synesthesia is mild and mostly associative, I don't have intrusive bad tastes or sensations, so it's actually a very nice experience for me. I can also remember a series of sounds or colors a lot easier because of it-- I'm some cases, I've been able to draw a series of shapes I associate with certain sounds and by "reading" the shapes, I can experience those sounds again. Synesthesia is incredible! I definitely recommend trying to learn it for those who want to stimulate their creativity.
One obscure benefit I have:
I'm a writer, and because I associate certain letters with certain personalities and colors, naming characters and other things becomes much easier. For example, the name "Belle" makes me think of calmness and blue or yellow, so if I have a calm character who loves the color blue or yellow, "Belle" pops up in my mind. When creating fantasy names, it's even more effortless, and I simply find a string of syllables that sounds like the character's personality feels.
Hello! May you please tell me the secret to writing long texts?
Wow, I'm a left handed woman with synwthsesia aswell and I get the same thing when it comes to letters having personalities and colors. I have associative synethstesia.
One thing that surprised me was letters having the same color or personality in other languages, such as the Korean alphabet. It's quite simular to the English alphabet in my brain so it was easy to learn how to read and write Korean for me.
Nice essay
@@godg6969 ;) I also happen to be autistic, and rambling about irrelevant details is my social poison of choice... Or, not choice.
This condition has always fascinated me! I had no idea that most people are born with this. I think it would be so beautiful to experience something like this 💜
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0:38 Most are born with it and it runs in families.
1:20 Left handed people and women are more likely to have it.
1:45 When Sick their “Abilities” can change.
2:12 There are over 80 different kinds of it.
2:58 You can teach yourself Synesthesia.
3:40 Ideasthesia vs Synesthesia.
I have ideasthesia. Letters are connected to numbers and colors. For example
A=2 red B=6 blue. C=5 yellow D=3 purple F=8 green E =7 yellow
A is red and F is green too
@@Akira_Moon-l4x Same!
for me I see A as red, B as yellow, C as white, D as green, F as a dark blue and E as light green
@@teamanisongirlblogg C is definitely green for me, it just looks like it could be a green vine or something. To me it bends the same way and all. Vines to me also look like they could be a 3 so for me C is green and 3
I can see how you think this, idk if I have it but sometimes I can imagine things well
I literally cry when music hits every sense just right. The paintings I see in varied colors is pure magic. It’s being overwhelmed in pure joy (even with a decidedly somber piece, music is just that important to me).
Same. Acoustic guitar, in particular, has a profound effect on me. I think it's an experience entirely separate from synesthesia, but certain combinations of sounds, vibrations, or colors can feel as if they've put everything around me in alignment. I usually feel music in my chest or stomach. It's a double-edged sword though--hearing a song I don't like can sometimes make me physically sick or as if my entire world is thrown out of wack.
yess this is the same for me. Electric guitar gives me a rush of euphoria when played right because of all the pretty colors, and some songs have the most beautiful color combinations :)
@iferawhite7661 this is the same for me, it's incredibly validating to hear someone else having such a deep connection to music like me
Thank you for delving more into this subject instead of just explaining what synesthesia is - As a synesthete, I usually find videos targeted to non-synesthetes that just talk about what I already know. This offers a lot of extra insight
Aww. Glad that you find it more insightful!
I have it, it's really strange you explain it. I have the most common with music being colors and numbers. I also taste certain things that are colors, like pink and pink is gross! I thought that everyone had it when I was a kid, but found out no... I didn't even know the name of what it was. Lol. I went online and found a professor to ask about what was wrong with me. He told me I have synesthesia. 🤗 I like the colors I see with music but the others, like tasting them or that 13 is green... It's kinda moot. Great video!
I also have synaesthesia, and your experience seems super cool! I mostly just taste music, which doesn't seem as interesting in hindsight, but I love your descriptions of different colours and how they taste to you. Thank you for sharing!!
In my experience, I see bouncing little orbs of colors when I listen to music. C is blue, for example.
When I saw this there was 13 likes. Changed it for you! Lol.
I just now realized at this moment not everyone had it lol
Thanks for sharing your experiences Krazi. Have synthesia improved or worsen your life your opinion?
I have chromesthesia. Ever since I was a child, I thought everyone feels it. So didn't ever talk about it. It's such a blessing to have it. Recently I've been using my sensations to learn my biology. Like Learning is easier. Say for example I see a group of fungi named Ascomycetes and RED. So I took a Red sheet and wrote all the examples in red colour. Similarly basidiomycetes is green. This helped so much. I feel really blessed to have it. 🦋
I can tell Amanda's voice (the voice artist of psych2go) is definitely pale yellow foamy sheet. It's basically like Monday.
