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  • I only have over sensitive senses. Sensory Integration Dysfunction

  • well actually it's one in 23 not 20000

  • when i hear noises i see colors morph and its really pretty. it almost faded because i thought it was the light, but i found out about this and its been working its way back. i thought everyone had it but i asked me friend if she saw athing on the walls and she looked at me like i was crazy and said no its just a wall. I LOVE HAVING THIS :D

  • @darchangel08 i see sound so i said ur name out loud and its a really dark blue with yellow surrounding it

  • @86MrWhite actually its yellow and orange stripes , with a hint of bluish magenta.

  • Muse - New Born playing :D

  • I think because you only see progressive rock as a multitude of colors, and john coltrane as simply red or blue says more about your music tastes than your synesthesia. i don't have synesthesia, but OBVIOUSLY john coltrane has millions of colors flying around in complex patterns and shit. Yet you see it as red/blue?

  • Talentless idiot! Who are you trying to kid mate? Watch some more serious research into the condition and I hope you'll see you're trying despearetly to get on a wagon your too talentless to even keep up with, in order to compensate your averageness.......Miles Davies = Blue? PLease, give me a break! sorry, nice try though.....

  • The music and random sound effects doesn't give this video justice it deserves, it ruins the educational experience.

  • Mind you all, there's a distinction between association and synesthesia. For instance, most people think that A is red, most likely because of Apple. [apples are red. :P] B is blue, or G is green. That sort of thing. Synesthesia is random, but consistent, meaning that if you have synesthesia, you've always had it.

  • this is neat. and music with colours? awesome

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  • Look at me surfing along in the cool Synesthesia wave. Also look at me being all different ahaha faggots

  • When I said "year numbers" I obviously meant in the form of colours - just to make that clear!

  • I'd like to share this game with other grapheme-synnies, cos it's fun to watch. Think of a month and year within your living memory. Add a number for the day and the colours might trigger a memory of that day. If not, you might, if you're like me, get a colour pop-up in the year - like a suggestion, you'll see the year numbers change, and it's cos you'll remember something about that date instead. Cool!

  • I've only just found out there was a name for this. I, too, thought everyone had it. I am a grapheme-synesthete. Does anyone else see their months like a coloured escalator levelling off to the present, and see the colours of the months each side of the month we're in now? I see decades and centuries in coloured boxes, and get confused when people say, "the nineteenth century", then call it "the 1800's" cos it makes the colours jump around and unnerves me.

  • Every time I hear a fart I smell a really bad smell all of a sudden....I have synsethesia

  • why is he acting like it's a problem wtf lol it does nothing but help him in everything he enjoys doing.

  • @mayisnatural i have a form of synesthesia where music produces a very distinct emotion, even if it's the happiest song in the world, if the chord or tune sounds a certain way, it can depress me. it's had a very negative impact on my life. but positive sometimes too :)

  • @inthecity21 All music IS is emotion. You don't have a condition whatsoever

  • @inthecity21 That's not synesthesia. Music has that effect universally. Plus, synesthesia doesn't really affect emotion.

  • @inthecity21 Yeah, that's not synesthesia. But some people do just have stronger emotional connections to music than others, so there's that. :P

  • HEY ME TOO! guess it's not so uncommon after all :P

  • to me, 8 is green, i do not see sounds though :(

  • And all of a sudden everybody on the Internet has this condition.....

  • @JellyBellyDeli It's supposed to be rare : / it's not like free candy not everyone can be different morons the lot of them

  • 4:50 Dream Theater - UNDER A GLASS MOON, fucking awesome.

    It's weird. I can only associate progressive music with colors. Any Colour You Like (Pink Floyd) is always in multiple colors, Brain Damage/Eclipse is always green. Rush is mostly either red or blue, Dream Theater is totally varied. I never get it though when I listen to jazz or classical..

  • @NailsForDinner Any Colour You Like is associated with multiple colors to you because Syd Barrett had synesthesia. You're probably seeing the same thing he did.

