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ljosberinn 12-27-2010 06:53 PM



Err.. I'm not sure I get what you mean entirely there. It's what I visualize when I think of the numbers and letters, or listen to the music, if that answers your question. I don't know what you mean by seeing them with my eyes..



Kah Hilzin-Ec 12-27-2010 07:39 PM

Ohh you visualize them? So, is a red and e yellow? And what would be the most colourful music? :eager:

And it's not that I don't mix them, it's that they must be uniform. Like, when I take a bite, either it's part of only one group, or it's a bit of each group (yep, I can fit rice, salad and a piece of meat in the same fork :cool:) and if I mix food, like when a group just cannot stay in it's assigned place like minestrome or meats served with sauce, I make it sure it is an uniform mix (I always mix minestrome with the rice before eating :ninja:)

I could eat more messy, but I prefer the food to be that separated. I don't know, I guess I get an unconscious feeling I'd taste every ingredient in it's purer form that way, instead of having every flavour mixed and/or lost.

Or maybe I just get the urge to play with the food, lol.

And milk with garlic isn't eww! I thought so too at first, but then I tried and... it wasn't that bad. It was more of a strange taste than an bad one :drool:

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AND THE EXAM WAS HORRIBLE. Half I did and half I guessed. Let's hope I had luck with guessing... :sweat:

ljosberinn 12-27-2010 07:55 PM



They're not always the same colours, especially not letters. A few numbers are more fixed, for example 14 is almost always dark blue, 13 is usually dark green and 18 is usually yellowy orange. There are textures as well, which are a bit more difficult to describe and are often connected to the way they are written - round numbers like 0 and 2 are horribly smooth and boring while 5 and 9 are more jagged and edgy. I dunno about the most colourful music.. maybe classical orchestra pieces, because they have so many instruments and they're very.. descriptive in a way, since the music is supposed to tell a story. :P

Hehe fair enough. I like mixing things together to make new flavours, eating one group at a time is too boring for me.

Oh noes! Well, sometimes you can get lucky with guesswork, let's hope that was the case this time. *hugs*



sarofset 12-27-2010 10:42 PM

Dude I think I have the same thing. I always give numbers and letters a color in my head, And music plays little movies. I thought that was just me. lol.

ljosberinn 12-27-2010 11:03 PM



I dunno, synaesthesia is not actually that uncommon, but I also think a lot of people do it to some extent anyway. It's just how we visualize things like letters in our head, I think most people will associate it with colours to some extent.. that is however done more to make sense of the letters or distinguish them I think, while synaesthesia is actually a neurological condition. I'm not saying you don't have it, mind, just that I think most people do it up to a point anyway. Apparently as many as 1 in every 23 has it though.
It's pretty great anyway, I'm trying to train my mind to use it to help me paint.. I've not used colours in my art for such a long time and now I want to see if I can use this perception to better realise what colours go together etc. I've always been very picky with colours in my photography too.
If you want to read more about it, here is the wiki page, it's pretty thorough. I also have the thing where I see time in a very specific way, a sort of snake, which helps me in remember what year something happened, as I can remember which "side" it happened on.. it's difficult to explain with words, maybe I'll draw it someday. :P



sarofset 12-27-2010 11:10 PM

In my case time is a set of concentric circles sort of. The year is the biggest, and it rolls along on a kind of train, which is my whole life. inside the year is one for the month, and the day is basically a clock in my head. I'm obsessed with what time it is, and have like three calenders. XD it's weird.

ljosberinn 12-28-2010 12:50 AM



Hehe awesome, it's fun to hear how other people visualize it. The years for me are sort of like a snake going a kind of zig-zag, taking a sharp bend around new years. I can see it going on and on, but usually I see it as one year being on one side of the turn and the other on the other side, so I'm always looking at two years at a time. It's the same kind of process for the weeks, except smaller, though the months are just a straight line inside the year. For example, this year is on the lower / right side, and this week is on the upper / left side. I dunno if it makes any sense when I say it like this though..



Kah Hilzin-Ec 12-28-2010 06:47 AM

My mind is cursed to be chronogically and geographically lost forever. Srsly. I have trouble, greeeeat trouble trying to remember what year something happened, or things like what I had for dinner last night. And I cannot walk the street alone because my mind is too straight to bend around the corners :sweat: In fact, I was walking with a teacher to find some coffee place, and he guided me along 6 blocks, and as we saw the coffee shop being cleaned and getting ready to open an hour after, I said "We're like 8 blocks away from school?" and he said "Uhh, actually, we walked an U and we're just 2 blocks away" 8D;;

Imagine the trouble I have studying two-aspect tables. I have to transform it into one line, and make use of my kinetic memory. Like, the atomic codes of mineral acids of the 3rd family, I had to play it with my fingers, and it became this:
111-112-113-114-423-425-427-429-312-313-314-315 (not the best of songs, but then again it's chemistry, lol).