Edit: Coming to the last part of the video !!!!!! Damn !! Right now I discovered that my feeling of seeing 2- as a female is also synesthetic ! Thanks Psych2Go. I never knew that !!
My phyvologist is named Amanda and she's so nice!!!
Oh nice! Mine associates colours with numbers, so it makes it easier to remember dates in History and constants in Physics!
Thank you! You inspired me to try to use my not "diagnosed" synesthesia when studying. When I meet people or hear words I "feel" different colors. People are often red, blue or red.
I thought chromesthesia is the ability to see colours when you hear music but that's what I have. I took a test and it said I have mild synaesthesia and it's definitely beautiful to see the colours of music.
@@youtubecommentergal4346 Yeah I also have this sound/music one. Not specifically for each note of an instrument but the instrument itself. Say for example. The sound of drum with high bass is like deep brown spike. Or a soft piano would be like cream colored marshmallow dissolving into water, etc.
(Edited cuz I comprehended wrong lol)
Hi! I'm a right-handed girl that has synesthesia. As you said in the video, it can be inherited. I got it probably from my mum (left-handed), that also had it when she was a child. Unfortunately, she didn't use it often, and now she doesn't have this ability.
I can see letters and numbers in a specific colour. Maybe it's not a lot, but it's helpful! For example, when there's a test in school, I sometimes make some colourful dots or symbols on my hand and use them as a cheat sheet. Teachers don't notice them because they think it's just a drawing made in boredom. My synesthesia also is used when I'm trying to remember something. I only have to memorise the colour combination and think of it when I have to use the information.
Oh, oh, also! Ideasthesia is something that all of us have! For example, it's associating colours with temperature. Red is hot, blue is cold. Or association sounds with objects. There was a test where you had to name the shapes. One was more round-shaped, and the other looked like a star. It's the Buba-Kiki test. Most people chose the name Buba for the rounded shape and Kiki for the star one - we think of the high or quick sounds as sharp and low or slow as round sounds. Because of ideasthesia, we also stop at the red lights and drive on the green. Isn't it cool?
P.S. Sorry if my English is bad! I'm still learning.
this is so cool! as a kid i definitely had it. i would associate colors and sound and it helped me a lot! i remember whenever someone sneezed, i thought of lemons and even tasted it 😊
I think you with synesthesia are so intelligent and so are you! ❤️
I learned about the concept a few years ago and it amazes me everytime. I am left-handed and female. But I know I don't have synesthesia.
But I have always been able to associate taste and sound with shapes. People around me always find it weird or sometimes funny when I say that something tastes round or if something sounds square. It's hard to explain lol.
I would consider that synesthesia, but I'm the same way! It becomes especially noticeable when talking about voices. I'd hear a singer and go "oh, I don't like their voice" and when asked why, I would say "it's too round" or "it bounces too much". It took me a while to realize other people didn't associate sounds with shapes (consciously, anyway.. there are studies on shape language that show that most people can associate words with shapes and shapes with personalities)
I personally find it fascinating, though I see associative synesthesia less as a mental condition and more as a creative thinking process. Anyone is capable of synesthesia
I have Aspergers, and ever since I can remember, I've been feeling the taste of words & seeing different numbers (prime/even/odd numbers) in different colors. Thank you for the interesting video!
I do too! I'm not sure, but I wonder if being on the spectrum increases the likelihood that your brain forms these associations
I used to have this when I was a kid I grew out of it but looking back I thought it was all in my head because I was a child and you know how oblivious and one-dimensional kids are when it comes to their own experiences
Mine is audio-visual. I have perfect pitch and I hear and see shapes in sounds. I hear and picture the shape of someone's moods in their voices, especially the shape their mouth and throat makes when speaking. It's actually rather beautiful
I've been a sound/color synesthete all my life and still am, today.
Up until my early 20's, I never knew there was a name for it.
All I did know, was that ever since I was young, I always saw music in an endless array of shapes and patterns in many different colors, shades and hues, every time I listened to music, whether it was on the radio, a cassette, a phonograph record a Compact disc or even a live performance.
