Speaking in the synesthesia sense, listening to Arcade Fire's Neon Bible is an incredible experience.

So many layers, depths, colors, and shapes. It's quite beautiful.

Real Life Adventures

After suffering from a migraine non-stop for over a week, I headed to the doctor. The doctor asked me to describe the pain, and before I could stop myself, I answered

"Green."

Synesthesia + Physical Reactions

This makes my tongue tingle:

This makes my eyes cold:

Synesthesia + Food or Why Ratatouille Is My Favorite Pixar Film

Yeah, it's sort of like that.

"Sleepyhead" by Passion Pit

When I hear music, I also see a picture. In my mind there are shapes, colors, and patterns. I'm doing my best to recreate these images.

This is roughly what I see when I hear the song "Sleepyhead" by Passion Pit. I've included the song so you can take a listen.

Alphabet and Numbers

Finally! Some pictures! There's going to be quite a few picture posts.

This shows what colors I see for letters and numbers.



Something I've learned through the Facebook group for synesthesia is that a lot of people see "A" as red.

So why the blog?

Why the blog, indeed.

Something I noticed while first reading up on Synestheisa is that all the sites on the web are very scientific. There are lots of pages speaking about the neurological side of it. Even the page for kids reads like a textbook. I was looking for something a bit more personal, but I couldn't find it. So I went to my personal motto "If I can't find it, I'll make it!"

I'm going to use this blog as a way to try to explain every day life with synesthesia. I'll try to explain the good parts, the annoying parts, and the hard parts. I just want to make this a place for the personal side of synesthesia.

...and I promise, no more long winded posts.


...maybe.