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Quote: from DanaStar at 10:28 am on July 3, 2008

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Well, I tend to give things personalities, I have ever since I can remember.  

 For example watermelon is giddy and bubbly, and I can't see the number nine being anything except incredibly mean. Nine is a bully in my mind.  

 I don't think that counts as synesthesia, though. I think it's just me having a hyper-active imagination.

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Well, if 9 to you was ALWAYS a bully, then that is likely to be a form of synesthesia.
I have seen a person who gave personalities to graphemes in a documentary about it, so it's likely that you have form of it.
In my case, I find it hard to give a peronality to some object or letter without having to THINK about it, and ending up with something like the live furniture from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast". That you could call hyper-active imagination.

The thing about it is that you can't think about it, the letter or number JUST HAS TO BE that colour, or personality or smell. You can't really explain it why. Your explanation ought to be an innocent shrug.
Synesthesia isn't imaginative. There's no creativity in bringging about these connections.
For me three is always yellow and 6 is orange, but I never thoguht about "mhmmm, let's see....6 is....orange because I once saw 6 oranges in my table and that is..." No.
Actually to imagine 6 oranges is more stable to me than 6 lemons. It actually confuses me.
Two yellos lemons awkwardly don't look 100% "right", because their colour is conflciting with 2, for me, being green.
It's hard to explain.

Here's a test. Does imagining 9 as a caring bubbly number sound good to you? Does it sound wrong?
If so, it's like me and my number-colour setting. Anything deviating from that specific sequence of colours, just looks wrong to me.
another. What about a pair of scissors, what sort of personality does that have in your mind?

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The only thing that comes to mind when I think about scissors is that they hate glue. I don't know if that counts. And yeah, 9 being caring just sounds incredibly awkward. Just wrong. I kind of twitched when I read that. xD 4 is the caring one.

When I was little I made up stories about the numbers, and in kindergarten I didn't quite understand how you could add 4 and 9 together. They're too opposite. (9 secretly hates 4 because all of the other numbers like 4 and 9 is jealous).

All of my whole numbers from 0-9 have personalities. They're male when they're positive, and female when they're negative. I never really thought much about it. They just kind of are. Then there's a few select objects that have personalities. Not many, though.

I do have stories for why I give things the personalities they have. But I usually make them up after I've decided on a personality. Like, lab tops are really flirty. My lab top wants to seduce the family PC. And the PC is opinionated and easily irritated, so he doesn't like lab top because she's tries to distract him from his studies (:/ I know that sounds incredibly odd). So, my imagination is really quick to make things up.

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Quote: from TooImaginativeTeen at 5:08 pm on July 3, 2008

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Quote: from DanaStar at 10:28 am on July 3, 2008

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Well, I tend to give things personalities, I have ever since I can remember.  

  For example watermelon is giddy and bubbly, and I can't see the number nine being anything except incredibly mean. Nine is a bully in my mind.  

  I don't think that counts as synesthesia, though. I think it's just me having a hyper-active imagination.

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 Well, if 9 to you was ALWAYS a bully, then that is likely to be a form of synesthesia.  
 I have seen a person who gave personalities to graphemes in a documentary about it, so it's likely that you have form of it.  
 In my case, I find it hard to give a peronality to some object or letter without having to THINK about it, and ending up with something like the live furniture from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast". That you could call hyper-active imagination.  

 The thing about it is that you can't think about it, the letter or number JUST HAS TO BE that colour, or personality or smell. You can't really explain it why. Your explanation ought to be an innocent shrug.  
 Synesthesia isn't imaginative. There's no creativity in bringging about these connections.  
 For me three is always yellow and 6 is orange, but I never thoguht about "mhmmm, let's see....6 is....orange because I once saw 6 oranges in my table and that is..." No.  
 Actually to imagine 6 oranges is more stable to me than 6 lemons. It actually confuses me.  
 Two yellos lemons awkwardly don't  look 100% "right", because their colour is conflciting with 2, for me, being green.  
 It's hard to explain.  

 Here's a test. Does imagining 9 as a caring bubbly number sound good to you? Does it sound wrong?  
 If so, it's like me and my number-colour setting. Anything deviating from that specific sequence of colours, just looks wrong to me.  
 another. What about a pair of scissors, what sort of personality does that have in your mind?

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The only thing that comes to mind when I think about scissors is that they hate glue. I don't know if that counts. And yeah, 9 being caring just sounds incredibly awkward. Just wrong. I kind of twitched when I read that. xD 4 is the caring one.

When I was little I made up stories about the numbers, and in kindergarten I didn't quite understand how you could add 4 and 9 together. They're too opposite. (9 secretly hates 4 because all of the other numbers like 4 and 9 is jealous).

All of my whole numbers from 0-9 have personalities. They're male when they're positive, and female when they're negative. I never really thought much about it. They just kind of are. Then there's a few select objects that have personalities. Not many, though.

I do have stories for why I give things the personalities they have. But I usually make them up after I've decided on a personality. Like, lab tops are really flirty. My lab top wants to seduce the family PC. And the PC is opinionated and easily irritated, so he doesn't like lab top because she's tries to distract him from his studies (:/ I know that sounds incredibly odd). So, my imagination is really quick to make things up.

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Just curious, do you have a favourite or lucky number?

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That actually sounds really amazing. Is that similar to seenig numbers as colours? 'Cause I have a friend who does that.

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Well, have you read my first post in this thread?
Would that describe your friend?

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Just curious, do you have a favourite or lucky number?

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42

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it's called lsd and it's not too expensive, 6 hours worth of synesthesia

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Synesthesia is a neurological condition where the path ways between the parts of the brain that control senses are hyper active.

As a result, a person with synesthesia can see sound in the form of color. So, each note of the scale has it's own specific color. When played in a cord, they're seen as a band of colors.

And they can taste sound. Perhaps C tastes bitter, or G tastes salty, or maybe F tastes sweet.

Synesthesia is actually where sayings like "bitter wind" or "prickly laugh" come from.

I suppose living with it would be kind of hard sometimes.

I mean, you could never go to clubs. I heard that when music has a lot of bass in it, you see lots of little black boxes and it doesn't taste very good... and every time phone rings or someone talks you would be bombarded by strands of color...

I still think it would be cool. Like your own personal light show.

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I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc.

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If you simply hear a sound, without any visual aid, can you automatically say what note it is, bsed on the colour?

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Quote: from Micus at 8:14 am on July 6, 2008

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I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc.

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If you simply hear a sound, without any visual aid, can you automatically say what note it is, bsed on the colour?

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ja

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Quote: from TooImaginativeTeen at 1:39 pm on July 6, 2008

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Quote: from Micus at 8:14 am on July 6, 2008

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I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc.

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 If you simply hear a sound, without any visual aid, can you automatically say what note it is, bsed on the colour?

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ja

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Lol that's pretty cool. I whish I had that.
It would be quite helpful.
Did you always have it?
Have people adressed you on that matter?

I think most people have little crossovers between the senses like that. but, yeah, it would be amazing to have full-on synesthesia. at least maybe for a little while.

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