Even looking at pictures and videos without any sound or music to accompany it would put sounds and music in my head.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you are a beautiful person❤
thank you kind soul :)
*Having had synesthesia in the asymptomatic ways, it wouldn't feel too alien knowing I would be happier looking at the word 'cat' than, say, 'rat', or pausing to smell 'pink' perfume. Musical notes on an octave would vary just like colors on a palette (eg. C note would be a kind of lighter shade of blue whereas C major would embody a chocolate brown). Say my breakfast is fire engine red one morning, I'd probably consider it*
When I was a music major (I dropped out) we learned about "the colors of music" and how every piece of music has various colors associated with it. They used billy eilish to teach us the concept because alot of her older stuff had these deep purples and blacks and blues that if you concentrate you can vivedly see in your head. Then when you apply that concept to classical music you start to see all these different colors all over and it's really cool :)
Electronic music like house and trance are always so colorful to me
I have sequence-space synesthesia, so anything related to time or lists have a location in my mind’s eye. For example, my number line is left to right from 0 to 9, then goes vertically to 20, then backtracks leftwards, and continues to wind around. I didn’t even realize I was the only person to see the number line like that until this past year when I learned about synesthesia
omg i have something similar with the number line thinggggg but with years as well and it’s like really hard to explain but i can see it really clearly
I don't have it but I've always find it quite interesting, there are also some visual alterations like seeing everything in gray scale or like TV static. I find funny the heavy influence colors have on me, I feel really happy seeing colored things, specially bright or even neon colors. I also have chills with certain songs, instead of ASMR videos.
I have synesthesia and I’m proud of it. I have the kind where I can see music as colors and I associate numbers with colors and personality and I’m so glad I found a video that explains it to others! Having synesthesia really is a gift, not a problem, because the abilities that come with it enhance creativity so I’m glad to have it, although sometimes the senses can be overwhelming. Thanks for making this video
Thanx for this...I'm also a female leftie. I've always seen odd numbers as male. in shades of blue and green. Even numbers are female with warm colors of orange and red. Vowels are female warm shades, consonants are male with shades of blue and green. Thought everyone saw this as well..just another good trick for memorizing the alphabet or multiplication tables as a kid and remembering numbers and letters as an adult...what a trip!!
I'm a right handed highly sensitive female and I have associative synesthesia since I was born. In my case, I associate colors with:
-> music and the sound of a voice. Sometimes I instinctively associate a color with a whole song, only parts of it or even with someones voice.
-> my own emotions, especially when they're really intense. Then I can feel emotions as colored things located somewhere in my body, for example a red whirling fog under my chest when I was feeling very angry, sad and guilty at the same time.
-> numbers/letters (ideasthesia). Even whole words and names can have a significant color to me. When it comes to this point, I also associate genders and character traits with the numbers and as a result some numbers eben had relationships to each other. This was a thing I was experiencing in childhood in a more intense way and when I talked about it to my parents they were completely confused because was saying stuff like: "The 2 is a yellow woman and very self assured. The 4 is a pink woman and a very arrogant diva. She doesn't like the pregnant yellow 6" xDD Yeah, I see why my parents were extremely confused, but back then I thought everyone is experiencing it like me. Actually I seem to be the first one in my family to have it.
I also can relate to the fact with getting sick because when I have a very high fever I'm experiencing all of this stuff even more intense.
Anyways, that was a long text, damn... xDDD I really liked this video - there were actually facts I didn't know yet, even though I'm reading much stuff about this condition. For example I didn't know that its called ideasthesia when it refers to abstract concepts like letters or numbers. I know that it's more likely to affect women, but I didn't know that the lef handed ones also have a higher chance to have it.
Thanks for this video :3
I began playing piano when I was 7 and ended up being a piano teacher for 16 years and studying classical music at university, and for my entire musical life, I always associated notes and keys with different colours, and they are always been the same colours. I even used the different colours for the keys and notes when I taught piano, which the students found interesting. It kind of bothered me at first, but it kept happening, so I just accepted it. I always thought that it was a bit strange, and I never knew what it was. For instance, I never understood why A is red, Bb brown, D is orange, G is royal blue, E is green, Eb is dark green, F is purple, F# is dark purple, and so on. 🤷♀️ This was a very interesting video.
Yes, I'm so glad I've found out what this is. I always associate names with colours, for example Georgia = green or Abbie = red! And now I've realised I definitely can associate tastes with places or day to day actions can also trigger colours/sounds/tastes to come to mind. It's never massively aided me when it comes to remembering things I actually want to remember!
