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Thursday, December 17, 2009

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You might be a synaesthetic if...

Do you have synaesthesia? Go look at these tests and find out!

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mathnet
mathnet (#27)

Is it possible to have synaesthesia and color-blindness?

HiredGoons
HiredGoons (#603)

My roommate in college used to have synaesthesia, though it was only really pronounced when she was agitated or stoned.

When ambulances would go by she would sometimes have to cover her eyes and ears.

Also the sort of person who could get away with wearing sunglasses at night and not looking like a douche.

She was fucking amazing at making music though, still is.

HiredGoons
HiredGoons (#603)

I don't know why I said 'used to have' ?

oudemia
oudemia (#177)

Alas, the person I knew in college who "had" synaesthesia* was a flaky hippie who was almost certainly full of shit.

*Ae? Really? Is this the the NYer now?

HiredGoons
HiredGoons (#603)

If they start using umlauts over doubled-letters I'm clicking close-tab.

Baboleen
Baboleen (#1,430)

Synaesthesia has other forms as well. I know this will sound weird, but, in the past I had had some neuropathy in my leg that I could best describe to the doctor as feeling the way a sitar sounds.

gumplr
gumplr (#66)

Yup. Weird stuff. I associate digits and colors based on a phone's keypad. 1/4/7 is black/green/brown. 2/5/8 is blue/red/purple(periwinkle). 3/6/9 is yellow/pink or white skin/orange, and 0 is white.

What's weird, though, is that I associate each of those three sets with a different Where's Waldo? page, and I couldn't tell you why.

metoometoo
metoometoo (#230)

In order to learn basic math, I had to invent genders and personalities for numbers 1-10, as well as relationships between the numbers that served as complex mnemonic devices. Does that count?

gumplr
gumplr (#66)

The sauciest being...?

metoometoo
metoometoo (#230)

Well, this was kindergarten and first grade we're talking about, but I remember that 6 had a crush on 7, but 5 was always following her around and 7 was afraid that hanging out with such babies would make him look uncool to his bff, 8. And all 8 cared about was impressing 9, who, naturally, wanted to get with 10.

genevieveyorke

oh, let me guess! and 7 ate 9?

metoometoo
metoometoo (#230)

Thanks to my dad, I was already sick of puns by kindergarten. So, no.

iplaudius
iplaudius (#1,066)

This is not a helpful test for synesthesia the relates color to music.

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