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Visualizing numbers in colors and shapes
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Cooky
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...He speaks about the "intuitive" nature of an Icelandic word. Has anyone here ever breezed through a thread and then use a specific, rare word, and then you go to another thread, of a similar topic, and see that someone else has used that exact word from their imagination in a similar thought.
Let's explore this if we can.
Let's explore this if we can.
I have this. Numbers are all coloured for me, as are centuries, and the centuries follow the same colour scheme as the regular numbers. So for instance, '3' is always red to me, as is the year '1300'; '5' is always dark green, as is the year '1500' etc. It's not something I even noticed really until someone brought it up.
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Cooky
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Fascinating..!
Cooky
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Would you agree that synesthesia is a special kind of "sense" that others don't have?
...Like a real-life X-man.
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Onoma
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We use these concepts with things like " stoplight " color coding where a color is associated with a magnitude, I've personally done this with tables of data
I think that due to brain plasticity, anyone can train themselves to use similar concepts to the experiences of someone with synesthesia
I think that due to brain plasticity, anyone can train themselves to use similar concepts to the experiences of someone with synesthesia
It's not a sense because the numbers don't have colors.
Note that different synesthetes will have different associations.
It's an association made in their brain....a cross wiring of sorts.
It's not a sense because it's not like vision, smell etc. It's a scramble in the brain that causes objects to appear to have colors they don't really have.
Cooky
Veteran Member
But also being a Savant, makes his abilities doubly impressive.
I think being a savant, and having an "island" of extraordinary abilities can be a kind of sense.
Me too, although all the associations are different.
Letters also.
2 is a warm yellow, like Y. 1 is white, 2(and the 20s, tinged by the other number) are yellow. 3 is black, 4 is a greener yellow....
Similarly, A is yellow. B is blue. C is red. O is an oddity, sort of colorless. More like an outline than a color. U is a weird purplish pink.
I too didn't realize that everyone didn't see words and do basic arithmetic by remembering the color patterns until I was at least a teenager.
Tom
Everything you perceive is an abstraction assembled in your mind from essentially identical neuronal impulses. Nothing is as you perceive it. It's all an illusion.
What's really remarkable isn't that the brain sometimes fails to keeps things sorted, but the fact that most of the time it's able to accomplish this sorting at all, and that people generally perceive roughly the same collective hallucination.
Consciousness: How Can I Experience Things That Aren’t ‘Real’?
Is Consciousness an Illusion?
What's really remarkable isn't that the brain sometimes fails to keeps things sorted, but the fact that most of the time it's able to accomplish this sorting at all, and that people generally perceive roughly the same collective hallucination.
Consciousness: How Can I Experience Things That Aren’t ‘Real’?
Is Consciousness an Illusion?