I learned about synesthesia from reading A Mango Shaped Space in elementary school. It’s about a girl who has synesthesia. It was really helpful to understanding it and I would recommend it if you want to understand it further. It is for older kids but it might be worth your time.
Synesthesia helped me pass my Algebra class in 7th grade! Numbers always reminded me of colors and somehow those colors paired together reminded me of relationships. Some relationships were romantic, some were difficult, some were happy, etc. For instance, in my mind 6 is purple, 4 is pink, and pink and purple reminded me of flowers. Somehow 6 was masculine in my mind and 4 was feminine, so it reminded me of a proposal with a bouquet! 24 also had pink in it, but 2 is brown, therefore pink and brown equaled a warm color/warm feeling. Joy and love after the proposal!
I sometimes see colors through music chords.
Bb-yellow
Emaj:pink
F#M-indigo
Eb-Green
Dmaj-light blue
Bm: light blue
I also have synesthesia. I'm a lefty. Every letter and number has its own color. And when I see them together, the colors also mix up. There are more and less dominant colors in mixing and they make a whole system. It's hard to explain. First I also thought that everyone has it.
Another issue, that wasn't mentioned its affect on languages and language learning. For instance, the days of the week and school subjects have their own colors regardless to the letters they're made of however it works only in my native language. In English, these words also behave like every other: the letters' colors mix up.
And I started to learn Russian, I'm curious what colors the cyrillic letters get. For now it seems like the soundings of them determine the color.
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now that you mention it, i want to see what colours those letters are for me too!
I was diagnosed with this a month ago! I actually am an artist for a music label, and I convert the auditory art to a visual!
Haha I was just talking about m’y Chromesthesia to my peers and how it’s in my family
This video is lovely thank you so much
Glad that this video could be relevant! Do you mind sharing more about chromesthesia and your personal experiences with it?
I'm autistic, and looking back throughout my life I've always had grapheme-color associations but when I got to 8th grade I started training it stronger and by 10th grade I got a really strong setup with numbers, to the point where full-on visual percepts be starting
I also did a ton of sketchy experimentation on myself---including with both legal and -less-than- substances--caffeine was a big part of that because I also have ADHD and it does crazy sh*t to me
The idea of Feedback Loops is really important for all of this, stuff has to work both ways to become passive/subconscious, and you really gotta get ingenuitive with it.
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complex trauma might have played a slight part in some of this
As someone who hears colours and right handed, I loved learning about this
Philip J Fry talking about tasting the color purple makes so much sense now.
I'll always watch all your videos, they helped me a lot, thanks
Thanks for the kind words!
i have Chromesthesia & Grapheme Synesthesia with the days of the week & months. I've experienced it all my life. Having it makes me feel like my brain is beautiful i love that my brain does it so much^^!!
Please please please do more videos about this! This is so interesting, and I'm pretty sure I have synesthesia as well! It really helps me to learn more about it! ❤️
When I was a kid I always knew I was different. Now that I’m a bit older I’ve come to understand why. This was a big one as a kid. I was laughed at for calling a certain song pink, orange etc. I even told my mum and she was confused about what I was talking about. Now there’s videos on this, it is helpful.
i've heard colors since i was young enough to remember hearing music. super helpful as a musician, i can tell when something is out of tune because of the color. it's why my music taste is so weird, i like hearing the most interesting color combinations.
Fascinating. I know that in almost all people the senses of smell and taste are connected, so it makes sense that the brain could develop in ways that would connect other senses too. The idea that most if not all people are born with synesthesia is very interesting, and I can attest that as a small child I would be reminded of certain senses with certain stimuli, such as being reminded of tastes when hearing certain words.
As a left handed female with some form of synesthesia I found this video very helpful.
I just thought I was sort of different in a really good way!
Yup, I associate letters with genders, letters and numbers with colors, which makes it super helpful to remember dates, and I see sound!
I first discovered I'd Synesthesia playing music as a teenager. Thankfully I heard it was an actual thing and I wasn't going crazy. Over the years I've noticed a correlation between the audio spectrum and the visual light spectrum.
Red.... Bass
Orange... Low mid.
Yellow.... Mid
Green... Upper mid
Blue... Treble.
Since music is never pure tones but combinations of multiple frequencies this is only a rough outline to how I hear/see sound.
I'm a left-handed male.
