13 Awkward Moments Only People With Synaesthesia Know

Synaesthesia is a big, scary word for when your brain processes senses as different senses or emotions. It's rare, misunderstood, difficult to explain and highly diverse - leading to some, eh, awkward scenarios.

1. Trying to explain synaesthesia to other people for the first time

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"My senses are cross-wired and no one really knows why but I've smelt The Sopranos before so, there's that."

2. Meeting new people and holding back the urge to tell them the colour of their name

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"Sophie! What a yellow name! Beautiful daffodil person!"

3. Getting significantly more excited listening to music than everyone else around you

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How can you listen to music WITHOUT your own personal disco lights?

4. And getting overwhelmed when a song is just too much

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"Why do you keep crying at the DuckTales theme?"

5. Getting confused and not being able to pay attention whenever a song comes on in the background

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ELEVATOR MUSIC AND COFFEE SHOPS ARE NOT OKAY.

6. Studying with friends when no-one else is doing colour-coded notes

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How are you going to learn anything without HIGHLIGHTERS?

7. Meeting someone with synaesthesia for the first time

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"THE NUMBERS HAVE PERSONALITIES AND GENDERS AND FRIENDS." "I know, I know."

8. But quickly realising you don't agree on much

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"You don't think Monday is red?" "But... Monday has always been pink."

9. Or that your conditions are entirely different

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Because synesthesia is diverse, and no one is ever going to have the same experience.

10. Having sex because, orgasm synaesthesia

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Sometimes, synaesthesia will put you in an after-sex trance like state where all you can see is colour, light shows or a strange ringing in your ears. You're either going to be asked if you're okay a lot or your partner is going to feel really great about themselves.

11. But, ORGASM SYNAESTHESIA

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When you have sex and there are literal (mental) fireworks. Damn.

12. And oh, let's not forget living your life feeling like the weirdest person on earth

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Synaesthesia is rare and still not fully understood, so it often goes undiagnosed. For a long time it was dismissed as an overactive imagination or sign of mental illness. That leaves someone who can taste a month and see a stench feeling pretty damn freaky.

13. Realising you aren't actually crazy, and the condition is actually kinda cool

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It just takes a quick Google search.

All in all, you wouldn't change it for the world.

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When you share a neurolgoical condition with minds like Kanye West, Pharrell and Grimes why would you?