12 thoughts on “Synesthesia”

1. This caught my eye because I do have a bit of synesthesia. It’s a topic of conversation often at our family dinners with children arguing what colors the days of the week are, and their spouses rolling their eyes. 🤣

   • I have always thought that words had “faces” – they look a certain way that is not always related to what they mean – and of course letters are even more that way. I don’t have synesthesia the way you mention, but I tend to anthropomorphize everything, so I get the drift of what you are saying. People who don’t think this way, it seems to me the world is less interesting!

     • Yes, I can see letters and words having faces.
       And the way words are spelled matters, too–they have different personalities. Grey is much different than gray. 😏

       • Yes, exactly. I’ve always been a good speller and intensely dislike misspellings for just this reason, it destroys the word’s looks and personality

       • 🙂

     • And sometimes words disguise themselves, become unrecognizable. At least to me.

       • You know, words never do for me. Faces, though, impossible for me to hold in my head.

       • I have trouble identifying many things these days…

2. I like the way you connect all of the senses through your word choices in this poem in order to communicate that experience of synesthesia. I do not have synesthesia but my husband does. He has strong and specific colour associations with certain experiences. Aren’t brains interesting?

   • The crossroads in our minds, the routes that thoughts can take-endlessly surprising. What makes life exciting.

3. I had no idea synesthesia was a thing. I think I have it! Since a child I connect the letter R with the numeric three. I still do. No idea why. Don’t have it with the other letters or numbers. I’ll be alert to other stuff as they come up.

   • It’s interesting, synesthesia. And a really nice way to experience the world, I think!

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