I'm so happy you put the references in description, it help me a lot. Thankyou Psy2go 🔥
I have perfect pitch and can use synesthesia to associate musical notes to colors based on a color coded keyboard I used to play when I was young
C=white
C#/Db=black
D=light blue
D#/Eb=red
E=orange
F=light green
F#/Gb=purple
G=yellow
G#/Ab=dark blue
A=light brown
A#/Bb=dark green
B=pink
And my perception of tempo slightly varies when sick, so there’s that
Your voice is so smooth. Great job!
I have both ideasthesia and synesthesia. I can legit taste colors and hear images. Which I thought was normal. And I associate colors with numbers and letters. I thought it was normal. And then I found this. Thank you!
Sometimes, noises bring me nostalgia for no reason. And then gives me a random emotion.
I associate musical notes with colors. Helped me memorize the sheet musics while playing the piano.
I think I might have a form Synesthesia. Often times when I listen to music and I want to describe a certain song, I say things like "This song sounds a bit like pink" or "This is giving me blue vibes." My friends and family look at me like I'm the craziest person in the world. This video describes Synesthesia so well. If it happens that I do have Synesthesia, I don't think I would want to get a "cure" or anything like that. I'm afraid that I have grown too attached to this unique condition. 😅 Carry on making such amazing videos @Psych2go~ 💖💖
for folks who see letters as colors: do you find yourself getting tripped up when you read the names of colors? I know what color the word "green" is referring to but "g" is brown to me and "e" is yellow so it's a bit of a mess when I try to read it sometimes.
I had a synesthesia that alloted every detail, or collection of details, whether sight or sound, a unique emotion. I felt what something looked or sounded like.
I have grapheme color synesthesia, the letter-number-color one, and I have ordinal linguistic personification, the letter-number-personality one. Every letter and number except D and G have very distinct colors in my mind. For me, most personalities depend on how you write them, but there are a few that are always the same like a capital E will always be judgmental, a capital Y will always seem like a kind teacher, a lowercase l (L) will always look shy, and a lowercase f will always look like an angsty teenager. I love having these abilities, they seem like superpowers to me.
Synesthesia manifest itself more often when I see images like illutrations or paintings.
I smell some and hear others. I like it
Not sure if this is the same thing but I have this thing where all the numbers and letters have personalities?? It helped me learn math a lot easier as a kid so I use it all the time for everything now- for example
1= confident nerd that has a crush on 2
2= over the top cheerleader who messes with 1 and 3
3= shy and lazy bookworm/ besties with 4
4= cocky but small and sticks up for 3
5= thinks they're the best but is sweet to 4
6= flamboyant and outgoing but doesn't do well with conflict/ besties with 7
7= kinda edgy and rebellious/ is jealous of 8
8= preppy/ mean girl who likes 9
9= is better than everyone and knows it/ bully kid
10= the peacekeeper or parent of the group- loves everyone
Now I wanna see this as a comic
@@anironfarm6056 yoo that would be awesome 👀
I have a similar thing but as seeing positive numbers as being good and negative numbers as being bad. Also I feel like 9 has a good relationship with 3 and I use 0 instead of 10 since its just 1 and 0
This is beyond eerie for me, I did the same thing with numbers when I was a kid...
Except 3 was the flashy one and 4 was the shy, yoga loving kinda hippy of sorts. But OMG 5 was always cocky and was number 1's antagonist sometimes, and it's spot on that 1 had a crush on 2, and 9 WAS 100% THE BULLY OMG.
Are we...the same person? 😅😅😅
Do you also have colors for the numbers?
For me:
1 is blue
2 is pink
3 is yellow
4 is green
5 is blue
6 is pink
7 is green
8 is blue
9 is pink
0 is yellow
@@aliciamoon9816 Oh wow😳 Yeah that is quite odd that had some of the same stuff lol and I do use a lot of different things for colors with letters and numbers. Mine don't match yours but it's pretty cool that we both do!
I found out recently I have spatial sequence synesthesia. So not only does every day of the week and month of the calendar year have a colour, they're also placed in a designated space.
It was always like this for me, but I never had a second thought about it until I learned it had a name and that others have their own spatial sequences. Truly fascinating.
Please make another video about synesthesia!! I have synesthesia myself and i think you do a swell job explaining/talking about the topic!!
I definitely have ideastheisa! Me and my friend are constantly arguing about weather 3 is green (me) or orange (them)
Our other friends and family are completely baffled by this. I see/associate people with colors, their personality or voice or even appearance sometimes gives me some idea of their color in only a few minutes. For example, the person narrating this video’s voice was either a saturated yellow or dull orange. Definitely a warm, pastelly soft color. People can also be numbers or letters, or all 3! Some numbers and letters also have colors, some have basic personalitys and genders as well.
