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That book helped someone I know he was mostly face blind. Recently I was listening to a discussion where someone was trying to explain her synesthesia about ti
by dendrite9 3y ago
That book helped someone I know he was mostly face blind.
Recently I was listening to a discussion where someone was trying to explain her synesthesia about time to a bunch of people who didn't experience that. I found it really hard to wrap my head around, but there is a picture in this article of how one person visualizes time over the course of a year. The idea is just so far from what I think of as normal that it is difficult to really grasp.
"I thought everyone thought like I did, says Holly Branigan, also a scientist at Edinburgh University, and someone with time-space synaesthesia.
"I found out when I attended a talk in the department that Julia was giving. She said that some synaesthetes can see time. And I thought, 'Oh my god, that means I've got synaesthesia'."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8248589.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8248589.stm
- HenrikB 3y agoThat type of synesthesia is referred to as Number Forms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form). I read a long time ago that it's quite common, like 1 in 7 people got it. Some people don't even know they have it. I always had it as far as I can recall, but it wasn't until my mid 20s, when I stumbled upon a picture, that I reflected on it and the fact that not everyone sees number forms.
- vctrnk 3y agoOh wow. Count me in on the I didn't know I had that! camp. When younger I struggled horribly with ALL things math, and to this day still do. OTOH I've always had a knack for DIY involving measurements: lenghts, rythms, quantities, sizes, you name it. I just invoke my own "dynamic mind ruler" for the task at hand and usually get it right 1st try. Cooking something new? I intuitively know the proper amount of ingredients and spices. Doing work in a friend's car? That nut looks like a 3/4 and that one a 11/16, and who the heck put a 11mm in place of a 7/16?? Incidentally, the whole concept of Time always flows from right-to-left to me. 1000BC is waaay to the right, and 2030AC is just a stone throw away to the left. Now I wonder if it's something only I perceive that way, or everyone does.
- precompute 3y agoAre you left-handed?
- tveita 3y agoSomewhat related, a survey of how Norwegian people visualize time: https://nrkbeta.no/2018/01/01/this-is-what-the-year-actually-looks-like/ https://nrkbeta.no/2018/01/01/this-is-what-the-year-actually...
- Aeolun 3y agoThis almost caused me an existential time crisis until I drew out my own year and realized it’s still as I remember. It just gets a bit smeared out in my head.
- dendrite9 3y agoOh wow! Thanks for that, I lost a bunch of time with my coffee this morning thinking about time. I feel like I've lost my sense of time and it is all smeared together. It always has been to some extent but the last couple years have been stressful with business health and family health issues. This line made me laugh "A straight fucking line. Because life moves ahead Right handed man, 20-29, Eastern Norway" and think about the reporting on the Aymara who describe the past as infront of them and the future behind. That was hard to grasp but then it made sense because one is potentially visible and the other is unknowable until one passes through it. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/feb/24/4 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/feb/24/4