You think of numbers and letters in specific colors, amirite?

Not numbers or letters but I do do that to days of the week.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

you have synesthesia!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

what does that mean?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I learned about it in psychology. It means that the sensory part of your brain has crossed different senses. Some people will "feel' music or "taste" words. in your case, numbers and letters are colored.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

well that's different (: pretty cool haha.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yep :) you're lucky, I wish I had it haha

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How do you feel music?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Your body gets confused about what sense it's using, so (I think) it sends the signal of you hearing the music to the feeling part of your brain, so you think you're feeling it... My friend has the same thing as you, she gets words confused if they have the same color pattern as each other.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yep, you're right. The signals are crossed so when you are experiencing one sense another gets mixed in as well.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I can see music. It's awesome... I once painted a picture for the song "Day Tripper".

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's really cool. What did you paint? Also, I love The Beatles, so I'm extremely jealous. Haha :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It wasn't really a "what". It was more an abstract mix of colors that I associate with certain sounds, but it ended up looking really cool.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh, yeah, I see what you mean. Did you paint to any other songs?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I tried Norwegian Wood once, but I often associate slower songs like that with earthy tones, so it wasn't as bright as Day Tripper. The Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds one i did was pretty trippy, though.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Wow, that's really awesome. I wish I had something like that. :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't know if it's the same thing (I always thought I just had a vivid imagination). It's never gotten in the way, though, but sometimes I associate people's voices with different animals, even if they don't sound like that animal. It's not vision or taste or anything... It's only happened with sounds.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was gonna say that! I You're really lucky, I've always wanted that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

same here! i have wanted it since i read about ti in a book called "the name of this book is secret" it sounded so cool! i think my friend has a weird version of it because she just looks at things and says what gender they are. like 2 is a girl well 8 is a boy kind of thing.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No no, 8 is a girl and two is a boy. And 8 has an obsession with pink and glitter and feathers, and two likes sports, especially swimming.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

xD ok then i was just using random numbers xD but i guess that it makes more sense that way!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That sounds so cool, but scary at the same time. Sometimes you can taste sounds. One time I read about a girl who said her principal's voice tasted like peanut butter.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

1: red 2: blue 3: red 4: purple 5: lime green 6: red 7: yellow 8: purple 9: reddish brown 10: green sunday: red and white...like a candy cane monday: red tuesday: green wednesday: yellow thursday: blue friday: purple saturday: red I also have colors for all the alphabet, but it's too much to type out.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I always see different music notes as colors. For example: an E on treble clef is yellow.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There's a book about a girl who was like that. I think I was called A Mango Shaped Space.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I started reading that once. I don't know why I stopped though because it was pretty good.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yeah i read that. it was kinda boring but super interesting. also i saw on tv a guy who memorized like 200,000 digits of pi because of his colors

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Woah. I know like 20 or 30, but thats just rediculous!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yeah it was crazy

by Anonymous 13 years ago

URGENT ANY SYNESTHETES: in a mango-shaped space, the girl gets acupuncture and has these incredible responses in which each person has their color's haze around them, and they leave traces of their color wherever they go. Also, she can see emotional attachments between people, because their colors will shoot in darts at the other person. It this fictitious? (it sounds like it is, but you never know!) Has anyone tried acupuncture?? thanks(:

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yeah i read that too

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm kind of like that sometimes... Like I can think of the numbers/letters/etc and they'll always be the same color whenever I think of them, but then when I start paying attention and try to identify the color I can't. :/

by Anonymous 13 years ago