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  • women60bananawomen60banana
    Yeah, I have grapheme, which is the "all words have a colour, okay!?" form of synesthesia.
  • Tempe ArizonaTempe Arizona
    geeks...going to Comi-con....designing costumes for the beauties to wear at Comi-con *rolling on the floor with laughter*
    Ah! "Beauty and the Geek," I love you!
  • Tempe ArizonaTempe Arizona
    QUOTE (mixtape @ Oct 23 2007, 12:40 PM)
    Yeah, I have grapheme, which is the "all words have a colour, okay!?" form of synesthesia.



    wait, for real?
  • canoe7grapecanoe7grape
    QUOTE (amberdino @ Oct 22 2007, 12:55 PM)
    Okay so there's a fire 20 miles from here.
    There are apparently a total of 8 fires in San Diego alone, and then there are more closer to LA in Malibu, Irvine, etc.
    They're evacuating homes that are like 15min away.
    I'm scared.



    ambs... i saw that on cnn they are doing full coverage of all of this... i really hope you and your family are alright! let us know everything's okay when you can! smile.gif
  • target35ghosttarget35ghost
    QUOTE (tonetoile @ Oct 23 2007, 01:41 PM)
    It's called synesthesia and I think it's one of the most fascinating things on the planet.

    Many people don't know that they have it because they think that it's normal. "Seeing" sound is just one form. It's basically an overlapping of senses and can take the form of someone seeing time in colors, or "smelling" words, etc.

    It's incredibly interesting.


    I have synesthesia!! And so does my sister and my dad, and my aunt - it's a genetic thing, apparently.

    I didn't know that it was weird for ages, I thought everyone did it. My dad and sister and I used to argue about what colours shapes were supposed to be, and what days of the week looked like... My mom thought we were crazy, lol.

    And IQ tests get really frustrating because they show you a sequence of shapes and make triangles blue!!! They're meant to be green. Obviously.
  • DJRoseDJRose
    QUOTE (Electra @ Oct 24 2007, 10:37 AM)
    I have synesthesia!! And so does my sister and my dad, and my aunt - it's a genetic thing, apparently.

    I didn't know that it was weird for ages, I thought everyone did it. My dad and sister and I used to argue about what colours shapes were supposed to be, and what days of the week looked like... My mom thought we were crazy, lol.

    And IQ tests get really frustrating because they show you a sequence of shapes and make triangles blue!!! They're meant to be green. Obviously.


    That is *way* cool.
  • doctor5capdoctor5cap
    that is pretty cool! you guys must have an entirely different perspective of words... dose the emotion a word relates to affect the colour that you see?
  • DJRoseDJRose
    QUOTE (Felster @ Oct 24 2007, 11:54 AM)
    that is pretty cool! you guys must have an entirely different perspective of words... dose the emotion a word relates to affect the colour that you see?


    Seriously! And what about music? Do you SEE music?
  • agentnumoneagentnumone
    Where is love?
    Does it fall from skies above?
    Is it underneath the willow tree
    That I've been dreaming of?
    Where is she
    Who I close my eyes to see?
    Will I ever know the sweet "hello"
    That's meant for only me? Who can say where she may hide?
    Must I travel far and wide?
    'Til I am beside the someone who
    I can mean something to.
    Where,
    Where is love? Who can say where she may hide?
    Must I travel far and wide?
    'Til I am beside the someone who
    I can mean something to.
    Where,
    Where is love?
  • Tempe ArizonaTempe Arizona
    Weeee, it's windy outside, weeeee!!

    BTW, mel, for a second there I thought you were singing the Night at the Roxbury song. laugh.gif
    Just for mel because I'm in a head bopping mood:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ZYvqHEJ6E

    Actually, the real music vid for the original song is sort of rad in a weird 80s kind of way. It involves vampires:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ByL1toX4og
  • women60bananawomen60banana
    QUOTE (Felster @ Oct 24 2007, 11:54 AM)
    that is pretty cool! you guys must have an entirely different perspective of words... dose the emotion a word relates to affect the colour that you see?


    For me, that only happens with really strong words like "hate" or "disease." It's more random with neutral words like "camera" or "glue." (Great examples, I know..)

    QUOTE (DJRose @ Oct 24 2007, 01:22 PM)
    Seriously! And what about music? Do you SEE music?


    I can't speak for Alice, but I definitely don't. I think that's another form of it altogether. Would scare the fuck out of me, though.
  • mayonaisemayonaise
    I ate Tarte (this pizza shaped ...er... food) today and now I'm eating a cookie (typing one-handed...not easy)...

    anyway: I think it's stupid for germans (am I the only one here btw??) to get the british nme always so late... today I bought last weeks edition...I feel like living behind the moon. OK, not that bad but... not that good either. this doesn't have a point, I'm just bored...
  • target35ghosttarget35ghost
    QUOTE (Felster @ Oct 24 2007, 04:54 PM)
    that is pretty cool! you guys must have an entirely different perspective of words... dose the emotion a word relates to affect the colour that you see?

    Mine is different from Kay's.. I don't necessarily have a colour for all words. Letters and numbers have specific colours (all odd numbers are green, for instance, but each one is a slightly different shade), and so do shapes. And I can "see" days of the week, they've each got a sort of shape and colour, but it's not a regular shape or anything - like Monday is a sort of pale pink rectangle with the top of the rectangle as a curve, like a sad face.

