#synaesthesia — Public Fediverse posts

Three good things for Saturday:

1. #CurbScores & #FreeCycle: #ceilingfan, which is making all the difference in summer.

2. #Epic dreams & #cinematic, #worldbuilding, hyperspatial #synaesthesia.

3. Hot weather urban #garden gleaning #salad: chard, nasturtium, purple #kale, snap peas, sorrel, pea shoots, parsley. Old pesto from freezer made w/CSA leftover garlic scapes & basil, sunflower seeds and olive oil. Dressing: Costco artichokes from back of my cabinet.

#ThreeGoodThings #3goodthings

Examples of Number Forms (1883) by Francis Galton.

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4c7c851e-04ac-434e-ab2e-e189a74ea2e7

#diagrams #synaesthesia #decorative #numbers #patterns #color #design #art #publicdomain

Guten Morgen liebe Fedi-Welt und Drachenkinder ❤️
Egal wie finster die Welt auch ist, Musik macht sie wieder bunter. :)
(Hilft auch dann ganz besonders, wenn man in vollen Öffis unterwegs ist oder das Telefon im Büro überhören will.. ;))

#dragons #music #synaesthesia #colors #mastoArt #publictransport

Kennt das noch wer? Oder ist das nur ein Synästhesie-Ding? ;)

#dragon #synaesthesia #mastoArt #illustration

@wood5y Alex Sobel may have #synaesthesia as he’s “never seen anyone smell of booze” These people have subsided booze. Paid for by us!

"We found synaesthesia is significantly more common in autistic people than in the general population."

https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/projects/synaesthesia-and-autism/

#ActuallyAutistic #synaesthesia #AutismResearchCentre #CambridgeUniversity #autism

@autistics

Colour Associations and Mental Imagery (1883) by Francis Galton.

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6a2097fe-01fc-45a7-ab75-35f55cb702a6

#charts #diagrams #synaesthesia #education #numbers #color #transformation #art #publicdomain

@satsuma @aspeed Although it's engaged in a cage match with Creepy Nuts's Bling Bang Bang Born, because my musical tastes range very, very widely (I blame the #synaesthesia ).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLW35YMzELE

@annika
Err, these are just varieties of #synaesthesia - not really 'super powers'.
A bad super power would be if, for example, you could smell what someone else was hearing.

I see sounds as shapes. #Synaesthesia has given me an extraordinary ability for languages
Kim Elms, a speech pathologist, shares her experience as an auditory-visual synaesthete

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/10/auditory-visual-synaesthesia-languages

#142holdheap #neuroScience

Some #musicians have #PerfectPitch. Some even have #Synaesthesia. Lucky blighters.

I wonder what would happen if some #mathematicians have a similar neurological and perceptual super powers. But then, mathematicians do possess highly developed visualisation abilities and intuitions, which might well be called super powers.

@tiamat271 @hashtaggames

I bet you're wrong. :-)

#synaesthesia

Wow just wow. Went to see the Kerry James Marshall show at the Royal Academy today. Mind blowingly amazing. Cannot recommend enough if you have the opportunity to see this I absolutely recommend you to go if you absolutely possibly can. (Edited to add description of the couple's skin colour) #art #royalacademy #london #kerryjamesmarshall #synaesthesia #BlackMastodon

Was Brazilian modernist painter Lorenzato a synaesthete?

https://otherthings.com/blog/2025/07/was-lorenzato-a-synaesthete/

#synesthesia #synaesthesia #Lorenzato #modernist #painting

@dramypsyd
Mine's the boring one where symbols are mapped onto colours.
I wonder whether your variety is related to the problem some people have with the sound or even just the concept of nails scratching a blackboard?
#synaesthesia #synesthesia

I will die on this hill ‪😤💯

#Synesthesia #Synaesthesia #4IsGreen

It never came up in conversation, but after yesterday's episode on #Synaesthesia, found out that both the kids have it too, and just assumed it was normal. I think this is more common than people assume. Means my wife is the odd one out, as she doesn't have it at all.

About to record the #Synaesthesia episode of our podcast this morning, so any last thoughts you want Kirsten @MoonCat to read out, please get them in now.
This has been a very interesting thread indeed.

Edit so people get to it first, I'd love to discuss these in my podcast if people don't mind. My wife (who's sighted) doesn't get it.
My possibly bizarre version of #Synaesthesia means that words have feeling associated with them, as in my fingers can actually feel what that means.
Having just heard the word 'Utah' in a youtube video, it reminded me that both 'Utah' and 'Uber' feel the same.
They both represent an average car tire with very new treads. No, don't ask why, I have no idea.
Some days of the week also have their associated feelings too, such as Friday being a huge soft spongy ball, Saturday being a Yale lock, Monday being a large camping-style water barrel you can pull along behind you, and Tuesday being the lid of an old-fashioned sweet jar with those huge glass lids that had a ball for a handle, if anyone remembers those.

I haven't heard of anyone else with this particular version of synaesthesia, so I'll just put my madness out there to start a conversation.
Go wild.

You might experience #synaesthesia when you are sometimes so emotionally charged that you see literal lightning bolts

Say what you will about speech being silver and silence being golden, but the letters A, F, H, L, X and the number 4 are green and nothing can convince me otherwise.

#Synesthesia #Synaesthesia

I wonder if whoever coined the phrase "Speech is silver, silence is golden" was a #Synaesthete.

#Synaesthesia #Synesthesia #Synesthete