synasthesia envy: green, bitter, nonoganal | 12:41 pm | 18 July 2005
Synasthesia in Art at the Smithsonian. That looks so fun.
If I’m lying in bed, half-asleep (or even a quarter-asleep), a loud noise will register in my vision as a flash of white light. Maybe I can pay more attention and learn this?
OK, I’ve just spent five minutes, with my eyes open but my ears really open, and all I have to say is that this quiet office is entirely too loud. Really, do the lights have to buzz quite so loudly? I don’t even like the light they put out, and now they’re screaming at me like in that Clockwatchers movie. Ugh.
March 8th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I have experimented things like that. For example, when I listen to music I will visualize things, maybe a shape dancing… It seemed a very natural thing for me(but maybe that’s coz of the Windows Media Player XD) but I think the point is that although any of us can assign a color to a number it wouldn’t last, it won’t be something we can help in the same way that hearing or seeing is. And that is what synasthesia as a neurological condition implies. That said, I’m jealous too!