Be The Weirdness You See!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

(Scene: Creative Writing class.  The analysis of “The Veldt” is over, and before we move on to the next thing it is time for Creativity)

 

Teacher: All right, did anything have any weird experiences over the last few days?  Things to share?

 

Class: (silence)

 

Teacher: Nobody had one?

 

Amelia: I was a weird experience yesterday …

 

Teacher: What?

 

Amelia: Well, I was walking to class, and I saw this girl with an awesome scarf, and she caught me admiring it.  So I struck up a conversation with her, and we traded names.

 

Teacher: Why was that weird?

 

Amelia: Because the first thing I asked her after that was to spell her name so that I’d know what color it was.

 

Class: ???

 

Amelia: And then she did and I said, “Oh, it’s really pink!”  And then we had to go our separate ways.  That was the only interaction I had ever had with that girl. Then I realized how weird that must have sounded.

 

Class: Yeah! What the hell?

 

Amelia: Right, let me explain.

 

 

So I would up telling the class about my synesthesia, and it was a lot more popular than I would have expected.  I had people coming up to me during break and after class to ask me about it, and what color their names were.

 

But my favorite comment was what the teacher said at the end of my explanation.  “And the moral of this story is,” she began, “be the weirdness you see in the world!”

Comments

[jadewing.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Ooh! I'm going to follow the crowd--what color is my name???

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

But I don't know your name!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Your username, however, is: dark grey, apple green, bright pink, gold-orange, green, bright pink, orange, scarlet, green.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

White, red, and yellow.

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

That is way cool! *grins* I like that as a philosophy: be the weirdness you see in the world.

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

me 2!
Be the weirdness. :D


words to live by. :)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Blue, pale yellow, bright pink, red with a hint of purple, white with periwinkle highlights, blue, yellow, green, golden orange.

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

Very cool! Thanks.

I was, however, just commenting that I loved the comment about be the weirdness. :)

Also? Fire breathing hippos rock.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew who the artist was, because that pic makes me laugh every time.

As long as I was giving everyone else theirs, I thought I'd add yours. But I forgot the 2 at the end! It's blue.

And yes, I may make that my motto. ^_^

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

btw, How did you like "The Veldt" and were there any interesting obervations made about it?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

First time I read it was when I was in sixth grade, and I liked it just because it was creepy. I don't always agree with Ray Bradbury's alarmism, and his portrayal of women a lot of times is ... lacking, we shall say. But if you want a good chill, his short stories are great, and I loved Dandelion Wine.

This class, being on creative writing, focused more on his techniques than on analyzing the story. Big argument about whether the foreshadowing was condescending or helped build the tension. Not a lot of introspection there.

[sunshine-shaman.livejournal.com]

Here's a question I've been meaning to ask: do acronyms have colors too? Or do the letters just stay their individual color? If that question even makes sense...

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Acronyms like NASA? Those have colors same as other words.

[bluetara2020.livejournal.com]

Curious as to the colors of mine as well.

Be the weirdness. That's cool.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

blue, pale yellow, grey-green, apple green, dark grey like graphite, bright pink, green, bright pink, blue, red, blue, red.

[kurupira.livejournal.com]

oh oh oh! this was an exciting entry, I have many comments!
1- I love Ray Bradbury!! I've read everything he's written and a couple biographies of him, which I actually regretted because they had too much information for my tastes (like for example, I did not need to know that he lost his virginity to a hooker for a dollar when he was 16).
2- I have synesthesia, too! Only I didn't know until a couple weeks ago when I first read about it, in my neuro textbook. Mine's different- for me, numbers have colors, as well as genders (as a general thing, even numbers are feminine and odd numbers are masculine, but there are exceptions). It was very exciting to read about synesthesia and realize I'm not quite as crazy as I thought I was. Another cool thing about it is that there seems to be a strong correlation between synesthesia and creativity-- many artists and writers have it, and supposedly it helps with forming metaphors and symbols and such because you're used to linking things that are generally unrelated. You probably knew all that, but it was new to me.
3- Okay, I'm curious too, what color is Ashley?
4- yes, that is an awesome quote.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

1. Hell, information like that is what makes authors fun.
2. Yeah, genders and sometimes personalities. It's kinda random for me; the females are 1, 4, 7, 9. The teens are apparently neuter, but everything beyond that has the gender of the first number.

What about time? Do you see days of the week or years spatially? In color? That's another common one.

You might like the book Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds by Pat Duffy. It's not very well-written, but it's highly informative.
3. bright pink, grey-blue, tawny, pale yellow, apple green, yellow.