Okay, so I'm kinda annoyed by the way you say you HAVE synesthesia. Don't wanna offend anyone, just an observation, this sounds like it's some disability! I like to say my mind works with synesthesia, which sounds weird, but at least I don't treat it like something you "have". Also, I recently saw a post here that a person wanted to "diagnose" synesthesia. IT'S. NOT. AN. ILLNESS.

Sorry about the rant, please don't take it as rude, I don't have a problem with you, just your word choices!

I don't know if you remember me, I'm a girl who posted about my father don't get into my synesthesia a few months ago

IRONICALLY I inherited it from him
He has misophonia but he never studied much about it
and yesterday I discovered that Misophonia is a type of synesthesia that connects sounds with emotions (in this case anger)

Irony of fate, huh? 😅

idk if this counts like "About my Synesthesia" so if not let me know ^^

💚Bye bye💚

I just found out that I am stranger than I thought. I've known I have synesthesia for about 16 years. I may have even posted on this subreddit before. But I had no idea how rare my neurological profile is. In addition to being autistic, I have a lifelong synesthesia profile involving sequence–space, ordinal–linguistic personification, ticker-tape, music–visual, and pain–visual synesthesia, interwoven with vivid autobiographical recall and high sensory-emotional integration.

I've exchanged emails with Jamie Ward at University of Sussux and Simon Fisher at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and Anina Rich at Macquarie University, but am unsure of what research my brain would be useful for. I have to admit that it feels a bit lonely- realizing that there might be only a handful of humans alive who think like me. I've always known I am weird, but this is next level odd.

I also have an irrational fear of sharing the worlds that live in my mind's eye. They belong to me. lol

edited to add Anina Rich contact

I do not have synesthesia. I've never had any proto-synesthetic experiences – or at least, nothing has happened that I know was caused by proto-synesthesia. Still, when I learned about it many years ago, I was really drawn to it. More than 95%+ of the population I think, who are like "oh that's cool/interesting", but wouldn't want to actually be that way themselves. It's one of those things, where after I heard about it, I immediately knew that I wanted to be like that, maybe even that I'm supposed to be like that.

Especially after I watched this anime series about a couple women with synesthesia—look I get it, it's fantasy, and the reality of being synesthetic is different and not that glamorous or borderline supernatural, I know. Still, when I watched it, and also when I saw more realistic depictions of what it's like, I had the feeling like I'm missing out, that my life would be better or more fulfilling, and that I'm not fully the person I'm supposed to be, if I never develop it.

I think I know the answer to the question I asked in the title; which is a blanket no, there's absolutely nothing that can be done, but I still wanted to make this post anyway. I've been thinking about this for a long time, and I don't think I've told anybody about this before, online or IRL. Also, I have a feeling that all, or at least most of the other posts about developing synesthesia were about that happening on accident. I figured that if anybody knows of some way to encourage your mind to start working that way, it'd be here in the synesthesia sub.

I'm sorry if this comes across as offensive, such as the case where synesthesia is making your life more difficult. I know that if I was to be synesthetic, that I might wish I wasn't born that way, and have grief over not being like 99% (is the prevalence >1%?) of the population. I still can't shake the feeling like that's who I'm supposed to be—and I don't think I ever will, either.

I have a degree in Korean language and the grammar of Korean/Japanese(similar structure, Japanese come from the Korean peninsula thousands of years ago) has stayed in me to the point of affecting my English grammar. For example context first always...Writing the sentence around the topic, dropping context and assuming the writer can infer what I'm talking about. Note this paragraph is the context for the latter.

I saw the mugshot and my brain told me her eyes were green or blue. Even though that's obviously dark blue/grey. My brain said "green" just now as the first reaction when I went back to copy this image into here to post it. I have outstanding color accuracy/discernment, I'm not confused on what the color is. But I have this involuntary reaction now that labels it "incorrectly". Or more likely I'm extracting the green tones inside the image I think and reacting to them first.

I know most people here are born with it. I want synaesthesia but I'm not gonna get a brain injury lol & I also know that I can never get true synaesthesia. The fact is I want to make associations since I'm not that old to boost my memory, it's scientifically proven everywhere the more associations you have the more you'll remember and man the idea sounds cool and useful as he'll.

If you guys don't mind then please tell me about some of your synaesthesia linkings and how they work so I can try and devise a plan to learning synaesthesia and also along with that if you don't mind. Could you tell me how it has affected you? Positively or negatively?

And I know there might be some people here who have learnt synaesthesia as well and I wanna ask them if it has helped you with what you're trying to accomplish. Thanks and that's all.

After some thorough research and a semi word about it from a psychiatrist, I have concluded I have synesthesia. and more specifically, all the following types combined (to varying strenghts) -

• Grapheme Color • Chromestesia • Lexical - Gustatory • Number Form • Mirror Touch • Spatial Sequence • Concept Shape • Sound Weight

and I think 1-3 more. is this considered rare? i am assuming people who have synesthesia also exhibit many forms of it

Let me emphasize this is my personal thought, and I’m not trying to “gatekeep” on anything trendy here. But I find I have a cringe reaction to people seeking to acquire or enhance cross-sensory traits.

For me, this way of being is purely matter-of-fact. It’s like seeing the conventional spectrum of color. I don’t relate to the perspective that meets synaesthesia with a sense of wonder or desire.

I get that it’s somewhat interesting if you haven’t grown up with it. But artificially stressing sensory associations seems kind of like taking nooptropic drugs to become a genius or something.

