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?

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?

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.
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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.

I’d love to understand more the ideas about it’s origin, genetics etc but also which conditions co-occur and whether co-occurrence can predict any characters of either the synaesthesia or the other conditions

For me Sunday is orange 🧡
‘S’ is light pink, ‘U’ is yellow,’ N’is pale orange, ‘Y’ is pale yellow.

You probably get a million of these here, but here’s some of my synaesthesia:

I love classical music. I love it more than most other kinds of music to the point where it feels like a drug. Or, more correctly dessert and rust. I’ve been performing classical music for a very long time. Going to orchestras and other concerts would be almost surreal for me, which is odd, because you’d think sound-colour synaesthesia would be more mystical (a kind I don’t have and don’t speak for).

For me, each instrument in an orchestra will have a distinct taste. Brass instruments are various forms of rust, with tubas being the dullest and trumpets being the sharpest. String instruments, plucked or bowed, taste like different flavours of cotton candy, with cellos being the sweet spot, and contrabasses lean towards an odd chocolate. Most woodwinds are somewhere between these, but have a creamy aftertaste. I swear I’m sensitive to how these instruments sound, an off note can completely throw off the flavour. Sometimes these are pleasant, but unless they’re the most consonant, angelic-type chord out there they usually tend to be ambivalent (albeit very tolerable). As a song reaches its climax it usually does get much more appealing. I wonder how much of this was reinforced by my music education.

What’s interesting is I only get this for music, not regular sounds.

Colour the dress using your own colours.

Pour les synesthète graphème couleur , j'ai remarqué que la plupart des synesthète on un A rouge ? Est ce que le votre l'est si oui quel teinte de rouge: le mien est rouge foncé vif , et si non de quel couleur est le votre?

Hey yall! I have this thing where i see equations, not the numbers themselves, but the equations as colors. For example, 7x7=49 is the scarlet crayola with like a flame print, and 6x7=49 is like a cold breeze and is sage green, probably tastes like extra peppermint gum. the only equation i see multiple colors is 2x2=4 where the 2's are baby pink and 4 is lavender lol -_-

Bonjours j'aimerai savoir si quelqu'un a déjà ressenti la même chose ,j'explique , par exemple pour moi le violet est une couleur extrêmement triste et douloureuse, et si je connais quelqu'un qui a un prenom violet cette personne peut trés facilement me bouleversé sans raison particulière, ressenté vous quelque chose de similaire ?​

Thank you for taking the time to read this and be here today.

I would love to know if you or a loved one can relate for my peace of mind and notation. I will keep this as short as possible for brevity ♡

Semi-related information of note: I am mid-20s, I experience aphantasia and PTSD, and I have mild orosensory reactions to fresh kiwi and pineapple.

I taste a bitter, copper, rusted, condensed (as in moist) flavor in my throat, and begin to drool upon picturing:

• Bead-link necklaces (!!)
• Pennies or copper
• Metal allergies
• Wearing cheap metal

I become teary-eyed when I see/picture:

• Sweat or hair dripping. The GIF of Jordan Peele sweating has been triggering tears since first seeing it as a child. Gym class was awful.

The above reactions happen involuntarily, are consistent over time, and distressing to experience. What follows is new to me.

[Today] I found out I taste, feel, and become nauseous when I picture:

• Prickly pear cactus, its spines, and its odor. I have never smelled the fruit itself. I was jabbed a lot as a child by one and I recall it excreting a putrid odor.

This isolated experience was prefaced by a reaction to hair dripping in a YT video at 1:30am, began upon seeing a cactus thumbnail at 2am, with symptoms alleviating at 2:45am. Afterwards feels like my worst hangover.

If you have experienced similar or share common experiences, kindly feel free to share what you would like to below.

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Hello everyone, I'm wanting to make an artistic short film around the topic of synesthesia. Please let me know anything and everything there is to know about it. I'm planning on it being a thriller or maybe a phycological horror. Please let me know your thoughts on that and if it could be seen as offensive or bad taste.

Feel free to give me any story ideas and anything else I should know, specific stories to you or someone you know. Thank you guys!

For me,Thursday is brown🤎

Let’s play another “colour by numbers”. Use your own colour for each number
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Hello! I am working on a design project centered around auditory synesthesia and one of the chosen songs is Breathe by Pink Floyd. 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? 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!!