Comments on: Synesthesia – My Synesthetic Alphabet

By: Silvina

Silvina — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:58:22 +0000

hola queria pedirles si alguien me puede escribir el alfabeto con colores, ya q creo q el de la imagen de arriba no coincide, mucha sgracias

By: Daisy

Daisy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:18:23 +0000

Woah… man, this sounds just like me. Confusing left and right, creativity, easier to remember numbers and letters… I never really thought much of it until my math teacher mentioned it in class one day. It’s nice to realize that there are more people like me than I thought! ^w^ I have the Letter/Number->Color type, but I know one of my friends has the Sound->Color type. She says it can be blinding in large crowds.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:58:59 +0000

Lord, this is all pretty amazing =) thanks lawrence

By: KrazyKK

KrazyKK — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:15:19 +0000

Hey guys I didnt know about synesthesia until I got the book THE NAME OF THIS BOOK IS SECRET by PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH. oh and Kayla- only Benjamin Blake has it (oh, and the bergamo bros)! i think i might have it though. When i hear, for example, Turandot: “Nessun Dorma” by Puccini, I feel like i am in the scene, taste faint things, etc. sometimes its faint, but sometimes my senses get all jumbled. AMSS is a great starter book, and after i read that i thought about my “symptoms.” Do you think I have it? Oh, and I dont have trouble with left and right, nor do I have many problems with math (though i dont always get the concepts). when i read something, sometimes it looks like the words are in the backround too. They are faint and colored, and when I read the actual thing they seem to jump out at me. oh, and whenever i’m listening to music (or something like that), where i get subconsious pictures, and i wake up to that, they dissapear. its like watching the birds. if you start moving anywhere, even shifting around, you have to start over, because the birds fly away. do i have synesthesia?

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:30:38 +0000

I get white and pale yellow for Christy, radiant and shining. I get the same for Christian, probably because both sound like ‘crisps’, which are pale yellow. But there’s definitely pure white there, shiny white with a pink centre.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:54:03 +0000

What does the name Christy look like? =D

By: thenat

thenat — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:14:20 +0000

Synesthesia sounds really cool. I also read AMSS and got interested. When I am reading your decpriptios of colors of numbers and letters i find myself disagreeing with you but not because I’ve ever seen the before… they just seem that way lol. Mar- I have something similar to you. When i write letters or numbers I often write them wrong especially when doing math with both equations and variables like 8 and x.

By: mar

mar — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:30:47 +0000

I dont know if I have synsethesia or not…Actually I didnt even know anything about it until one of my classmates gave a presentation about it…and now im really curious… but I dont do it much with colors.. its just that sometimes i see an A as 4 a 9 as Q, 7 as a Z, a 5 as an S, 1 as a T,6 as a G..etc.. however its not that it confuses me or anything its more of like an urge i feel when i see either the letter or the number…its weird, and hard to explain…

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:48:05 +0000

I have synsethia too. I see sounds with colours. My favourite sound is gentle music because for me its multi-coloured waves.

By: Brendan Nee

Brendan Nee — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:16:43 +0000

Glad you found this site and got to share your story.

By: El

El — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:50:08 +0000

I have synesthesia!
Iv had it for as long as I can remember but I didn’t realise I had it until I was about 13 when I was talking about it with my mum and she told me what it was because she has it too. I remember talking about it with other people before I knew what it was and they thought I was mad, this made me embarrased. Now I know what it is some of my friends still think Im mad or making it up. This upsets me but some of my other friends think its cool, one even calls it my ‘gift’.

Every word, letter, number, name has a colour and most have personalities. Some have sounds, tastes and smells as well. Some words are unbearable to hear or read because I get a bad taste or smell. But Im getting used to it and see it as a really cool thing which Im incredibly lucky to have.

By: Lejend

Lejend — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:45:34 +0000

i want this condition and at the same time i dont
because i dont want to be teased like that girl named “Mia”

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:48:38 +0000

Brooke, I get a light brown for your name – maybe because I get brown for the letter B.

Kayla, I get tastes for people but not very often. I don’t know why I associate my manager with Liquorice Allsorts! I get light green for Kayla and I get a fizzy lime juice taste.

Has anyone heard of lexical-gustatory synaesthesia? It’s when you perceive tastes when you hear words. I’ve had that from as far back as I can remember.

Yes, Web Nightingale, Y is yellow! So are S and W, aren’t they?

Tom, do you still need the alphabet and numbers 0-10? I can give you my results!

By: Web Nightingale

Web Nightingale — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:26:14 +0000

Allison: That’s true.
We just do it for fun, but actually, every synaesthete is totally different, which is cool, because synaesthetes have diversity,
diver-syn-ty
And Brooke: Hey, that really sounds like synaesthesia Yay!
And yes, there’s taste -to-sound synaesthesia, hearing food
And a lot more… syn combinations are almost endless.
And what your mom has is called Ordinal-Linguistic Personification, OLP, that’s why she perceives numbers and letters that way.
Ask her which is her prefered one about personality.
KAYLA: You have a yellow name! I think is due to the Y. What do you think, guys?

By: Brooke

Brooke — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:16:04 +0000

English please Tom. I’m only 12.

By: Tom Miller

Tom Miller — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:53:54 +0000

Hi there, I’m researching Synesthesia as part of an MA Graphic Design at LCC in London, UK. I’m looking into how similar and/or different Synesthetes’ alphabets and numeration are. If any Synesthetes out there are able to provide upper and lower case alphabets and 0-10 numbers, it would help me generate the information design I’m hoping to produce.

Thanks,

Tom

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:08:36 +0000

Hey guys-
I noticed you all arguing over what colors the letters and numbers are. The true answer:
It varys from person to person. The color one person sees “A” as might not be what color you see it as. It has to do with the wiring of the brain, and it normally is different for every person.
(:

By: kayla

kayla — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:00:28 +0000

hey Guys, unfortantly i dont have synesthesia! im 12 and i was reading a book and 3 of the may characters had synesthesia. i htought the author was makin it up so i googled it i really think it’s amazing. you guys are really cool! now i wish i had it and i wonder if any of my friends have it! so the book was talkin about a kid named benjamin blake and a girl named cassandra who has really pointy ears . ben said every time has saw cass that he tasted mint-chip ice cream, at the end of the book cass told ben mint-chip was her favorite ice cream! do any of u taste stuff when u see people? im really interested in this so any other books i can read? thanks and what do u see for KAYLA (my name)?

By: Brooke

Brooke — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:55:11 +0000

Just out of curiosity, what color is my name? Btw, I think my mom has synesthesia. Numbers have a gender and a personality to her. Is that synesthesia?

By: Brooke

Brooke — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:37:05 +0000

I read “A Mango Shaped Space”. I don’t have synesthesia, but I think it’s really cool. If you guys could tell me a little more about it, that would be great. Are there other types of synesthesia, like hearing music when you eat or something like that?