I really enjoyed this. If you haven't heard of him before there was a gay neurologist who made a career writing about neurological disorders called Oliver Sacks. Robin Williams played him in a few movies and the two were friends. He was a fascinating individual and his loss was a true tragedy and his memoires are extremely interesting, funny, and touching. Dig through his life and see if you can find something funny in it to make a video about. He definitely talked about synesthesia, probably in a book called Hallucinations which is a fantastic read. His most famous book was probably "The man who mistook his wife for a hat"
No, he’s infantile & needlessly defensive because he’s willfully ignorant & he knows it & it hurts his EGO when others AREN’T. He’s CLEARLY mentally ill, he makes my Uncanny Valley SCREAM
Nick has the personality of a house cat! "Matteo I might be your friend an all, but I don't care about you or your problems!", Matteo: I have synesthesia!, Nick: I think you're lying! LOL
i see subtitles when i hear things...like my brain spells out what it hears, sometimes it's like scrolling subtitles and sometimes it just the letters piling up on each other in a vertical pile.
Same! I cannot remember anyone's name until I can picture the spelling in my head. If someone verbally tells me a name I haven't heard before and I don't know how it's spelled, I usually need it repeated a few more times before I can come up a phonetic spelling so I can actually visualize and remember it.
I have synesthesia as well, but mines mostly associated with music. I always think that neurological perceptions are so fascinating because we have to abstract our subjective experiences into terms others understand.
I know Nick is trying to be amusing but he starts to be annoying! Just because he doesn’t know about this condition he’s skeptical? 🫤Does he believe the earth is flat too? 😝
I was aware of synesthesia but what I find really interesting is the link to learning new languages… like someone else commented, more of a flex than anything else 😂
If he were saying it to anyone else, I'd say Nick was a jerk for saying that they're making up having their condition, but he's just mean to Matteo on principle, and I doubt anyone really takes the things Nick says that seriously anyway. 🤣
I am not sure I see letters with exact colours, but S is definitly more a bright one, so more yellow then purple. Is it possible to see a range from dark to bright, with or without glow, matte, sparkling? It's that what I associate more. But I am an AuDHDer, so my mind is always doing extra circles around, I mean I am constantly associating. If I am bored I sing random.thoughts in my mind and it illustrates itself with comic-like notes on waving lines.
Yes, S is yellow. A lemony yellow. A is the color of a school bus, and Y is neon yellow. I thought everyone had their own colors and could see them in their mind's eye. We're superior beings. LOL!
😂 I love how over it Nick was the entire time 🤣 I was interested in what this condition was and the test when the video started. Then as the video progressed Nick won me over 😂
I love the subtle background music of old school “Gypsy Jazz” violin … very Django Paris street music … great vibe! Also, I dream in color, 3D, and visualize spaces I’ve been in the same way, even years later … I can conjure them up in my mind, like virtual reality!
I have pain/mirror touch synesthesia and auditory tactile synesthesia. I also assumed everyone had it, didn't know until I was in my 30's that it wasn't normal. Wish I had the cool color one.
The questions about vividness of the scenes in your head are really associated with aphantasia, which I have! I cannot see anything in my head. When I close my eyes I can describe things in words, but I don’t see anything. I only realized as an adult that when people said they “pictured” things in their heads, they were not being metaphorical.
Funny as it was, I was wishing Nick would back off a little and Matteo could get out not a complete sentence but a couple of them. 😆😂 Anything that has a test has a bit of info background on the subject, he didn't get to say anything but answer Nicks barrage Of questions he asked but his mind was made up and shut. And hilarious but I wish I could have heard more about it here now I need to research it myself.which I would have anyway, but if you're going to feature it, I wish cranky Squidward would at least let him get started lol I have this and a couple other neural things that happen in my brain. I was also born with a photographic memory with almost total recall, thought it was that was for everyone until I started school. Then the recall started to slowly get less as I was cramming all that other info in. But I m 62 and 20 years ago my husband, now ex, got frustrated and yelled It's not fair arguing with you!! You remember conversations word for word for YEARS!! His head about exploded when I asked, if you know my memory is that good, why do you argue with me so much? I wasn't being a jerk, it was valid question I thought. A current friend of mine yelled Yes!! He's absolutely right! When I told her he said that. And her head about exploded too, when I asked her same question. 😆😂🤣🤣
It really feels like Nick doesn't care, believe or like a lot of stuff in general. I cant tell if hes trying to be funny any more or genuinely is over things. i feel like at some stage the "charm" is fading and will fade completely and Nick will just be bitter and mean. But i really hope that doesn't happen.
I was definitely more on Nick's side for this video LOL That being said, there's a lot of interesting things i think i'd ask, so, Matteo, if you're replying to youtube comments: how does your synesthesia works across different alphabets? Like, do you assign similar colors between regular letters and the greek equivalents? Or what about the Japanese alphabets, or other Asian ones? Also, do accents ("e" vs "é") change the colors of letters? Also, also, is your color association more of a graphical thing (so similar shapes would have similar colors), or does phonetics also play a factor in it (so if differently-shaped letters sound the same, they have similar colors)? Also, also, also, does the choice of font play any part in the color? Like, do Comic Sans letters have different colors than the Arial ones?
