If you see A as being red, what would happenif someone put a black 'A' on a red background? Would the letter 'disappear'?The simple answer is 'no.' But to see why, we need to delve deeper into the conceptof 'color' in the first place.' Color' is not a wavelength; rather, it is a concept which is associated with a certainstimulus, namely a certain wavelength of light entering the eye. Note that pure yellowlight and a combination of red + green light are both associated with the color 'yellow'in the brain.
This also allows for the existence of colors that our eyes can neversee; some of the colors of letters I see aren't reproducible on a computer screen.Text is inherently colorless; this is why we are able to readblack text on a white pageand large red text on a blue billboardand get the same meaning out of it. But the synesthetic association with colors happens AFTER the textualprocessing takes place. Since the text itself carries no color information, the blackletter A and red background it's rendered on are not present when the text is stored inthe brain as such, there simply is no 'red background' behind the red letter A.Spelling geniusYou're probably thinking, 'so, this is cool and all. But what is it good for?' Many things, actually. If you have synesthesia, you grow to appreciate the manysmall ways in which it helps you in your daily life.I won first place in my junior high school's spelling bee in 7th grade, and I won thirdplace in regional (just google my name). I've also been good at spelling, and particularlygood about noticing proper spellings of certain similar-sounding words.
I later realizedthat this was, in part, due to my synesthesia.Let's take a common grammatical issue people have: 'than' versus 'then'.t h a nversust h e nThe distinct color difference between 'a' and 'e', which is also remembered along withthe word and its meaning, ensures that I will almost never mix up similar-sounding words.(Try to unfocus your eyes until you see each word as a blob of color, and notice how theylook quite different even because of one letter.)Practical applications of synesthesiaThe concept of synesthesia can be applied to various things. Artificial synesthesiacan be used for improving the usability of a user interface, or can even be used toprevent IDN homograph attacks (a method of phishing that replaces the letter 'e' in 'ebay.com'with its Cyrillic equivalent, for example, thus fooling the unsuspecting visitor intorevealing personal information to a fake site). This would work if all similar-looking letters werecolored differently; people would thus memorize the 'color' of the URL as well asthe name, and would be suspicious of improperly colored URLs.
Color Hex Color Codes. Color-hex gives information about colors including color models (RGB,HSL,HSV and CMYK), Triadic colors, monochromatic colors and analogous colors calculated in color page. Color-hex.com also generates a simple css code for the selected color. Html element samples are also shown below the color detail page. Seeing color in sounds has genetic link. The link between synesthesia and autism is controversial and speculative, but one of Asher's previous case studies suggests a connection. The man he examined had Asperger's syndrome - a mild, high-functioning form of autism - and also had an extraordinary memory capacity for numbers.
The two downsides of thisis that it is difficult to standardize the colors, and it would drive us synesthetescrazy since our colors would end up being different.How do people get it?Apparently, synesthesia runs in families. Both of my parents report some sort ofsynesthetic experiences – from a spatial number map to 'seeing' different colorsof music. In my experience, some forms of it (like each number having a color) came'naturally', while other forms (the number line being associated with a location)have their roots in events that happened in my childhood.Synesthetes unite!Do you experience any form of synesthesia, or do you know someone who does?
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Pleasestate your experiences here. I would really like to know how others see things! I see 'shadows' of color associated with type, but it's not so much'seeing' as 'feeling' colors. Impossible to describe.I see months in position on an oval, as if I were on a race track. It musthave something to do with a childhood concept of elliptical orbit.
I alwayshave an image in my brain of where I am on the oval.I remember entiresequences of events when I look at paintings I have done. When I look at acertain section, I can 'hear' the music I was listening to,'smell' aromas that were in the place where I was painting and'hear' conversations that were taking place at that time, sometimesword for word.
Not sure that's synesthesia, but it's a close runner-up if itisn't. Has anyone ever heard of synesthesia that disappears? My boyfriend has onlywithin the past year addressed his synesthesia (although he has always knownabout it), and it has within the last hour completely disappeared. He claims heexperienced an overwhelming headache and after it suddenly stopped, his colourswere gone.He has been suffering from a swollen vein in his skull, inducedby stress. He is taking medication for this problem, includinganti-inflammatories and steroids.He is completely destroyed, and myheart's breaking for him.
I don't know the name of his type of synesthesia, buthe sees colours when he hears sounds, and associates colours to certainthoughts. My voice, for example, is light blue with gold in the middle, andthoughts of me are the same colours. He has exceptional audio perception.If anyone can offer information on why his synesthesia could have disappearedand if he may ever get it back, please contact me. I've had synesthesia for as longas I can remember. I've 'seen' sounds/music, voices and names havecolors, a few smells have a color, and if I'm in pain, everything is tintedteal, and if I'm tickled, then bright flashes of light appear everywhere. Alittle over a year ago, I suffered from a concussion and slowly lost my abilityto see names and voices. Lately, I've been dealing with the sudden andunexpected death of my best friend.
