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.


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