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Nov 04 '09 by lemonalle

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Can you see time?

Apparently my topic for the day is the senses. I do not have synaesthesia ("the subjective sensation of a sense other than the one being stimulated. For example, a sound may evoke sensations of colour"). A lot of other people seem to, though, which I find baffling. For instance, some folks "see" a year as similar to the following:

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I mean, that's just one lady's version but a lot of others seem to share the perception that it's "racetrack-shaped" and that different months have different colors. (As posted on Neatorama).

I know Chris said he has experiences with this. I'm jealous.

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Ste7en on Nov 04 '09 at 12:48pm

mind boggling...I see months as colors, but I mean that as a designer I see the colors that generally are used during seasons...nothing to do with the senses

shirtflirt on Nov 04 '09 at 12:48pm

i don't see something as nothing anymore i'm cured.

Roostersauce on Nov 04 '09 at 12:49pm

Heroes ftw!
(she's deaf)

lemonalle on Nov 04 '09 at 12:50pm

Right-- I feel like I attach ideas like colors and genders to concepts in a connotative sense, but I don't actual "experience" that connection. If that makes any sense.

Ste7en on Nov 04 '09 at 1:03pm

right. I know what youre saying and what you were talking about.

TheInfamousBaka on Nov 04 '09 at 1:05pm

I do that with music and smells.

Jackanapes mk.II on Nov 04 '09 at 1:06pm

I have synaesthesia of sound and sight. Kayce is always saying, 'Lots of people do, you asshole' to me, but it doesn't mean I think it's any less cool.

lemonalle on Nov 04 '09 at 1:07pm

neat-- i've never seen that show

Jackanapes mk.II on Nov 04 '09 at 1:08pm

Perceiving time as color though is fucking apeshit bananas awesome Cocopuffs blowjob cool. Holy shit, dude.

lemonalle on Nov 04 '09 at 1:08pm

i definitely don't have it and i think it sounds awesome.

Bio-bot 9000 on Nov 04 '09 at 1:10pm

i used to attach visual images to certain names when I was a kid.

"Shannon" was the brushing of long hair, for instance.

Jackanapes mk.II on Nov 04 '09 at 1:12pm

I dunno if it would be awesome. It might be. I'm really curious about what such an experience would be like. But, at the same time, I'm also wondering if, after a whole April of yellow, you just don't want to see anything yellow anymore, so you forgo awesome things like waffles and blonde people.

lemonalle on Nov 04 '09 at 1:15pm

no, i mean having synaesthesia in general

Ste7en on Nov 04 '09 at 1:17pm

LSD gives you synaesthesia if you really want to check it out.

squintygirl on Nov 04 '09 at 1:18pm

I watched a program about synaesthesia some time ago, and the woman they profiled could 'taste' music. Certain kinds of music 'tasted' wonderful, and others like crap. Makes you wonder to what lengths you'd avoid listening to certain genres of music if it literally gave you the taste of poo.

Malcolm Man on Nov 04 '09 at 1:18pm

I wonder how accurate that Heros snippet is in depicting synaesthesia or if it's more like faint blurs of color.

Jackanapes mk.II on Nov 04 '09 at 1:19pm

Oh. Yeah. It's pretty sweet. But since it's there all the time, I really don't notice it unless I pay attention to it or something arresting occurs. Sorta like breathing, almost.

I wonder what other sorts of synaesthsia are like. Like, you can perceive a letter as always being one color, or assosciate touch and taste.

[+duracell-] on Nov 04 '09 at 1:20pm

I see a year more like that shape in he first post, only turned counterclockwise 90 degrees and then flipped horizontally. (June would be January)

Colors would be:
January: light blue
Feb: white
March: olive green
April: clear
May: clear
June: clear
July: rainbow
August: orange
September: green
October: black
November: yellow
December: red

I view a week as a half circle, flat side down, with the right corner representing Friday and the left representing Sunday.

I view the hours of the day as a tall/skinny yet perfectly symmetrical ellipse shape, with 6am at the bottom and 12am at the top

Ive said too much

lemonalle on Nov 04 '09 at 1:20pm

crazyneat!

Malcolm Man on Nov 04 '09 at 1:21pm

Being red/green color blind is a bad enough impediment to my job. Having any form of Synaesthesia would fuck everything up.

As far as seeing time as a color, I think that'd be worse. I mean, we're all affected by color. Having an overriding color for an entire month would be like being on a drug for that month that either made you feel up pr down.

Ste7en on Nov 04 '09 at 1:22pm

red green colorblind? Um, how dare you insult green like that.

nicke on Nov 04 '09 at 1:23pm

I like describing voices as tastes or smells because it makes sense. I think it's cool if you automatically analyse things in relation to other things (seemingly unrelated) and it makes sense, I imagine it probably gives you a better grounding in your perception of the word.

Jackanapes mk.II on Nov 04 '09 at 1:23pm

squintygirl on Nov 04 '09 at 1:18pm
I watched a program about synaesthesia some time ago, and the woman they profiled could 'taste' music. Certain kinds of music 'tasted' wonderful, and others like crap. Makes you wonder to what lengths you'd avoid listening to certain genres of music if it literally gave you the taste of poo.

Oh, yeah, that'd be horrid. I can attest that certian crappy songs really do LOOK awful.

