Synesthesia: The 6th Sense

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[goldsmith]

As someone who has synesthesia (the most common kind of seeing/associating music with color), it was something I never understood other people didn’t also perceive until I was in high school. So thank you so much for covering the topic, it’s always fascinating to listen to!

[DauntlessBlade___]

I think I lost my synesthesia when I got older. Because when I was a kid I would be lying in bed and when I closed my eyes, it was almost like I could feel, hear, smell, even taste the color orange. It was very strange to me back then and I kinda just thought it was normal. Now that i'm older I don't feel that was anymore and haven't for a long time. This video just reminded me of that memory.

[maiaisbored]

I see everyone is sharing their experiences so why not share mine :) Since like 1st grade, when doing math i would always see numbers to have these personalities; like 2 would have a crush on 4 while 5 is a girl and is siblings with 9. Other than seeing words, letters and numbers as distinctive colors, listening to music was always so fascinating - different parts or verses of a song would be colored differently so at the end of each song i would be left with this colorful picture in my mind. And the funny thing is some really nice songs would look so ugly and vice versa bad songs in my opinion looking really nice. Once i had a conversation with my dad about it and he related to me, he said that whenever he feels pain, he feels/sees it in 3D objects, a bruise would feel like a sphere while a headache would be a cube. This condition is really a cool wonder in this universe




Also if youre still here thank you for actually caring and taking your time to read this whole paragraph i really appreciate it <3

[kamiiwave]

Having audio tactile synesthesia in a loud city is sensorial hell. But, my cat's meowing is the sweetest thing in the whole world. I love the velvet feeeling in my skin when i hear they meowing.

[miza]

My thing is... Smells have colours.
I told a friend she smelled different one day. She used to smell light blue, but one day she changed perfume and smelled brown-ish. Then I realized, it wasn't everybody who had that.

[dxr]

This is crazy I never thought you would cover this. My synesthesia allows me to see colors in all kinds of configurations my favorite part are the landscapes of dancing color and texture. This varies from song to song and whether its a happy or sad song. Every song has its own, unique, “landscape”. I love music so much that I can listen to the same song for hours sometimes and if I go back to listen to a specific song years later I can remember everything I was going through/feeling

[valenzuela]

I honestly thought everyone did this until long into my adulthood. Numbers have colors, which also makes it a lot easier to remember them. I also have emotions that are associated with numbers. Certain numbers make me feel good, while others give me a little anxiety.

[derp]

Thank you for this video! Until few years ago I thought I was just crazy, but I've discovered that many people I know have had similar experiences with sensory overlap in this way. Numbers don't have strong colors to me, but letters very much do and the letter A is always red, and the letter g (especially the lower case) is always a strange greenish burnt yellow - maybe curry like? Music has colors too, and emotions have sounds - and sometimes color. Stress is a repeated slow yet complex drum beat that changes in intensity - and the sound refuses to go away until stress is relieved. Pain is rasping high pitched noise and it is blinding white - it can leave a metallic taste in my mouth, even when I know I'm not bleeding anywhere. I have observed that most of the people I know who actually recognizes synesthesia are smart and creative - and all of them have a psychiatric diagnose, but are well functioning in general. I'm a computer scientist, a hobby astrophotographer and I have ADHD. The human mind is fascinating ....

[laniakeas]

I "feel" music as 3d objects and fractal thingies and have mirror touch synesthesia/ empathy synesthesia.
I feel as I'm the person I'm talking to. Took me years to solidify my ego enough to control this type of synesthesia.

So. There's a very wide range. Each person has different consciousness.


It enhances immensely when I take shrooms.

I think there are more types of synesthesia we don't even perceive as ones nowadays

[enlightenedhermes]

I have synesthesia (Chromesthesia, Auditory Tactile, Mirror Touch, Ordinal Linguistic Personification, and Olfactory Visual) (yea I know that’s a lot) where it feels as if my entire body turns into the color I’m perceiving. For the most common example, when I start to make or listen to music, it feels like my body has turned into a rainbow disco ball and I feel the different energies flowing through my body and I can manipulate it around with my will. When I look at people I can read them like a book and I see their colors. Every experience I’m involved in I experience through a 4d perspective.

[inziify]

Once I had a terrible fever during my school days. Having little to no energy to do anything, i used to lie in my bed and play Call of Duty Modern Warfare for hours. Suprisingly now after 5 years whenever I replay that particular game, the sound and visuals of that game give me an illusion that I have fever. I sense the same feverish smell and my taste buds feel like they are not working anymore. I know it sounds absurd but its true. Well ig for me it is.

[complainingabout]

when I was a kid I could feel/hear electricity. I knew which one of my neighbors had their TV on even if they were on mute, behind a closed door and a wall. it was like a humming in my years. I think I still feel it now but since the wifi networks are everywhere, this humming is everywhere as well. And I got used to it.My brain chooses to ignore it and I become aware of it only when I think about it.

[aaronedson]

I have chromatic-lexical synesthesia! And so does a good part of my family. I've known since I was a little kid, but thanks for making a video on it. It always makes me feel special to know people are fascinated by the condition.

[healingypsy]

As a physician I see the human anatomy and pathology and how to treat them in colours. I didn’t know why in medical specialist exams answers to a question would come to me so quickly and easily because the medical pathologies in each question would present in colours. For example Myasthenia Gravis would appear to me as dark green and everything and anything to do it would flag up in my brain. I only learnt I had it when a very experienced life coach made me aware what I experienced was called synesthesia

[toast_stealer]

If you want to test yourself on color&sound synesthesia, the beginning of the song Drown by Atmosphere has really strong colors for me. Like, I see purple dots and one cyan.

[jamesshaw]

"Even with the 5 senses most of us are able to use; we sometimes feel over whelmed by the world around us; so to be over stimulated all the time with a barrage of sensory inputs would be pretty uncomfortable!"

You just explained my experience with Asperger's.

[YuuLinguine]

I don't know about synesthesia, but probably for the buba kiki effect, I see the subject math as the color green. Physics is red. Social studies is orange. Reading as blue. It goes back to grade school when I would have folders for different subjects like an ocd, I just had to have these colors of folders at the start of the semester.

[Ashallmusica]

When i am depressed i listen to a certain song with meaningful lyrics and beautiful instruments, and when i close my eyes i can create an imaginary world or like questioning and going beyond the universe like floating in space with the descent speed(it's all happen in my mind). I often recreate a past event and fix it as i thought: gosh what if i did this. and experience that event with a new perception within my mind. It's just amazing to create and feel those experience and then suddenly open my eyes as i know i was just imagining it all. This behaviour also sometimes reduces the Anxiety and mental pain for a couple of hours.

[dotashorts]

You can literaly live in 6th sense when you close your eyes, visualise etc etc thats how you manifest things in life. Even Nevile Goddart speaks how "Imagination creates reality" if you can live in ur imagination long enough it will manifest it self also in real life

[PetraYlenius]

Ayyyy Synesthesia rep! It's also quite common with autistic people for some reason, it's very interesting. I have many different types of synesthesia but it's helped me the most in feeling bodily pains and associating them with colour, so every time I have a pain that is blue, it means it's nerve related like in the past etc :)