    Oh, and I'm not sure if it's related, but EVERYTHING has an order. I mean I have an order my friends, cereals, tv shows, games...

    QUOTE (DJRose @ Oct 24 2007, 06:22 PM)
    Seriously! And what about music? Do you SEE music?


    I don't - I've heard of people who do though. But occasionally there are some notes that are so prominent or obvious that a colour kind of flashes through my mind. That doesn't happen very often though.
  • auntscale1auntscale1
    Sometimes I get weird tastes in my mouths when I hear certain peoples' names... does that count?

    Like, my mother's name (Laura) brings about first a musty pasty kind of taste (blech) and then rotten lemon-y (BLECH) with pricklies...
    Whereas my best friend's name, Thristan, tastes like maraschino cherries and silk biggrin.gif

    It only happens with names and strong words like LOVE and WAR and such... and only when I can hear someone else say it, reading the word or saying it to myself doesn't really do anything.

    (For the record OK Go tastes like steamed broccoli and metal)
  • tune1shadetune1shade
    QUOTE (mixtape @ Oct 23 2007, 07:40 PM)
    Yeah, I have grapheme, which is the "all words have a colour, okay!?" form of synesthesia.



    QUOTE (Electra @ Oct 24 2007, 02:37 PM)
    I have synesthesia!! And so does my sister and my dad, and my aunt - it's a genetic thing, apparently.

    I didn't know that it was weird for ages, I thought everyone did it. My dad and sister and I used to argue about what colours shapes were supposed to be, and what days of the week looked like... My mom thought we were crazy, lol.

    And IQ tests get really frustrating because they show you a sequence of shapes and make triangles blue!!! They're meant to be green. Obviously.


    Ugh. Is it weird to say that I'm jealous? I've had such a fascination with synesthesia since as long as I've known about it. I always think it's so interesting that it's never the same for two people and can come in so many forms. I mean, a group of the population has synesthesia, but each person feels something different.

    QUOTE (Claret @ Oct 25 2007, 02:33 AM)
    Sometimes I get weird tastes in my mouths when I hear certain peoples' names... does that count?


    Perhaps! I've heard of tastes associated with words. It's usually colors and wonders/numbers/times, but taste can happen as well, as far as I know.
  • agentnumoneagentnumone
    ya I think im jealous as well. I saw a 20/20 documentary on it ages ago and always wanted to have that disorder... hahaha that does sound wierd. But ya... wow Alice. Thats reallly cool. A very fascinating genetic thing!


    QUOTE (Tempe Arizona @ Oct 24 2007, 03:09 PM)
    Weeee, it's windy outside, weeeee!!

    BTW, mel, for a second there I thought you were singing the Night at the Roxbury song.


    hahahah i love that song as well.

    What is love
    Oh baby, don't hurt me
    Don't hurt me no more
    Oh, baby don't hurt me
    Don't hurt me no more

    What is love?!
  • canoe7grapecanoe7grape
    QUOTE (tonetoile @ Oct 24 2007, 11:28 PM)
    Ugh. Is it weird to say that I'm jealous? I've had such a fascination with synesthesia since as long as I've known about it. I always think it's so interesting that it's never the same for two people and can come in so many forms. I mean, a group of the population has synesthesia, but each person feels something different.



    I was coming here to say the same thing, that I'm jealous. It's so cool to think about how many different forms there are, and how it's different for everyone, and that there is a deeper meaning to all these words and shapes and stuff to some people. ahhh! awesome.
  • mayonaisemayonaise
    QUOTE (Claret @ Oct 25 2007, 04:33 AM)
    (For the record OK Go tastes like steamed broccoli and metal)




    ...... can't write.... laughing... That is so cool!

    the sister of a friend can't sit close to other people while they are eating because she tastes whatever they eat, so, say she eats chocolate and someone close to her eats steak her chocolate would taste all steakish.... something I would not like...
  • cross98bengalcross98bengal
    well, this is the person i was talking to... obvioulsy the thread was about radiohead [i don't actually like radiohead that much, just felt like exploring the forum... i did find something intersting though...]

    QUOTE
    I have a condition called Synaesthesia which in my case means I can "see" sounds (mainly music). I used to love the way radioheads songs would take one a main colour with just swirls and dabs of other colours mixed in. Ever since Kid A, there have just been too many colours for me to really enjoy the main "theme" of the song.


    and another

    QUOTE
    The interesting thing is that all synaesthetes have different experiences. I've read about some people that have the opposite to me. Ie, they see a colour and hear a sound. That just sounds so bizarre to me. I only realised that most people DIDN'T see what I see when I was about 13.


    the condition sounds really fascinating... it's cool that someone here actually has it... i'm jealous... laugh.gif
    does it have any draw backs?
  • target35ghosttarget35ghost
    QUOTE (smeja @ Oct 25 2007, 08:12 AM)
    does it have any draw backs?


    The only draw back for me is frustration when you see coloured numbers and shapes in text books or math class walls or IQ tests, that sort of thing. Or colours in the wrong order. A circle HAS to be royal blue, the number 3 HAS to be a really bright tangy lime green, and Sunday HAS to be white. So when it's not, it really bugs me.
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