4 ms·
The Man Who Tastes Sounds
- jawns 11y agoI have grapheme-colour synesthesia (a strong, consistent association of letters with colors). Back in college, I wrote an article for my campus newspaper describing synethesia, and I included the full mapping of letter-color associations in a sidebar. I rediscovered that clip about ten years later and, without looking at the sidebar, jotted down all of my letter-color associations. They were remarkably consistent! I tend to also associate letters and numbers with a particular gender, even though the concept of a grammatical gender doesn't exist in English. There isn't anything about the shape of the letters or any similar pattern that explains why I associate "H" with female but "I" with male. I'm not sure that counts as synesthesia, though.
- joshuapants 11y agoPardon the squigglevision but I think there could be something about the H and I relation you're not seeing http://imgur.com/K4aeVVd http://imgur.com/K4aeVVd
- _abattoir 11y agoSame kind of synesthesia here! fist bump (also annoying that chrome dictionary still doesn't recognize "synesthesia" as a word...) One of my frustrations with synesthesia is describing the "impossible" colors when people ask about letters lie 0, O, I, or 1... In my mind these are simultaneously transparent, black, AND white.... but when you write out "zero", "oh" and "one" the colors are different! And don't forget the "blurring" when you try to describe what color a _word_ is... Sometimes the first letter takes dominance, sometimes a middle syllable is particularly strong and has more color than the rest... where's the logic? ;P That said, I wouldn't trade synesthesia for the world. I love having a free set of associations to help with recall and learning. The number of times I've remembered something because of its color rather than a more logical reason is too many to count.