Take care, ya’ll!
I see pain in color, shapes and tones.
For example, I can remember the pain of a headache and can tell if it’s regular headache or not. Usually, headache displays as a bright yellow triangle and the tone E. Sometimes even different levels of light or even wind strength, but it’s rather uncommon. It’s weird, but useful to some degree.
When sick, I often just feel numb, though I do sometimes see the pain.
I’m right-handed and it doesn’t seem to run in the family. Even though I was diagnosed with depression, it still works properly.
Synesthesia is quite interesting, yet so complicated. It’s a neat topic to discuss about.
For me, every music note has a color, and if a song is played I can see the color in my mind. Songs played Major don't change the colors below, but songs played in Minor make some colors swap or change. It's weird, but pretty cool.
C = Yellow
C Sharp = Black
D = Red
D Sharp = Brown
E = Light Gray
F = Orange
F Sharp = Purple
G = White
G Sharp = Black (again)
A = Light Green/Beige
A Sharp = Orange/Brown (again)
B = Dark Gray/ Dark
Purple
Lifelong synesthete here (I've never heard of "ideasthesia" before), of the "grapheme-color" variety: I see and imagine letters and numbers on various "colors" that helps to tell them apart . . . or confuse them. In reality, it helps far more often than it hurts, such as when a spelling error shows up as a different color (even when flashed on-screen at high speed).
I'm not left-handed, but I *am* cross-eye dominant (right hand, left eye), so there is that to consider.
Omg I’ve tried to describe to my friends how I don’t have synesthesia but I have something like it and now I know I have ideasthesia thank you!
When I listen to music, i see colours in movement in my mind very beautiful. Objects linked to experiences create life lessons and i thoroughly enjoy it. At times, an object part of an experience often brings all 5 senses and life to create a poem or lyrics to a song. Each sense lead to something creatively different and it is wonderful when we embrace that childlike mind. Creating becomes the fruit of curiosity and wander linked to our own inner God given childhood innocence people tend to neglect as they grow old! That is what I experience not knowing it could or not be this and certainly, not seeing it as a health issue!! Have an awesomely and joyfully blooming day!
She can keep taking forever, I just love her voice so much
Aww. Haha. Did you see her TH-cam videos on Amanda Silvera?
@@Psych2go Yes!!
What a fascinating phenomenon. I never knew this existed.
I don't have synesthesia, but I've been interested in the idea for a long while.
I do follow someone on TH-cam who experiences it, and is a musician. He experiences sounds also as colors and textures.
I do use similar terms to describe some things, though, often describing non-visual things with shapes, like sounds and tastes.
Omg this is how I had to learn in secondary school as I found it difficult to remember things, but it’s not every single thought that is remembered this way though.
I always have some sort of color connected to a word, and somewhat music notes. When I picture the name "Psych2Go" it's a cheerful shade of red! Each name of the month has one for me too, same with years. 2021 was sky blue, 2022 red, and 2023 yellow.
(months in case someone is curious):
January: bright red
February: lavender
March: green
April: blossom pink
May: deep green
June: yellow
July: deep red
August: dark blue
September: orange
October: sky blue
November: brown
December: light blue
that was interesting! thank u for sharing💖
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The concept of learning things like this reminds me in a way how I trained my subconscious from a young age to lucid dream in a way to counteract my repeating childhood nightmares really fascinating when you consider the inner mind an art as well as a tool.
Still find it a strange concept to think some people have no inner sight and hence no ability to 'imagine' something not often explored is what imagination is.
How did you manage to train your subconscious for this?
Very INTERESTING and refreshing insights. Thank you.
I have Chromesthesia (seeing color/sounds) and it’s really cool! Sometimes a little distracting, but I like experiencing life differently from others :) I’m also left handed and I play piano lol
I'm left-handed and female so may have an explanation for my rudimentary synesthesia. I always see light flashes when I hear loud noises (very annoying) and tend to believe thay grey/silver tastes horrible. I'd say I have ideasthesia since primary school. Always coloured my subjects and still do it to visualise and remember new concepts and ideas. I'll need to read up more about it. Great video that made me curious!