  • @mayisnatural Thank you, that is a very interesting piece of information!

  • I got color-sound synesthesia. that Radiohead track at the end is like a blurred silver/white.

  • i have it to! letters and numbers have colors and sometimes i can taste a song!

  • The 'bad' thing about sysnesthesia is that I also "see" what I am thinking of, as though floating in the air. If I am searching for a word or phrase, I look past the person I'm speaking to because I'll "see" the choices laid out in the air behind the person. People think I'm rude or 'shifty', but I'm just checking my visual info that's written in the air.

  • When I read, the letters appear in the color ink they are printed with.

    but when i visualize letters and numbers, they always have colors.

    letters of the alphabet also have personalities. A,B,C, and D are nice.

    F and U through Z are unpleasant.

  • Hell yeah, The Mars Volta! I could tell in the first 8 seconds of the video.

    I've also seen all letters and numbers and such as colours for as long as I can remember too.

    I see music in lots of layered colours, and usually in shapes.

    It's pretty cool though, I'm just finding out about this now (I just assumed everyone was like this, but I guess not)

  • Very nice filming and effects. And you even used Sigur Ros and Radiohead music, two of my favorite bands!!

  • When you guys see colors for sound do you like see the wall change color or do you just think of the color like I we were to try and visualize a picture in our heads?

  • wow i am reading a book about this it is called a Mango shaped space it is soo good

  • I have synesthesia esp. number-form synesthesia and I wouldnt say it is rare....but I honestly thought EVERYONE had it at first....

  • I have synestesia, it rocks

  • HOLY SHIT MY BELLY BUTTON IS TALKING TO ME

  • he should listen to Owl city's music and tell what he sees:)

  • @free1here yeah :) probably the entire rainbow. i love Owl City,

  • i wonder what color rap is...black?

  • @86MrWhite For me it depends what colour the rapper's voice is and what he raps, but the word rap is mostly reddish because R is red (cliche, yeah?) but it has a yellow tinge because of A. There's a bit of light blue because of the P, but not much!

  • ya see.... many people make associations between words and pics or smth of that sort.... i do that very frequently and it helps me remember stuff but i see everything more like scenes and when i read i have the feeling that im wathing a movie or smth but it's not that special many ppl have it ;))))  or maybe that's kinda different dunno too much thinking :)))

  • I also see dates, and times, and calender months as a 2D or 3D landscape or clock.

  • @rwalford1979 so do I, I thought everyone did until learning about synesthesia

  • I can feel and taste words, and certain pitches or tones of sounds or words make me upset or angry.

  • Actually, I just think I may have this condition, because I just learned of it by watching PBS this evening.

  • I sometimes involuntarily associate a name or a word with a person's face, weather I know that person or not. Now I know I probably have this condition, whereas before I just thought I was "different".

  • what color is sigur ros

  • Actually more like one in 23 people have it

  • Mars Volta is green. Isn't that all that really matters?

  • I am currently fundraising for a short film that I am co-producing/starring in- it is about synesthesia. We have a Hollywood director and we are working with an actual synesthete artist. Some of her art works is available as rewards in exchange for donations. Check out our project! Go to kickstarter and type in The Colour of Her scream

  • monday is grey,tuesday black,wed alight brown,thursday dark brow, friday yellow,saturday a dark turqoise,and sunday green id love to know if people with this condition see days in similar coulors to each other

  • @rumplestilskint67 I remember listening to a good podcast on this on "Stuff you should know" from howstuff works. A mother and son both had this, but argued about the colors they saw because they were different for each person.

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  • It's not only about  colours, for example I find that numbers and letters each have their own personalities and genders. Synesthesia can also be very much more complicated than that :)

  • @BeKindToMyMistakes I don't have that, I and assign them to genders sometimes, like S and P is female where E is male etc.

  • For me,

    Friendship is yellow

    manners is brown

    nausea is faded-green

    Evil is red

    Is that normal???? XD

  • @mrcdplay unless you actually see that colour when the word is written or something then yeah. Evil is lamost always red for anyone as it is the colour of blood. Nausea is also usually green as when u c siick people in cartoons they have green faces. But if u just think of that colour as an association i doubt u have it.

