Sometimes it is said that each person has their one color orgasm. That there are those who color their climax yellow or who see the stars painted blue. Everything on a mental level, of course, it is not about the whole room being dyed in one color. If that happens to you, run to the ER. In fact, the color of the orgasm has more myth than science, although there is a phenomenon that is slightly similar: orgasmic synesthesia.
The difference between the orgasmic color myth and orgasmic synesthesia is that the former is supposedly visible to everyone if they pay attention, while the latter is a rare phenomenonwhich happens to very few people.
There is some cases described in the scientific literature. Some refer to people who previously had synesthesia, while others first developed it during the orgasm. But why this? Is it worrying? The truth is that the first is not known for sure. But it is reassuring to know, with respect to the second, that no, it is not worrisome.
What is synesthesia?
Roughly speaking, synesthesia is a kind of short circuit between different senses. That is, the people who experience it can have perceptions associated with one sense through stimuli related to another. For example, they can hear colors or taste textures.
It is not known exactly what the causes are, although it is believed that it may be due to a inadequate neural pruning. This pruning occurs in adolescence, when those neural connections that have not been used since birth are eliminated. In this way, those that we do need are reinforced.
If this is not given properly, it could happen that connections between regions of the brain associated with different sensesto the point that you can smell the colors.
However, it is important to note that synesthesia it is not something pathological. Neither is seeing a color in orgasm. This may just be another way to experience synesthesia, as not everyone feels it the same way.
For example, for some people it is related to language. They can even see that each language has a different color. For others it is something much more musical. In fact, it is said that Kandinsky he was synesthetic and that some of his paintings are based on musical works that captivated him.
Moreover, this is something quite common in art. So much so that it is estimated that while the incidence of synesthesia in the general population is 4%, in the arts it goes up to approximately 7%. It is not that art causes synesthesia, but that synesthetics, being more sensitive to what their senses perceive, opt more often for these professions.
the color of orgasm
In 2022, the case of a 31-year-old man who went to the hospital reporting something strange in his orgasms was described in Iran. During his last relationships, when he reached the climax, saw objects sharper and brighter, with a predominance of pink.
The man had no previous health problems beyond a mitral valve prolapse. This is usually not serious. In fact, many people don’t even know they have it. He was diagnosed because from time to time he suffered from chest pain, but the most curious thing is that when he began to see color changes in his orgasms, he also perceived how the pain was colored. Specifically, when he described that pain in his chest, he said it was very white.
Several were made vision and neurological tests and everything seemed fine. she was not found either no sexual dysfunction. Because of that, he was eventually diagnosed with synesthesia.
It also occurs in different phases
This might seem like an exceptional case, but it is not the only one. In fact, there have even been reports of people who perceived the different phases of sexual activity in different colors. For example, in 2013 the case of 19 people who had experienced synesthesia during sex, phase by phase, was described. Thus, some described the initial appetite as something between yellow and orangethe orgasm as a ring-shaped burst, with colors blues and violets. And finally, the resolution phase, which occurs immediately after orgasming, like a mix between pink and yellow.
The color of orgasm is not the same for everyone, although pink happens to be repeated here, as with the Iranian man.
In short, although each orgasm is unique, there is no color of orgasm for each person. But that doesn’t make ours any worse. We can have just as much fun, without changing our color perception. So don’t obsess over trying to see if your climax is green or orange and enjoy the ride. Whether you arrive or not. In the end, the other thing that should be clear to us is that, in sex, orgasm is not everything.