A Colourful Diagnosis
Wow!
I discovered today that im a Synaesthete.Well, I always knew I had Grapheme-color synaenesthesia, but I never knew it had a name, or a clinical despcription. I always thought it was just something that i did and never gave it much attention. I thought it was normal, that is until today in our Biology lesson when my teacher began talking about it...
...which then lead to everyone asking me things like "whats monday?!", "what colour is 4?!", "what colour is my name?!" and even a "you never said that. I cant believe you never told me that!"
posted by Azuric @ 7:40 pm
4 Comments:
At 12:23 am,
Anyhoo said…
So do you get colour-word and visualised colour mismatch? So from example orange comes out brown or green?
But having read the Booba/Kiki thing, I'm now debating if sound in colour-words reflect to some extent the colour they describe:
- brown and blue are even, mellow sounds, and both colours are basal level.
- red is short and aggressive, and visually it's like someone clicking their fingers.
- pink sounds like it comes with and exclamation mark attached, and strong pinks certainly do.
- grey sounds slightly aggressive but fades into nothingness, perhaps reflecting its odd limbo state.
- purple's the colour of the inside of you lips. Try saying it without curling them out. It's quite a lewd sound.
Of course that's all highly subjective, and depends entirety on perception of colours.
At 11:31 am,
Azuric said…
Er I dont quite get what you mean. For example if the word yellow is written in blue, i would read it as yellow, and see that its written in blue - like everyone does - that is until you have to do this repeatedly with different examples as many times as you can in one minute, when your bound to get some wrong, but thats a different story entirely.
But yes, if you said to me the word orange, i would associate the individual letters of that word with colours - coincidently "o" is a light pastel orange colour so thats what i think of, although all the letters are different. "a" is red, "e" is a light purple-blue, "n" is a light grey...
Its really interesting - reading some of your perceptions on colours - i agree with some of them, the red and the grey especially...and the pink also.
The Booba/Kiki thing i didnt really get - possibly because i was rushing to read the article because food was more important at the time, but i did the test and came out with the expected ansewer.
My Biology teacher is going to let us watch the documentary about it sometime soon in class, so that should be interesting.
At 6:31 pm,
Anyhoo said…
So you perceive letters as different colours and words are just combinations of letters, rather than being single colours for the whole word?
Colour perception/word: you'd never guess I made them up on the spot.
At 10:06 pm,
Azuric said…
Not perceive, associate. As in, i see your comment as all black, because it is all black. I dont see a rainbow of colours. But i associate letters with colours. And yes, words as combinations of the letters in them. Its quite hard to explain.
Monday
m = red/yellowish,
o = pastel orange,
n = greyish,
d = brown,
a = red,
y = lighter yellowish
But "monday" - i think the yellowish similar to "m".
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