Sooo... yep. Lots of struggle with trigonometry and geometry.

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Ohh I imagine stories following the music too :eager: Sometimes instrumentation will tell something slightly different though, so it tends to confuse me... :drool:

sarofset 12-28-2010 06:56 AM

lol. We have strange brains. :) It's kinda awesome that way though. Normal is so boring.

The_Crow 12-28-2010 09:28 AM

Yeah, 'crazy' people are much more fun indeed. All of my friends are 'crazy' to a degree, and I get multiple flavours of alternative, counter-culture, kink-friendly, and mentally diagnosed up the wazoo among my friends.

I think I unnerve/scare the mundanes a bit too much.

sarofset 12-28-2010 07:02 PM

Normal people don't usually like me. I'm odd, and opinionated. It makes them worry. lol. :)

Kah Hilzin-Ec 12-29-2010 05:22 AM

Today I noticed I couldn't write after I had a laugh with my school mates. Well, it's something I usually do not pay attention to, but it's kinda annoying, not being able to hold the pencil after laughing out loud. And it only happens with the hand I write with. Meh. Luckily the strange feeling goes away after a couple of minutes.

Maybe I should tell my parents or something... who knows what might be happening there :ninja:

The_Crow 12-29-2010 05:31 AM

Laughter is supposedly one of the best medicines in the world; it is strange that it would actually cause you a problem with your motor skills.

sarofset 12-29-2010 06:03 AM

It does for a lot of people though. It makes your muscles relax, which can be a problem if you're trying to do something with them. I would still tell your doctor though. could be something weird. You never know.

Kah Hilzin-Ec 12-29-2010 04:50 PM

Haha, maybe, it's like, I'm holding the pencil and the pencil is on the notebook, but I can't move it, and if I try hard (before the couple of minutes pass) it starts trembling 8D;; It wouldn't be such a problem if I didn't have very funny classmates :sweat:

sarofset 12-29-2010 09:42 PM

There are certain neurological disorders which cause paralysis, when one feels intense emotion. This could be something like that.

Kah Hilzin-Ec 12-30-2010 02:45 AM

Really? Such a strange world, hehe, and we such strange earthlings :P

sarofset 01-01-2011 06:18 PM

The term Earthling is somewhat derogatory. I prefer Taran. Tara being earth. It sounds more dignified. :)

Kah Hilzin-Ec 01-02-2011 02:44 AM

Tara? What language? :drool:

The_Crow 01-02-2011 05:31 AM

I was going to to say that Earthling was somewhat... unfitting as well, as I feel that we are from a higher plane and are just down here for a limited amount of time before we return... but that's from a more spiritual point of view.

sarofset 01-02-2011 05:39 AM

That would actually fit with several theological standpoints including my own. We are told we are in this world but not of it. In my opinion life is like traveling through a sewer in a glass bottomed boat. I'm inn this crap, but I'm clearly above it. lol. :)

Kah Hilzin-Ec 01-02-2011 06:19 AM

Lol, nice analogy, sarofset :XD Clearly gets the point through~

sarofset 01-03-2011 01:02 AM

Indeed. Hence I use it a lot.

My lady is having family troubles right now, and it's got this pit of worry going in my stomach. Her brother is being an ass, and the mother is being all depressed about it, and neither of the parents want to do what they really need to to help him. Ugh!! And the mother hit the brother today, which is making things even worse.

Kah Hilzin-Ec 01-03-2011 02:35 AM

Wow, that sucks :| Sometimes I think parents these days don't know how to be parents anymore...

The_Crow 01-03-2011 06:09 AM

I believe the skill of proper parenting is something on the way to extinction. Hell, how many of us have been through at least one divorce? Those kinds of things turn what is supposed to be 'stable' (the idea of 'home' and 'a family') into a big chaotic mess that leads to all sorts of feelings of invalidation and whatnot.

No wonder I get irked at things as petty as gender stereotypes when, as a young child my father left my mother (and myself) promising he would 'lie cheat and steal' to come back to us. Recently my father jumped in front of a high speed commuter rail, attempting to leave this world (and me) in suicide. That's unrattling me all around.

If people have petty things to say about the way I dress, act, or the things I choose to do... it just boggles my mind.


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