“For example, my fiancée is purple. When she's sad, and I realize it, it becomes a hazy, kinda out-there purple. When she's happy, it's really bright. It only happens when I personally see people, or remember something about them, though.”

Intuitively perceiving emotions in other people can be a stimulus that triggers synesthetic concurrents such as colour (possibly also with shape and movement/direction ), smell , taste or tactile sensations . These types of synesthesia are very uncommon.