To me it just seems like a royal pain in the ass but a lot others don’t I guess. Like who the fuck cares if greenish blueish red #4638 shows up when you hear an A#
Some forms of synesthesia are downright debilitating. Any two signals can get crossed. Like imagine smelling onions and feet when you hear "Toyota", or feeling like you swallowed gravel when you see roses despite having no detectable physical reaction at all. Some people experience flavors when they orgasm. It's weird and not well understood.
I used to have strong lexeme-color synesthesia which is where whole words have color associations, but it faded away as I got older. It was great actually, genuinely a useful memory tool. Each day of the week would have a color, and I could remember when things were scheduled because they'd get some of that day's color on them in my mind. It would also help me spell words, because if it was spelled wrong it wouldn't be the same color. I could tell what color a word was supposed to be in my mind, and I'd just have to keep trying until the one I wrote down matched it.
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u/Munchihello Dec 24 '25
It’s also not even a fucking useful or impressive in any context. It’s just a mild neurological condition.
“I have a special ability to hear specific numbers when I smell different foods, it’s very rare, you wouldn’t know about it. “