To be surprised not everyone sees smells as shapes

@LargeChestofDrawers Interestingly, she says that listening to music can be a form of pain relief as the music drowns out the sounds..... Does this work for you?

I do that. Monday is dark green, Tuesday is lighter bottle green. Wednesday is brown, Thursday is light grey, Friday is pink, Saturday is black and Sunday is white! Been like that since I knew what days of the week were!

Edited to say I see the day, weeks, months and years as if they were in a picture too. Years are like a sort of flat circle. Weeks, are lines with a sort of hook at the top for the weekend - like a walking stick shape. And days are sort of a rough hexagonal shape.

I love meeting other synaesthetes in the wild!

Names (occasionally other words, but mostly names) have flavours, mouth-feels or actions for me; I keep meaning to do an AMA about it.

Examples: Laura tastes/feels like celery, Hannah is pushing a headband back on your hair, Paula is flat Coke, Lucy is Haribo rings, Joanne is chocolate-covered toffee, Craig is a buttered cream cracker. Jess is a baguette, but Jessica is a jacket potato.

😂 I sang the pain to the doctor once (it was a low trombone kind of pain) - I honestly thought he'd know exactly what I meant, but he boggled at me as though I was completely mad!

@LargeChestofDrawers DD also feels pain as sound - the OT said she had never come across it before so it is great to hear someone else has that too!

Always entertaining in a&e when they ask if something hurts (despite me saying she rarely feels pain!) and she says it is a c# 😂😂

I cannot see smells as a shape. I do have a very good sense of smell and am good at identifying scents. For me smells trigger memories.

I have time/space and grapheme/colour synaesthesia, before I could even spell the words they had colour when I heard them. I see words in colour- they come up in my minds eye as if they're being typed out.

All sounds have shape and colour. All days, months etc. I have a timeline that I can zoom in and out, of weeks/years/centuries, going back to ancient history. It fades out after about 2050.

I get this too. Red and blue are 1 and 2, yellow and green are 3 and 4. Orange is 5. I don’t know why.

I also group things together. Like… 7, Tuesday, Purple, March are all in the same group. I don’t know what that group is. But my brain tells me they belong together.

sounds nuts written down haha

I do this too but I don't think it's the same is it? I think everyone sees months / seasons as colours hence the "I'm a soft spring" talk. I might be wrong though

i hear sounds as round, blobby, spiky etc with different colours, not quite the same but you are definitely not alone OP!

Me neither. The mind boggles.

Wow, I've never heard of smells as shapes! So interesting but can't imagine it myself.

I've always been fascinated by how differently people visualise weeks/months/years so this is v similar. OP, I wish I had your superpower!

Yes, I do the same and I "hear" trees and plants as musical notes.

Tuesday is sooo yellow but I would say Thursday is green or maybe blue.

I see numbers and letters as either male or female and some are associated with colours or personality types.
H is a motherly woman, for example.

Yea- the study I was part of was looking at the link between it and autism

I have it- was part of a post grad study on it a few years back- got to have an mri of my brain. Had to undergo extensive testing online before I was called in .
I see numbers, months, days, years etc as colours. I have a dislike for certain of these just because I don’t like the colour. 2025 is pink, 2024 was dark blue and 2026 with be a burgundy colour. Sunday is golden- Monday will be red.

I have the more common grapheme-colour synaesthesia. The colours of numbers and letters have remained consistent.

These are really interesting! I attach colour to lots of places, not all though. My daughter does too and we tried to work out whether we had the same colours for the same places and we did, apart from the city in which we live! E.g. Mexico yellow, Vietnam green, Copenhagen blue, but I think some of these are probably images we’ve unconsciously associated with a place.

I have time/space synesthesia. I see (well feel as much as see, as I can feel myself moving through the points in the diagram) as points in time in diagrams . So years are round and we are currently moving in to the top of the fourth section of the circle. Weeks are thin straighr lines and months are also straight lines but divided up in to four different columns.

They also have colours. Aigust is a sort of yellowiy orange.

I see days of the week as colours.

My brothers found my 1977 diary and forever took the piss when as a 7 year old I’d written a diary entry ‘Wednesday is a green sort of day’!

It was only years later that we realised there was a name for this!

Smell has a texture. Pain has a sound. Music has a shape (but isn't that what dancing is based on?).

In my mind every person has a colour and so do days of the week and smells.

Of course you know this. You are just feeling in the need for some attention.

Taste and smell as colours. Smell also has texture.

When I say eww, my oatmeal tastes red, people look at me like I'm nuts so I learned not to say things like that.

Pharrell Williams apparently sees music in colour