General facts about it:
- It isn't too common, but scientists think everyone has it at birth and most lose it over time.
- Basically, it deals with sense mixups. Most of them are a sense linked to sight, for example when you hear a sound you see a shape, but there have been cases documented of someone who, when he tastes certain foods, feels the sensation of objects being placed in his hands. Weird, right?
- Everyone's colors can be different, and there are lots of different types, like sight-sight (as weird as it sounds, that's actually one; if you see a word for example it's in color), sight-sound, taste-sight, etc.
Facts about MINE!
- I have colored words and colored sounds. Don't ask me to eat a ton of chocolate and ask if I see anything. Although I wouldn't object to lots of chocolate.
- I remember people a lot by pairing colors with names, names with faces, and colors with faces. Basically, I see someone and when I hear their name, I know that it's a certain color, for example, light green. Then, I assign an "aura" around them, which is the color of their name. Then, when I see their face, I remember their name based on their aura. It's a lot simpler in practice, believe me.
- Different sounds have different colors of course, and then because of this, songs have colors. I usually avoid songs with orange and brown colors, and go more for green, blue, and purple, although there are quite a few songs with mainly orange, brown, and red that I like as well.
- It often looks like colors laid out in front of me, dipping and changing with their pitches. For example, a bass drop: It might start off pretty high up, then go over a hill and "drop", where it turns darker. For example, I listened to a really good song earlier with a blue bass track, and it turned darker when it dropped, almost midnight blue.
- It isn't something that I can control, and I was born with it. You can't learn synthesia. Sorry for everyone who doesn't have it.
frequently asked Questions:
Q: does it hurt?
A: no. not at all, actually.
Q: are you sure this isn't totally made up?
A: YES. I AM SURE.
Q: what does my name look like?
A: COMMENT YOUR NAME I WILL ANSWER
Q: does it hurt?
A: AGAIN, NO. NOT AT ALL.
Q: how does this affect you?
A: I like listening to Dubstep more than the average human. That's pretty much it.
Q: What do you see when you're listening to a song around you?
A: well, I obviously see the song, and I also see some other stuff. like, I ride the bus and I see people's auras pouring from their seats, and when someone isn't there, I can see a projection of them, colored like their aura, in the seat where they sit.
Q: so it really doesn't hurt?
A: NO!
Q: you sure?
A: YES I AM SURE! I AM DONE WITH YOUR QUESTIONS! *stalks out*
So yeah, that went swimmingly! Wasn't kidding about the comments thing though.
Bye! To sleep!
Omj my Creative Writing class all wrote poems/pros about this specific disorder! Batz told us all about it already :P That was like several weeks ago. I feel like I got the poem down lol.
ReplyDeleteone of my friends kinda has this, its with certain words, its so cool to hear about this, its actually very interesting.
ReplyDeleteRain, cool! Skylar, thanks :3
ReplyDeleteRain, your name's sort of a washed-out blue-gray color. Skylar, yours is an EXTREMELY strong dark purple.