Experience Synaesthesia

Here you can explore what it is like to have various forms of Synaesthesia. Explore theimmersive environmentto find out how synaesthetes experience sequences in physical space. Play a tune on theinteractive pianoto visualise how music and colour unites with tone-colour synaesthesia...

Immersive Environment

Use your mouse to pan around and click on the interactive objects in the environment. Click the info button at the bottom right for instructions or enter fullscreen to fully immerse yourself in in the virtual space.

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Fictional newspaper called Synaesthesia Today demonstrating grapheme-colour

Coloured months to demonstrate synaesthesia

Fictional 'Synaesthesia Today' newspaper

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Immersive Environment Instructions

Use your mouse to pan around and click on objects in the environment. Click the info button at the bottom right to find out more about the current Synaesthesia variant or enter fullscreen to fully immerse yourself in VR.

Sequence-Space Synaesthesia

Sequence-space synaesthesia can cause any type of ordered sequence (days, months, playing cards, etc.) to be experienced visually, in the mind's eye or in the physical space around them.

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Tone-colour synaesthesia

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Tone-Colour Synaesthesia

Some synaesthetes associate specific colours with the musical scale. In this example, each piano note triggers a different colour to appear around the screen. Use your mouse or keyboard to visualise it for yourself!

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Colour perceptions associated with synaesthesia may appear in the mind's eye or in the physical space around the synaesthete. The visual forms of these perceptions vary from person to person.