This is one of the stranger forms of synesthesia, and I know it sounds ridiculous, but I’ve always felt it very clearly. I once described it to a curious friend and she seemed almost annoyed, like I was trying to be cute or quirky. I wasn’t. It’s just how numbers and letters have always felt to me. If you haven’t heard of it, ordinal linguistic personification (OLP) means sequences like letters, numbers, or days of the week each have their own personality, and often a gender. It shows up most often in people who also have grapheme-color synesthesia.

Mine is strongest with numbers. Odd numbers generally feel male and even numbers feel female; there’s something about oddness that reads as masculine to me and evenness as feminine. Here’s the cast:

0: genderless and mysterious. Doesn’t talk.
1: a young boy, outgoing and confident.
2: a young girl, just as confident as 1 but gentler.
3: brasher, clever, a little cunning.
4: the exception. Even, but male, maybe because he’s less rounded. Quiet, sensitive, artistic.
5: a jolly middle-aged man who likes a drink.
6: a sassy, adventurous woman with an attitude.
7: well-liked and generous, but doesn’t like drawing attention to himself.
8: a wise, maternal older woman.
9: an androgynous man with trickster energy.

Multi-digit numbers are fuzzier. They feel more like combinations, with the first digit setting the general vibe and gender. Repeated digits (like 33 or 88) have twin energy. I won’t go through every letter, but here’s how the alphabet sorts by gender:

Female: A, B, J, K, P, Q, R, W
Male: C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, N, O, S, T, U, V, Y
Neutral: X, Z

Does anyone else have this? What are yours like?

Is Abigail the same or a different color?

Anyone else feel like some words or sounds make your teeth feel good? It’s like a deep feelings in my teeth and gums. Idk how else to explain it other than “it makes my teeth feel good.” I also have autism so it’s hard to tell what’s synesthesia, what’s just a strange sensory experience, or if it’s both

Can someone with lexical-gustatory synesthesia tell me what these taste like? And if accents affect the taste?

Hibiscus

Aphrodisiac

Table

Chef

Shirt

Iris

Thank you!!!

Hello! I am working on a design project centered around auditory synesthesia and one of the chosen songs is "Feels" by Calvin Harris.

If you experience any form of synesthesia and are willing I would love to know how you experience the song. When you listen what do you see, smell, taste, and or feel(especially interested in auditory-tactile and visual)? Are there any specific parts in the song that have more of an impact?

I would love to hear as little or as much information as you are able to provide! Thank you for your time and feedback!!

Hello! I am working on a design project centered around auditory synesthesia and one of the chosen songs is "the Unmaking Angel" by 404 Breakcore.

If you experience any form of synesthesia and are willing I would love to know how you experience the song. When you listen what do you see, smell, taste, and or feel(especially interested in auditory-tactile and visual)? Are there any specific parts in the song that have more of an impact?

I would love to hear as little or as much information as you are able to provide! Thank you for your time and feedback!!

My name is Brooke
I was thinking dark blue

I'm not sure if my title is accurate but I'll try my best to explain this.

So certain memories conjure certain abstract feelings or "vibes" associated with these memories, along with subtle imagery, that is hard for me to describe.

Such as ..when I think of the one and a half year sabbatical I was on; everytime I recollect that phase of my life, there is a mixture of feelings/vibes attached to it. The best way I can describe it as -- peace, freedom and contentment.

And even those feelings/vibes have "scenes" attached to it. For example, when I say peace; as in, the quiet that washes over you at night when the whole world is asleep and it's just you and the silent night and the comforting warm darkness. and weirdly...a sense of feeling loved by the universe, but the love is something a little out of this world; like an innocence and detachment to that love.

Contentment, as in, the warm orange glow of sunset peaking through trees and hitting you with it, as you're walking through a neighborhood with lots of trees, greenery and gravel, with not a care in the world and the sense that...everything is ok, exactly as it is, with nothing to worry about.

Freedom...for some reason, this conjures up a cloudy grey sky at close to sunset (or a cloudy grey tint...think the greyish-blue tint that was used in the Twilight movie lol), the cool breeze hitting my face, crisp fresh air, vast space where you have all the time in the world (like the sense of time doesn't exist) and this subtle hint of excitement constantly coursing through you, and a sense that the universe has opened upto you with every new and exciting possibilities, where anything interesting can happen, with nothing holding you down.

