Any Fellow Synesthetes?

[The3rdEye]

I have a mental condition (although the word condition has kind of a negative connotation)called Synesthesia. So to me, every letter and number appears to be a specific color, sounds also have colors, and I find that I see people's voices as shapes as well as colors. Also, in my mind, days of the week have very specific personalities. I don't really like calling it a condition because I feel like that makes it a bad thing, when it really isn't. It doesn't affect how I function at all, I just see things in odd ways.

It's a funny thing to have because I wasn't even aware it wasn't normal until like 2nd grade when I was talking to my mom about how I remembered how to spell "create" on a spelling test because the colors of the letters reminded me of a sunset, which obviously didn't make much sense to her..

I don't really know where I was going with this little ramble, I just kind of thought it was an interesting subject. So feel free to post thoughts, or experiences

Apparently Ian McConville [http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2009-08-31] has synaesthesia, he's the artist responsible for Mac Hall [http://www.machall.com/] and more recently Three Panel Soul [http://threepanelsoul.com/]. I`d heard of the condition before but wasn`t aware of exactly how complex the phenomena could be. It`s not the nicest thing to say in regards to those who may be inhibited by it, but I honestly harbour a little jealousy that there is a "Life v1.1" that I don't get to experience.

No, but I do have perfect pitch and eidetic memory.

The first one, perfect pitch, means I can "recognize the pitch of any tone that I hear without a reference".

The second one, eidetic memory, means that I think and remember everything in images and sounds. That is to say, I "see" it happening in my head.

Eidetic high five ^.^ Vn

[small]I'm sure there are people who WISH I had perfect pitch.[/small]

 

[Leopard]

I too have Synesthesia. I associate numbers and letters with colours. I wasnt even aware it was unusual till a high school maths teacher mentioned the condition in passing. It doesn't really have much effect on my day to day life so I don't really think about it all that much.

 

[robot slipper]

I once had to proof-read "The Frog who Croaked Blue", which is the first time I have heard of synaesthenia, and now here's the second! The only thing I do which is remotely near is how I envisage the days of the week in my head. They kind of exist in 3D as a sort of oval, with Monday being at the left hand side of the oval, curving outwards towards Friday at the right-hand side, and then Saturday and Sunday loop round towards the back. So for example, if its Thursday the 5th and I have to work out which day of the week the 10th is, I mentally count the dates off by going around the oval in my head and arrive at the correct day. Things like that were described in the book, mainly to do with people seeing number lines in their head in 3D and in all different sizes.