#chromisthesia

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Synesthete problem:

When you have to explain to your friends that you (and incidentally everyone else) can't wear yellow on a Friday because Fridays are red days and yellow is a Tuesday color.

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Now that you mention it, yeah that's true for me too.

Question for other grapheme color synesthetes

So I’ve noticed that my colors are a lot less strong when the letters/numbers are on a screen as opposed to written down on a physical piece of paper and I wanted to know if that’s just me or it’s a common thing?

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Melissa McCracken is an artist with chromesthesia (sound-color synesthesia), who paints what she sees when she listens to music. Her stuff is pretty cool, I’d buy it if I had money (I used one of her paintings as my heading). her personal website is here, and more info about her and her work can be found here and here 

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Synesthesia

Here are some definitions of synesthesia:

a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality (Dictionary.com)

a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway (Wikipedia)

a condition that happens when a sense, such as sight, triggers another sense, like smell, at the same time (a condition that happens when a sense, such as sight, triggers another sense, like smell, at the same time (Vocabulary.com)

a concomitant sensation; especially: a subjective sensation or image of a sense (as of color) other than the one (as of sound) being stimulated (Merriam Webster)

a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway (Psychology Today)

Basically, when I hear sounds I also see colors, when my mom sees colors she also tastes things, stuff like that. Its basically just two or more senses getting mixed up with each other.

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"Can you see sounds?"

"Yeah, if I make coffee with red bull"

- an actual conversation I had with my boyfriend

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stop making me see this post it triggers my synesthete rage

I’ll say it one more time

THE LETTER A IS NOT RED

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It still blows my mind that there are people who don't see colors every time they hear sounds. Like, how do they enjoy music? What is it like? I honestly think I cried when I found out that that my friends couldn't see sounds. I can't imagine what it's like to not have synesthesia. The world must be so boring for those people.

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I haven't seen it, but this is the best recommendation for it that I've heard.

sidenote:

The Quiet Place is such a movie for synesthesia

sounds are emphasized, and it forces the viewer to pay attention to all of the noises. i found it setting off audio-color and audio-tactile much more than most movies