An accompanying impression, rather than a musical score
Read reports of colours or shapes accompanying ordinary sounds without treating mood, metaphor, hearing ability or deliberate imagery as proof of synaesthesia.
Read the three chosen responses separately. Counts describe recollection within this original checklist, without a strength scale, type assignment or confirmation of synaesthesia.
Three different recollections
- This group concerns a colour-like impression alongside an ordinary sound, a shape-like impression with a familiar voice or musical sound, and a recognizable similarity on another occasion. These are three descriptions to consider separately. Hearing a voice does not require having a shape impression, and recalling one kind of experience does not oblige you to endorse the others.
- Imagine a routine occasion such as listening to a familiar spoken announcement, without playing anything for the test. You may remember an accompanying impression, remember none despite relevant opportunities, remain unsure or have no suitable occasion. All four answers are available. The questionnaire never needs a recording, a playlist or the identity of a speaker.
Metaphor can sound similar
- People commonly describe a voice as warm or a sound as bright. Such language can communicate mood, timbre or an ordinary cross-sensory correspondence without describing a particular colour experience. The words alone cannot establish the mechanism. This checklist asks what you recall experiencing, rather than whether a familiar metaphor makes sense to you.
- A scene imagined while choosing a music-video concept is also different from an unplanned accompanying impression. Both can be meaningful experiences, but they answer different questions. You do not need to decide which mechanism is correct before answering unsure, and the page cannot settle that distinction merely from your choice.
Not a hearing or talent assessment
- Nothing here measures pitch discrimination, hearing thresholds, rhythm, composition or performance. Someone who recalls a colour impression can have any level of musical experience; someone who recalls none can still enjoy and understand music. The three responses must not be used to recommend a career, judge talent or rank whose sensory life is richer.
- The site does not play tones, ask you to raise the volume, request headphones or test reactions to unpleasant sounds. No sound exposure is needed to obtain a result. If you do not recall a relevant occasion within the past three months, the opportunity or skip option preserves that limitation instead of turning it into a negative finding.
What the four counts retain
- The readout lists yes, no, unsure and skipped out of three, followed by the selected response to every prompt. Two yes answers are two recalled descriptions, not twice the strength of one. A no means you had relevant opportunities but do not recall that description within the window; it does not prove a lifelong absence.
- Mixed choices are retained without choosing a dominant family. The same person can remember a shape-like accompaniment but remain uncertain about colours or recurrence. Adding unrelated prompts across groups would conceal these differences, so there is no overall sum, mean, likelihood estimate, diagnostic cutoff or winning type on this page.
Similarity recalled and similarity tested
- A remembered similarity across occasions may be interesting, but recollection is influenced by how an event was noticed and remembered. Controlled research may use repeated stimuli, specific response tasks and comparison conditions. This page uses none of those procedures, and does not claim to separate automatic associations from deliberate ones experimentally.
- Research about grapheme-colour consistency cannot simply be transferred to sound-colour, shape experiences or these new questions. Likewise, a conceptual continuum of multisensory experiences is not a scale on which this record can place you. The sources offer background and boundaries, rather than a validation certificate for the checklist.
Optional everyday distinctions
- If you want a clearer description for yourself, distinguish the physical sound, the emotion it brought, an intentional mental scene and any impression that seemed to accompany it. You can do this privately during an ordinary comfortable occasion. No deliberate exposure, repeated listening or attempt to make an experience stronger is required.
- The purpose is accurate language, not training or proving a special ability. You can enjoy music without adopting a sensory identity, and you can stop reflecting at any point. For a new or troubling experience, describe the actual circumstances to an appropriate professional rather than using a positive checklist answer as its explanation.
Original content and privacy
- These three prompts belong to an original fifteen-item checklist for adults, with a site-selected three-month recall window. Neither the items nor the English and Chinese versions have been validated as equivalent measurement forms. The five editorial families help organize reading; they are not established factors or separate verified tests.
- Answers stay only in page memory and clear when you leave, refresh, change language or retake. Copying public links shares all five complete guides without sound examples, answers or counts. Optional anonymous action counts require the page permission and global analytics consent; the website does not need a private sensory history.