Do you have synaesthesia?..

[kanashimi]

My brother found a site about mind and psycology etc, and I tried out this... I checks to see if you have synaesthesia. You can read more about it at the sight (and generally test out the two interactives, because thats why I am making this thread), but it is a "desiese" where you senses are kind of mixed up. You see the colours of letters and see colours of music. I generally see a bit of colour when I see some letters, like eight is dark blue for me. It is quite an interesting thing, it's worth checking out...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/program ... mary.shtml (Check out the interactives)

I knew about this before seeing this sight. I, as a very nerdy kinda person XP, like to read the scientific American. One of there articles was about synaestheria, and synaestheria isn't just about seeing the colour of letters and sounds, but tasting textures (chicken tasting "pointy"), feeling tastes (A burger that tastes "bitter"), and heaps more. So, check it out, and you may be surprised to find you have synaethesia...

(I love associating colours with numbers XP)

[Igg]

Most people have some synaesthetic traits in them. I associate days of the week with colours, though whether or not this is because of my colour-coded TV times, we'll never know.

Some people taste sounds, or get multiple sensations for one word. It's very interesting, and it's kind of cool to see you have traits yourselves, even if you're not fully a synaesthete.

A friend of mine made one of his degree short films about synaesthesia. They found a synaesthete in his area, and she wrote down what her senses were to different pieces of music, and they made a film of these (basically).
It got quite odd. He had to melt cough sweets at one point. I think they had to be purple, not sure.
Someone had to eat a candle at one point too...I think green.

[.:Requiem:.]

Wow....that's fascinating. ^^

[Stijn]

They call it synaesthesia.

I call it imagination.

[shapu]

I feel kind of left out. I don't really associate anything with colors - I see colors, I read words, I hear sounds.

Hmm.

[ahoteinrun]

I feel kind of left out. I don't really associate anything with colors - I see colors, I read words, I hear sounds.

Hmm.

I'm the same way.

*shrug*
Should I feel weird for not being so considering i'm an art student? Hmmm...

[Bangel]

I feel kind of left out. I don't really associate anything with colors - I see colors, I read words, I hear sounds.

Hmm.

Same.

[Divine]

This is fascinating, but also confusing.

When I see things, though, I don't really see a colour. For the visual test there, I got 5/32 things (numbers/days of the week) the same, or something like that, and I think I only got those five because I remembered what I chose =P.

I don't know about hearing, though. Sometimes when I hear sounds I imagine images, and sometimes they are colour-oriented, but I thought everybody did that.

[Breakthrough]

I don't really associate numbers/letters/words with colors.

Although I do associate songs I listen to with colors.

[Christopher]

I associate smells with coloursm ^_^

[Flame]

I feel kind of left out. I don't really associate anything with colors - I see colors, I read words, I hear sounds.

Hmm.

I'm the same way.

*shrug*
Should I feel weird for not being so considering i'm an art student? Hmmm...

I don't see why you should. Just because you're an artist doesn't mean you have to see that art/colours in everything, like days of the week. At least, I don't think so...er...


Either way, I don't have synaesthesia either.

[Sapphire Faerie]

I was reading an old Rolling Stone last night, when I came across this quote:

"Oh boy. It's just, this blue note drops in. It's not even blue, it's purple. It's moldy green..."

Ok, I get it now, but I don't think I really associate anything with colours.

[shapu]

IIRC, a "blue note" has something to do with Jazz.

EDIT: It's actually blues, not jazz.

From Dictionary.com:

A flatted note, especially the third or seventh note of a scale, in place of an expected major interval.

Whatever that means. I understand all of the words, but not so much the way they're strung together.

[Sapphire Faerie]

I thought perhaps it would be something like that, but the whole moldy green thing threw me off.

[ChromeFox]

It kind of reminds me of Melissa from the Midnighters book series. Her powers involved being able to "taste" people and determine their thoughts and emotions by how they tasted.

But me, I'm no synaesthete. I flunked the test!