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Mine's the boring one where symbols are mapped onto colours.
I wonder whether your variety is related to the problem some people have with the sound or even just the concept of nails scratching a blackboard?
#synaesthesia #synesthesia
It never came up in conversation, but after yesterday's episode on #Synaesthesia, found out that both the kids have it too, and just assumed it was normal. I think this is more common than people assume. Means my wife is the odd one out, as she doesn't have it at all.
About to record the #Synaesthesia episode of our podcast this morning, so any last thoughts you want Kirsten @MoonCat to read out, please get them in now.
This has been a very interesting thread indeed.
Edit so people get to it first, I'd love to discuss these in my podcast if people don't mind. My wife (who's sighted) doesn't get it.
My possibly bizarre version of #Synaesthesia means that words have feeling associated with them, as in my fingers can actually feel what that means.
Having just heard the word 'Utah' in a youtube video, it reminded me that both 'Utah' and 'Uber' feel the same.
They both represent an average car tire with very new treads. No, don't ask why, I have no idea.
Some days of the week also have their associated feelings too, such as Friday being a huge soft spongy ball, Saturday being a Yale lock, Monday being a large camping-style water barrel you can pull along behind you, and Tuesday being the lid of an old-fashioned sweet jar with those huge glass lids that had a ball for a handle, if anyone remembers those.
I haven't heard of anyone else with this particular version of synaesthesia, so I'll just put my madness out there to start a conversation.
Go wild.
Say what you will about speech being silver and silence being golden, but the letters A, F, H, L, X and the number 4 are green and nothing can convince me otherwise.
I wonder if whoever coined the phrase "Speech is silver, silence is golden" was a #Synaesthete.
I have an acquired form of synaesthesia due to a migraine drug that apparently rewired a bit of my brain in under a month. My experience is that the result varies.
So does she always see the same colour for the same note or chord. and can she describe the colour accurately.
I'd suggest looking at pantone colours as they can be identified then coded easily.
A neighbour has a granddaughter with a #music scholarship. She can't read music and is dropping behind other #students. She also has #Synesthesia #synaesthesia. In her case she hears music as colours.
My neighbour asked me if I knew any #programmers who might be able to produce some #software that could visualise music as colours rather than a convention musical #stave, to help overcome her #difficulty.
Other solutions/ideas welcome!
Please boost!
There is a cliché that goes "writing about music is like dancing about architecture," which I suppose somebody once thought was a clever takedown of criticism or something. In my opinion, dancing about architecture is a great idea, just like baking about sex or yawning about politics. That's one reason I'm enjoying this compilation of music "about" brutalist architecture. Have a listen:
LIFE IS CHEAP DEATH IS FREE (Industrial Coast)
https://industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/life-is-cheap-death-is-free
September is a dark taupe brown. October is orange verging into dark red. November is gray with a little brown in it. December is gray and white.
Except in Florida where they're all still green. #synaesthesia
Mark Cousins’ A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things gets a UK release date. Details here https://bit.ly/3YSM5kq
«Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia (MTS) is a rare form of synaesthesia which causes individuals to experience a similar touch sensation in the same part or opposite part of the body to that they witness in another person. […]»
https://reframingautism.org.au/i-feel-for-you-living-with-mirror-touch-synaesthesia/
I'm incontinently euphoric. Comical visualizations and #synaesthesia. Add stimming music to get me over the edge 
Actually the fun part is I know deep down I'm in flow and focussed. This is the way I channel toxicity.
Isn't the mind absolutely fascinating?
I’m a #synaesthete (in particular grapheme-colour #synaesthesia), which means whenever I see a symbol, my brain can “see” a colour from it. It’s been the same colours since childhood!
For me, straight line symbols tend to be blue, angular symbols tend to be green, “bendy” symbols tend to be yellow, and rounder symbols tend to be red.
Here’s a chart showing which letters and numbers are what colours according to my synesthesia!
Reading one of the stories in Christopher Priest's "The Dream Archipelago" last night, in which sense-altering chemical weapons leave survivors with hallucinations and synaesthesia, reminded me of this story from a few years ago: the lexical-gustatory map of the Tube.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3016945/taste-the-london-underground-with-this-synesthesia-subway-map
I started with Claude switched to Gemini when it coughed up chunks. I use AIs a lot and they all have their issues and biases. I treat #AIsLLMs as #SpecialNeedsStudents I'm not #Neurotypical--have #Apophenia and #Paredolia and #Synaesthesia Grew up in SE Colorado poverty--homeless at times--to #Evangelical #Narcissistic #Alcoholics Educated myself out of squalor: degrees in Bio, Music, and Statistics. Lived and taught in Kenya Retired from Pharmaceuticals Nice to meet you
@chrisisgr8 it is bouba, obviously, because the numbers 3, 12 and 9 are bouba. #synaesthesia #coloredNumbers edit: corrected autocorrect nonsense
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