Do you have synesthesia?

[cc]

Seriously. WTF are you all talking about?

Months going different directions, words having color?

I'm so confused.

If the months are listed left to right, I read them left to right. If they are up and down, I read them up and down. That's not true for everyone?

This post hurts my brain.

[ridethelightning]

I cannot visualize anything with a "numeric value". I'm not sure I'm descrbing it correctly. When I try to visualize roads, or directions, or numbers, or months, or years, or anything that can be assigned a "value" it is like there is a black hole in my brain. I just can't see it. If I think about numbers, it is completely auditory. This explains why I can't tell people directions, even if I know how to get somewhere. I also can't find my way out of a paper bag.

[rex]

No. I just see plain old numbers.

That is interesting though!!

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May 2, 2013 14:37:32 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

I dropped out of Algebra because I couldn't "see" the angles. But ask me to pack a million things into the truck of a car, and I will make them all fit with room to spare.

That has nothing to do with colors and numbers, but I can't see math, but can see concrete things. Like I can put together a dresser without instructions, etc.

I'm not making sense. Just read what I wrote as pretty colors.

This is how I am. I have to be able to actually see or physically manipulate things in order for it to really make sense to me.

I had the HARDEST time learning fractions as a kid and it wasn't until a few years ago that I realized if I'm baking something, I'm using fractions and I'm awesome at that. If I can physically see/handle 1/4 C oil + 3/4 C flour + 1 1/4 C sugar, no problems.  Put it in word/number form on a test and I'm lost as fuck.

[fryjack2]

May 2, 2013 14:34:46 GMT -5 ijack said:

May 2, 2013 14:02:23 GMT -5 gmail said:

You know what I can't/couldn't do? Those stupid GRE logic things.

Paintings A, B, C, D and E all need to be hung on the gallery wall, but you can't hang A on Mondays or next to D. YOu can't put C up on the west wall next to B, but E can only be hung on the east wall on Thursdays next to A. Purple.

WTF???!?

I love these. I actually have an app on my phone so I can play them whenever I want

I love these too (logic problems) but I am not so good at them.  I can get the obvious first few clues, then a few more tougher ones, then I am lost.  When I took the LSAT, the prep instructor would solve them for us step by step and it all made sense as he was doing them.   Once I was on my own I became stupid and kept reading the same line hoping I would magically see a new clue.

[ndolehan]

I don't - but I've hear of this.

When I was little I was always jealous. I still am, I wish I saw things in pretty colors!

[elleblue]

May 2, 2013 14:42:09 GMT -5 cc said:

Seriously. WTF are you all talking about?

Months going different directions, words having color?

I'm so confused.

If the months are listed left to right, I read them left to right. If they are up and down, I read them up and down. That's not true for everyone?

This post hurts my brain.

Here's an example - if someone asks me about a specific date, like "what did you do for the Memorial Day holiday last year?", I immediately picture the circular calendar in my head, sort of "zoom" in to May (which happens to be in the upper right quadrant of the circle) and then to the last weekend with the Monday holiday. I can then remember that we spent it at a friend's backyard barbeque.

[Deleted]

I have tonsil stones.

[Deleted]

May 2, 2013 14:36:39 GMT -5 gmail said:

May 2, 2013 14:34:46 GMT -5 ijack said:

I love these. I actually have an app on my phone so I can play them whenever I want

my worst nightmare



I'm really bad at telling my R from my L, so if I'm giving someone directions, I have to subtly tap the corresponding shoulder, so I know for sure I'm telling them the correct way.

Um, I still hold up my hands in the L shape

[lust2hart]

May 2, 2013 15:11:10 GMT -5 elleblue said:

May 2, 2013 14:42:09 GMT -5 cc said:

Seriously. WTF are you all talking about?

Months going different directions, words having color?

I'm so confused.

If the months are listed left to right, I read them left to right. If they are up and down, I read them up and down. That's not true for everyone?

This post hurts my brain.

Here's an example - if someone asks me about a specific date, like "what did you do for the Memorial Day holiday last year?", I immediately picture the circular calendar in my head, sort of "zoom" in to May (which happens to be in the upper right quadrant of the circle) and then to the last weekend with the Monday holiday. I can then remember that we spent it at a friend's backyard barbeque.

I do a little bit of this, but I just picture my actual calendar hanging on my kitchen wall and remember what I had written down on it (vs. remembering the activity itself - I remember what was written, like, "Nick's bday party," and can then recall the events). But I don't have any sort of internal calendar.

