Red Mondays and Gemstone Jalapenos: The Synesthetic World

Synesthesia is the blending or mixing of senses. A synesthete, for example, might see colors when listening to music or taste flavors when hearing a word. Dr. David Eagleman of Baylor College of Medicine explains this strange condition, and four synesthetes explain how they perceive the world.

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[TheAtheistSwede]

Hehe, my mondays are red as well. So are thursdays and sundays. Tuesdays are black, wednesdays are beige, fridays blue and saturdays are yellow.

Some numbers and letters also have colours and textures.

I also have the spatial thingy with numbers and weeks/months/years etc.

Synesthesia is so wonderfully weird. =)

[SoftwareEngineer3]

Very well done, and very interesting and thought provoking.

For me, a better analogy, I think, would be how certain smells can trigger a strong memory recollection, a certain 'feel'.

[EarthGirl1919]

B.S. Mondays are so white. Where do you people get red?

[agapitoflores001]

Remember this "Synesthesia is the blending or mixing of senses."

[yubisakireno]

@evercharmer perhaps

[evercharmer]

I find this immensely intriguing. I'm not a synesthete, at least not in the way this video talks about, though I know I perceive things a little differently. I've always just called it hallucinations, though I know the things I see (sometimes hear, too) are not real, they're still there for me. For example, if I think about a cat, I might see a cat wandering around the house for a while. It isn't real, but it's there. Maybe I'm part of that other category it talks about.

[Natelee98]

@TheAtheistSwede Monday are red for me too!

Tuesday=Yellow

Wednesday=Lime Green

Thursday=Navy Green

Friday=Regular Green

Saturday=Orange

Sunday=Yellow

[oilook3]

@SoftwareEngineer3 my last comment was to u i just forgot to click it

[oilook3]

OMG i finally found somebody that does that too! i fell it in my back when i smell the frebreeze we used when i moved out of my house the first time.

my alphabet has personalities as well as the number line. all single digit even numbers are girls except for 6 hes gay. (I'm serious) also my memory's and thoughts are referenced by by colors I feel in my back and the back of my neck....I think its funny because I am a Leo and the Leos main body part is his back.

[princess4JC527]

wowow im sooo jelous ive always wanted synesthesia!! i think its like the coolest thing ever! i think that the people with it are truly gifted!!