[Solfonny]

Words that have an ex in the accented syllable, or start with an esp are lavenderish (Perplex, espionage). Words that end in rene or ique are teal (Serene, Unique). Also, the word Couple is the colour of goldfish. Fluke. Bleak. Little things like that. It's a very slight case of grapheme. I have to say, I'm kind of jealous. I wish I could feel music.

[Kamishi]

Words that have an ex in the accented syllable, or start with an esp are lavenderish (Perplex, espionage). Words that end in rene or ique are teal (Serene, Unique). Also, the word Couple is the colour of goldfish. Fluke. Bleak. Little things like that. It's a very slight case of grapheme. I have to say, I'm kind of jealous. I wish I could feel music.

I think a decently developed Fi will help you to accomplish this. Maybe the INFPs got some ideas of how to describe the experience also which could help you to approach music in a different manner? I wonder if it's related to Si also (see the atmosphere thread).

Learning to feel music is a very overwhelming experience though I think. It's like submitting entirely to it during the duration of the song. For me it works the best if the music is kind of sad though but the music must always fit the mood or it creates some mental dissonance. I can do a degree immerse myself like this also when watching very good movies or reading books, but music definitely affects me the most. Probably has to do with my auditory learning that I simply easier pick up audio cues over visual or purely abstract. I tend to judge music if it's good or not of how it feels.

And C-major is such a yellow/orange chord :) A little like orange juice. G-major is green. I need to continue thinking if I have made more of these strange associations subconsicously.

[Solfonny]

And C-major is such a yellow/orange chord :) A little like orange juice. G-major is green. I need to continue thinking if I have made more of these strange associations subconsicously.

And Asus2 is very red to me now that I think about it.

[Evergreen23]

What about associating people with colors? Not like an aura, but something like "X is brown and green," etc.

[Traum]

I read this comic about Ordinal Linguistic Personification today and started thinking about synesthesia.

I appear to have the most common form of Grapheme → color synesthesia, which means that letters, numbers and weekdays, for example, are associated with certain colors to me. As in
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday (if others can be a little ambiguous to me, like Wednesday, which appears to be a mix between violet and yellow at times, I'm sure of more than anything in the world that Thursday is brown. I mean, it's Thursday! How can it not be brown?)
Friday
Saturday (it's white)
Sunday

Sunday is actually whitish-bluish-yellowish. It's hard to assess. When I think of the word for Sunday in my native language, though, it's definitely pink. That's another interesting thing: the names of the same phenomena in different languages can have different colors. I think it's because the colors are more associated with the combination of letters than with the underlying concepts.

So, do you experience synesthesia? Maybe in some of the more interesting forms?

Hi, INFP here visiting the INTP forum.

I have grapheme-color synaesthesia, too. I understand what you mean by uncertainty of some and certainty of others. I can't tell if my Thursday is orange or purple sometimes. And, hey, my Sunday is also blue and yellow and white!!

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Also, my days of the week colors are the same colors as the letters *in* those words, mostly. But I feel like it's separate in a way; almost a coincidence. And in German, my second language, the days of the week are spelled differently but look the same, even Wednesday to Mittwoch, which are completely different in spelling.

Also, I have the "more interesting" forms as well. I can see sounds as colors and shapes and taste colors and all that fun stuff. Grapheme-color is my favorite type though.

[Traum]

I've never had true synesthesia, but my mind has made weird associations that I can't figure out why it makes them.

The worst case was when I had an art teacher who reminded me of mayonnaise.
See her = think mayonnaise
Think about her = think mayonnaise

Eventually I found out I wasn't the only one. There were 2-3 other people who made the same association. This raised way, way, way more questions than it answered. I still haven't figured it out. This means something. This is important.

I suffer from extreme depression and this just made me so much happier XD

[Bioluminescence42]

I have several forms of synesthesia. Ordinal-linguistic personifiation is the only one with a name to it. Other things, not just numbers and letters, have personalities, too. Months are one example, days of the week are another. Everything is also assigned a color, be it a person, place, thing, field of study, texture, taste, or pretty much anything else. I have 6 handwriting styles, and each has its own color. In addition to the personalities, numbers also have distinct shapes. There are possibly more forms. I'm not positive yet.

[scotty]

I don't know whether this is synaesthesia but I can sometimes feel sound. I usually have to concentrate to feel it but sometimes it just happens, like one time I was watching anime and a female character was really exited and shouted something and it felt like a pulse travelled throughout my body, originating at the centre of my head and fading near my thighs, it only took 3 seconds though.

Most of the time it happens with pianos and violins and it feels like my hands are slightly vibrating or a there is a weird feeling around my chest and arms. It seems to be most powerful when I close my eyes, stop moving and really get into the music. The final thing that happens is that when I'm in the school hall because of a special event or an assembly and music is playing out loud I get anxious, start sweating and just hope that it will stop.

[Traum]

elementary school subjects have colors (I mean, duh.) Math is clearly red,...French is orange,...Spanish is red...Korean is blue-green, Swahili is a blue and white spiral...Africa and Australia are Yellow...Antarctica is predictably white, but in my defense, Greenland is blue.

Couldn't agree more!