Synesthesia

A short documentary of a man with synesthesia. Numbers, in his mind, are represented through colorful textures and moods.

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[elseamelsea]

@jerseystringer Similar with me, it was like group of kids at school were certain colours to me. One of the more popular groups was like a bright pink and blue. It never followed with their names but more like their 'status' or something. I'm not really sure. I've mostly lost that part of it though. The grapheme synesthesia really helps me with spelling and remembering things but I can never remember dates in history. It doesn't helps that 3 and 6 are very similar browns. Thanks!

[jerseystringer]

@elseamelsea Thinking about it some more, I remember that faces had certain colors for me as a child, one might be "orange," another "purple," although I didn't see that color in their faces, it was as if they had some quality of essence of the color. It was unmistakable and consistent. As you said, I apparently grew out of it.

[jerseystringer]

@elseamelsea Thank you so much for that insight!

[elseamelsea]

@jerseystringer Synesthesia takes attention most of the time. You sometimes need to think about it for stuff to happen. I didn't realize that to me A is sky blue until I asked myself what colours A is. Also, you can't develop or 'get' synesthesia. The theory is that everybody's born with it but most people grow out of it. Those who don't are synesthetes. You can definitely discover a lot if you think about what your thinking of.

[elseamelsea]

Synesthesia is so interesting. There are actually hundreds of types. Any 2 or more senses can be joined or mixed. It's not only seeing to colours or numbers to colours. Some people see what they taste taste what they hear. The combinations are endless. Grapheme is the most common. I have it so all my letters and numbers have certain colours. But no pictures or personalities like some people have. But there's also numbes I don't like because they'e really ugly. 37 yuck powdery brown with yellow.

[SupremeDarkLordVader]

Thank you for showing us what you see, Keith.

[jerseystringer]

Fascinating. I may have the mildest form in that some phone numbers seem to flow better than others. Other than a vague emotional reaction, there is no other "sensory" reaction. I wonder if I could develop it? Or if I'd want to?

[ShowJumperJazz]

i have synthesia :) best thing in my life.



[TheWayshowerTube]

I wish it was involuntarily. I have to practice to feel numbers. But I don't feel exact numbers I feel probability. But that's what you get when you study maths.

[Julesrules05]

@HogwartsHottie47 I feel exactly the same! I hate 27 so much, not only do the colors look bad together (red and green) but 2 is so mean and just horrible to 7, and they just fight all the time...I wish it were a prime number so I wouldn't have to use it in math so much....