Pages: 1 2  Next -- Posted by 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. -- Posted by Cunning Stunt at 8:58 pm on June 23, 2008 It's probably really annoying and distracting. -- Posted by Syber at 8:58 pm on June 23, 2008 Sounds interesting... -- Posted by icaruscomplex at 8:58 pm on June 23, 2008 I wish I had that, too. I can definitely imagine colors, but I'm not forcibly shown colors when I hear sound. -- Posted by colormyworld at 8:59 pm on June 23, 2008 It sounds like someone who's on extacy or acid or something. -- Posted by child of rock n roll at 9:01 pm on June 23, 2008 I would find that really annoying, imagine having that your whole life? I would hate that. There was actually a show about this on last night, about super humans, and there was a woman who had this. And I think they were saying how she was the only one in the world that had such a condition and the high extent that she had it. They apparently have remarkable memory as well I've heard. -- Posted by ocdbabe at 9:02 pm on June 23, 2008 I know someone that has that. It gets on her nerves. (HAH. Pun.) -- Posted by DanaStar at 9:03 pm on June 23, 2008 Quote: from colormyworld at 8:59 pm on June 23, 2008 It sounds like someone who's on ecstasy or acid or something. lol, that's what I thought at first too. But it's more consistent. Every time you hear a G you see the same color. It's not like the colors you see are completely random. It's more like a mathematic function... you can never have two different values of y for the same value of x. Where as acid and ecstasy are kind of unpredictable. -- Posted by HuffleHaire at 9:07 pm on June 23, 2008 How does the sound color work with normal color? -- Posted by neverjeeps at 9:11 pm on June 23, 2008 that would be amazing -- Posted by TooImaginativeTeen at 7:53 am on June 29, 2008 I have that.   Two me the concept of 2 was always green and number 3 was always yellow and 5 is pink and 8 is dark green and 6 is orange. Then 'a' is red and 'i' is yellow and 'u' is purple. 'm' is toasty yellow and musical tunes are movements in 3d space. I remember having these connections in my head since very early. I remember kindergarten and thinking that 2 was green. To me, 2 being yellow sounds wrong. It's not something that you actually see literally on the page. At least for me it isn't. I think most people aren't hallucinating actual things in their environment. They just perceive it. It's something you perceive in your mind's eye, as if in the back of your head. For me names have colour, and it's the vowels that give colour to the name, then the consonants next to the vowels usually get the colour from their neighbours. Sometimes I even find myself judging the look of a name and if it's a good sounding name or not because of its colours. It's hard to explain. I always thought everybody had this type of wiring in their minds but it turns out it's not as common as I thought when I looked into it. But it's still pretty common. If you think about a number or a letter, to you,....what's the colour, or the smell, or the shape, or the movement, that you, without any rational explanation, give to that number? or letter, or name? You can't just make it up now. It has to be something that always was for you. It's just an involutary connection in your brain. It's just something that is. That's synesthesia basically. The most common is number/letter(which are graphemes)-colour synesthesia. -- Posted by DanaStar at 9:43 pm on July 2, 2008 Quote: from TooImaginativeTeen at 7:53 am on June 29, 2008 I have that. Two me the concept of 2 was always green and number 3 was always yellow and 5 is pink and 8 is dark green and 6 is orange. Then 'a' is red and 'i' is yellow and 'u' is purple. 'm' is toasty yellow and musical tunes are movements in 3d space. I remember having these connections in my head since very early. I remember kindergarten and thinking that 2 was green. To me, 2 being yellow sounds wrong. It's not something that you actually see literally on the page. At least for me it isn't. I think most people aren't hallucinating  actual things in their environment. They just perceive it. It's something you perceive in your mind's eye, as if in the back of your head. For me names have colour, and it's the vowels that give colour to the name, then the consonants next to the vowels usually get the colour from their neighbours. Sometimes I even find myself judging the look of a name and if it's a good sounding name or not because of its colours. It's hard to explain. I always thought everybody had this type of wiring in their minds but it turns out it's not as common as I thought when I looked into it. But it's still pretty common. If you think about a number or a letter, to you,....what's the colour, or the smell, or the shape, or the movement, that you, without any rational explanation, give to that number? or letter, or name? You can't just make it up now. It has to be something that always was for you. It's just an involutary connection in your brain. It's just something that is. That's synesthesia basically. The most common is number/letter(which are graphemes)-colour synesthesia. That's amazing. :) It's so exciting to hear from someone who actually has it. Thank-you for sharing your experiences with me. -- Posted by foreign lauren at 1:32 am on July 3, 2008 i think i have it new york is orange to me -- Posted by DanaStar at 10:28 am on July 3, 2008 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. -- Posted by TooImaginativeTeen at 5:08 pm on July 3, 2008 Quote: from DanaStar at 10:28 am on July 3, 2008 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. 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? -- Posted by DanaStar at 7:54 pm on July 3, 2008 Quote: from TooImaginativeTeen at 5:08 pm on July 3, 2008 Quote: from DanaStar at 10:28 am on July 3, 2008 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. 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? 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. -- Posted by morik at 3:26 am on July 4, 2008 What's it like? -- Posted by Sachacohen2 at 7:37 am on July 4, 2008 Quote: from DanaStar at 3:54 am on July 4, 2008 Quote: from TooImaginativeTeen at 5:08 pm on July 3, 2008 Quote: from DanaStar at 10:28 am on July 3, 2008 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.    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? 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. Just curious, do you have a favourite or lucky number? -- Posted by CeriseGlitterspark at 8:23 am on July 4, 2008 That actually sounds really amazing. Is that similar to seenig numbers as colours? 'Cause I have a friend who does that. -- Posted by TooImaginativeTeen at 1:00 pm on July 4, 2008 Quote: from CeriseGlitterspark at 8:23 am on July 4, 2008 That actually sounds really amazing. Is that similar to seenig numbers as colours? 'Cause I have a friend who does that. Well, have you read my first post in this thread? Would that describe your friend? -- Posted by DanaStar at 7:08 pm on July 5, 2008 Quote: from Sachacohen2 at 7:37 am on July 4, 2008 Just curious, do you have a favourite or lucky number? 42 -- Posted by Apotheosis at 9:08 pm on July 5, 2008 it's called lsd and it's not too expensive, 6 hours worth of synesthesia -- Posted by TooImaginativeTeen at 9:18 pm on July 5, 2008 Quote: from Apotheosis at 9:08 pm on July 5, 2008 it's called lsd and it's not too expensive, 6 hours worth of synesthesia It's better to not depend on chemicals of extraneous origins and still have these harmless brain quirks. -- Posted by deadsilence at 10:12 pm on July 5, 2008 the odds of having it are like 1 in 1,000. I did a report on it for science a few years back. it can usually be harnessed for effective purposes in the arts -- Posted by Tokyo7 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. -- Posted by 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. -- Posted by TooImaginativeTeen 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? -- Posted by 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 -- Posted by TooImaginativeTeen 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? -- Posted by 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. Pages: 1 2  Next