So yeah...there you go.

I hope I made sense but yeah...some memories have certain feelings/vibes attached to it (like the flavours that make up a memory) and those feelings or vibes even have certain imagery attached to it.

Not sure if this is synesthesia but you tell me....what do you think?

... in that everyone is totally wrong about what colors things are! April is light sky blue, dang it!

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What color are your Months?

I hope this doesn’t sound too weird, but maybe some of you can relate.

My synesthesia is limited to colors and feelings. I don’t really know how to explain it, but whenever I think of or see a number, a letter, etc., it triggers a very specific feeling in me.

These feelings aren’t connected to any particular memories or experiences. So I don’t mean something like, “My birthday is in May, so May feels nice to me.” I can’t even describe these feelings or assign any specific qualities to them. It’s just a feeling that’s there.

I especially love the feeling I get from June and the number 7. The numbers 2 and 4 also feel really nice to me. On the other hand, I’m not a big fan of how 3 and 8 feel, or the months March and September.

Can anyone relate to this? Do you also get these kinds of feelings?

So for context, I'm autistic and I have two other synesthesias that I know of: Spatial Sequence and Auditory-tactile.

When I hear sounds, they usually map to a location inside my body as if my body is a hollow instrument. Like drums and bass thumps low in my stomach stringed instruments run vibration from my stomach to my throat like a string being plucked. The exception is my face. I feel cymbals and higher pitched sounds across the skin of my face in shimmers.

Being autistic, everything arrives for me as a body feeling and a lot of times I struggle to decipher if the feeling is because of a sound, an emotion, a physical need, etc. I've been working on really trying to build my interoception skills and have discovered that it's not only sound that creates the body feelings, but also seeing motion. Like seeing rain hitting a puddle gives the same face shimmers as a cymbal. Seeing a ball hit the floor or a newtons cradle change direction feels the same in my stomach as a bass drop. Seeing swirling patterns gives similar feelings (though a bit different) to string instruments.

I know it's a synesthesia because it feels exactly like my auditory-tactile synesthesia. But it's not just seeing an object stationary, and it's not machine empathy because it's not mapping to respective body parts like mirror touch. Like a puddle doesn't have a face to feel shimmery. And also as far as I'm aware, I don't have mirror touch. (Though I do experience pain empathy with humans and animals).

It's almost like my body almost mirrors vibrations, mediums (like water or air), momentum, rhythm from multiple inducers. Thoughts?

Apologies if this isn't relevant enough to the subreddit, but a friend asked me how they might visualize a cat's sense of smell for a Warrior Cats comic they're drawing and the first thing I thought of was synesthesia, so I wanted to ask here if y'all had any advice on how to portray smells visually?

This is what they've already listed as ideas:
- same colour as the cat's eyes
- shape language based on cat vibes and personality
- if the smell is the focus / clearly identifiable, a symbol floating amid the swirls that visualizes what they smell like

I'm personally a big fan of these ideas, but they're still worried about how to visualize the smell of certain objects, for example. Does anyone here have experience with their synesthesia converting smells into visuals or vice versa? If so, what do certain smells look like to you?

I tend to mix up numbers with letters or colors. Like, especially when I'm tired, instead of thinking of numbers as numbers I think, for example: 5 as a b.

Or one time I was supposed to say the colors of the belts in karate in order and I was super tired. I noticed that ppl looked at me weird cuz in my head I said everything correctly and the girl in front of me was like "...7?" AND I MEANT BLUE.

When I focus on those associations, I can tell that 5 and red for example are similar to me, or 6 and purple, 2 and green, 3 and yellow, 1 and white, 8 and black, or it could be with letters: 7 and f, 4 and r. I don't have those associations with letters that much.

Is there a chance I have some form of synesthesia or are those just some funny associations from my childhood or something?

My Monday is black♠️
M,o,d,a are all dark colours.
Upvote your colours in the comments,don’t downvote!

Ive been looking into Synesthesia after I realized its not probably not normal to feel something when you look at something(for context im autistic and thought it was because of that).
For example, if im driving and I see a street light, I can feel a sharp sensation in my ear. When I see my thumb I can feel a sensation in my eyes that sometimes trails down to my cheek.
I tried looking up what I might have but I just cant find specifically what im experiencing so now im here

Does anyone else have ticker tape?

Making a song called "the number 1" on bandlab, so yeah.