I haven't seen a thread about this anywhere so I thought I'd make one. Sorry if its a duplicate ^^
So.. 'Synesthesia is a condition in which one sense (for example, hearing) is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight. Another form of synesthesia joins objects such as letters, shapes, numbers or people's names with a sensory perception such as smell, color or flavor.'
For me, letters, numbers, days of the week and months have colours. (7 and F are green, A is yellow, Monday is red, June is orange etc). Any other synesthesic Dollars here? What's it like for you?

Links about synesthesia: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/syne.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia <-- good ol' wiki
http://www.synesthete.org <-- this one has a test thingy, kind of lengthy but I found it interesting

I had a friend who had this condition. She was truly amazing to talk to, and I used to love to talk to her about this. She loved to talk about it as well. For her, the number 322 was her favourite colour, purple. And she said that my name was grey. And, if I'm remembering correctly, her birthmonth, January, was navy.

>>2 Cool! To me, January is white, and 322 is blue and brown xD

I'm not like this, but it seems like something really cool :3 My apologies if it's actually detrimental and I was being insensitive >.> but it just seems quite interesting in my opinion :3

I sort of have it, as I have explained before.

Boop.

>>4 It can be kinda useful for memorizing stuff, at least for me I guess ^^. Detrimental? Hmm I think that would depend on who and how it affects them, as well as how other people around them act about it I guess.

(actually there is a really cool book were the main charecter has this caled a mango shaped space. The subject of this is really interesting. It seems impairing yet insanely interesting at the same time)

>>8 I've read that book and I found it a good read ^^

>>8 I want to read that book!

And to the OP, I see colors with things like that as well. But seeing you say things like F is green and Monday is red, etc, makes me cringe...CLEARLY Monday is a blue, A is green, 7 is brown, F is orange, and June is blue.

>>10 My turn to cringe...Those colours seem so strange to me! I think I'll just leave this at agree to disagree okay? XD

>>11 Haha yeah. I have never found another person who sees the same colors with certain things before xD

I'm not one, but damn that's awesome

You know that theory going around about how we don't know what colors exactly look like to each other? And that maybe my pink looks like your blue? What if for Synesthesia, we all see the same colors, it's just different names. Like Yuuko's F and my F both look like my orange, but orange actually is his/her "green"

>>14 I've heard that theory and I don't find it very legitimate. It's like saying God is real because we can't prove he's not. Not only is there no reason for us to see colours differently, even nature is colour coded. Society is not what taught us that yellow black and red are angry colours. Look at snake and insects that have poisons, we share common ideas on the subject. It would be so incredibly unlikely that some people see blue as an angry colour.

Also, don't we see blue as a calming colour because the shorter light waves hitting our eyes presents a calmer effect, whereas the longer light waves such as yellow or red make us feel alert? I know there is no way to definitely prove it false, I just see no reason for it to be true. The evidence all points against it.

I am completely open to people seeing colour shades differently, however. There has been research that shows women often identify a lot more shades than men in general. What I would call pink other might recognise as salmon or whatnot. Also how our retina designed, and the colour of our eyes (which effects the filters) might also have an effect on how we see colours.

>>15 That makes sense. It was just an idea, though, because I honestly cannot understand how people don't see the same colors with the same things as I do. Or how they don't see colors with them at all xD

>>14 >>15 >>16 I always thought of this the same way I thought about losing my eyesight - it's completely normal for me, but very different for anyone else.
If you've heard of animals like the mantis shrimp, who have four cones in each eye as opposed to our three, then you'll know that the colours we see aren't all the colours that exist, as far as existance goes on the subject of colours. They see colours we can't even comprehend, so it can't be too farfetched for us to each have a different perspective on colouration. But I can agree with what Solace said - until we are somehow able to see exactly as others see and effectively become them in that sense, we can't know.

>>17 Rabbits can see something like 180 more shades of green than we can, eagles are able to see movement and I think it's pigeons that are able to see the most shades of conventional colours. We see such a minute part of what exists, our ability to sense light waves is extremely limited. If it varies that greatly within species, I have no problem in believing it varies within humanity.

>>14 I've actually thought about that a lot, and to me it kinda makes sense, at least to me.

Blomp.

Bump because synesthesia is cool!
My best friend has synesthesia and associates letters and numbers with colors. However, not all of her associations are with real colors; she sees "l," "i," "1," and the like as colors that are both clear and either black or white, at the same time. She says she can't imagine living without her synesthesia, especially as an artist.

I'm no synesthete, but I have many associations with senses that I believe other people share.
Low=warm=thick=dark=heavy=down, associated with flavors ranging from chocolate to cumin to beef.
High=cold=thin=light/bright=light=up, associated with just a few flavors, mostly sour ones.

Synesthesia is really pretty cool.
I may have a form of it called spatial sequence synesthesia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia#Spatial_sequence
I see the year kind of like a calendar page and December is dark and at the bottom of a structure and January is white and at the top.
Then numbers. The bigger, the darker the background. I see things in white-to-black gradients. It's hard to explain to someone who doesn't see it the way you do, I guess.
But it's a fascinating condition. This needs to be bumped back up and I'm doing it.

Holy cheese!!! I have this and finally i can talk to people who have it too!!!!! X3 this is awesome...

The form i have is that numbers, people, and some words are colors. The years, too. 2014 is an orange year, 2013 was a bit more blueish/purpleish... 2012 definitely felt dark green. 2011 was a more cream color, then 2010 was yellow, 2009 was dark red and 2008 was bright red, oh i could go on and on~

Also, when i know someone long enough i just start to see color on them. Not physically, but i just feel that that color is /them/. I have an ivory friend, dark red friend, dark blue friend, pink friend, magenta... I'm orange. Not my favorite color but i just feel orange.

I remember reading a book about really cool stuff like synesthesia and spontaneous combustion, telepathy, etc. and there were some people with really major synesthesia that was like people smelling colors and tasting sights! There was a guy that could look at the menu and taste everything just by reading the food!

Anyways im really glad that i found this thread!!!

>>1 my june is green, xD

Bumping this because its freakin awesome