Synesthesia Part 2
Tuesday, 14 September, 2004
“I'm not as extreme as the people in that article,” says Ben. But he does, however, have colours for the books of the Bible, the days of the week, the notes of the musical scale ... and (get this) the colours of chords are affected by the notes they are comprised of (they mix together to create other colours). “Don't you do anything like this?” he asked me last night. I had to think about it for a while. Then I realised that I assign genders to things. For example, 1 is female, Saturday is male, April is female, the letter “J” is male, etc. Not only that, I give them personalities. So 4 and 9, which are both female, are completely different in temperaments; 4 is more of your geeky nerdy girl who loves reading books and 9 is more of your trendy sophisticated polished bitch girl. “Yours doesn't involve senses!” said Ben. He's right; his colours are a visual thing attached to an aural thing. I have no idea what mine is and why I do it at all. “This is my favourite disorder,” said Ben to Miriam in the Chaplaincy yesterday. “You're so lucky to have your favourite disorder!” she cried. “I want it too!”
Current:
Bible: Isaiah (ESV) 28/09/2010
seen: Tropic Thunder 26/09/2010
seen: The Life of Mammals 24/09/2010
seen: What a Girl Wants 19/09/2010
seen: Jerry Maguire 19/09/2010
seen: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 06/09/2010
seen: Tomorrow Never Dies 05/09/2010
seen: Nanny McPhee 28/08/2010
read: Mercury (Hope Larson) 27/08/2010
read: Spellcheckers Vol 1 (Jamie S Rich, Nicolas Hitori de, Joelle Jones) 16/08/2010
read: Solipsistic Pop Vol 2 (Solipsistic Pop) 16/08/2010
read: Chiggers (Hope Larson) 15/08/2010
seen: Josie and the Pussycats 14/08/2010
seen: Mr & Mrs Smith 14/08/2010
seen: Step Up 2 13/08/2010
Blinks:
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
Online magazine that publishes fairy tales that are not reworkings of old tales.
Journal that publishes fairy tale writing.
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It’s a very strange thing you guys have - I am very puzzled and feeling rather ordinary in comparison!
Hugs,
George
I want to be synesthetic, too.
(the potential for a Freudian slip with ‘synthetic’ there is too much)
Unfortunately, I appear to be neurotic/anxious, and that’s about it.
That’s so funny! Why would you want it?
Because I like the idea of seeing music as colours, assigning personalities to numbers, etc.
I see certain numbers and letters as colours and shapes, but I think for me it is from the colours and shapes they were on the posters and cards they taught us in Grade One.
It must have been an influential year, because my best friend and I also assigned genders for colours. Red, pink, blue, white were girls; and green, yellow, black and brown were boys.
Oh good, I’m not the only one who does the gender thing!
I forgot to say what a nicely written post that was, too!
okay. i don’t do any of that stuff.
i think.
I can bend my fingers backwards so they nearly touch the back of my hand. Different stars have different splendor.
Hi Karen.
I assign genders to months, days of the week, letters and numbers too! We must be German.
Some of them are bit tricky though. March and August could go either way. And feburary is quite camp.
We should create a webring of people who do such strange things…