  • @Shehoomustnotbenamed I don't, it's just that at one point a word reminds me of something and it gets buried in my mind and stays like that forever.

  • Sometimes I associate certain words with colours, manners in brown, because it reminds me of beans XD that's kinda weird. I'm also kind of weird and different from other people in that if one minor detail in anything is wrong, it HAS TO BE FIXED RIGHT FREAKING NOW!!! If I hear a wrong note in music, I want to kill the person who made, performed that song because they're an idiot for not noticing it. I react in the opposite way to everything that I'm supposed to.

    (commentcharacterlimitnomore)

  • I never knew this was so rare. When I think of words or concepts I usually think of colors or shapes. When i hear the word water i just think of blue, forest green, love is red while happiness is yellow, and friendship is a circle. If one of my friends makes me mad the line i imagine might be wavy instead. I was looking on wikipedia and it says words to colors is most common but thought maybe 1 out of every 2 people had it!!!

  • When I listen to music I get a series of movement and colors in my head but I don't physically see it. But I get EASILY distracted by it. I definitely don't see individual numbers as different colors but names I think most of them I do. A lot of things I have to concentrate and think before I can associate but some I don't even have to think. It sorta comes and goes. When I saw the test for associating movement with sound It came without any concentration whatsoever. I can't tell if I have it.

  • Thumbs up for The Mars Volta.

  • Post a video about a rare condtion and you get comments from people that have it, or claim to have it. I have it too. I see music in different shapes and ripples, like on the surface of a pond. Lower notes are cooler in color and higher notes are warmer in color.

  • Ahhh! Newborn by Muse in the beginning! ^_^

    The beginning of that song (the part played in the video) is a whole bunch of smooth ovals.

  • hahaa imagine this guy on acid .

  • i see color when i read and do math....and play music....thats why i flunk math...the colors don't match

  • is it weird if i can feel music

  • You are so cool! I'm 12 and just realized the kind of connections with numbers/letters with colors. The next doctor check-up I have I'm going to ask him. You did such a good job with this video! Thank you so much for teaching me and many others!

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  • I get what this guy is saying about musical phrases, but for me its more or less, the wirten music is colours. Like anything on the bottom like (g for bass clef and e for treble) is rown, and all of the spaces are lighter, intil you get up high when its all just black white and grey and un recognisable...anybody else get that?..like along with the usual grapheme stuff...

  • I dont see colors, I see images. when I hear certain words, or Names. An image will flash thorough my head. Green is bitter, where Pink is more sweet and creamy. Days of the week, Months of the year, and also years, are layed out in my head, each day or month has a certain place. Days of the week are in a triangle pattern, years are in the pattern of a monopoly board, and years are like a rolodex, that flips through when I think of a year.

  • @OriginalRockstarJosh omg that is so me XD

    high five :P

  • @MrSeriouslynotfunny that happens to you too?

  • @OriginalRockstarJosh well... only the "image" part ^.^

    just like when i see red it reminds me of strawberries and how sweet they were

  • @MrSeriouslynotfunny wow. thats cool, Ive never met someone with the same type of synesthesia as me. Im happy. :)

  • later researches reveals, that even 1 of 27 might have synaesthesia (without taking drugs)^^

  • is this sinesthesia? one time i smoked pot tripped on it, and now everybody is more vivid than their surroundings.

  • Have you said that "c" is lightning ?

    My "c" is shining, it has a lot of energy. It's a little girl that smiles all the time. "c" is also yellow as well as "k" ,"3" and "S" but all in diffrent tonations.

  • I once took some mescaline, and I could taste the sound of a pencil sharpening.