There's that terrible Cher song that looks like bird shit mixed with day-glo Pepto Bismal to me.

lemonalle on Nov 04 '09 at 1:23pm

squintygirl on Nov 04 '09 at 1:18pm
I watched a program about synaesthesia some time ago, and the woman they profiled could 'taste' music. Certain kinds of music 'tasted' wonderful, and others like crap. Makes you wonder to what lengths you'd avoid listening to certain genres of music if it literally gave you the taste of poo.

it seems like it would really affect people's taste in things. i wonder if there's a system/pattern to it or if the assignment of taste to sound is random. like, do nickelback (apparently, the go-to band when you want to talk about music that sucks) songs taste shitty because they sound shitty?

Jackanapes mk.II on Nov 04 '09 at 1:24pm

At least you're not Red Green HUMORblind, Malcolm. Like that fuckin' show was.

Malcolm Man on Nov 04 '09 at 1:24pm

I also wonder if there's any way to prove that one is experiencing such a thing; not to doubt Chris or Duracell, but how do they determine that they're experiencing such a phenomena? I mean, if you've always seen a month as a color, then how would you have anything to compare it to to know that January isn't supposed to be red?

Bio-bot 9000 on Nov 04 '09 at 1:25pm

I think the government is secretly attaching colored contact lenses to the eyes of select individuals, in order to sell historically underrepresented colors like coral, chartreuse, and eggplant.

squintygirl on Nov 04 '09 at 1:25pm

Jackanapes mk.II on Nov 04 '09 at 1:19pm
I wonder what other sorts of synaesthsia are like. Like, you can perceive a letter as always being one color, or assosciate touch and taste.

The same woman I mentioned earlier 'sees' words as they are spoken, and each letter or sound has a specific colour. The colours actually improve her memory, somehow.

lemonalle on Nov 04 '09 at 1:25pm

do you see it, like, in front of your eyes?

O_O

squintygirl on Nov 04 '09 at 1:25pm

lol @ lemon's 'taste' pun

shirtflirt on Nov 04 '09 at 1:26pm

that's a good question malcolm where'd you read that?

Bio-bot 9000 on Nov 04 '09 at 1:26pm

We're the real America, America!

Malcolm Man on Nov 04 '09 at 1:28pm

I red it in mah brain spot.

lemonalle on Nov 04 '09 at 1:30pm

does anyone have touch synaesthesia where certain songs feel like getting punched or tickled?

Jackanapes mk.II on Nov 04 '09 at 1:30pm

I think you'd have to ask other people, Malcolm. Like I was saying to you earlier, I didn't know I had this difference from other people till I was twelve and casually remarked to a friend that a song we were listening to was 'really red' and he had no fucking clue what I was talking about.

Malcolm Man on Nov 04 '09 at 1:30pm

This blog reminds me Daniel Tammet who has the ability to see numbers as specific colors and shapes which also enables him to do mass mathmetical calculations in his head.

1 in a 5 part series. So interesting

[+duracell-] on Nov 04 '09 at 1:32pm

Not sure what you mean exactly Malcolm but ive always related those things that way as long as i can remember. And it was way before any dabblings in LSD.

B 7 on Nov 04 '09 at 1:32pm

This is fasinating.
I assign genders to everything subconsciously, i'd never really thought about it before.

Jackanapes mk.II on Nov 04 '09 at 1:33pm

lemonalle on Nov 04 '09 at 1:25pm
do you see it, like, in front of your eyes?

O_O

I don't know about other people, but I, for one, do not. Dude, that'd be CRAZY distracting. Kinda cool, but, like, it'd be as if I was being attacked by swirling rainbows everywhere I went, I imagine.

No, I ''see'' it in my mind. In my head. It's a mental thing. An image as well as an overall ''sense.'' It's really hard to explain at times.

But best way I can think of to describe it is sort of like having one of those random visualizers that accompany compuer mp3 and CD players. Because a lot of the time, it's not just colors, but patterns. Especially with music.

But each person has a 'colored' voice to me, as well.

B 7 on Nov 04 '09 at 1:34pm

I did LSD once. i didn't get synaesthesia, but it was definitely very horrible

the golden spatula on Nov 04 '09 at 1:36pm

B 7 on Nov 04 '09 at 1:34pm
I did LSD once. i didn't get synaesthesia, but it was definitely very funny

lemonalle on Nov 04 '09 at 1:36pm

i assign genders to colors and numbers too. that's probably the closest i come to this. i "feel" that the numbers are male or female but i can't really explain why. i still think it's mostly connotative though.

1 -- male
2 -- male
3 -- female
4 -- female
5 -- male
6 -- female
7 -- male
8 -- female
9 -- female
10 -- male

Ste7en on Nov 04 '09 at 1:37pm

that question about comparisons is one I have always wondered about with senses in general. Is there a way to know what i see as green is what anyone else sees as green? Sure, we all see the same color as green (barring colorblindness), but maybe what I always see as green, is what you always see as my red.

the golden spatula on Nov 04 '09 at 1:37pm

I see movies in my brain.

Ste7en on Nov 04 '09 at 1:37pm

those numbers make perfect sense to me, lemon.

lemonalle on Nov 04 '09 at 1:38pm

the only way you'd be able to tell is if you could trade both brains and eyes with someone, i think.

B 7 on Nov 04 '09 at 1:39pm

Ste7en, Iam assigning you as male and Rose you are female.

Am i sythasesing good?

Ste7en on Nov 04 '09 at 1:40pm

7 in my name is a male number, so obviously you are doing a great job

B 7 on Nov 04 '09 at 1:40pm

My sister told me about this guy who had a near-death experience and saw colours he'd never seen before.
I'd like to know what that is all about