Oh. Just tried to imagine that last one with the style, and I would say the more clear the style is the more clear the colour gets. Those oldstyly gothic look is a wishy-washy orange-brown matt with a shadow over it, comic glows in a shiny smurf-blue.
This was actually really cool I would watch another video of Matteo taking one of the other synesthesia tests, especially with Nick there to heckle Matteo, it’s part of the experience!
1. Matteo might be the most inclusive or the most non-inclusive person ever, cause he only see's color lol 2. Obviously Matteo was gonna be gay since he only see's rainbows everywhere 3. I'm a straight man in love with Nick ...what even is this life?🙃
Fascinated by synesthesia helping with languages. Chris seemed to mention aphantasia, as in not being able to think in pictures. So, when Matteo said think of coke can red, I can just about do it, but, it's gone in a second. We have so much more to learn about each other. Funnily enough Nick isn't interested. But, he is wearing great jeans !
So fascinating I wanted to know what colors Mateo sees with which kind of music! Nick reacted in such an aggressive way, its like he couldn't understand what Mateo sees and it makes him fearful so he becomes aggressive!
What about the people who do not have synesthesia but think they do? Say for example, when you see "A" you think of an apple that is green. After a while the connection gets shortened to A = green. What would that be?
As someone with grapheme synesthesia, I loooove to hear other synesthetes stories of how they found out that not everyone perceives the world the same as them. I found out in 5th grade when I casually asked my friends - "do ya'll agree that Tuesday is green?" and they just stared at me like I had two heads. I've since grown to love my synethesia, and If anyone out there associates colors with numbers I recommend trying to "predict" the pantone color of the year based on your association. I've blown peoples minds three times by being spot on, which feels like the most useless superpower, but a superpower non the less! Go synethetes!
I have synesthesia, Matteo! Grahame synesthesia. You see the colors in your mind's eye. I know Nick, people look at me like I'm nuts when I tell them that A, C, and Y are bright yellow. I also see the dates of the week in different colors, names of the months, numbers. I think school was easier for me because of the synesthesia. I'm also a musician and singer and see colors (sometimes) with music.
OK, boys, it’s me, Timothy,again. When I see or hear you two together, though I don’t have the condition, I see fun and intelligence and comic engagement. Please keep it up!😂
EXACTLY As a Latino dude I I have synesthesia and I can SEE music. Every song has different colors attached to them and this is what helped me TEACH MYSELF HOW TO PLAY GUITAR. Every signature key is a different color, every note is a different color. Nick is just crazy but we can't do anything about that lol. I also want to point out that NOT ONLY do i have synesthesia I am also RED-GREEN COLORBLIND (the most common form of colorblindness). So mine works with no "in between" colors. This means all my letters tend to be stark primary colors. Even my wardrobe is mostly black, gray, and blue.
As much as I enjoy Nick it's hilarious how ignorant he willfully is of most things & an intolerant (vnt. I follow his channel & he still annoys me even though I get a kick out of his stupidity. It's just amazing to me how ignorant he is AND he's a real estate agent? WTAF? That's not an easy job since one needs to know loan processes & real estate laws, etc. It's a very complex job, I know since I used to be married to a real estate agent. So Nick is NOT an idiot at all but he is an idiot away from his work lol.
Are those inner arm tattoos on Matteo? I am distracted by them, and I am having a difficult time focusing on what this video is about. The fast forward is hilarious! 😂
I did a double dosed tab of acid on my fourth time tripping and the synesthesia kicked in HARD. I was overwhelmed because it felt like I was seeing the matrix of the world. Like green is the number 7 and it bounces up and down. So watching grass sway was actually like seeing a sea of a trillion micro 7s rapidly jumping up and down in unison 😂It was overwhelming, disturbing, yet beautiful
@@sweetrain000it dissipated when I came down but it comes back sometimes, almost like an aftershock/residual effect, if I get too stoned or like do too many shrooms.
@@TaylorMaurandbhangrai gradually expanded my experience each time I did acid, so it wasn’t like this was my entry to drug lol and as I mentioned, it was beautiful and disconcerting at the same time.
I didn't even know Synethesia existed. I guess Nick would say it doesn't. I want to be Nick's best friend to roast him back and enjoy him roasting everything.
i have this, but only for days of the week. It's very strong. When I think of a day, I see a colour. Monday is dark blue, Tuesday is orange, Wednesday is green, Thursday is brown, Friday is light blue, Saturday is yellow and Sunday is red. Always has been since a child :)
i have it too. colors and music and memories have a taste-smell-color. things i like are usually in the green/blue spectrum. yelllow and red are usually icky things.
Can you re-do this without Nick? I was actually interested in it and he just wouldn't quit being a shit. I love the guy, but he ruined this episode for me.
I can taste certain foods when I see certain colors. For example, when I see purple, lavender or lilac I can taste chocolate on my tongue. Does that qualify?
9:45 For starters, I feel like “free” and “Botox” should never be in the same sentence together, but a fear of needles or not, Nick was right to turn down the free Botox. He doesn’t need it
