Light indigo, slightly-yellow orange, sea green, sea green, somewhat more yellow orange (i.e. hello)

[matt1993]

Hi all! I'm new here. My synesthesia types, for anyone curious:

- Grapheme→color synesthesia

- What I'm currently calling "song→color synesthesia".

Comments

[broken_moons]

1. I had a similar realization of synesthesia as you, where reading about synesthesia made me realise it was happening to me, but it had never been so vivid as for me to think everyone had it. And yes, it took me a while figure out what my colours were, mostly because it's internal and instinctual rather than visual.

2. As far as I know, yes. I mean, my secondary synesthesia is grapheme > colour, and I suck at math. I am good at remembering strings of numbers, though, even better when they have pretty colour patterns that are easy to memorize.

3. I think so, yes. I have two kinds: sound > colour and grapheme > colour. Sound > colour is the more powerful one, and people did always look a bit weird if I described sounds in terms of colour, so I knew it wasn't quite normal, but instinctive for me. That bled into grapheme > colour, but based heavily on sound > colour in terms of letters, and rooted in my first language, Dutch. That is, A looks and sounds red in Dutch, but in English the sound is different, and then the written and spoken form don't match up, colour-wise. This, plus the fact that consonants seem to do little for me (they're all just dark shades of the vowels next to them) makes my grapheme > colour synesthesia weaker, escept for numbers.

I hope our answers are helpful :)

[matt1993]

2. As far as I know, yes. I mean, my secondary synesthesia is grapheme > colour, and I suck at math. I am good at remembering strings of numbers, though, even better when they have pretty colour patterns that are easy to memorize.

I'm not bad at math - I'm just not very fast with it. And I'm good at remembering strings of numbers by their color, but only if I know for certain that I'll have to remember them later, which leads to people who test my memory (for instance, to see whether or not I need accommodations for the SATs) only observing my memory when I expect to have to recall things and thus mistakenly believing that my memory is perfect.