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Does anyone have experience with this? Sometimes before I have a seizure smells are colored. Like one day i was walking with my husband and I smelled someone BBQing porkchops but I could only say I smelled this certain rust color. It's interesting when it happens but I cannot imagine having it be a constant.

I see numbers in color. Each digit from 0-9 has its own color.

Nope. No synesthesia here. Though others on WP have mentioned it before.

Yeah, there was a million page thread on this a while ago.

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Yes, I've had this to a certain extent. Mainly when I was younger. I would associate sounds with colors. I would not physicaly see the colors, but it would come to me in my mind what color a sound was.

Today the extent of which I have it is only noticable when I go to bed. Noises in the night will often produce an associate flash in visual field.

I sometimes smell things such as cigarette smoke when I see some one in the distance smoking. It is subtle but when it has happened I have been certain that I was not in a position to actuallycatch the actual smoke ffrom the cigarette.

Jim Crawford

Smell and color, but in a very limited way

When I smell certain things I have a color association, mostly gray, green and brown smells. And I guess some green things taste green too.

Color-letter, color-number, and color-sound. Thought it was linked to perfect pitch till I participated in a pitch study a few weeks ago and discovered I don't fall in the range of perfect pitch after all.

Unless you have undeveloped perfect pitch?

I used to think of high piano notes as pinkish, changing to a golden brown in the middle of the keyboard and very dark brown right at the bottom, but I don't think that's synesthesia so much as association. And it was more timbre than pitch.

I'd expect smelling a cigarette on seeing it to be more of a learned association too. I thought synesthesia was more arbitrary?

What is undeveloped perfect pitch? This study had two parts. Part one, they played "pure tones" (a brassy electronic sound) in 3-second intervals, and you had the 3 seconds to click on the note that they were. I did fairly badly on this, though still above average. Part two, they played piano notes (which were much easier for me) in the same 3-second intervals. I scored just below the cutoff line for perfect pitch.



For me the timbre changes the color (high notes are more pastel, low notes are dark and muddy) but each individual note still has a unique color. Like middle C is kind of a warm red... though this is getting confusing to write, because the letter "C" is yellow and they're blending together. But C' is a lighter red. And D is gold (though the letter is green) so D' is a paler yellow.

That sounds quite fun

I'd guess that undeveloped perfect pitch is what somebody has if they hear notes absolutely but either haven't learned the names for each note, or know the names but can't identify them at the same speed as a musician who might use the ability every day.

That is, if you can identify notes consistently I'd say you have a form of absolute pitch.

I (like most people) have relative pitch which means that if I imagine a melody I can hear it starting on any note without sounding very different. If I hum a tune after hearing another piece it'll usually be transposed automatically to the same key as that piece.