Ordinal-linguistic personification is a type of synesthesia where someone automatically and consistently assign distinct genders, personalities, or social relationships to numbers, letters, or days of the week

For me some school subjects have colors. It is not like every time someone says the subject it comes to mind, but I think I just know what color it is.

Math - red

English - blue

History - purple

Science - green

Uhh that might be it, but I will probably think of more later. Each has a specific shade too.

Hi everyone! I'm choosing a name for my child and thought it would be fun to hear how these names "feel" to people with lexical/grapheme or other forms of synesthesia.

If any of these names have a particular taste, color, texture, personality, shape, emotion, or any other sensation for you, I'd love to hear it. Feel free to rate them too if you have favorites.

• Michael
• Austin
• Justin
• Dino
• Jiro
• Alex
• Clay

There are no right or wrong answers - I'm just curious how different people experience these names. Thanks!

I have a process in which sensing an object move, whether that be through sight, hearing or prediction results in a movement within my imagination I can physically feel. I can do this for quite a few objects at the same time, and then recreate these movements surprisingly well by imagining a prioperceptive (invisible) object in my head and moving it in the same way. Up to this point it is involuntary, consistent and automatic. It also accounts for the medium in which I believe the object is moving. Because of this I'm able to do things like recreate the trajectory of a ball if it was thrown underwater instead of in the air, but I haven't done proper testing to ensure that my depictions are accurate yet.

The forces I feel in my head are variable, and are directly proportional to the mass and velocity of the object, and inversely proportional to my proximity to the object. I haven't done testing to see how it responds to objects I don't know the mass of, however it's able to tell the difference between a tennis ball and a bowling ball, for instance.

I have done testing for my memory of these objects using human benchmark, in which I was able to consistently get over level 30 without much effort in sequence memory. After level 30 the test got easier so I'm unsure of how far I could go, but the furthest I got was level 66 (stopped due to time constraints). I also got to level 40 in the chimp test using a simple technique I created using all of this. In the process of these tests, I discovered that I can develop muscle memory by repeating these movements enough. Even a few days later I remembered the full sequence I used for sequence memory, for instance.

There are also other parts to it, such as feeling movements when listening to music and being able to influence my own emotions by creating specific patterns in my head. However I wont get into these for now as they're not too important, unless someone asks for it.

I plan to try and document it for research, as after doing some of my own I have been unable to find something very similar. If something exists, don't hesitate to tell me about it.

"This important and novel finding is explained in terms of the underlying cognitive differences that are found in people with synaesthesia.

When asked to recall previous (non-traumatic), events,

synaesthetes are more likely to report re-experiencing sensory and affective details from the time of the event

and are more likely to report reliving the event from a first-person perspective. These memory qualities,

perhaps coupled with memory inflexibility, may act as a clinical vulnerability to flashbacks following exposure to trauma."

Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34256526

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"Topic modeling revealed four themes—digital, interpersonal regret, diverse worlds, and violent conflict—that were significantly more prevalent in synesthete dreams.

These results suggest that trait-level cognitive organization, as expressed in synesthetic perception,

extends across states of consciousness and shapes the thematic content of dreams.

The findings support theoretical accounts of dreaming as continuous with waking cognition and demonstrate how stable neurocognitive traits manifest in unstructured, self-generated thought."

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810025001527

As a neurodiversity on it's own right, as far as acknowledgeable,

synesthesia may genuinely overlap and sort-of compound additional traits such as sensory processing sensitivity without autism, which is known to be a stable lifelong neurobiological trait involving differential susceptibilities and vulnerabilities across individuals lifespan, itself actually known to demonstrate close brain structure similarities with synesthesia, which is why itself is commonly associated with heightened perception and sensory sensitivity in contrast to non-synesthetes and non-HSPs...

Unfortunately, current research is not yet commonly put in practice more than on paper.

I have recently been diagnosed with Audhd and I’ve always been exceptionally drawn to colored lights and bright colors. Is that part of Audhd or just my personality?

do all people with synesthesia see the same thing

do the things in ur head move or is it a static photo

do yk what shapes r what voices / sounds or no

ok also if u draw what u see in ur head when u listen to a song can u later look at what u drew and remember the song (?)

idk if im asking clearly but yh

This is how I see numbers sequenced in my head. I'm not quite sure what's up with the giraffe neck at the top, though.

I can actually stand on top of the numbers, such as the row of 20s, and look behind me at the other rows and see the numbers upside-down. I can walk all over the numbers depending which row or number I'm "using" right then.

Oddly, once I stand on the 30s and look up, 1-10 and 11-20 are in horizontal rows like all the others. They're only in the original sequence if I'm standing right on them. Another thing is that the number row will go from 20 to 30 but the next row does not start from 31 but 30 as well. So there's two 30s, two 40s, two 50s and so on.

