Experiencing pain as a colour: 6yo ds

[DonPablo]

My 6yo ds has a tummy ache. He's mentioned maybe 3 times today. At the last mention I asked him what it felt like, to try and describe the pain. He said it was a green pain. He had tonsillitis last year that was a red pain. Stubbing your toe is a white pain. And so on. I am astonished. I never knew he felt pain as colours. Obviously I've googled it and now know it's synthesia.

Fascinating! Anyone know if green is a bad pain though (I know everyone has a different experience and no one can tell me, but he fully expects me to understand the level of his pain now he's told me what colour it is! He seems OK BTW, just a bit of a sore tummy.)

I have heard of pain been discribed as White Hot in the past when it is sudden / intense . But never any other colours .
I hope your DC is ok now

I experience pain as sound. Its so difficult to get other people to understand what i mean when i say its a high pitched pain

And by that i mean realising that no one else feels it that way

I definitely don’t have that but his colours make perfect sense. Red for burning tonsils, green for nausea and white for a sudden flash of pain.

I’ve seen paediatric pain scales using colours.
www.google.ca/search?q=pain+chart+using+color&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-ca&client=safari#imgrc=wdriP2OEscjwqM:

@fallfallfall that's interesting. Hopefully he meant it was a mild pain! He seems fine and hasn't complained this morning or been up in the night.

It was just so fascinating to hear him describe it as a colour. Bless him, he still seems so small, yet so grown up.

It sounds a lot like synesthesia