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im so happy to find that other people think about the personal relationships that numbers have thats rlly cool
it’s actually a lesser known form of synesthesia called Ordinal-linguistic personification. i remember following asleep as a young kid staring at the red LED numbers on my alarm clock and being intimately familiar with their personality traits and group dynamics. i always felt an affinity for the odd numbers, which in general were less popular and considered more ‘difficult’ to be around
my brain: hey so i made u this 3D interactive map of time in ur head!
me: cool! so i should have really great time management and never be late?
brain: no. u procrastinate until the last minute and need like ten alarms to be on time for anything
me: ;-;
[Image Description: The "math is math" meme from The Incredibles 2. The caption has been edited to read "MATH IS RED". End ID]
math is RED. math is NOT green. literally WHAT are you guys talking about
Ok, another reason why I love TAD.
I have synesthesia, more pronounced for letters and numbers, and partially for music as well.
So, most of their songs sound green and blue to me. And blue and green are my favorite colors
Something different
Song: What Was I Made For? By Billie Eilish
I have sound-color synesthesia and I like to take colors from songs and make them into visuals. I generally prefer songs and music with a cooler color palette, I don’t know why I just like it better. A lot of the colors and palettes I use in my art are inspired by the music I listen to unless they are from as specific show or something.
Lil ramble or what not below.
Normally I don’t post things like this because it’s more personal but I guess I’m open to sharing today. After having lots of vision problems, eye surgeries, and quitting art completely for over a year doing these things were a good way to start getting back into at least something. My friend was the one who actually suggested and encouraged me to start posting my art because I was so anxious but really wanted to share it with people. If not for this thing it would still be the same 3 people seeing my art. I know that this is just a silly little paragraph at the bottom of an art piece but it’s be an incredibly rough year. Maybe I’m just feeling a little sad right now and it’s been to long since my last therapy session, but I do read the comments and tags that y’all do.
“Bilingualism strikes me as a kind of synesthesia. Instead of seeing colors associated with letters and words, instead of hearing melodies, what I hear with language is the play and echo of the other language. The option to say it differently, and thus to live it differently. Language is not only a means of communication or description. It’s a framework in which we process existence. Yi writes: “It is hard to feel in an adopted language, yet it is impossible in my native language.” As every bilingual person and translator knows, there are certain words—a feeling, a way of being—that is absent in one language but perfectly brought to life in another. A word that, by existing, gives permission to be. What if you need that which does not exist in your language?”
— Yoojin Grace Wuertz, “Mother Tongue”
No, because as a fellow person with synesthesia every time I read Tinky's name I think of the colors orange and yellow & I vaguely smell goats at a petting zoo and caesar salad dressing
synesthesia is so weird because tell me why I can vividly smell Caramel and burnt sugar whenever someone mentions T’noy Karaxis
Hi there!! I have a small question, that might be a little weird, but I hope you’ll find it interesting!If you could illustrate the way you feel music, how would you draw it?
To illustrate the way you feel about music…
That’s a big question Anon! Not that it’s weird or anything, but oh the feelings! The colors! Each song can have a different feeling, therefore a different illustration.
For example: The way I would illustrate “Cotten Candy by Kikuo” would have lots of contrasting colors, mainly pink and a few other colors. The pink part being the Cotten candy, while everything else swirled around to suffocate that pink. If you listen to the song (which I recommend that you do), there’s a lot of sounds, lots of noises that suffocates the melody, all you can hear is the descending tone as it feels like your falling deeper and deeper. Clashing musical notes and sounds could be illustrated with clashing colors, splatted colors, colors that should NOT be there. I would also create a swirling pattern to give off the feeling of falling! Perhaps even use a sponge or some Cotten to dab some pink everywhere, to give off that fluffiness of the Cotten candy!
In contrast, what would I illustrate for “Claire de Lune by Debussy”? The song is calm, melancholic, beautiful, elegant. The main color that I would pick would be a grayish blue, with hints of gold and silver to give off that elegancy. Maybe even add a more vibrant blue on top of that grayish blue? Oh the colors!
What I’m saying is that there’s a lot of ways that you could illustrate music. So much so that trying to type it into words seems chaotic! I can’t type it into words. Thankfully, a picture is worth a thousand, maybe I can show it to you that way.
I perceive music a bit differently from most people (absolute pitch, precisely played music comes in as the names of the notes, etc.). So I’m always hungry to compare notes with other people who do too - this is how I receive music notes when played in such a way; how about you? But most of the time it’s hard to find common ground. This is such a cool way for the artist to *show* people how she experiences music, and for us to share with her!
This Artist Experiences Sound As Colors And Paints What Music Looks Like
Melissa McCracken, a painter with synesthesia, explains what it’s like to see your favorite songs. [x]
“Karma Police” — Radiohead
“Little Wing” — Jimi Hendrix
“Gravity” — John Mayer
“Imagine” — John Lennon
“Joy in Repetition” — Prince
“Since I’ve Been Loving You” — Led Zeppelin
“Life On Mars?” — David Bowie
“Tonight, Tonight” — The Smashing Pumpkins
ok ok so i think i have some form of synesthesia, and when albums come out and the covers don't match the colors in my head i'm kinda like weirdly offended.
like for example: MANIA by fall out boy is definitely that shade of purple/violet, but so many songs on from under the cork tree tend to be more blue-ish/green for me instead of more greys or reds/yellows.
it's like the insistence that your math notebook is red, english blue, science green, except way stronger and for music which is kinda cool tbh.
also yes that's my color coding and i've used it since i've had control over what colors i could choose for my notebooks.
It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:
It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.
I have Synesthesia too! Synesthesia gang!
reputation and its colours + textures according to how I view them with my synesthesia
it's so orange today... 7th of October on a Monday.... two oranges and a slight orangey brown.... everything is perfectly balanced as it should be
I'm ill now
I have a high fever, hard af headache and sore throat
I've lost consciousness for a minute and fell on the floor
And my synesthesia is working hard, every turn on the bed is different colour or an objecte
Reddit user missalfred is an artist with ‘synesthesia’. She paints the colours and textures she sees when she listens to music.
I never thought of synesthesia as being useful per se, but I've recently realized it's great since I can't remember my PIN to save my life. Obviously I can't just write the numbers down and put them in my wallet, but yellow-purple-orange-light green means nothing to anybody else.
Just learnt about synesthesia
It's not normal to automatically pair colours, sounds, and / or words together??
I'm sorry but 3 is approximately #00CC00 (which is incidentally my favorite color)
FELLOW COLOR-SYMBOL SYNESTHESIACS!!! Here's my digit association:
0 is no color
1 is black #000000
2 is cobalt #0222b2
3 is vivid green #00cc00
4 is rust #642f00
5 is yellow #ffe500
6 is pale red #cf3636
7 is violet #4a0c77
8 is silver-gray #a8a8a8
9 is crimson #c90909
hey fam what colours do your numbers have 👁️
OoooooOh I'd love to answer this!!
0 is pitch black
1 is some pastel colour, like a light pink or teal
2 is like a light red to me
3 is DEFINITELY a yellow or lime green!
4 is blue and brown
5 is orange
6 is yellow
7 is a deep, bright red
8 is dark magenta and brown
9 is auburn
10 is a similar light reddish-pink as 1 and 2