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Understanding Synesthesia and Color Perception

This document discusses synesthesia, a condition where one sensory input stimulates another sensory pathway. It provides examples of people who experience letters and numbers as having colors, personalities, textures, locations, tastes, and feelings. Several synesthetes describe their experiences, such as associating numbers with personalities, using word colors to scan and categorize text, and struggling with the illogical nature of their condition as children. The document also notes other discoveries synesthetes have made regarding uppercase and lowercase letters, gender associations, mixing up similar letters, and experiences with foreign alphabets.

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Understanding Synesthesia and Color Perception

This document discusses synesthesia, a condition where one sensory input stimulates another sensory pathway. It provides examples of people who experience letters and numbers as having colors, personalities, textures, locations, tastes, and feelings. Several synesthetes describe their experiences, such as associating numbers with personalities, using word colors to scan and categorize text, and struggling with the illogical nature of their condition as children. The document also notes other discoveries synesthetes have made regarding uppercase and lowercase letters, gender associations, mixing up similar letters, and experiences with foreign alphabets.

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SYNESTHESiA 7

synesthesia: a condition characterized by sensory overlap in which one sensory input, such as a sound, stimulates a second sensory pathway, such as color visualization.

some sense letters and numbers as:

some sense letters and numbers as: colors

some sense letters and numbers as: colors

personalities

some sense letters and numbers as: colors

personalities textures

some sense letters and numbers as: colors

personalities textures quadrant locations

some sense letters and numbers as: colors

personalities textures quadrant locations tastes

some sense letters and numbers as: colors

personalities textures quadrant locations tastes feelings

some sense letters and numbers as: colors

personalities textures quadrant locations tastes feelings combination

colors
A: Bright red. The sort of red that would fit Snow Whites apple. Extremely vivid; it overrides all other letters in words, except for E. B: A beige-ish orange. You know those pale orange pumpkins? Somewhere between that and the color of lightly tanned, caucasian skin. C: A light, dirty yellow. The color of an adobe building in warm sunshine, if you know the kind I mean. D: Brown. A less potent/enduring brown than U. Damp sand or cinnamon sugar, but without dots. E: Green. Very, very green. The sort of green that grass dreams of during dry summers. It is the only letter with as potent a color as A. F: Very faint green. Depending on its neighboring letters, it could fade to yellow almost immediately. Washed out.
moya

personalities

jesse jaren

quadrants + colors + shapes

pamela mckenna

combination
1 is pure, white, and means well but is often icy. 2 is bland and soaks up colors like a sponge. 3 is green, lush, and friendly. 4 is red and likes to party. 5 is a color that cannot be named. It is mysterious and quiet. 6 is a green or blue smile. The first smile you see when you first meet someone. 7 is golden yellow and cheerful but is usually a little too much to handle. 8 is orange. Fat, burnt orange. Selfish and laughter. 9 is upset stomach pepto bismol cherry preservatives pink. I hate that bitch. 0 is a newborn baby with a giggle.
sarah lloyd

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Its just impossible to imagine life without my synesthesia. I scan books for words by looking only at word color. I categorize songs by color. I write chapters such that the color scheme is overall nicely flowing and smoothly transitioned, matching the tone. I cant say what I like or dislike about it--I would never give it up. Not for anything. (I mean, maybe to save someones life, but the thought of life without color is unbearable.)
moya

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As a kid it was great when I was bored in grade school because I could make up little stories about the numbers and letters and their adventures. Stories based on their existing personalities...
mike jones

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I absolutely love it. I love color in general and it has become a central part of my life and my way of thinking.
sarah lloyd

Sometimes I am more inclined to pick an answer over another on a test because the color is more apealing. Most of the time, I am wrong anyways.
sarah lloyd

Constant struggle between bad and good words. In my head, a whole drama will be going on. Like my right hand fighting my left hand. Or how the numbers 6, 7, 8, 9 would be fighting out like a teenage school drama. I also did not like how illogical everything was, so I forced myself to stop when I was about 12 years old.

geri nariko

other discoveries:

other discoveries: looking at colored type

other discoveries: looking at colored type uppercase vs. lowercase

other discoveries: looking at colored type uppercase vs. lowercase curves having to do with gender

other discoveries: looking at colored type uppercase vs. lowercase curves having to do with gender word colors

other discoveries: looking at colored type uppercase vs. lowercase curves having to do with gender word colors mixing up letters - 7 & Y

other discoveries: looking at colored type uppercase vs. lowercase curves having to do with gender word colors mixing up letters - 7 & Y writing

other discoveries: looking at colored type uppercase vs. lowercase curves having to do with gender word colors mixing up letters - 7 & Y writing foreign alphabets

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