Comments on: Colors, numbers, and song…

By: GFMorris.com

GFMorris.com — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:47:14 +0000

A Brief Musical Observation
I have found, while paying attention to my musical leanings, something to be quite true over the last several months: If I want to identify with a song, I listen to a male voice singing it. If I want to hear a story and not feel pressured to identify …

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:25:10 +0000

I’m in the freak club, too! How about the fact that my wife’s hairspray smells “purple”?

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:57:05 +0000

Mike and I are freaks together. WOO!

By: brian

brian — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:05:46 +0000

I don’t know how to pronounce “synesthete” heheheh.

I’ve always known that I’ve done it..but I’ve never really thought about the fact that I do it until recently…if that makes sense.

By: Kari

Kari — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:58:04 +0000

Mike and I were talking about this last night, and he was surprised I had heard of it before. It’s cool that you can do that. You should put “synesthete” on your resume.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:01:21 +0000

i sounds as if i am in the minority among your readers.

i’m the wierd one.

oh well, happy birthday.

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 06:01:16 +0000

I assigned colors to numbers, but probably more because of C-rods and Basic programming (which TOTALLY messed up the C-rod schemata) than my own brain.

I am, however, constantly grouping things into little categories in my head, then seeing how to find common themes amongst the different categories and….well… now that you all know just how OCD I am, I’ll stop

By: brian

brian — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:07:26 +0000

Whoa, yeah actually I might have that. I don’t think I do it with food so much…just sounds and numbers. Especially music…I didn’t know there was a term for it.

“But in some people the connections are not pruned and the brain connections continue to work. “Synaesthetes are a minority who are more conscious than the rest of us,” he said.”

I’m not weird…I’m more conscious

By: Kari

Kari — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:38:15 +0000

Your story reminds me of this:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/9766414.htm

I have heard of people doing this before, so I googled “seeing colors music” and came up with this. Does that sound like you? Do you do it to that level? If so, you are a synesthete.

I assigned genders to my crayons and I would have them pair off and get married. Red and blue, green and yellow, black and white . . . and purple and orange (because they were what was left).

By: Chris (from L.C.)

Chris (from L.C.) — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:29:54 +0000

Visually stimulated people (artists, photographers, etc.) tend to do this sort of thing.

I do this thing where if I have to subtract larger numbers in my head, I shift them to the nearest ten and then add/subtract the difference.

Example:

533-249=284

In my head, I would do 530-250 and get 280,add the 4 that I rounded out and come up with 284.

It’s warped, I know, but it works for me.