Do loads of people have synthasesia?

[StealthPolarBear]

Is it more common than I imagined? I first came across it on here and am fascinated, I have no idea what everyone means :) I had assumed it was rare but there are loads of you!

I think it's very common, but people don't realise it's a known phenomenon until they read about it; or don't even realise they do it. I've had it all my life but assumed everyone was the same.

Mine doesn't give me any enhanced intellectual prowess, alas!

I 'see' numbers and days of the week and the year much as pictured in the Wikipedia article about this. Sort of looping patterns of numbers folding back on themselves.
The year is a big oval loop floating in space and I can view it from above, or as if standing on it.
I had no idea that this was unusual - I can't imagine how anyone else works out dates and time or counts in any other way.

Some smells and tastes are in colour for me, too but this effect has worn off with age.

I read books as if I'm watching a movie. Rather than just reading the words on the page, I picture every single scene in full color moving along just like a film. Don't know if that's synesthesia or if everyone can do that? The only other one I have is days of the week being colors.

Eldest daughter has it. She has letter colour, number colour (that could be letter colour tbh), music is in colour and pain in colour ( if she says it’s purple we know she is in serious pain!)
The letter colour seems to correlate to vowels and phonics.
I love listening to her explain all the different colours - fascinated me.

I have no idea what you are talking about so I'm guessing neither no one I know has it or myself.

I don't see numbers in colour but in light and dark, a bit like a spot light is shining on different areas.

I see numbers, letters/alphabet, centuries, decades, years, months, days of the week in a linear way with different days/numbers/letters in either light or dark.

For example number 1 is light and each subsequent number gets darker through to about 15/16 when it's starts getting light again. Then it goes dark around number 28 through to 33 and so on.

I honestly though everyone thought like this

Poppins, carrots are the same as number 4 😆

I have it. Mondays are pale yellow.

I have it mildly, but it was much stronger when I was a child. I think some of the colours that I "see" now may actually be old associations from when I was younger, so I see them now because I have learned to think of them in that way, iyswim.

I mainly get it with days of the week, months of the year and names, along with a few other words. The names that I grew up (eg close family/childhood friend names) are much more strongly associated with particular colours than names I have only encountered as an adult, but some new names do still acquire colours. Not all, though.

I can't smell things and can't really imagine how that works, it's only colours and particular words/names. I sometimes get frustrated by colour-coded rotas with people's names on them, because the colours are often just wrong.

Also, just to put the record straight, Mondays are a peachy/beige colour, and Tuesdays are bright red.

I see and hear things in colour, names, days of the week, numbers. I think a lot of people do, didn't know there were so many on here though I might have assumed.

@alexashutup

“I sometimes get frustrated by colour-coded rotas with people's names on them, because the colours are often just wrong.”

This was me when picking baby names. It often wasn’t that I didn’t like the names themselves, often the colour combinations were wrong

My children all do, I don't, nor does DH. I've wondered whether it has something to do with the fact that they're all quite artistic. Also whether it was anything to do with the fact that, as babies, I used a rattle with brightly coloured discs and and they used to spend quite a lot of time looking at the different colours.

I'm not artistic at all, so not sure about that theory!

I used to 'see' noises in colour- like fireworks when I was a child. I only see them now when tired or dropping off to sleep

I get tastes for certain words. DHs full name tastes like cabbage, luckily which I like, but I tend to use his shortened version. Niamh tastes like salt and vinegar crisps.

I have it with numbers.

Snow smells differently to any other weather !
I can ' feel' which day it is sometimes: Mondays always feel different to Fridays! (It's an airborne thing!)
I don't see colours though.

I also 'see' the year as a clock face so at the moment we're all on number six!
Dh thinks I'm mad.

Has anyone actually tested this properly?
I'm amazed at how common it Is

Stealth, I remember being amazed when I realised that not everyone saw Friday as green. It seemed so self-evident to me!

@Awwlookatmybabyspider, DH has all three of his names on your dark list and indeed has dark hair and also dark brown eyes.

I have this and thought it was normal until it came up on MN. Days, numbers and letters are all colours. I too read as if watching a movie. I do smell some weather....kind of. I just seem to know what's coming.

Why aren't these people weather men/women?

The80sweregreat My year goes anti-clockwise. I feel all weird if I try to imagine it clockwise. We're between 1 o'clock and 12 at the moment!