[mbcdefg]

May 2, 2013 15:11:10 GMT -5 elleblue said:

May 2, 2013 14:42:09 GMT -5 cc said:

Seriously. WTF are you all talking about?

Months going different directions, words having color?

I'm so confused.

If the months are listed left to right, I read them left to right. If they are up and down, I read them up and down. That's not true for everyone?

This post hurts my brain.

Here's an example - if someone asks me about a specific date, like "what did you do for the Memorial Day holiday last year?", I immediately picture the circular calendar in my head, sort of "zoom" in to May (which happens to be in the upper right quadrant of the circle) and then to the last weekend with the Monday holiday. I can then remember that we spent it at a friend's backyard barbeque.

You know what this reminds me of?

If I'm in the supermarket and I can't find an item that I just *KNOW* I've passed over in the aisle somehow, I picture that final game from Supermarket Sweep where the team can't find the item/clue they're looking for and the camera zooms in on it because it's right below the shelf where they're hunting for it.

[Deleted]

Sometimes I visualize Channing Tatum but I give him better teeth.

[CityLights]

So interesting the way the brain works. I do not experience any of these things visually...my brain is boring.

I DO get tingles though. I never knew this was a thing. I'm watching ASMR videos on youtube now and I am tingly and tired.

[TrudyCampbell]

I want to see the colors!

I see nothing.

[thoseareradishes]

I see the week ahead of me as a three dimensional bar graph, sort of tilted at an angle, with potentially good days having a higher bar and bad days a lower bar.

I can't rotate things in my head - like, if if I try to imagine myself doing a somersault, like through my own eyes, I can't get all the way around, it is like my brain hits a wall.

[TrudyCampbell]

The more I read of this thread the more jealous I become.

[Deleted]

Ya'lls brains are broke

[snickers]

I didn't realize this was a thing. However, when I think of the color teal I can smell a certain smell, but I cannot identify what that smell is. It's fucking weird.

[elleblue]

May 2, 2013 15:33:41 GMT -5 snickers said:

I didn't realize this was a thing. However, when I think of the color teal I can smell a certain smell, but I cannot identify what that smell is. It's fucking weird.

Certain colors have smells/tastes to me, they also have emotion/feelings ascribed to them as well.

[ginger]

Emotions for me have very strong colors, and sometimes numbers, but rarely.

And it works the other way around for me too. Color makes me feel very strong emotions. For example, hunter green makes me so uneasy I have to focus on something else.

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May 2, 2013 13:11:24 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

Numbers don't have colors for me, but they do have personalities.




It probably means I'm schizophrenic.

This is me too! I always had a hard time in math because I hated certain numbers. I hated 7 and 64 and I thought 3 was such a mean number.

[Deleted]

I feel like I have to be drunk or high to understand half of what's going on in this post.

ETA: Or drop acid.

[Pippin]

I had no idea this was a thing! I always thought my thinking was messed up. I don't see colors but I totally have that spatial sequence one. Everything takes up space in my mind and I actually see distance when thinking of numbers and such. I swear I have that mirror one too. Crazy.

[Deleted]

I also have a weird thing with counting months or days based on my feelings about them or weather I am. "In" them.


I realize this makes me seem like a nut.

[aprilsails]

I don't have the colour associations, but I have a serious mental block where I associate some numbers with letters. So I'll want to write 5 but instead I write r. r = 5 in my brain. Also j = 7 and so on. Probably some mild form of dyslexia.

[ginger]

I have read all 6 pages, and I now have major nerdy crushes on like, half of you.

When I need to remember something specific, I write it down because later I will suddenly do that file cabinet thing where you zoom through everything and then focus in on what you've written. I can do it with just listening as well, but it's not 100% accurate for me.

[ginger]

May 2, 2013 16:00:27 GMT -5 aprilsails said:

I don't have the colour associations, but I have a serious mental block where I associate some numbers with letters. So I'll want to write 5 but instead I write r. r = 5 in my brain. Also j = 7 and so on. Probably some mild form of dyslexia.

Letters have number relations for me too. I just realized this with your post. If I'm doing a lot of math and using 10-Key, multiple times a day I will try to "type" using numbers or write numbers using letters. It makes sense as I'm doing it, but when I read it back, obviously it's all "wrong".

[anlo]

No, but my boobs can tell when it's raining.

[gmail]

May 2, 2013 15:42:14 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

YEESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!