Me and my brother might have ideasthesia/synesthesia.We used to have talks with each other about how certain numbers looked like certain colors, and he is left handed and I'm a woman too! It's so weird, I just recently realized I remember things way better and quicker when I associated it with a color, specifically music. What usually takes hours or days to remember a forgotten song, takes me like a few minutes when I Associate it with colors!
I have color coded my school subjects in this sense so I just have to yk remember what the subeject reminds me of. For me, this thing happens with lot of things other than color too!
I can't believe they actually made this video! When I first found out what synesthesia was, I was so excited! I associate numbers and vocals with colours, but I remember also associating sound volume with tact when I was younger, and man, was it uncomfortable, I remember having nightmares in which all that happened was I alternately "touched" high sounds and low sounds (imagine trying to explain that to your parents when you waked up scared at night).
Even though looking back at it now seems cool, I'm glad I outgrew that particular one; associating symbols with colours is far more comfortable. Also, I think I'm kind of lucky to be synesthete, cause I'm a guy and right handed.
Just because I never get to tell this, here's my synesthesia:
1: yellow or white (varies from time to time)
2: marble pink or white
3: green
4: red
5: blue
6: orange
7: light brown, almost golden
8: dark (it's not black, it's more like the colour of the night sky in cities, kind of purplish black, you know?)
9: lilac or light, smooth purple
0: black
Now vocals are far more strange:
a: kind of like 2, sometimes white, sometimes pink, and sometimes even red
e: tones of bronze
i: definitely light yellow
o: same as zero or eight (up there)
u: sometimes blue, sometimes green
i see noise which has different colours I can see. it's especially annoying when someone on my class scrapes their chair and it hurts my eyes 🙄 I thought everyone could do it?? Until I talked about it with my friends, they said they could not do it. So I looked around on the internet and find this video, it's very helpful!! Thank you psych2go
im a musician and music producer and i've had associative synesthesia for as long as i remember. it has gotten more pronounced as i've gotten more actively involved with sound. i visualize shapes, textures and brightness with different sounds, not so much color. my perception is influenced by what i've learned about visual reprisentations of sound, like frequency spectrum analysers and how different audio waveforms associate with different sounds.
Imagine that.
Totally have it. Didn’t know it was a thing they study. Just thought its was tied into a higher form of empathy. And being able to see/smell auras and energies.
I definitely have ideastesia. I remember as a kid giving letters entire personalties. Also I am a right handed guy.
When you work on anything about music or music production (mostly the later) you tend to associate sounds with certain feelings, and those feelings sometimes are associated with colors. Music is a wider experience than many people think.
Smell and Music feel really connected to me
Ooh yes!! I think mine's associative when it comes to music by sensory when it comes to words I guess? And numbers and letter definitely have genders and colours, too.
Wow just wow! In late 2020, I had a very bad of COVID. It due to severe hypothermia, I got brain damage. For a time I could not taste, hear, or smell anything. I ended up being completely losing hearing in my right ear. However, ever since my senses starting coming back, I "acquired" certain unique " abilities"I can " touch" or "taste" music. I can "feel" or "smell" certain changes in the weather & can either "see" or "smell" a person's. auroras or a person' s conversations, even when they are speaking another Language & in a text. I also tell when people who are up to no good by either see their black or blood red auras or I get a sudden nosebleed J just though it was another symptom of "Long Haul COVID" (which is dealing with the disabilities COVID left behind. ) or my Empathic abilities kicking in. COVID left me in a crippled state, but it also gave me certain "gifts." These include making my Empathic abilities stronger (such as precognitive abilities & be that 1 person that everyone talks to about anything (even NSFW subjects or something I never experienced) I can predict certain aspects in life by a mere riddle...(Since I had Covid, I have done this 3 times usually 3- 4 weeks before the event happens with pinpoint accuracy, & I'm 3/ 3 on this) I was told that I have acquired tetrachromia & my Empathic abilities have been woken up. It would surely makes since if I "aquired" this ability as well. Thank you, PsycyoGo, for this enlightening information.
I've always had this! I never knew the names of songs when I was really little, but I associated them with shapes and colours, according to the melody. My fave song had pink triangles and purple dots bouncing on black zigzags
Omg thank you so much for this video! I always wondered why some of my favourite songs sounded yellow. All my friends and family thought it was kind of weird. Maybe I could go and check to make sure that I do have this, so people can understand why I keep saying that the songs sound red or purple!
i have ideasthesia?? i always kinda knew things about numbers...
