Synesthesia - Blog Posts

southern accents are very curly. the drawl does it, I think. lower pitched voices are thicker, and the more Midwest accents have a rough texture feeling. the coast tends to sound cooler than the warm, land-bound lilt.

i just found out the title of the song i was scared of as a kid, "Michelle" by The Beatles

I was scared of it because it would always play on the radio when i woke up from a nightmare and i couldn't sleep, it used to freak me out

Just came here to say I'm a Ne-dom and my thoughts are strongly visual. If you were to sit in a café with me and we'd talk about a certain topic, and then a month later I'd hear about that topic in a completely different situation, the image of the café and the exact view I had from my seat would pop up in my head.

Although I don't have color-synesthesia, my brain does make some weird associations. For example, when I play the guitar I associate notes and frets with specific gender, animals, etc.

Also, there is a term for not having visual imagination at all. It's called aphantasia.

Alright, this might be the weirdest question you’ve ever gotten, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you ignored it, but… do you picture Enneagram and/or MBTI types as colors? I know, weird, but I was reading your latest type 2 post (the one in which you mention Annie Wilkes and Alex) and suddenly I had one of those crazy realizations you have out of the blue - I have been seeing type 2 as something abstractly light pink all along since I’ve started learning about Enneagram around two years ago. Do you also do this? Coming to think about it, I once saw people on Tumblr, if I recall correctly, talking about doing something similar, but with school subjects, lol.

EDIT: Turns out it was Buzzfeed, lol

https://www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1/what-colors-do-you-associate-with-these-school-subjects

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hattiesoykan/what-colour-do-you-associate-with-these-school-subjects

Interesting. I don’t do this, no, because I don’t have color-synesthesia. I have read about it in the past, and it would be interesting to know if it’s related to type at all or just a random occurrence in certain people.

I actually have very poor visualization skills. I’m not sure if it’s typed to being Ne-dom or if it’s just a weird thing my brain refuses to do, but I don’t think in pictures, colors, or even words – just in ‘thoughts.’ And when I’m envisioning a scene, I’m thinking in words rather than ‘seeing’ two characters do something. So when I think about 2, I think “the helper… over-helping… wanting love… pride” rather than envisioning a character, color, or person.

If anyone relates to the color thing, reblog and add your thoughts (rather than sending me an ask) since I’m curious to read it. :)

normal poet: uses things like alliteration and onomatopoeia and imagery. ya kno, poet stuff

synesthetic poet: haha these words look pretty together

The synesthesia feel of “this thing definitely has a Colour but I have no idea how to describe it buT ITS DEFINITELY NOT THAT COLOUR”

I’ve mentioned before that I’ve got synesthesia but I wanted to give a visual of what words look like for me so here:

Calling all grapheme-color synesthetes!!

I made a spreadsheet to compare all of out alphabet's colors! If you have colors for letters, chose a row and add your alphabet in. This is entirely non-scientific, it's just fun to see all the colors!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k49odT3L986otANtsX73VQY6cNc9940b0IJp_NuVjb4/edit?usp=sharing

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it’s much deeper than that

YES, it’s like, 7 x 3 = 21 always served cunt and was the color magenta, the number 14 give’s chaotic bisexual and I am here for it.

I love em dashes (—) they’re the most underrated form of punctuation. they have so many uses, and they also feel like thursday