Synesthesia is when two senses combine with each other and form relationships. For example, I have the most common kind: grapheme-color synesthesia. Mine looks like this. The only one that’s supposed to be black is “1”. Otherwise, the ones in black have no color associated with them.
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I do! I’m honestly looking for a synesthesia community on here!
For me, absolutely everything has a color. Numbers, letters, sounds, days of the week, months… All of it. I didn’t know this wasn’t normal until I was well into my teens.
My wife does. Hers is super useful. She sees time/the calendar as kind of an oval floating in front of her vision. Makes it easy for her to keep track of sh*t all year long.
Also she can draw a word in the air and it glows if its spelled wrong. She won a lot of spelling bees in her youth, lol.
I have a similar thing for checking spelling! Don’t write it in the air, but if I need to figure out the spelling of something, I just write it down and see if the colors are right. Works better in my native language than in English, especially because for some words the colors are “right” for American spelling, and for others it’s the British…
Yeah, mine helps me, too! I use colored markers on the back of my cards when I need to remember the pin numbers. Since I have a horrible memory due to ADHD, depression, and anxiety, this is pretty much a life saver. Especially since my numbers all have unique colors. I’ve contemplated making my own font where each letter is just a square that’s colored, but letters like M, D, and B might get mixed up. I’d have to almost “refine” their colors if I want to be able to tell them apart. I was also pretty good at spelling. :) Maybe this thing is a mini superpower. lol
the first one is like what i have. spatial sequence synesthesia. it also manifests most strongly when imagining months of the year, but instead of an oval mine is kind of an arc that starts on the left and ends on the right, with a weird emphasis/broadness on april (my birth month)
Numbers and vowels have colors for me. 1 white-ish, 2 red, 3 yellow, 4 green, 5 brown, 6 dark red, 7 blue, 8 gold-white, 9 dark green, 0 black, A green, E orange, I white, O black, U brown, Y turquoise. Some consonants “feel” like they have color, but far less pronounced.
Also sounds have colors and shapes but that may just be association.
Edit: does synesthesia qualify as neurodivergence? Am I neurodivergent? What does this mean??
Oh I don’t know whether it counts as neurodivergent in the commonly understood way, but I wasn’t sure where else to post it. I’m new, so I don’t know all the communities on here yet.
I find it interesting how only vowels and numbers stick out to you! I hadn’t heard of that before.
Huh, yeah I have that. Never really thought about it, though, since everyone around me has it too.
Days of the week:
- Monday - Red
- Tuesday - Orange
- Wednesday - Green
- Thursday - Blue
- Friday - Golden
- Saturday - Purple
- Sunday - Pastel Yellow
Numbers are in colour order from 1 to 4. 5 is pink. 7 is dark green, 8 is light green, 9 is indigo, and 0 is black.
Yeah I didn’t realize it wasn’t normal until late high school, when I asked my best friend what her color associations were, and she just didn’t have a clue what I was talking about.
I don’t know to this day if I have Synesthesia, but some day as a small child I came to the conclusion that the numbers from 1 to 9 have “fitting” colours to them. It was somewhat based on the theory that the numbers that add to 10 have kind of “matching” colour combinations, but I can’t really remember any reasoning behind it.
- 1: Yellow
- 2: Pink
- 3: Orange
- 4: Blue
- 5: Black
- 6: Red
- 7: Dark green
- 8: Brown
- 9: Purple
These associations have stuck to me to this day, though.
Apparently for synesthetes, a few letters will likely have the same color association between people. I like the matching colors. :) So does zero not have a color for you?
