Do you have synesthesia?

[Liberty Belle]

Poll coming

 

[Ginny Favers]

I can't believe I am the only one so far who knows what that is. YES!

 

[Ginny Favers]

Seriously, though, DD3 sometimes tells me that a loud noise is "red" or that something sweet tastes "yellow". I thought maybe she had it, but I think it's just her fledgling vocabulary.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I can't believe I am the only one so far who knows what that is. YES!

I know - not a lot of people I know have it or know what it is. I grew up just thinking it was normal. I don't think I even mentioned it to anyone (which seems weird, but ??) until I started dating my husband and I mentioned something about a color of a letter and he looked at me like I was crazy.

Last night I was tucking my son in and he said, "Mom, what color is a triangle to you?" I was so excited (we both agree they're yellow). I asked him about other things then and he definitely has it. He's the only other one in the family that I know about.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Seriously, though, DD3 sometimes tells me that a loud noise is "red" or that something sweet tastes "yellow". I thought maybe she had it, but I think it's just her fledgling vocabulary.

Could be. It does run in families.

 

[Ginny Favers]

That is SO cool!

I knew about it because I've read a few books about it: A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass and Ultraviolet by RJ Anderson.

 

[LuvLDM]

I know what it is only because my daughter just read a book about it & we were discussing.
I don't have any color/number associations but I do tend to have very strong smell associations, if that makes sense? It's likely just a quirk.

 

[LuvLDM]

That is SO cool!

I knew about it because I've read a few books about it: A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass and Ultraviolet by RJ Anderson.

A Mango Shaped Space...that's the book my daughter just read. It was a school assigned book, she found it interesting.

 

[Jreaven]

We recently discovered that my DD6 has this. First in the family that we know of. I will definitely be checking out those books! Thanks!

 

[Liberty Belle]

I know what it is only because my daughter just read a book about it & we were discussing.
I don't have any color/number associations but I do tend to have very strong smell associations, if that makes sense? It's likely just a quirk.

I see colors for numbers and letters, days of the week, months. Also, sometimes I feel shapes in my mouth. I don't know why I do some times and not others.

Also sometimes I get a taste in my mouth when I see particular colors, but I don't know if this is a "normal" thing.

I'm very sensitive and can be very emotional - not sure if this correlates to synesthesia or not.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Wednesday is Indigo Blue is another book about it that's usually easy to find (except to me Wednesday is yellow)

 

[Molly Meow]

I'm pretty sure that my DH does. He sees numbers as having genders. I think it's neat.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I'm pretty sure that my DH does. He sees numbers as having genders. I think it's neat.

I do that, too. To me, 4s are very masculine. 3s are feminine. And typically, the more masculine the number/letter, the darker the color is (4 is brown and 3 is yellow). I know it sounds a little crazy to people who don't do it (and, btw, it's just "there" it's not like you have to think about it or anything), so I'll stop there.

 

[Kbella's mom]

Wednesday is Indigo Blue is another book about it that's usually easy to find (except to me Wednesday is yellow)

LOL Wednesday is hunter green to me!
I'll have to get that book.

 

[ashley0139]

I do know what it is, and I don't have it. Nor have I ever known anyone that has it (that I know of). I find it fascinating though.

 

[keypooh90]

I don't have it but I do find it interesting!

 

[ZephyrHawk]

I have the lamest kind of synesthesia. Days, weeks and months feel like they have locations in physical space to me. My mom is the only other person I personally know who has this, and she didn't know about it until I told her.

 

[kt_mom]

I have the lamest kind of synesthesia. Days, weeks and months feel like they have locations in physical space to me. My mom is the only other person I personally know who has this, and she didn't know about it until I told her.

I'm the same with days, weeks an months. I didn't know it was a thing though.

 

[elgerber]

I don't but my dd has a friend who believes she does. My dd actually did a report on this for school last year so I know what it is.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I have the lamest kind of synesthesia. Days, weeks and months feel like they have locations in physical space to me. My mom is the only other person I personally know who has this, and she didn't know about it until I told her.

When I think of a month, I see it as part of a circle of all the months and they're always in the same spot. December is on top, June is on the bottom. Is this what you mean?