Comments Change color. I need help. I will respond to anything but pls help! Some words are like garbage, and some are pretty. Also, to me the sound of a cat purring is like the word wood chips. And some words are even or odd like yes is even and no is odd. The word even seems kinda warm and homey and the word odd seems like cold hard metal. I don't think of things like A is pink, monday is yellow. I can't taste words people are saying. Wauuw Uhm i took this test and this seems really fun to have.
I couldnt relate to anything except for seeing a calendar in a circle. Summer is left, fall is up, winter is right, spring is down. Marie Sally Those definilty sound like synesthesia! When graphemes or written things like numbers, letters, days, months, names, etc have a colour, it's called "grapheme colour synesthesia".
Sally Numbers, months etc all have colors, and some numbers have personalities and genders. However, days of the week are strongest for me. Monday - warm yellow, with brown tones. Monday is warm and kind, but also plain and simple. Tuesday - chartreuse. Fun and spontaneous. Wednesday - jewel-toned green.
Deep and intelligent. Thursday - olive green so many greens, I know! It seems straightforward. Friday - purple. Fun and vibrant. Saturday - inky black. Sunday - gold. Joyful and loving. Does this sound like synesthesia? We have more than 5 senses.
Even the sense of touch consists of several senses. Touch or the skin perceives pressure, temperature, and pain, for example. So talking about the five senses is simplified and therefore we will call it classical senses. For people that resonate with synesthesia, the 5 senses blend. Think about any combination of the senses; it could be a form of synesthesia.
Such techniques allow you to explore the different types of synesthesia with synesthetic mindfulness. This form of synesthesia is about sound and color.
Seeing sounds such as singing birds or a car honking. Or music that elicits colors, motions, and shapes. Those experiences vary from person to person. There are general tendencies about the perception of sound. Higher sounds are rather associated with a small shape and a bright color. Deep-pitched sounds are rather dark and large. These associations apply to almost everybody, even for in chimpanzees. Sounds do not only evoke colors. Music can evoke the perception of movement, luminance, or smells and tastes, too.
Auditory-Tactile Synesthesia is when hearing a sound co-activates the perception of a texture. It feels as if you can touch the music with your finger. There have been some contemporary artists, that state to be synesthetes. Find many different exercises to deepen your mindful synesthetic experiences. Listen to sounds and discover their colors and shapes. Or get a pen and start drawing it! Our sense of vision can trigger other senses. Colors or motions can evoke the sense of a sound or even a smell or a taste.
You can see an interesting experiment in the video below. Can you hear something? Do you hear anything when viewing the moving dots? Play the movie repeatedly for best effect. Some people hear sounds when seeing this movie and also when s…. Unfortunately, many of us tend to eat too fast. Especially given that the experience of taste and smell can evoke other senses such as colors, shapes.
Odors have direct access to our emotion and memory areas of the brain and may be one of the oldest senses of organisms. In the SenseSphere you find exercises about the synesthetic experiences of smell and taste. They are interactive. Go to your kitchen and get some items rich in sensory experiences. If you are not convinced yet, that also non-human animals may experience synesthesia, consider this:.
In the Fall of , I was contacted by Brad Bird to create a series of animated vignettes for his movie Ratatouille. The concept was to design and animate a…. The sense of touching is diverse. Our skin is our biggest organ. It contains several different senses: Pressure, pain, and temperature. Touching a surface can trigger the experience of shapes and colors. Also, sensual stimulation , such as a massage, can be enjoyed with synesthetic experiences. Discover the colors of a feather on your neck.
Practice Synesthesia Meditation. It trains your mind to remain on the enjoyable perceptions in the present moment. You find exercises on touch in the SenseSphere. If you want to try out a synesthetic feather experience, try this. Our body and minds are the sources of many different perceptions. Hence, there are many types of synesthesia to explore.
You need to know where your left hand and your right foot are located in space , for safety and survival. Where are they now? It is intuitive for you, to know where your limbs are right now. Thanks to exteroception. N erve cells attached to your muscles send the information where your hands are to your brain. The position and the movement of your left leg can stimulate other senses. Shapes, colors or tastes and smells, you name it.
Or perceive the colors of your body by doing sports, dancing or walking. Interoception is the experience of internal sensations. Such as being hungry, feeling your heart rate, breathing or the urge to visit the toilet. See it as internal perceptions of your body. Less often you can read about types of synesthesia that involve interoception. They can evoke other senses such as the perception of colors, shapes, tastes or a sense of touch.
Synesthetic breathing is an essential component of your mindfulness training; you will find exercises in the path of mindfulness. So, you see why the classification of the five sense falls short to describe all our perceptions. Tough emotions, feelings, and moods are kind of similar in nature, they are very different. Emotions, feelings, and moods can all evoke synesthetic experiences. Falling in love, breakups, being grumpy in the morning or feeling tired. They all may trigger the sense of colors, shapes, tastes or even sounds.
Synesthesia Meditation is also a tool to cope with strong emotions, feelings, and moods. And Synesthesia Meditation helps also to enjoy the positive emotions, feelings, and moods a little bit more, to get more out of the present moment. The training to become aware of moods is regularly involved in the path of mindfulness.
There are different types of pain. One is short and sharp and another is long lasting chronic one. Pain can also be a source of synesthesia.
For example, hitting our little toe in a door may result in a spiky flashy bright visual perception.
When you shift your attention away from the pain and onto the synesthetic perception, the pain may cease a little bit. It is just another perception. Perceive it in colors and without any judgments. Pain Color Synesthesia: Feeling strong sensations, such as pain, are perceived in shapes and colors. We begin with having a look at the colors of remembered pain. Mirror-Touch Synesthesia and mirror pain synesthesias are newly described types of synesthesia. Mirror neurons a re neurons that fire when you watch someone acting.
If you see somebody grabbing a glass of water, your neurons for grabbing, fire too. Just by seeing the action, the mirror neurons are activated. Mirror neurons are essential for learning , especially for newborns.
Another example is when you may be reading, you may hear voices in your head that accompany the words you are reading. It may also feel like a characterizing of each sentence with an identity of its own. It is similar to if when you speak on the street.
All the above are what a person with synesthesia may experience. Common challenges of Synesthesia: Exhaustion caused by Overstimulation Sensory Overload Mistaken as signs of mental illness.
Common Synesthesia strengths. This means that their perspective will be new and intriguing to the rest of us. It is their unique perspective that makes them special. Depending on the type of Synesthesia you have, your abilities are different.
This ability of compare, contract and consolidation is innate to Synesthetes.
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