Synesthesia

[Koala]

Look at this! It's unbelievable!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvwTSEwVBfc&feature=related

I wish I was synesthesic!! Taste and see music!

[an angel]

"Hooston"? Lol.

[Koala]

"Hooston"? Lol.

??? What's that?

[noonsun]

I wish I had synesthesia.

[an angel]

??? What's that?

He pronounced Houston oddly. Silly British man. :nice:

[Reilly]

I've felt this, strange what the brain does on acid.

YouTube- Synesthesia

[Empily]

Ahaha I would love to have it for a day, but I can imagine it would get incredibly irritating over time :lol:

[notlost92]

I have slight synesthesia, every sound has a color for me :shrug:

I think the more intense forms of synesthesia must be really overwhelming to have, though! :stunned:

[Tnspieler1012]

The first time I went to my university library I pulled out a random book, and it was about something similar to this. The intro chapter had a guy opening his fridge and thinking 'hmm, I'm not in the mood for triangles today'.

[eff-exx]

Isn't a story called 'The Beautiful Miscellaneous' about a boy with synesthesia? :thinking:

[Coldplay Junior]

I have the intense sound-color one, it's actually kind of cool :wacky:
And I have a really mild form of the text-color one too, for me only certain words are a color.

[merryberry9]

I did a paper on this in biopsych in undergrad - its sooo interesting - i can't believe that it actually happens to some people!

if anyone in the world besides me watched "heroes" they would see that that lady has a form of synesthesia also! so cool.

[Buxus vahlii]

I've met a girl that's had this condition. She says it's like being on acid 24/7 without any side effects.

She said the color of most of Coldplay's sounds were a dark blue.

And my voice is Amber...I was a little disappointed.

[the_gloaming09]

hmm... that's really weird/interesting

[EmmaLouiseSmyth]

That would be quite cool to have,
but must be very trippy when you would first find out you had it.

[inengsol1500]

first knew about it just days ago. while reading through Franz Ferdinand Wikipedia page. their bassist have the smell-hear one. :shrug:


it is kinda weird. but yeah, would probably cool to have. :D

[ImLovingGuyBerryman]

We started a thread about this over at the Apparatjik forum.

I have a relatively mild form of this.

Here are some of the things I said over there:





Someone else's post:
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb137/Lyss26/Dill/49de42e3.png

Which would you call Booba and which would you call Kiki?


My response:
I'm not strongly synesthetic, but I do definitely have this condition (that's so cool that it's a condition). But it's not like the pictures with the numbers. When I see numbers I see whatever colors they actually show up in. So if it's just a bunch of black numbers, I see just a bunch of black numbers. But if someone were to ask me what color 3 would be if it had a color, I can easily say that 3 is an orange number. I don't always see numbers/letters as a color, but they each have a specific color that I could easily assign them if asked to do so. And the colors never change, they're always the same. 5 is always green, if I'm asked what color it would be. And I didn't even realize it, but I can also sort of do it with the days of the week and the months too. And I might be able to do the thing with sounds or tastes or people, though I've never really thought about it. I wish I could have someone test me and find out all the ways in which I'm synesthetic. Oh, and Kiki is the one with the pointed corners and Booba is the one with rounded sides. I only partially fit those statistics. Yes, I'm female, no I'm not left-handed, and yes I'm more of an artistic person than intellectual, or whatever the counterpart would be.


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*My response to someone saying they visualize the months in a wheel form.*

I don't see the months in a calendar form or a wheel, but more in a square, like this:

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o41/27Lauren27/Edited%20Pictures/blank-1.jpg


That's just a rough visual. Sorry about the wierd spacing and sizes, but I had to make sure each month went in it's correct positioning. And the names of the longer months are abbreviated because it made the spacing easier. I don't actually picture them abbreviated.

Also it would be a white background with black text. I just did it opposite because it was easier to see where the boundaries of the image were.

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My alphabet colors:

A = red
B mixed with B = dark bluish-purple
C = lightish blue
D = purplish
E= orange
F = grayish
G = brown
H = dark red
I = white
J = purplish
K mixed with K = brownish-purple
L = yellow
M mixed with M = redish-orange
N = greenish
O = white
P mixed with P = purplish
Q = grayish/silvery
R = green
S = bluish
T mixed with T = pinkish/redish gray/salmon
U = orange
V = grayish/silvery
W = gray
X or X = black/dark-gray
Y = brownish-yellowish
Z or Z = black/dark-gray

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My numbers:


Cool so you're like me. Except your numbers are different colors than mine.
0 and 1 are white, then 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 is sort of a mix between this and this, 8 is sort of a mix between this and this, 9....then when you get to double digits each digit retains it's color.

[Reilly]

I don't know if this means I have a slight form of synesthesia, but I definitely thought the same for Booba and Kiki, and in my head the thought of the one with pointed corners being Booba was ridiculous.

I guess it's the way it sounds phonetically, Kiki sounds sharp, so it has sharp pointy corners, Booba is more rounded (And it sounds like Boobs which are round) so the shape suits it.

[an angel]

Numbers always have a color for me, but I think that's from doing so many color-by-numbers. :blank:
I see the months in a calendar as a square too.

[Tnspieler1012]

I don't know if this means I have a slight form of synesthesia, but I definitely thought the same for Booba and Kiki, and in my head the thought of the one with pointed corners being Booba was ridiculous.

I guess it's the way it sounds phonetically, Kiki sounds sharp, so it has sharp pointy corners, Booba is more rounded (And it sounds like Boobs which are round) so the shape suits it.
I was about to say, there's absolutely nothing unusual about this. There's a big difference between these simple associations and actually experiencing colors, tastes or smells based on simple stimuli.

[Reilly]

Yeah I'm just a wannabe :sad:

Well I know the difference because I actually have experienced it on acid, seeing sounds in colours (Mainly blue and green). It's pretty incredible in a nightclub or just a house party, anything with music and dancing. But I wouldn't like it all the time, I'd imagine that it would get really irritating.

[Koala]

first knew about it just days ago. while reading through Franz Ferdinand Wikipedia page. their bassist have the smell-hear one. :shrug:


it is kinda weird. but yeah, would probably cool to have. :D

I got it from here....
I'd love to know how tastes my voice, or how is it seen!

About naming each figure... I had the same idea...:stunned:

[an angel]

Every day of the week and every month has a color too. I don't see a color vividly in front of me like the guy in that video though... I never thought it was unusual until a girl in my choir when I was in 5th grade said something about Monday being red, and that all the other days have a color too, and everyone else looked at her like ":wtf:" but I knew what she meant. Except Monday is blue to me.