Quoting Post Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic I wish I had synesthesia. Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] Quote: from [m]Sachacohen2[/m] at 7:37 am on July 4, 2008[quote]Quote: from [m]DanaStar[/m] at 3:54 am on July 4, 2008[quote]Quote: from [m]TooImaginativeTeen[/m] at 5:08 pm on July 3, 2008[quote]Quote: from [m]DanaStar[/m] at 10:28 am on July 3, 2008[quote]Well, I tend to give things personalities, I have ever since I can remember.     For example watermelon is giddy and bubbly, and I can't see the number nine being anything except incredibly mean. Nine is a bully in my mind.     I don't think that counts as synesthesia, though. I think it's just me having a hyper-active imagination.[/quote]    Well, if 9 to you was ALWAYS a bully, then that is likely to be a form of synesthesia.    I have seen a person who gave personalities to graphemes in a documentary about it, so it's likely that you have form of it.    In my case, I find it hard to give a peronality to some object or letter without having to THINK about it, and ending up with something like the live furniture from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast". That you could call hyper-active imagination.    The thing about it is that you can't think about it, the letter or number JUST HAS TO BE that colour, or personality or smell. You can't really explain it why. Your explanation ought to be an innocent shrug.    Synesthesia isn't imaginative. There's no creativity in bringging about these connections.    For me three is always yellow and 6 is orange, but I never thoguht about "mhmmm, let's see....6 is....orange because I once saw 6 oranges in my table and that is..." No.    Actually to imagine 6 oranges is more stable to me than 6 lemons. It actually confuses me.    Two yellos lemons awkwardly don't  look 100% "right", because their colour is conflciting with 2, for me, being green.    It's hard to explain.    Here's a test. Does imagining 9 as a caring bubbly number sound good to you? Does it sound wrong?    If so, it's like me and my number-colour setting. Anything deviating from that specific sequence of colours, just looks wrong to me.    another. What about a pair of scissors, what sort of personality does that have in your mind?[/quote] The only thing that comes to mind when I think about scissors is that they hate glue. I don't know if that counts. And yeah, 9 being caring just sounds incredibly awkward. Just wrong. I kind of twitched when I read that. xD 4 is the caring one. When I was little I made up stories about the numbers, and in kindergarten I didn't quite understand how you could add 4 and 9 together. They're too opposite. (9 secretly hates 4 because all of the other numbers like 4 and 9 is jealous). All of my whole numbers from 0-9 have personalities. They're male when they're positive, and female when they're negative. I never really thought much about it. They just kind of are. Then there's a few select objects that have personalities. Not many, though. I do have stories for why I give things the personalities they have. But I usually make them up after I've decided on a personality. Like, lab tops are really flirty. My lab top wants to seduce the family PC. And the PC is opinionated and easily irritated, so he doesn't like lab top because she's tries to distract him from his studies (:/ I know that sounds incredibly odd). So, my imagination is really quick to make things up.[/quote] Just curious, do you have a favourite or lucky number?[/quote] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post DanaStar Posted at 8:57 pm on June 23, 2008 Synesthesia is a neurological condition where the path ways between the parts of the brain that control senses are hyper active. As a result, a person with synesthesia can see sound in the form of color. So, each note of the scale has it's own specific color. When played in a cord, they're seen as a band of colors. And they can taste sound. Perhaps C tastes bitter, or G tastes salty, or maybe F tastes sweet. Synesthesia is actually where sayings like "bitter wind" or "prickly laugh" come from. I suppose living with it would be kind of hard sometimes. I mean, you could never go to clubs. I heard that when music has a lot of bass in it, you see lots of little black boxes and it doesn't taste very good... and every time phone rings or someone talks you would be bombarded by strands of color... I still think it would be cool. Like your own personal light show.

Replies Paradox Revealed Posted at 6:34 pm on July 9, 2008 Sorry about the double post, but a lot of the types of synesthesia on here are fairly rare, even for synesthesia. Colored music notes Number personalities Tasting words and ideas Pictures of music The most common is color-grapheme synesthesia, having colored letters. I've spent a lot of time researching it because of my science project. If you are really interested in synesthesia there are a lot of links about it on the internet. Just google it. Paradox Revealed Posted at 6:29 pm on July 9, 2008 Once I did a science project on synesthesia/color association. I think I have a mild synesthesia, because I've always associated colors with letters, times, days of the week, classes, etc. For example: "French" is red, "English" is a slightly tannish yellow. L is yellow. W is navy blue. Friday is purple. Saturday is gray. Monday is red. "Science" is blue. 5 is purple. Etc. I used to have this thing with people's personalities and colors. DanaStar, your "personality thing" is synesthesia. Go to mixsig.net to read about it. It's called facetologia when a word has a personality and facetographemia when a grapheme has a personality *Paradox* dmusic Posted at 11:48 pm on July 6, 2008 I do have synesthesia!  It's kind of cool.  I also have this condition where, when I listen to music, I get a "mental music video" as I call it.  It's sort of like how you get a mental image of something, only it's a mental video and it is basically a video of my interpretation of the song playing in my head. Micus Posted at 11:16 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from TooImaginativeTeen at 12:16 am on July 7, 2008 Do you think people who don't have it could create their own perfect pitch thing? Like. Listening to notes millions of times, and at the end they can pretty much tell which note is being played, like E or F? I don't mean with the aid of colours, though that does create a shortcut, but just practicing it from "not having it at all" to "having some type of it". Some people do. I mean, I can recognize pitches, but I had to teach myself what each pitch is first. It took a bit of playing at the piano then walking away and singing the tonic a minute or two later and see if its right. TooImaginativeTeen Posted at 9:16 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from Micus at 4:34 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from TooImaginativeTeen at 3:58 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from Micus at 11:14 am on July 6, 2008 Quote: from TooImaginativeTeen at 1:39 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from Micus at 8:14 am on July 6, 2008 I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc.       