Been thinking about Synaesthesia today. As usual.
At one of my brief stints at 'University' when pretending to be music student, I vividly remember catching a lecture where I was led into talking about how I thought sounds had colours and tastes. Had originally gained entry to said-university by filling out my personal statement with a theory on this and how I experienced music solely through colour, texture and smell. Was not sure if this was normal but was pretty sure it was not Freakville, Ohio either and that other people out there might experience the same thing.
Did some research today. Got bored with scientific side of it very quickly but apparently synaesthesia is most commonly defined as when people perceive letters or numbers as inherently colored.
I feel very strongly about the days of the week having colours, as do I about numbers.
For example: 'My BrAiN sEz' that:
Monday = Red
Tuesday = Green
Wed = Blue
Thurs = Yellow
Fri = Red
Saturday = Orangey brown
Sunday = Yellow
Numbers:
Three- Green (SO fucking green)
Four- Purple
Five- Red
Six- Blue
Seven- Gold/ Yellow
Eight- Deep Purple
Nine- Brown
Ten- Black
Eleven- Silver
I do not agree with the below photo. What a joke.
Also see names and people in different colours. Also feelings and countries. Also smell scents that I absolutely know do not exist in the room at that time but not sure if that relates synaesthesia or something very different.
Below:
These are the colours some freak on the internet thinks the numbers on his Barbie-Phone represent.
He is totally wrong.
What a joke.
Do any of you diamonds think like this? I love (and equally hate) to hear what colours people think of for certain days- e.g. feels so wrong when one person thinks Monday is purple when it is so obviously red. Have had fights with people in past on this. Cannot punch anyone over internet though so please feel free to leave your thoughts.
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They were talking about it on a repeat of QI last night!
I don't think I have it...although I agree with you on the days of the week (apart from Monday which I'm sure is Blue!)
xxx
Friday is deffo orange and Monday is blue i agree with rrrich on that
don't hurt me marina ;)
i do it with numbers and people more tho not colours for example i see you marina as an 8 or 6?
Every day is negative orange for me.
"alexander" -- what color do you see?
Hmm...interesting...it is all a bit "Freakville, Ohio" to me. I'm sure more people think this way than I realize but I've never thought about days or numbers being colored. Something to think about, though.
This happens to me mostly with letters and numbers, not so much with the days of the week.
For example, your name for me would be:
M= orange
A= yellow
R= dark blue
I= light green
N= beige
A= yellow
I know how you feel when you say you see the colours so clearly, and I have actually had discussions like "the number 2 is SO clearly blue, how can you say it's red, are you FUCKING BLIND?!! hehe...but anyway, it's a really interesting thing, isn't it? :)
Damn I was going to due the Blue Monday joke and someone has beaten me to it.
Did you know that the Thrillseekers once recorded a song called Synaesthesia (Fly Away) back in 2001 ? Gosh my brain is full of useless facts. Look here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEaRJhMjruA&feature=related
i would go for BLOO MONDAY- def neworder rool!
saying that- i bot a 5pack of sox today WITH DAYS OF WEEK ON and AMAZINGLY- Monday and Wed are the same- tues and thursday flip- friday is orange! I GET SOME OF IT THO-
I REM ember the grate BEEEEEEYORK saying she felt her music was like inanimate objects- pineapples and knives- etc i get that- i think of food in textures which is similar-
enough of this back to you MARINA- always interesting and different-
BTW- has anyone else noticed a tim finn/ split enz thang
btw x2- freakville ohio- is the only! plaice 2 be
Must admit I've never gone with a colour for each day of the week. As for numbers, well!!
1 = Strong White
2 = Strong Yellow
3 = Strong Green
4 = Weak Brown
5 = Strong Blue
6 = Middle Orange
8 = ???????
7 = Middle Pink
9 = Strong Black
I also banged my head a lot as a kid and always rememeber the taste of Blackcurrent Liqourice whilst dizzy concussion. Is that weird or what !!
what colour am i?
There was interesting thing in the New Yorker recently about unusual brain connections and such and they mentioned synesthesia...that it is most present in artists and that the condition usually shows a propensity to link seemingly unrelated things. That's why these people are good at metaphors!
ANYWAYS the article was called 'Brain Games' if you wanna look for it.
ALSO! I took this color quiz thing a couple of times and its been straight on - I wonder how accurate it would be for you with all your feelings and emotions in color
http://www.goldinuniverse.com/
Alexander = Midnight purple/ blue
Matt = Red
Also, am so shocked so few people experience this? My mum said she had never heard about it until reading this and I felt like a McCrazy.
Hi Marina,
I feel very distinct colors for people, numbers, days, anything really.
Monday= red
Tuesday= pale yellow
Wednesday= orange
Thursday= dark blue
Friday= greyish lilac
Saturday= silver
Sunday= beige
And for instance, my sister is light grey blue. My fridge is green. And I Am Not A Robot is red.
I Am Not A Robot is silver and light blue for me!
hermit the frog is a green
im am not a robot is a light blue, sliver (i agree)
obsessions is a black, purple
the outsider is a yellowy, orange
this is how i see it??
oh my god!! I could not help but leave a comment here... I am also a songwriter, I love your song and I could not agree more with the colours you see when you think of week days... so now I have to ask you, because my teacher and I have been speaking about this for ages... do you see colours in chords? because for me it has always worked like that, to the extent that I of course perceive songs in colours...
major: blue
dominants: red
dominant/7th: yellow brownish
major sevenths: purple, glitter
minor sevenths + 9ths: lilac
minor: brownish...
and I could go on and on and on...
I've always thought of even numbers as somehow 'good' and odd numbers as 'bad'. If I'm eating peanuts, for example, I prefer to eat an even number at a time. I know it's crazy, so sometimes I'll try to distract myself so I lose count and don't know whether there was an even or odd number in the bag.
hmmm maybe you have a problem seej500 ;)
Oh Marina...just saw this!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8070210.stm
Let's go to Heston's and try it out! :P
I love it when someone else has minor synaesthesia! i used to make playlists based on color, because good songs definitely have a distinct shade attached to them.
recently discovered your music after reading nylon and i think it's great!
I agree. 3 really is green. It really annoys me when the 3 on the 3 phone adverts isn't green because it's so wronggggg. 6 is blue. I can't eremember the others but those are my main ones... So snap. Which is nice because you won't punch me :)
I don't have colours for everything though. Does that make me abnormal?
Marina, you need to read Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks. It's science, but it's beautifully written and sometimes very moving stories about people. Synasthaesia is one of the things he writes about.
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