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bloodyrosemccoy ([personal profile] bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2014-10-14 02:08 pm
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COLORS EVERYWHERE

You guys.

THIS. THIS IS MY LIFE.

For one thing, ugly voices are why I can't listen to Led Zeppelin (although fortunately for my longstanding crush on her, Madeline Kahn's voice is a nice light peach to me). For another, yes, I HAVE had that problem with folders. At Dad's office the patients charts were color-coded by the letter of their last name, and it goes without saying EVERY. SINGLE. LETTER. was the wrong color. I actually did screw it up from time to time.*

For a third thing, their #1 on the list made me laugh WAY too hard. You people and your grey,** lifeless world. I'm so sorry.

So, yeah, synesthesia is pretty crazy. And these guys don't even get into the ordinal linguistic personification. That stuff is WHACK, man. I sometimes wonder if linguistic gender stemmed from the fact that some damn synesthete somewhere just fuckin' KNEW their table was a girl and their oven was a dude. Yet another mystery for the scientists to mess with.


*Though for some reason "S" and "W" gave me the most trouble. They were the ones I got wrong most often. And I mixed up "G" and "H" a lot for some reason, because one folder was pink and the other was lilac when IN ACTUALITY both of them are different shades of impossible orange. I guess their similarity in my head made it hard to convert the RIGHT shade of impossible orange.

**Fun Fact I spell it "grey" not because I am pompous (well, that, too) but because the letter A is bright candy pink and E is a sort of sage-green-grey, and therefore E is more suited for the word.

[identity profile] ellixis.livejournal.com 2014-10-15 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
I cross-associate sound with mouthfeel and motion, though I'm not sure it's synaesthesia as such. No idea if it's consistent or pervasive enough. (Bass flute is the texture of biting into soft dark chocolate; some singers with particularly nasal voices are the texture of running your teeth or tongue across the ridged plastic surface of a lenticular picture, and as such are almost always unpleasant to listen to; the word "bottle" is a small clockwise vertical spiral motion with a short tail.)

I'd love to be able to "see" the visuals with music, but I don't really feel I'm missing out, either; it's its own sensation.

[identity profile] padparadscha.livejournal.com 2014-10-16 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I think your sensations probably count! And I remember you mentioning that about "bottle," since I noted that for me is onomatopoeic.