http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/11/07/episode-051-reading-rainbow/ Ever just sat around and wondered Why? So have we. Bad Philosophy is your one-stop fix for random philosophical musings about pretty much anything. Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/11/07/episode-051-reading-rainbow/comment-page-1/#comment-2258 kellygreen44 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:09:17 +0000 http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=181#comment-2258 I HAVE SYNESTHAESIA. crazy to have even found this! We watched your asl video in class and I decided to check out the website at the end and BAM! -synesthaesia- my favorite topic ever. I have the fairly common type of synesthaesia where all numbers and letters have a color associated with them but also for me days of the week. Days of the week are the strongest (Wednesday being orange and Tuesday being cerulean are indisputable in my opinion.) Some words have texture like glossy or knitted. Some words have shapes like green being like |_(semicircle)_| Listening to some music, unfortunately not all, is like fantasia. Some tastes have shapes- eggs, bananas, melons are all very round tasting while sweeter things are flossy. Words are also even and odd. It's even usually if the letters of the word are cool colors or if the word is particularly glossy. Words are odd if the letters are warm colors or if its more matte. Synesthaesia USUALLY helps me remember better (I think) and inspires a lot of my art but sometimes its a stressor. Picking notebooks for classes is a task. If i don't get the right color notebook, the class doesn't feel right. I'm taking ASL now and i love it because it doesn't stress me as much as Spanish (whose words were all to purple and green but sounded like they should've been oranges and yellows.) When I was young my parents painted our living room yellow and it made me physically sick. We didn't know "synesthaesia" was an actual condition until I was in high school. Up until then I was just the weird girl asking everyone what color their Thursday is. I HAVE SYNESTHAESIA. crazy to have even found this! We watched your asl video in class and I decided to check out the website at the end and BAM! -synesthaesia- my favorite topic ever. I have the fairly common type of synesthaesia where all numbers and letters have a color associated with them but also for me days of the week. Days of the week are the strongest (Wednesday being orange and Tuesday being cerulean are indisputable in my opinion.) Some words have texture like glossy or knitted. Some words have shapes like green being like |_(semicircle)_| Listening to some music, unfortunately not all, is like fantasia. Some tastes have shapes- eggs, bananas, melons are all very round tasting while sweeter things are flossy. Words are also even and odd. It’s even usually if the letters of the word are cool colors or if the word is particularly glossy. Words are odd if the letters are warm colors or if its more matte. Synesthaesia USUALLY helps me remember better (I think) and inspires a lot of my art but sometimes its a stressor. Picking notebooks for classes is a task. If i don’t get the right color notebook, the class doesn’t feel right. I’m taking ASL now and i love it because it doesn’t stress me as much as Spanish (whose words were all to purple and green but sounded like they should’ve been oranges and yellows.) When I was young my parents painted our living room yellow and it made me physically sick. We didn’t know “synesthaesia” was an actual condition until I was in high school. Up until then I was just the weird girl asking everyone what color their Thursday is.

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