1 - warm red; he is kind and selfless
2 - light blue, almost white; she is mean and annoying
3 - dirty green, earthy color; they are frivolous and relaxed
4 - saturated blue; he is calm and always very serious
5 - bright yellow... with an admixture of ocher; she is the ringleader and soul of the company
6 - blue, but closer to purple?? I know few names of color shades in English. he is a loner, detached from everything
7 - bright scarlet; she is an arrogant selfish person who doesn't care about anyone else but herself
8 - lilac; he is good-natured, but does not often interact with others
9 - olive green; they consider themselves superior to others and are often annoyed that things don't go the way they want them to.
0 - white/transparent; no one takes them seriously, and they prefer to merge with the environment and not interfere in business, while closely watching everyone
my piano teacher tried to use it to help me learn bass clef but it didnt work XD
a few months ago someone on twitter freacked out when i wrote something about number 9.. and thats how i found out that people dont know number colors
I actually have this!
I see letters names and numbers in colour in my head but out loud I hear the colour of ppls voices, and touch and emotion trigger colours too
Hi, I’m commenting here because I think might have some form of synesthesia, but I want to get some opinions.
I am left-handed and female and since as long as I can remember I’ve associated words and things with temperatures. For example, the word travelling would remind me of the cold wind that comes around at the end of autumn/beginning of winter. Or pumpkins, which reminded me of a place at room temperature but without any airflow so it felt stuffy. More recently I’ve noticed that some words and letters have colors to them although they mainly branch off from the temperature thing, taking travelling as an example again, it’s like the color of clouds tinted with blue, cool colors for a cool word.
Then there’s also musical notes, ever since I began to read music I noticed that each note had a personality or kind of a story I suppose, it’s difficulty explain. But it’s like the note B is kind of timid, and it’s older sibling is the note C, who often bullies B for being younger or lower on the scale, and then there is D, who is like their other sibling who is a mediator between the two. It’s a lot more complet and hard to explain but I hope you get the idea.
So what do you guys think? I’ve been questioning this for about a year now and I’d love to understand more!
yes I have it! I always connect numbers with colors and when I smell something sometimes I say it smells soft or rough as I'm touching it while I'm not! Also I see people as colors depending on their energy level
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! People think I'm nuts when I tell them I see rainbows in music, especially live music. Certain frequencies produce a color that I can see traveling across the air, like soundwaves in airwaves. The Radiohead album 'In Rainbows' or Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of The Moon' are quite beautiful to hear/watch. I believe it's the frequencies that are attuned to each specific Chakra, that I am able to see the colors from my own aura vibrate through the music. In the case of being at an outdoor live music event, I'm seeing the soundwaves go through everyone else's auric field and carry the colors of their auras across the air. I'll never forget the first time it happened, 20 years ago at a live outdoor Radiohead show in Wisconsin. I suffered with deep depression and anxiety, the prescribed medications blocked off that gifts and shut out my Clairs. Upon complete and total detoxification of chemical substances, medications, meats, and GMOS, balancing my chakras, and daily meditations, the Clairs are all crystal clear and blending together. I believe a factor I this also is the frequency in which the individual and others around them are vibrating. For instance, someone whom is vegan, does no drugs, smokes, nor drinks, alcohol, is going to vibrate at a significantly higher rate that someone whom is weighed down with toxic habits and foods. I eat high vibrational organic, non GMO foods every day. It's quite incredible to view life from a higher perspective in technicolor, like the energy of creativity, in which is referred to as Joseph. For me, it also helps to eat a rainbow variety of foods to vibrate the inner colors to the outside world. As above, so below. As within so without.
Synesthesia is really interesting. I should try to learn more about it, even though I don't have it.
I guess I have both! I didn’t really realize it until I watched this video but now I know
My best friend has it and started listing the colors of our voices I'm a bright pink. I sent this to them lol. Now I know what it's called.
I have Texture Smell projective synesthesia! Any texture I feel is a smell to me, and this is something that changes often. Sometimes a rough texture will be lavender laundry detergent, but other times it will be something completely different.
It is also something that messes with my regular sense of smell. The only time I can truly smell what is in the air is if I am completely naked on and not touching anything (which is neither common nor easy since my feet still have a sense of texture).
I can "feel" different colours when I meet people. Different people are different coulors. I don't know if I have a kind of synesthesia, but I don't think so. I can also "feel" different colours when I hear certain words
That's really interesting, I always see different colours in my head while listening to music, I had no idea it wasn't a normal thing haha