  • I have synesthesia, and so does my best friend, Jordan. It's awesome :D

  • nice one

  • SYNESTHESIA: S is reddish orange. Y is watery light aqua.. N is orangey brown. E is jet black. (S) T is golden yellow, so is H. (E) (S) I is white. A is the same as Y, watery light aqua. Many spelling bee winners have synesthesia, as the colors add an extra mnemonic. (My name looks like a Tequila Sunrise!)

  • Do you also see the words in your head when you read or hear them?

  • @killchickeneggboy when i write them and sometimes when i here them,but i have synesthesia

  • i want synesthesia badly.

  • @neppy123com me too!!!

  • do i have synesthesia? by the way pat reminds me of mac and cheese and flowered tourist pants

  • @pengald so he looks like mac and cheese or flowered tourist pants? I have that kind! I have a type where people look like objects, words, numbers or letters! lol since i was a kid!

  • @pengald Maybe

  • i hear a word and i see all the letters in my head as colors and when they all add up together i get another color. for instance the name mike, m reminds me of red, i=silver, k=light blue and sharp things, k generally overrides other letters in a word for me,e=yellow. those all add up with the way the name mike looks and sounds to make it remind me of black and spikes.

  • Gregg Braden, explained the THEORY of the power of human emotions in a manner understandable to everyone...lets make it FACT by using the Y'AH's perfect circle of sound. Nine Synesthetes are necessary to create EACH, Y'AH perfect circle of ...sound. This is the portal we need to design the Stargate to another different portal in a distant location.

    TWO Stargate's are necessary, one is the receiver and the other is the trans-portal but both can still be located here on earth.

  • "Rare neurological condition"? It's actually fairly common, just not so to the extent for most people that it can be considered a useful characteristic, as opposed to neutral.

  • @thehappiestcamper No, no, it is rare. I am taking a psych class, and we studied this. Synesthesia is a real neurological condition, where senses just happen to cross between each other. Unless you can "enjoy the sweet smell of purple" or "taste the sound of raindrops", you are NOT a synesthesiac. Connexions to words/colours of everyday people cannot compare to this condition ;)

  • @LiiHoa Smelling colors and tasting sounds are definately synesthetic experiences, but more common among these are grapheme color synesthesia in which a subject simply sees colors for numbers, letters, months, or days of the week. That's still not super common, but it's not exactly rare. It's more common than everyone seems to think though. That's just the point I was making. :P I did a research paper over this because I'm a grapheme color and spacial synesthete. XD

  • @thehappiestcamper That's true ^^. My bad for misunderstanding what you meant ;)

  • @LiiHoa Haha, no problem. All understood. :D

  • WHY WOULD SOMEONE WANT TO GET RID OF THIS! IT'S A TALENT OF PERCEPTION! I WISH I HAD IT!

  • try to look at electric blue color while listening some nice music.it will be better

  • once when i was listening vivaldi and fell asleep sligthly but suddenly i woke up.i slept almost 10 second and i remembered music was the best sound i heard and music was talking.melodies were sentences,words but i remember they re like meaningless words in different language that i dont know but i can undetstand them in that case then i cant forget this and i researched about it.sometimes i try it while listening music before sleep but it fails.sorry for broken english i just wanted to say..

  • He associates artist with color but for me I can take a single song or sound and give it a separate color. but this helped explain the condition a lot

  • I have the personification form of synesthesia.

    Whenever I do math whether in my head or on paper, I interpret the individual numbers as having personalities.

    For example:

    6 and 7 are sister and brother. 9 is the eldest, elegant, and responsible. 5 is mischevious.

  • @CitizenOfWonderland i have that too and i think of 5 the same way,only a little more like a high school jock

  • theres like 4 or 5 radiohead songs in this haha

  • i have synesthesia but everysong has its own combination of colors or one color ....but i never have one color for one artist....every song is different....very few songs have the same combination of color

  • Hmm...I don't have synesthesia (i think), but I associate colours with stuff alot...

    @darchangel08

    Holly-Brown

    Nicole-White

    Alice-Red

  • What happens if a synthesist takes acid? Does it become extremely strong?

