How To Develop Synesthesia Yourself

Synesthesia like all senses can be developed by anyone. It's a really enlightening once you start to play with your senses to see how differently you can engage with and experience the world around you.

As an example, we've all had the feeling that one day feels like another - its feels like Wednesday today. What does Wednesday feel like? Does it have a colour, a sound, a smell, a feeling or any other characteristics?

You can work through each day in your head assigning properties or feelings to each day of the week according to how they make you feel. Once you do that you will start to think of the days differently.

Listen to sounds. Pick out some music and decide it seems to you. For example

Does it have a weight?

Is it light or dark?

Does it sparkle?

Is it bright or dull?

Is it static or moving?

Does it have a colour?

It's eye opening once you start to relate to music in this way. It starts to come alive.

Another fun exercise is working with the letters of the alphabet. Some people seem them as characters and as having their own personality. Starting with A - what does it feel like? What does it represent? If it had a voice would it be loud or quiet? How does it get on with the other letters? It's almost like writing a story with lots of characters when you engage with letters in this way.

I would love to know how you get on if you give it a try. Like everything the more you practice the more it becomes second nature. Engaging with the world in this way helps to keep me in the present moment as I allow everything to unfold from where I am. It also helps me not to take things seriously for all of life is just about the way we relate to it, which we are mostly just making up.