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This is going to take some explaining, so I'll go ahead and throw it out here on its own right now: heyorion is looking for some synesthetes to take a battery of online tests ("All the info I need from people is the synaesthesia battery completed, their age, sex and mother tongue. Sadly, I can't offer any payment, but people get to see their own results afterwards, and they can come back and test how consistent they are if they're into that kind of synaesthesia geekery"). Synesthesia is basically "a condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color" ( AHD): In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia or color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a (three-dimensional) view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise). Yet another recently identified type, visual motion → sound synesthesia, involves hearing sounds in response to visual motion and flicker. (W) I've talked about synesthesia here before--but reading over this just now, I was kind of surprised to realize that I do most of these (I'd thought I only really did numbers and a couple other things). Numbers, letters, days, months, names, songs and even smells all have distinct colors to me. (BPAL's Siren, which I have in my oil diffuser right now, has a vivid tawny-red-peach color. The month of October is kind of grey-brown with a vermilionish color running through it. 29 is leaf green and [steel? slate?] blue. Wednesday is kind of a greenish blue. Paramore's "Decode" [SHUT UP] is a dark, dim grey-purple, but the word Paramore is kind of a raspberry pink. Actually, words and letters usually appear in a large black Times New Roman font in my mind, although if you sat me down and asked me, say, "What color is the word serendipity?," I could tell you that it's mostly a golden yellow with a little pink in it.) I think it may be that I'm a very visual person--if all you give me in class is a spoken lecture, I am totally at sea--so I tend to translate any other senses into some kind of color or visual. Or vice versa, maybe--that's why I'm a visual person. I don't know. Anyway, if any of this sounds familiar to you ("Bitch, please--Wednesday is red" ), think about heading on over and taking the tests.    Tags: science, synesthesia
Current Music: Paramore, "Decode"
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From: heyorion |
Date: October 29th, 2008 05:22 pm (UTC) |
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Hi everyone! I am a she, by the way - my name is Clare :) If you have any questions about your synaesthesia, I'll do my best to answer them here. If you prefer privacy, then my email is c.jonas@sussex.ac.uk. I'm specifically looking for number-colour and letter-colour synaesthetes (i.e. people who have colours for numbers and/or letters) but if you have another kind and you'd like to take part in research, there are a number of research groups scattered around the world. Different ones have different specialisations, but we're glad to hear from you whatever kind you have! I belong to the group at Sussex University ( http://www.syn.sussex.ac.uk/), in Brighton, England - currently interested in number-colour, letter-colour, spatial sequences and synaesthesia in the deaf. University College London is allied to Sussex, and deals mostly with synaesthesias involving touch. Edinburgh is also allied to Sussex, and is interested in synaesthesia in children and lexical-gustatory ("tasty words") syn ( http://www.syn.psy.ed.ac.uk/) These are the ones I am not so familiar with. There are probably more, but these are all the ones I can remember at the moment. Brunel, UK: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~hsstnns/synaesthesia_RESEARCH.htmlUniversity of East London, UK: http://www.uel.ac.uk/psychology/research/synaesthesia/University of Waterloo, Canada: http://www.synaesthesia.uwaterloo.ca/Trinity College, Dublin: http://www.tcd.ie/Psychology/synres/Cambridge, UK: http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/synaesthesia/Macquarie University, Sydney: http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/research/projects/synaesthesia/index.htmAnd finally, some general information on synaesthesia/American Synaesthesia Association: http://www.synesthesia.info/ |
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I must definitely have time-setting synesthesia.
I've always seen individual years as stretched out vertically, each month below the previous, and laid side by side in columns (so January 2006, 2007, 2008 are all next to each other, left to right, at the top of the columns.
Decades are stacked atop eachother, (1960s on top of 1950s, 1950s on top of 1940s), with the years stretching out bottom to top (1959 is below 1960), the exception to this is that the 1980s are next to (to the right of to be precise) the 1970s. I can only assume this is because I was born in the 1980s. The 1990s continue atop the 1980s, and the 2000s atop that... which is also an exception to the next part:
Centuries (which have formed a single column of decades) are aligned next to each other, left to right, going backwards in time (meaning that the 1980s and 1990s actually overlap the 1880s and 1890s, in a three-dimensional view), all the way past year zero (there are no individual breaks or alignments for mellinnia) where the BC years continue on in their backwards way.
It's all very specific, and when I think of a year or point and time, I picture it on the timeline map.
But I've only ever experience music synesthesia with a couple of select songs. One going so far as to see separate colours/movements for individual parts of the song, all arranged together.
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i was just talking about this the other day while testing out my new BPAL haul! i think i have a sort of reverse synesthesia in that i have trouble smelling things if it's too loud. i suppose it's part of the same brain wiring a lot of people have where they listen to music with their eyes closed, which of course i always do. i've been known to turn the radio down so i could see to drive, stuff like that.
i think i have some mild synesthesia also. it's very specific, however. some numbers have personalities. some flavors and smells have shapes (the ifrit from the neil gaiman collection, for example, is shaped exactly like a mini marshmallow. it does not, in any way, smell like marshmallows, and it's more the texture of a pencil eraser (which is also does not smell like), but it's totally marshmallow-shaped), but only a few. overall though, i have a tendency to refer to smells as colors. in part, that's a limit of language, but i FEEL the colors. i don't usually, however, see them. hm.
i'm definitely now what you're looking for from a research standpoint, but i'll spread it around. ;)
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Strong associations, I guess. It's not hallucinations, I wouldn't say; I don't see it outside my mind's eye. It's just, like--if you said, "Picture the number three in your head. What color is it?" I would say "Yellow." It's not that I stopped and said, "What would be a good color for the number three?" It's just that I automatically always think of three as yellow, or January as red, or the letter B as blue. But it's not like I see colors unless I stop to think about it--I don't have colors swirling around me involuntarily all hours of the day. It's just like--when you picture a single word or symbol in your head the way you'd picture anything else (a scene, a memory, a daydream), you have a strong automatic color association with that visual that you didn't have to stop and choose. Well, with color synesthesia, anyway.
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