If you simply hear a sound, without any visual aid, can you automatically say what note it is, bsed on the colour?   ja    Lol that's pretty cool. I whish I had that.    It would be quite helpful.    Did you always have it?    Have people addressed you on that matter? It's actually a thing that happens (it's not common, but common enough that it has a name) called "perfect pitch". There are variants on perfect pitch, such as perfect relative, or just relative, and they're all skills in which people can hear notes without a reference. I've pretty much always had it, although it's a skill that I've honed. My friends are jealous. So am I. I think perfect pitch is one of the few "superpowers" that actually exist. It enhances a person's performance in music. It's advantageous. And it puts one above the common person. So it's cool. Do you think people who don't have it could create their own perfect pitch thing? Like. Listening to notes millions of times, and at the end they can pretty much tell which note is being played, like E or F? I don't mean with the aid of colours, though that does create a shortcut, but just practicing it from "not having it at all" to "having some type of it". Micus Posted at 4:34 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from TooImaginativeTeen at 3:58 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from Micus at 11:14 am on July 6, 2008 Quote: from TooImaginativeTeen at 1:39 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from Micus at 8:14 am on July 6, 2008 I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc.   If you simply hear a sound, without any visual aid, can you automatically say what note it is, bsed on the colour?    ja Lol that's pretty cool. I whish I had that. It would be quite helpful. Did you always have it? Have people adressed you on that matter? It's actually a thing that happens (it's not common, but common enough that it has a name) called "perfect pitch". There are variants on perfect pitch, such as perfect relative, or just relative, and they're all skills in which people can hear notes without a reference. I've pretty much always had it, although it's a skill that I've honed. My friends are jealous.     Micus Posted at 4:22 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from DanaStar at 7:10 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from Micus at 8:14 am on July 6, 2008 I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc. That's so cool. Can you tell when a piano is out of tune by the colors of the notes? Only a little. I'm not the best at it, like some people I know. I can definitely tell when one of the strings (each note is created by striking one to three strings, depending on where it lies on the piano) is out of tune with the other. Or when played in a scale. DanaStar Posted at 4:11 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from Fauna at 3:45 pm on July 6, 2008 I've always been able to taste things. images, ideas, people, words. it's not synesthesia, it doesn't happen all the time.   I think most people have little crossovers between the senses like that. but, yeah, it would be amazing to have full-on synesthesia. at least maybe for a little while. Yeah, I'm exactly the same way with somethings, but it's only sometimes so it doesn't really count. DanaStar Posted at 4:10 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from Micus at 8:14 am on July 6, 2008 I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc. That's so cool. Can you tell when a piano is out of tune by the colors of the notes? Fauna Posted at 3:45 pm on July 6, 2008 I've always been able to taste things. images, ideas, people, words. it's not synesthesia, it doesn't happen all the time. I think most people have little crossovers between the senses like that. but, yeah, it would be amazing to have full-on synesthesia. at least maybe for a little while. TooImaginativeTeen Posted at 12:58 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from Micus at 11:14 am on July 6, 2008 Quote: from TooImaginativeTeen at 1:39 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from Micus at 8:14 am on July 6, 2008 I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc.    If you simply hear a sound, without any visual aid, can you automatically say what note it is, bsed on the colour? ja Lol that's pretty cool. I whish I had that. It would be quite helpful. Did you always have it? Have people adressed you on that matter? Micus Posted at 11:14 am on July 6, 2008 Quote: from TooImaginativeTeen at 1:39 pm on July 6, 2008 Quote: from Micus at 8:14 am on July 6, 2008 I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc. If you simply hear a sound, without any visual aid, can you automatically say what note it is, bsed on the colour? ja TooImaginativeTeen Posted at 10:39 am on July 6, 2008 Quote: from Micus at 8:14 am on July 6, 2008 I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc. If you simply hear a sound, without any visual aid, can you automatically say what note it is, bsed on the colour? Micus Posted at 8:14 am on July 6, 2008 I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc. Tokyo7 Posted at 2:27 am on July 6, 2008 Quote: from DanaStar at 8:57 pm on June 23, 2008 Synesthesia is a neurological condition where the path ways between the parts of the brain that control senses are hyper active. As a result, a person with synesthesia can see sound in the form of color. So, each note of the scale has it's own specific color. When played in a cord, they're seen as a band of colors. And they can taste sound. Perhaps C tastes bitter, or G tastes salty, or maybe F tastes sweet. Synesthesia is actually where sayings like "bitter wind" or "prickly laugh" come from. I suppose living with it would be kind of hard sometimes. I mean, you could never go to clubs. I heard that when music has a lot of bass in it, you see lots of little black boxes and it doesn't taste very good... and every time phone rings or someone talks you would be bombarded by strands of color... I still think it would be cool. Like your own personal light show. You are an Idiot. Most recent 15 of 38 previous replies displayed.