To be surprised not everyone sees smells as shapes

Oh I've never heard of this! I do see the days of the week in colour Monday is light blue, tues is yellow weds is green... I'm completely mad 🤣

I see numbers and dates as colours so I'm totally understanding what you are saying. I would have loved to have seen his face when you said that though!

i dont have that.. i do get words/sounds that feel good/bad when hearing them/saying them. Certain ones evoke feelings.

Pain has a shape.. and that's a recognised thing.. Kiki, or Bouba.. Kiki being sharp/stabby pain, and bouba being more.. rounded.

There are also certain sounds that make my brain silent, i have ADHD, its known as 8D frisson.. and hearing it just.. silences the noise in my head like nothing else.

Interesting to see others also see days of the week as colours, I always have and if I’ve ever mentioned in the past been told I’m strange 😂
Monday - Green
Tuesday - Yellow
Wednesday - Orange
Thursday - Blue
Friday - Red
then the two weekend days are a sort of hazy blue.

I have synaesthesia too as do my sibling and one of my parents. It's not particularly rare, they estimate 3-5%. This means, say, in a typical classroom it's 1 or 2 children in the class with it. I sometimes mention it in passing to my teen students, if we're talking about something related, and have always had at least one in each class with alpha-numeric synaesthesia (not that they knew that's what it's called).

For me and my family members it goes hand in hand with issues like misophonia so it's not entirely a "superpower". There are benefits and downsides of having it

Ah for me Mon-Fri are varying shades of red and pink (blending - Weds is the palest), Saturday is green and Sunday is white.

Always been this way.

I also see the year as a circle (it’s not quite a circle, more like a mix of a circle and a triangle) that we go round and round - apparently that’s weird too. And you can zoom in on the weeks and months

I don't do this or really understand it.

I find it fascinating. A friend of mine sees days as colours too and also illnesses as colours.

I don’t do this but I do think of smells has having colours.

I see words, names n numbers as colours, always have

I have a weird type of synaesthesia that means I taste words. When I was a child I would repeat or avoid saying/reading certain words due to the taste. I was very surprised to learn it wasn't normal!

This is all fascinating stuff! I've never heard of this before.

If people have colours, does this mean they get confused with auras? Or does the person "see" auras but they aren't really auras because of their synaesthesia? I don't think auras exist, but I can understand why they might feel real for some people.

As for words, days of the week, scents having colours or shapes, this is mind-blowing!

I suppose it's like people who have silence in their head, whereas I have a constant internal monologue and often find myself talking to myself aloud. We are all different!

Words have colours for my mum.

I have a form where I get sharp, shooting 'sweet' pains in my shins when I see or am told about anyone having a small injury that cuts the skin. Like a paper cut or similar. Oddly, it doesn't happen if I read about it. It has to be told to me or seen by me.

I do this with colours.

Monday = green
Tuesday = pale blue
Wed = dark blue
Thurs = red
Friday = white
Sat = yellow
Sun = gold

You have honestly at the age of 53 never ever realised this before...
I think you have.

I have the coloured hearing version, which is the most common version of syn. A-Z is coloured, as with 1-9 and 0 and days of the week. Musical notes CDEFGABC (and the sharps) are all coloured, meaning I also have perfect pitch as I hear+see the notes and know what the notes are.

I knew by 1997 that it was called synaesthesia as my mum believed me despite me being a teenager and I could have been telling porkies. She looked it up for me and found out what it was.

Every coloured-hearing syn have their own set of colours which is personal to them but it sticks for life. The colour set doesn't change.

Syn is classed as a neurological condition but I don't like the connection with autism. this is because it seems to me that armchair detectives and internet doctors like to throw the a-word around willy nilly.

Tuesday absolutely is yellow but Wednesday is grey.

No smells as shapes but days of the week have colours and abstract things have shapes.

There was a brilliant FB post about it and I met my soulmate who drew the year perfectly and agreed October is way bigger than January or February 😂

Genuine question. What is Wednesday? I wondered for you if Wednesday is Orange and horizontal because Tuesday is yellow and Thursday is red? So between them Wednesday is orange. Or doesnt it follow a logical pattern just what feels right?

I don’t see shapes but some words have a ‘taste’. For example ‘Ruth’ tastes like cough blackcurrant cough sweets, ‘Tuesday’ like lettuce etc. Not every word but some do. DD2 seems to have something similar, she told me once she didn’t like the world ‘pupil’ because it tastes slimy.

No but some names are foods. For example, Hannah is custard and Kate is a hazelnut 😬 I don’t get it with all names and I don’t admit it to many people because I definitely think it’s weird 🤣

My daughter and I are both aphantasic. My daughter is also synaesthetic. Which seems like a contradiction.
There are some amazing types of Synaesthesia. Like the chap who tastes words. His favourite railway station tastes like an egg and bacon sandwich 😂

I smell bullshit when I see Mumsnet posts sometimes.

Wow! That is amazing. Definitely needs researching

www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/man-who-tasted-shapes-book-richard-e-cytowic-9780907845430

I have it and so does my son. We both see letters as colours, but he also sees sounds as shapes. Welcome to the club!