And all this (supposedly) happens without mind to the challenging comorbid traits that can also emphasize the senses (autism and bipolar in my case, although synaesthesia per se is usually not a bother).

Does trying to change your senses work? I don’t know. Does it have ill effects? Probably not. Just feel like I’m missing what’s appealing in those efforts.

good day to everyone who opens this. basically, I am writing a novella where one of the characters has a form of synesthesia where he tastes colors. he avoids oily foods and carbonated drinks because they taste like those eye-straining over-saturated colors. he prefers salads and juices because they taste like the more muted and sweeter looking colors. his favorite color/taste is cerulean blue. its something innate in him despite him never tasting it but he has yet to find something that tastes like it. (I was actually thinking of making him want to consume store-bought meals like ramen and sweetbread and flavored milks and such but I don't know how to make him feel about that so help here would be appreciated) allow me to mkae it clear that i will NOT be making his synesthesia his main talking point and his synesthesia isn't going to be the main focus of the novel (much like how i won't allow one of the therian characters to have his therian-ness be the main thing in his life). there will only be minor lines here and there where he refers to tastes as colors and 1 major scene but it won't completely tie to his synesthesia but rather the love he has for his partner. he's just a character who happens to have synesthesia. I sincerely hope I am not offending anyone with this form of synesthesia. I simply want to know if there is anything I should add to this, anything I should absolutely AVOID writing and if it is an actual form of synesthesia or if there is any form similar to this. any and all help, tips, advice and input is greatly appreciated. thank you all in advance.

idk if this synesthesia but my body literally goes into past memories by remembering a past event like my mood feelings body language muscle memory thoughts and thought pattern gets switched to what i felt in the moment I'm remembering and it activates by sensory remembering a past event its this thing i call sensoric feeling i don't really know how to explain this but when your in a moment its a certain feeling you get of all your sensory senses together smell sight taste touch hearing all add up to create one sensoric feeling you dont realize the feeling when your in the moment but i was able to realize it because sensoric feeling can also happen from me remembering the events of something or something that reminds me of the event though when i remember it I'm not in the area so i can kind of only feel a hint of the sensoric feeling and my body doesnt change fully and im able to completely stop it but when my body remembers that sensoric feeling and I'm in the area it sends my body back in time to when i was in that event sometimes i don't realize the change other times i do because even if i cant feel the sensoric feeling i can feel my body language and mood changing it helps sometimes by putting me in a good mood other times it doesn't help by stopping my development and sending me back to my past self I've realized songs can create sensoric feelings accidentally so i can use music to override a sensoric feeling by covering it up and i use it sometimes but i still dont know what this and if someone knows please tell me

Ever since I've been about 5 or 6 I could look at an animal and see its human form. From like really small details such as beauty marks, the shape of their nose and whether it is crooked ,to what kind of haircut they'd have. I base this obviously all on the features and personality of the animal and the emotions I feel around it... but I don't have to think about it? It just pops up? I'd show you all some examples that I generated with Ai compared to pictures of friends their pets but I simply do not know how to format.. Dropping some links here anyway, sorry if this is not allowed.

https://ibb.co/8xPwLXS

https://ibb.co/xqQvVD6

For example, in class the other day, we were having a lesson the constitution, and there was a point where the teacher started mentioning something about "unratified documents"

For some reason, that specific sequence of words "un ratified documents" made me think of a comfortable looking and well made bed and for a brief moment made me sleepy, I didn't fall asleep in class thankfully, but it almost made me wanna yawn

All the certain words, sentences,, or music can make me sad, it's not that they are inherently sad, it's just that sometimes they El unpleasant and totally unrelated images in my mind

I've tried all the methods I know, with little success. Maybe who knows more methods, suggest them!

I apologize for any distress this may cause, especially to people who love chickens as much as I do.

Open to debate, but my brain has decided that’s the number 3 for today.

She only started doing it this year(she is already 14) and she used to play the piano a long while ago. I am very advanced already and I often even play my own original pieces, and sometimes when I ask of her what she thinks about my piece she says: "well this part sounds blue" or when she asks me to play the coda (ending) she says something "this part sounds red". Now, I am cringing hard whenever I get this 14 year old moment struck on me(I am 18), and it doesn't sound like he condition at all, I don't think she was ever specific with it, and I am not sure this condition works by vibes of parts of pieces. But I am here for help, please let me know what you think after some context because this is getting a bit annoying😅 I can try providing more specific context if you ask

so, me and my friends decided to make an art installation on synesthesia to spread more awareness. but none of us know how it actually feels like. if you guys can help us understand it better. it would really do wonders for our installation.

can you tell us how dy visualize disco pop genre of music? what are the key elements that come to your mind?

Hi, I'm working on a college project and need to develop an app. I'd like to develop something that helps people with synesthesia. What could be helpful?

You guys could produce a magical results using your synesthesia. just a suggestion.

whenever I see or hear something that’s ai generated I get a burnt smell in my nose and a mix of rubber and something burnt. could this be synesthesia?

I can visualise things in my head, then have them appear as physical objects in my reality. It only works in the dark. I can feel the texture of whatever I am imagining and seeing in front of me, I can feel the weight and gravity pulling down when I pick up an imaginary object, and I can see it clearly in front of me. It is a translucent and sometimes opaque object that is 3d in my room. If I put a real object under the projection, that thing gets blocked out by the projection that is completely 3d right in front of me. The only thing I am asking is what this is, and what I should do.