  • @Boonchocks i heard if u have some sort of visual synesthesia,acupuncture can make it stronger

  • Thank you for making this. I am impressed with the cool quality. This video just makes me feel at ease and good.

  • I don't see colors when I listen to music, I see wavelengths in black and white. Numbers and letters have colors, but they, along with words, also have personalities.

  • Black isn't a color hahahah.

  • @Whyisthat101 lol that was a win

  • i have synesthesia, but i dont see the colors on the paper of anything, its just when i imagine the letter or number in my head.

  • @yornodnarb me too

  • its 1 in 23 people that have at least a small form of synesthesia. I have a little bit, mainly just colors with letter and numbers. but only in my mind

  • The mars volta fukn rock

  • can anyone w/synesthesia tell me what colors you see when u read these names?

    holly

    nicole

    alice

  • @darchangel08

    holly--green

    nicole--yellow

    alice--white

  • @darchangel08

    Holly - Peach/yellow

    Nicole - Blue

    Alice - Red

  • @darchangel08

    Holly: I see an echo-y "H" sound and a sphere

    Nicole: a cut and a roll over a slightly crunchy surface

    Alice: a hot pink blade and trickling black and clear liquid

    That makes no sense when I write it down.

  • @darchangel08

    holly - white

    nicole - gold

    alice - red

    I love having synesthesia. Aside from numbers/letters, I associate colours wirh days too i.e., Monday (dark blue), Thursday (green), Saturday (orange), etc. It's mighty fun.

  • @darchangel08

    Holly-purple green

    nicole-gold

    alice-pink

  • I used to think that numbers and shapes belonged to a certain color. Like, the number four and triangles are green, fives are red, twos are yellow, and circles are purple. And sometimes, I swore I felt sound. Then again, I also used to have really bad hallucinations. Guess I'm not special. :/

    But, history-sicial studies is red, religion is purple, math and science are green, and language is either yellow or white. Maybe I'm just weird.

  • @RawrgasmsAreFun @RawrgasmsAreFun nah man, i have synesthesia. It varies with levels of intensity and the way you grew the connections in your brain, you ARE special man

  • man your so lucky :( im an artist of some sort and ive been so jelous of my cousin shes had it since we were kids and ever since she told me she had it i feel like my worlds dull because i dont see colors when i hear music...and im a terrible speller...

  • 5's are orange to me too! but 2's are blue. i thought everyone did this too. I do it with letters and words as well. and i was always good at spelling in school and reading. i don't see colors with music which is funny because i don't have as much interest in music or learning as I have in art growing up .

  • are you kidding me??! lmao i have synesthesia and i love muse. i honestly got so happy when i heard new born.

  • The music in the begining smells like yann tiersen =O I can't remember what it is but I'm guessing it's from yann tiersen. can anyone tell me?

    oh btw I see the days of the week in colors =D monday dark blue, tuesday dark yellow, wednesday light blue, thursday dark green, fryday red, saturday dark purple-ish, sunday light yellow =D oh and 4 is allways green for some reason =/ 3 light yellow 7 dark blue 6 red. the other numbers don't realy have colors =O

  • @thepianoaddict oh nvm think it's muse

  • @thepianoaddict no w8! ah nvm. anyone please tell me what's the music in the beginning xD

  • i think i have it. i feel colors in my back and get a memory recollection opun sertant smells

  • Oh, God, Muse!!:) I'm a synesthete too, I see music and sounds, and I love to "watch" Muse :D

  • @papapandax3 I was 'tested' for syneasthesia not long ago by a lecturer at my university. I don't physically see the colours but my association doesn't change and APPARENTLY that counts as syneasthesia.

  • Dream Theater :D

  • My synethesia result is like dots and sounds. Haven't found a use for them besides some kind of intuitive knowledge they have about the future. What?

  • im pretty sure i have synesthesia, but do you actually PHYSICALLY see the numbers and letters in colors, or does it just remind you of the color you make out? cause i see the color in each word on here in black. but im reminded that a is red, d is pink, f is green..

