Colour Synesthesia
 

This is something I've been curious about since I found out that not everyone experiences it, or experiences it the same way.

I associate colours with numbers, letters, places, songs, certain words, etc. I'm interested to know what percentage the population of MB experiences this, and how they experience it.

Drugs don't count.

No, but when writing I subconsciously associate any set of numbers or letters with a game of Tetris or Sudoku, making sure that each one is in the perfect place to convey what I'm trying to say. It can get quite annoying, but I have no control over it.

I hear different kinds of music as being different colors. I experience this so regularly that I've categorized my favorite music by it's color. I'll often think to myself things like "My favorite records are tan, but I like purple records a lot too." One type of record I don't care for is dark blue, for some reason I associate 80s power ballads with it. :laughing:

What colours are your alphabet, Conan? We should compare.

Man, is this going to be a "God, I'm so jealous of your..." thread? I'm already feeling a bit more than jealous. :(

I don't associate letters or numbers with colors, it's only music. Go figure.

Me too. Although I do kinda get the music and colors thing sometimes.

I get this too. another strange thing is that I'll be just chilling there, and I'll hear a sound, and I'll immediately think "wow this sound is so upside-down-squiggly prism-ish". I never say it out loud because it might scare people. also, I think I have synesthesia because I see letters as colourful and I just found out about this a year ago.

My favourite songs are the ones with sharp downwards arrow sounds and the descending vibrating triangle sounds. MY favourite songs are also shimmering gold and pink and hazy blue and yellow.

It has been proven that certain frequencies can elicit certain shapes and formations in cells. They can also correspond to certain colors and feelings, which has been shown to be quite consistent across the board.

Solfeggio Frequenices or "Binaural Beats" have been known about since early human history (supposedly), in correspondence with Sacred Geometry.

I don't associate colors with anything, but then again I'm colorblind and can't really distinguish between most colors. It's like if I have 4 dots to look at in a row, and they are purple, pink, blue, teal, the more I look at them the more they change. It's pretty cool but frustrating, it looks like the colors change levels of darkness on me.

I should make up a table in photoshop of the colours I see letters as.

I don't think it's anything to be jealous of, as it's a pretty trivial thing, but I did only recently find out that not everybody senses it.

I'm also curious to know if this forum (being full of music listeners) shows a higher percentage of synesthesites* than average.

*I made this word up.

Here, this is an approximation of how I see the alphabet, and even then, it's not quite right. It's hard to pick out the exact shades on my monitor with the glare on the computer, and some of these don't feel right to me, are a bit off, but it's accurate enough to give you an idea.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...YNESTHESIA.png

EDIT: Furthermore, a circle is yellow, a square blue, and a triangle green.

It occurred to me today that perhaps people who see auras are actually experiencing a strong colour-synesthesia, associating colours with people. Perhaps it's not a literal viewing of colours, but a sensing of them, the same way London "feels blue".

i don't have synesthesia

i did, however, try to associate colours with notes and chords, as you can get better pitch that way

never succeeded, though