しょうたい - Natural Shape, One's True Colours, Senses

[10/11/09 13:22:26 ] Ambivalence (8) : i wonder if she's synaesthetic...
[10/11/09 13:22:29 ] Ambivalence (8) : forgot how to spell OTL
[10/11/09 13:22:36 ] Ambivalence (8) : "For color: Monday is yellow, Tuesday is red, Wednesday is blue, Thursday is green, Friday is gold, Saturday is brown, and Sunday is white."
[10/11/09 13:23:21 ] Mptp (st) : huh?
[10/11/09 13:23:49 ] Ambivalence (8) : err
[10/11/09 13:23:54 ] Ambivalence (8) : associates colours with stuff
[10/11/09 13:24:04 ] Ambivalence (8) : like
[10/11/09 13:24:09 ] Ambivalence (8) : 'ohai, monday is a yellow day'
[10/11/09 13:24:14 ] Ambivalence (8) : and bob is a purple name
[10/11/09 13:24:15 ] Ambivalence (8) : etc
[10/11/09 13:24:28 ] Mptp (st) : I see
[10/11/09 13:24:30 ] Mptp (st) : wait
[10/11/09 13:24:33 ] Mptp (st) : that's a condition?
[10/11/09 13:24:37 ] Mptp (st) : I thought everyone did that O_O
[10/11/09 13:24:38 ] Ambivalence (8) : errr
[10/11/09 13:24:42 ] Ambivalence (8) : ........... /swt
[10/11/09 13:24:46 ] Mptp (st) : ........//swt

Well today was an interesting day.

Turns out, I'm a grapheme-colour synesthist - an associator.
A synethist is one who experiences involuntary sensory responses to certain triggers.

In my case, letters, numbers, names and people have, in my mind, an inherent, and very specific colour. I thought that everyone experienced this, since it seemed so natural to me, but it turns out that that's not the case.

I remember, about 3 years ago, I mentioned to several of my friends that I could see the colour of people's "auras" - that was me misinterpreting the fact that I was simply involuntarily seeing the colour which my mind linked with their personality.

It might be worth mentioning that someone's name and their colour aren't necessarily the same thing. For example, I told Alden that his name "Alden" is pale yellow with a little bit of blue - perhaps a very pale cyan. But his personality is perhaps silver and navy.

Also, the colour of a name seems to have some relation to the colours of the letters it is made up of. A is very, very pale yellow, almost white. L is a pale green. D is a more browny-yellow colour, but not too dark. E is greeny-yellow, and N is a dark, rich green. The name of Alden is, as I said, very pale yellow with a little bit of blue - so a pale, yellowish cyan.

So there you go - rather interesting. Not useful in any way, but still quite interesting.