  • @papapandax3 u dont have to physically see the colors

  • wow. this was enlightening--i've always thought i had synesthesia with music and colors and shapes. and i memorize music really quickly.

    besides, why would you not want to have synesthesia? it makes life interesting!

  • so how do you go to the doctor and say you smell colour without him thinking your insane?

    Im a media student and I totally understand what you mean about photography!

    I cant play music...and I cant read it but I can see music as colours or patterns!

  • I did my science fair project of grapheme- color synesthesia, I got an honorable mention!

  • @ImGoingToBeAnMD Congratz!

  • what is the song that starts at 3:41?

  • it's not a condition in the sense that it's bad. I pity those who can't experience it.

  • I don't have Synesthesia, but I think of colors for most things. Is that weird?

  • @roinbandit2 Yep. But so is everything.

  • I don't believe its all that rare... It's just no one wants to talk about it because I personally have had everything from disbelief, to people actually wanting to kill you for being a freak.

  • this can happen off doses of lsd and Psilocybe mushrooms ,were people see music and such like

  • when i was a kid i used to tell my mum the sweets tasted black and orange (the colours)

    i dont get it anymore

  • @policematrix that's not synesthesia. it sounds like you associated sweets with halloween. i have synesthesia too, and it doesn't go away when you grow up.

  • @raisaers yes it does , just because it hasnt in your case dosnt mean its the same for everybody, and a recent program on the bbc surgested that in most cases it left people as they got older usualy past the teenage years

  • i think this is so interesting. i did a project on synesthesia for a psychology class i took where i came across a bunch of artists and musicians that create based on their colors like this its awesome

  • When you look at a note C# on a musical staff, like on sheet music, could it look blue... But when you hear C# it sounds red? Or something like that? Or is the musical note the same as the sound sense?

  • i have what i believe to be a type iof synesthesia except ive never heard if someone having it. i can feel shapes or textures for sounds. idk if im just weird or if this is a type of synesthesia ill keep looking.

  • I have this synesthesia as well!

    e.g. When I hear thunder I fell broccoli

    I read about this one,it is a type

  • I really want to meet someone with synethesia in person and just talk with them. I think it's really cool. Do you see it more as a strength or weakness? well.. Not like you're lower or higher than everyone, but do you like it more then not like it? Have you read the book "a mango shaped space"?

  • what color is my name? my names rowen

  • darker colours, ranging from warm to cool, something like a dull orange changing to maroon and then shades of purple and finally dark greyish blue at the end

  • It must be annoying to hear this question all the time, but what color is my name? -- What is your favorite music and why? When people speak do you hear the colors? Can you understand what people say just by colors or do you have to use the words? Are other languages hard to learn? What is your favorite letter and word? -- I'm really interested in this. Sorry if I'm a bother.

  • I have Synesthesia. Your name is like:

    R = Maroon O = light orange W = yellow = E = black N = light green.

  • I have synesthesia as well.

    Your name:

    r is rusty orange.

    o is warm white.

    w is golden yellow.

    e is green.

    n is light orange.

  • could he have been any more pretentious??

  • well he's wrong about all the colors. i see different ones

  • everyone sees different colours.

  • he's not wrong. everybody sees it differently, but it is a very real sense.

  • Awesome video, pretty fuckin cool!

  • what's the name of the song that starts at

    :08 at the beginning and what kind of video editing software did you use?

  • The song that starts at :08 is New Born by Muse. I used Avid Free, the very first editing software I ever used.

  • Great minidoc. I basically have the inverse of what Patrick has (visuals evoke sounds in my head, ordered sequences have personalities, words evoke unrelated images) and it's nice to see the phenomenon presented as something cool as opposed to ominous.

  • Boohoohoo :*( I'm good at visuals, can spell great, memorize things easily, and am good at music.

    This burden is so heavy, boohoohoo.

  • What's synthesia?

  • What he talks about. Basically it's a crossing of your senses. You can see sounds in color or letters or numbers. Other cases include tasting shapes and other different thigns like that.