#nightlight syn

Hello everybeing! You can call me Nightlight, Dusky, or Fasach (pronounced fah-sahk). I have synesthesia, and a LOT of kinds of it, so I made this blog to make some flags to represent the different kinds! Feel free to send in an ask with requests for specific types (for instance, visual to gustatory) or extra specific types (for instance, shapes to tactile textures).

Another little note: I don't care who uses my flags, and I don't care who asks for flags. If you bother me that much, I'll just block you, but if you just talk about things related to synesthesia, you'll be fine.

For some simple definitions of terms you'll see throughout this blog:

synesthesia - a neurological trait possessed by approximately 4% of the population (although, since the experience is so expansive and many people don't know they have it, that may be much higher) in which the stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway (for instance, the sound of a trumpet) involuntarily, automatically, and consistently triggers another sensory or cognitive pathway (for instance, the color bright red)

projective synesthesia - when one experiences the synesthesia as actually happening in space (ex. if someone has number-color synesthesia, they actually see that number as that color, regardless of what color the number actually is)

associative synesthesia - when one experiences the synesthesia as an association, or as something in their "mind's eye" (ex. if someone has number-color synesthesia, they involuntarily think of the color when seeing that number)

inducer - the stimulus that triggers the synesthetic experience

concurrent - the synesthetic experience that occurs as a result

Credits: the base flag (the one in my header and profile picture) and the two variants I'm going to be using are from @/flagtism. The symbols for associator and projector are from Gregor Cresnar here and here. Give all of that credit to those two!!

Tag Directory

Senses in Synesthesia

Rejected kinds of Synesthesia

also, does your spatial-sequence experience with numbers change depending on whether it’s just about numbers (counting) or the age of a person?

Ooo cool questions!

I do experience spatial-sequence with school grades, although it might not exactly be what you're thinking of. For me, things like math, science, English, history, etc. don't have any order in particular unless I'm thinking about my schedule for classes. Those are also different depending on what day it is. So, if it's a Wednesday, I see the subjects as a ladder-like shape around me and a bit to my left, since most of my classes are "piled up" on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I do have more consistent spatial sequence with the "order" of subjects, though, especially for math and science. Math has a kind of umbrella shape that covers all the subjects, and it goes from counting math (so, early school things) up to algebra, which is on the top right of my field of view but slightly behind my head. Algebra then branches off into pre-calculus to the leftish and trig down to the right, which combine for the calculus's. Statistics and similar subjects are in a triangulated shape connecting the "level" of calculus and the bottom of algebra. Science has a lot more subjects that also interact (like, it's so hard to explain where botany and biology are and aren't because they're such a similar shade of green and red and overlap a lot) so I can't explain those well, lol.

Wow, that was a lot, so I'll try to keep this next bit short. My spatial sequence for numbers doesn't actually change with counting things like just numbers, age, time, etc, but it does change positioning. The best way I can describe it is that if just counting is from left to right (which it generally is for me), age goes from the top right to off in the distance in front of me and a bit to the left, and then time is a whole other situation lol. Basically just counting feels more 2D almost, and different things add other dimensions.

Okay so... turns out that 3 posts a day is way too much for me to keep up with!! Sorry about that everyone, lol. I'll be changing it to 1 post a day in my queue and then I'll see if I can do more.

Alright everybeing! Here's a list of all the types of synesthesia I have. Please feel free to ask questions!

Forewarning that this is going to be pretty long. I have a lot of types.

Here's a list of the terms made when simply crossing over every possible inducer and every possible concurrent that aren't possible and/or aren't considered synesthesia, as well as the explanations for each.

Visual-visual, auditory-auditory, temperature-temperature, etc. This is because for the definition of synesthesia, the experience must include at least two senses, so having the inducer produce a concurrent in the same sense wouldn't be synesthesia.

Proprioception and vestibular as concurrents. These aren't possible because proprioception is the ability of one's body to be able to feel where its limbs are, and vestibular is the sense of balance. As far as I am aware, these are impossible and have not been recorded at any point.

Concepts and sequences as concurrents. This is simply because these aren't really able to be produced by another sensory input, as far as I am aware.

Emotions as concurrents. The emotions are not usually able to be separated as synesthesia or some other entirely logical brain process, such as feeling happy when seeing a dog or subconsciously associating circles with calm.

Gustatory-olfactory and olfactory-gustatory. Since the gustatory and olfactory senses are naturally intertwined (see this article), they aren't considered synesthesia.

Some more specific types that are not considered synesthesia are: flashes upon hearing sudden or loud sounds (see this article); misophonia (see this article); music-images or "music videos" (see this article); object personification is not always synesthesia (see this article); pain empathy is not considered synesthesia, while mirror touch is (see this article); and smells or tastes inducing memories (see this article).

Here's what all of the tags mean! I'm honestly not sure how to put it in the tag format without making it huge so just imagine the # in front of all of them.

synesthesia flags : literally everything will be tagged with this if it's from this blog

Some tags for the types of posts:

nightlight syn : a post from me (Nightlight!) that's not coining anything, just a general post

nightlight coins : a post that's coining some flag (not terms though- that's not really a thing with synesthesia, at least how I do it)

nightlight responds : a post responding to some type of ask or question

The main synesthesia-flag related ones:

synesthesia flags basic : a coining post of a flag that's a basic type (one category of senses to another)

synesthesia flags specific : a coining post of a flag that's a specific type (one category of senses to another, but either associative or projective)

synesthesia flags ex specific : a coining post of a flag that's an extra specific type (one specific inducer to one specific concurrent)

Ones that will change frequently:

synesthesia sense-sense : each sense will be replaced by a synesthesia category, in order of inducer and concurrent

synesthesia sense-sense - associative/projective : each sense will be replaced by a synesthesia category, in order of inducer and concurrent, and afterwards will specify either associative or projective

Here's a list of all of the senses I consider to be part of synesthesia, and so the ones that I will be using in my flags! Most things, including the colors, are based around these. However, if you are confused which category something would be able to fall into, and/or thing I need a different category, feel free to leave a comment or send in an ask!

visual

vibe/aura

auditory

touch

temperature

pain

proprioception

vestibular

personality/personification

spatial location/position

location

gustatory

olfactory

concept

kinetics/motion

sequences

emotion