All traces of Synesthesia have disappeared.Although you've probably figured out what's going on with your boyfriend,because this was several months ago, I have no idea what's going on. If you haveany information, please share:) I feel empty and alone without my synesthesia. For a long time, I thought everyone associated specific colors withnumbers/letters. To me it just seemed so natural that their distinctpersonalities would be color-coded. It wasn't until I went to college and wrotean Oral Interpretation class paper about a classmate's voice that I began torealize that experiencing voices as color/texture wasn't common. My fellowclassmates during discussion were polite, but as many others have described,blank-faced when it came to understanding what I meant.
Oh well, I enjoy it. Hi, I personally have always thought of months, years, days of the week, musicand dances as colours and have only just realised that not everyone does it andthat I may have synesthesia.Although it sounds like I do have it, ifsomeone asked me what coliour there name was it would be black as I just see theindividual letters as there colours? Does this mean I have synesthesia still?I'm pretty sure I do as when I explain it to people and they to look at meblankly I can't understand how they must think?
I see months and time in color. Like 3:00 p.m is a crimson red, but 4:00 p.m islike a pale icy blue. I only recently realized that not many people think thisway, and are often surprised when I tell them. They react the most to hownaturally I can tell them the color of the month or time they're asking mebecause of how quickly I respond.But I also see gradations of color.Like the alphabet starts at 'A', which in my mind starts as a paleyellow. The middle of the alphabet, say 'M', is like a rusty brown,and the end of it, with 'Z' comes to grayish blue. But no letterreally has a color.
It more of a black letter against a background of color.Numbers work the same way with the background of color as well as days of theweek.I wonder what it all means!! I see people/personalities as colour associations. I sometimes feel mildlyuncomfortable if a person wears a colour that isn't 'them'. I also seeletters, numbers, months, days of the week with colour associations. I seemusic as a pictograph, which has greatly helped in my ability to play music byear.
I visualize math concepts. I see maps in my head when I am drivingsomewhere, and feel lost if I can't visualize that map. My memory goes back tobaby days, like a video replay.
Smells can vividly bring back memories. I'm a 13 year old 7th grader, and I've know I was different since I was abouteight. Me and my mom were driving to the store and I just blurted out'Don't you think 'A' is the prettiest because it's yellow?'
All I gotwas a blank stare. I guess she brushed it off until last year when she got me abook called 'A Mango Shaped Space' By Wendy Mass. I was about a girlwith synesthesia. After I read it I told her 'Hey this is what I seetoo!' And then we knew. I associate colors with letters, sounds, music,months, words, names, shapes, weekdays, seasons, and lots more. And the fourseasons have distinct smells for me.also I can taste places (ex.
I'll put anapple slice in my mouth and say 'This tastes like seattle.' ).Ireally love being a synesthete and I can't imagine my life without synesthesia.
Hiya, i've only recently realised that seeing colours for differentletters/months/days and sometimes words is not something that everyone has andis indeed a form of synesthesia (funnily enough i have known about thiscondition for some time but hadn't realised that i have it). What i find strangeis that some letters/words' colours are very solid and don't change but othersare very 'fluid', if you will, and change too quickly for me to recognise acolour. It feels as if i don't have the vocabulary to describe the colour orrather feeling for these letters. Also the more complex the time word (i'm notsure what else to call but i mean days, months and years) the harder it is toidentify the colour. Even though 'june' has less letters than 'friday' it has alarger mass because it is a bigger time period than 'friday'. I'm justwondering, if anyone else has the same experience as i do? That's really cool!
I don't have the same experiencebut I understand what you mean by a word having a 'larger mass'.As for a vocabulary of colors, I am also unable to reproduce certaincolors on screen that I 'see' through synesthesia. This makes sensebecause 'colors' are concepts within the brain - they existindependently of the eye, and the brain simply associates certain input thatcomes in through the eye with the concept of a color.
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It's quite possible toexperience colors that the eye can't see, at least in theory. I see colour when I hear sounds. Music can be particularly pleasant most of thetime. There are, however certain sounds that grate on my nerves like somepeoples voices, certain high pitched sounds, and if I am tired any sound willstress me out. Also my housemates playing the radio and TV and talking all atthe same time really gets me wound up emotionally and I just want it all tostop! At that point it is ALL noise, and really makes me exhausted andanxious.I usually like listening to music as I drift off to sleep, butcymbals crashing and loud music of any sort makes me anxious,not relaxed.
I seethese things in my whole field of vision, that is transparent mostly, so if thesounds are persistant and irritating, I get stressed. Most of the time I reallyenjoy live music performances, and some recorded music. But mostly recordedmusic has an 'electric' feel that tastes like metal, and so I can onlytake so much of that. I love the sounds of Natures birds, crickets, etc muchmore! The source format can also make a difference, as canthe mastering at the studio.
An MP3 can have digital artifacts (noise) thatsounds unpleasant. A CD will sound more 'harsh' than a vinyl recordbecause the CD is more perfect, which isn't necessarily a good thing –a hospital is much cleaner than a home but it's not nearly as pleasant to bein.Is his amplifier solid-state (transistor) or tubed? Try listeningto a tube amplifier if possible.I personally love electronic music,so it's clearly different for me:P I do like quite a bit!