Oh, I've heard of this many times before. I myself am synesthetic. For the longest time I just assumed everyone associated certain things with other feelings and senses the same way I did, until about 8th grade when I learned about what this condition is. I actually learned about synesthesia during a poetry class in which we had to describe the color of things without color, the sound of things without sound, and so on. For example, I actually just now looked at my thumb and associated it with a neon green syringe. I didn't actually think of a neon green syringe, but more of the vague feeling of seeing a neon green crystallite syringe. So how on the world are those two things connected? Well I love art, and I love to draw and create art. Using my hands in fine precision, I create art. Syringes and vaccines have an extremely fine point and inject whatever substance into a precise location. My hands are similar, in that I use precise movements with a pencil to "inject" my thoughts onto paper. As for the green part, green glowing of the syringe I think signifies the seriousness of the whole thing, and how I take art very seriously, and green (in cartoons and movies) often signifies hazardous waste or radiation danger, which in real life are a very serious things that can take lives.
But I didn't actually think of that entire paragraph while looking at my thumb, I just felt the feelings and vague ideas (sort of the feeling you feel while in a dream) of precision and seriousness I associate art with as well as.. Glowing green syringes? lol
So yeah, that happens to me all the time. I just assumed everyone thought this way whenever they look at something, or smell something, or are put into a certain situation, until I realized that most people don't.
It really is a pretty fascinating topic.
[Edit]I started to read the wikipedia page and they describe what I just said in a pretty similar way, actually suprisingly similar. Is anyone else synesthetic?
[Edit2]Well this picture from wikipedia is sort of misleading. I mean, I look at certain letters and I don't actually perceive certain colors:
When I look at a certain letter, I feel more of the emotions associated with the letter. I'll take the letter B for example -completely random and off the top of my head. So for clarification, I just now looked at that capitol B, and I'll explain what I thought.
The letter B is commonly used to grade work, homework, schoolwork, and so on. To me, the grade of a B isn't good enough, A's are acceptable and B's mean for some reason or another I chose not to get an A, i.e. I was lazy. So in a way I associate the grade of a B with failure or a missed opportunity. Have you ever felt that you can see a mistake you are about to make, want to avoid making the mistake, but just make the mistake anyways, as if just ignoring the coming mistake would make it not happen? Well that's how I usually get a B instead of an A. I have homework, but actually just ignore it, and that causes my grade to drop from an A to a B. So by just looking at a capitol B I feel a sense of failure, as if I could have succeeded but chose not to. As if I won't get another chance to get another A, and will be stick with a mediocre B forever and will have to live with the repercussions of that mediocre B forever. All this could be signified by the color of dull red. Dull because I could have made it shine if I had chose to. So yeah, in a way I do see dull red when I look at the capitol B, but it's more of an unconscious feeling of dull red, and feeling of missed opportunity than actually seeing dull pinkish-red. Get it?
Post has been edited 4 time(s), last time on Jul 31 2009, 12:19 am by CecilSunkure.
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