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

[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.