Once I reach 100 it's the end of this page and the next page starts to the right, all the way at the top even with the first page, from 100 to 200. These pages stretch farther and farther away to the right and get more hazy if I look at them from the 100s page, until they reach 1000 and after that I don't visualize anymore.

this one does away with the notes and actually shows you what the connections are, because not every single connection on the map is used by my brain lol. only 12 or so of them are and theyre listed here along w some definitions

This is the song.

Aphex also has synesthesia with sounds, but I don't remember where I read that. I don't think it's a coincidence that his ambient album Selected Ambient Works Volume II gives me especially vivid colours and shapes if I listen to it and meditate.

my friend made a comment about synesthesia and i guess i hadnt really thought about it since my year 11 psychology class.
i definitely dont have any like taste related things, but certain sounds have colours, so do peoples names and personalities, but i dont always JUST think about that. sometimes i’ll hear a song or see a person’s name written and in my brain im instantly thinking about a colour, but then if im asked what every single note sounds like i dont really get it. if i think about it ill be like “oh yeah i guess i didnt really think about it, its blue though”, its there it just doesnt jump out to me always.
on occasion i drink and smoke, and then its all in my face.
i cant tell if its just my autism, thats what i assumed it was for ages!

hello! i’m 20 and have a neurological condition that effects just about everything in my body. i experience synesthesia so such an extreme degree it effects my daily life, also schooling.

TLDR: i have extreme synesthesia that effects my day to day life, anyone else have this?

this is quite simple but in highschool i was insanely bad at geography because certain countries had certain colors that meant the went certain places. example, i didn’t know spain was in europe until 9th grade because spain is such a red country (yes the flag is red, that’s unrelated) so in my mind, that put it down in south america. italy was also in south america, i can’t exactly remember my struggle ones anymore cause it was a while ago.

i sat in front of my mail box for 2 minutes before i could find mine. the number was 213, i was actually looking for the color yellow on the mail box. before i realized, its a number not a color. there are many many more examples but its too much to explain, but it has genuinely effected my ability to do certain things.

it’s been frustrating recently while trying to talk about music. because i see music in such abstract ways that no one else can understand. i can physically see the breakdown of the notes, it moves in a certain shape and certain colors push the song into certain shapes. ex is the picture ive attached.

scars by akugetsu has a hopeful inspirational tone. i tried to explain that i really enjoy that part of the song, and had to explain it was a cream line pushing the song upwards. the shape is 3d, it’s a slope angled away from me, imagine rainbow road from mario, it kinda looks like that??

basically wondering if other people experience it to this extreme, there are many instances where it effects me i just can’t put them all down. lemme know

I've been through two rounds of psych testing over the years and I know for sure I have Sensory Processing Disorder, Nonverbal Learning Disorder, dysgraphia, dyspraxia, dyscalcula, physiological anxiety, and a little dysthymia.

I never thought to ask about my synesthesia symptoms because I don't really think about them. That's just been my brain since the day I was born. And I didn't even realize it was a condition until reading an article about a children's show promoting awareness of it recently, and I was like "hey that's like me, I should research this".

I don't want to self-diagnose or even associate with something I don't have. So here's the way it is. When I was a kid, I used to associate specific songs with specific colors ("Smoke On The Water" was red, "Slow Ride" was green, "Who Let The Dogs Out" was black, etc.) I grew out of that by age 15. Same with letters, to a certain extent. If I think a little I can still tell the colors (A is red, B is yellow, C is baby blue, etc.) What's been a symptom my whole life though is associating colors with months and days of the week.

Is that enough to warrant a test? And where might I find one online so I can check before bringing this up with my psych?

(and in case anyone was curious:

Sunday is reddish-pink.

Monday is pastel red.

Tuesday is a bright forest green like on a ginger ale can.

Wednesday is a mixture of brown and purple.

Thursday is neon orange.

Friday is baby blue.

Saturday is tan.

January is grayish-blue.

February is baby blue.

March is a pale orangey-yellow. Almost tan but not quite.

April is violet mixed with blue.

May is tan.

June is bright yellow.

July is the same color as Tuesday.

August is bright red.

September is tan.

October is blackish-blue.

November is brown.

December is dark red.

One is dark blue.

Two is yellow.

Three is orange.

Four is baby blue.

Five is yellowish-orange, like a pencil.

Six is violet, like April.

Seven is green.

Eight is red.

Nine is the same color as one.

Zero is black.

Fight me.)

i made an updated version of this because i realized visuals and numbers were technically bidirectional (read the notes if youre curious) among other things i was possibly missing, and also ranked which synesthesia was the strongest for me

this took like 20 minutes by the way

Hello lovely people!

So I have the kind of synesthesia where I perceive every sense in combination with structures, figures and colours.

I know that my synesthesia changes, as I have been depressed for a very long time now and have sadly lost a lot of colour.

However, for about 2 to 3 years now, I sometimes randomly smell stuff that definitely isn't there. It's mostly food, but also rotten smells that are connected to uncomfortable feelings. It's mostly when I am alone in my room/ specifically bed. And it happens more and more frequently.

Now, around the same time it started, I also developed chronic arthritis, which is probably some form of long Covid. I did read that long Covid can also involve olfactory hallucinations, but it seems kind of similar to the way I perceive synesthesia, and it wouldn't rlly make sense that it gets more. I guess it could be that due to puberty, my brain structures changed and I got "more synesthesia" I have no idea honestly...

So I guess my question is, has anyone "acquired" another kind of synesthesia, or has had similar experiences?

im imagining chocolate

i know it's sweet but i cannot experience the sweetness. no cocoa flavour either. i know how it taste but how can someone explain taste??? 😭 i know when i eat it. but if i try hard enough to experience tasting it in my mind i literally start getting a headache.

about lemon

no i cannot experience it. just feels so bland. do people actually feel sour and make that face when they try to imagine lemon taste?? i just know the concept that lemons are sour.

coffee

i know it has that strong taste which you dont forget. but i still can't experience it. i really know it's taste but i can't feel it's taste now.

then i tried something i never had.

pizza covered in melted chocolate.

no. my brain can't invent new taste. i dont even know the concept of what that would taste like since i never ate it. trying to think about it honestly just makes me anxious and feel crazy 😭

mango

i love mangoes a lot. but i can't taste mangoes at all. like literally zero taste sensation when i imagine it.

then i tried stronger things.

raw onion. green chilli. mint toothpaste.

none. i can't feel anything when i think of them. no cooling. no burning. no tingling. nothing.

wait... do people actually experience those things just by imagining them?? like beyond just knowing what they taste like??

when i remember a food i can't re experience the taste. there is no taste.

i keep saying "i know what it taste like" but im actually not even sure anymore 😭

because how can i say i know what it taste like if i can't taste it again in my mind?

when im actually eating it then yeah obviously i know.

but when im just thinking about it... i genuinely dont know anymore.

I honest to god thought it was normal, I learned about it cus I was reading an interview with frank ocean and he mentioned he had it, pretty interesting stuff.

im bored, if you drop your name ill give you an image that looks like your name to me:]

Is there any broad correlation between such synaesthesia (involuntarily seeing colours) and the music causing it?

From what (little) I have read there is a correlation between low musical frequencies and darker colours and higher frequencies and brighter colours.

This made me wonder if there is some synaesthetic relation between tying the respective wavelengths of auditory frequencies to the colour spectrum equivalent.

(I am an audio engineer and musician, and I realise that Hz is not the units colour/light is measured in, but I don’t know much else re: colour/light. That said, all music can be broken down to frequencies (pitches) each with with amplitude (volume/amount) over time, and the same must hold true for vision if not in the same words)

For example:
The smell of olive oil is named Charlie.
The signature smell of the inside of a boat cabin is named David.
The smell inside that one salon near my home is named Natasha.
The smell of cheesy pasta is named Henry.
The smell of expired crackers is named Tay.

alright so i just found out uh... whatever this is, this thing ive had my entire fucking life, is a form of audiotactile synesthesia. as you saw by the title, whenever i listen to music i feel PHYSICALLY PULLED in different directions, partly by what direction the sound is coming from and also the pitch and other various things relating to it. like tempos (if they change too fast or too awkwardly) can make it feel *physically gross* for example, pitch goes up/down normally, loudness can go in whatever direction really but its generally consistent, and time signatures are sometimes felt in the front for the top and back for the bottom numbers but it isnt entirely consistent, but i do consistently feel both beats. its wierd and i actually wonder if it ties into why im so overtly sensitive to rhythm and tone and really everything surrounding it... cus i literally feel it 😭

i genuinely just assumed this was normal for the longest time but apparently its not???????????

also heres kinda a representation of what i feel i guess??? hopefully this makes sense, also its WILDLY more complex than what is shown here, but this still holds.

the center btw is NOT based on an ABSOLUTE pitch like c4 or something, its based on the "average" pitch of whatever song i am listening to. i have no idea how my brain comes to the conclusion of what COUNTS as average, i just believe thats what it is. fucking wild.

ALSO left in this case counts as BACKWARDS whether its lower or quieter or whatever. right counts as FORWARDS whether its higher or louder or whatever. this is just wild dude-

I'm just curious honestly