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Posted: 20-05-2003 21:39 Post subject:

Which one is the primary ("real"), and which the secondary ("syn")?

Give us a few examples of what you mean, too.

Posted: 20-05-2003 21:47 Post subject:

When I see things in real life, I smell things. Not always though, which makes me suspect it isn't synaesthesia. Also, it's always smells relating to the sight, which also suggests something else.

Posted: 20-05-2003 22:02 Post subject:

Posted: 20-05-2003 22:06 Post subject:

Not really, but then colours and smells are such different senses. When I say the smells are related to the sight, i mean I see a person in nurse's uniform and I smell hospitals, or I see a picture of Elvis and I smell peanut butter.

Posted: 20-05-2003 22:08 Post subject:

Posted: 20-05-2003 22:14 Post subject:

That's what I suspected. I do have an incredibly powerful sense of smell, and I've only "hallucinated" smells since having M.E. (one of the little known symptoms I suspect, never met another ME person with this one).

Posted: 20-09-2004 01:40 Post subject: synesthaesia

It was only quite recently that I realised that this 'ability' was an actual documented fact and that my sister and I weren't the only people in the world to experience it!

What no one has mentioned on this thread is 'texture' - also an important element in identifying with days of the week, months of the year, numbers, letters of the alphabet, people's names, random words....etc...etc....!

So...Monday is a dark greeny-blue and it's ...knitted (or possibly woven like a heavy tweed)

Tuesday is cool and shiny and a pale turquoise and silver colour.

Wednesday is red, outlined in brassy gold and is 'wavy' like a flag.

Thursday is dark forest green and has the texture of felt.

Friday is light brown and is like an unvarnished, grained wood and is very 'light' in weight....

Saturday is beige and has a very faint overlay of something like small newsprint.

Sunday is navy blue velvet and a sort of silver satinised fabric and there is folds and folds of it ....all bunched and flowing.....!

Someone on the thread mentioned earlier that it is surprising that we don't all have the same descriptions of these things. It's not really - my sister has totally different colours for everything than I do, and of course these are all entirely personal because they are somehow being created by our own subconsciouses (is that a proper word??)

Posted: 20-09-2004 08:49 Post subject:

Wednesday always feels like a green day to me, starting at a very dark green in the morning, changing to a brighter green after 12pm, then after 5pm a spanking spangley fluorescent green Smile

Posted: 20-09-2004 13:48 Post subject:

Green.

Posted: 20-09-2004 16:13 Post subject:

i considered the "colour" of each day of the week a long time ago, when i was in school. i decided wednesday was green. then i was rather disappointed when i realised that my day-colours did basically correspond to the radio times (which my parents bought), hahaha.

it would be interesting to do a survey that compared what tv guide people bought and what colours they feel that days have. that's quite interesting in itself, that people might subconsciously associate the colour from the tv guide with the day of the week.

Posted: 20-09-2004 22:09 Post subject:

Wednesday has always been "green" for me, since I was a small boy. Saturday was Red, Monday blue, Friday yellow... I used to have colours for the whole week, but don't recall them now.

Posted: 21-09-2004 00:49 Post subject: colours of words...

.....and what about general words - does anyone else have colours for them too?

What about the names of the colours - it's crazy I know but mine go like this'-

Red - Shiny gold!
Blue - white and silver 'fuzzy' texture
Green - white 'crisp linen' texture
yellow - black and white
Purple - silver gray 'misty'
orange - brown and beige-ish
Pink - er...pink actually!!!

Posted: 21-09-2004 01:25 Post subject:

Posted: 21-09-2004 04:12 Post subject:

Orange, for sure. And Friday is Green.

Posted: 21-09-2004 15:50 Post subject:

I have always visualised words and numbers as being *coloured* as far as I can remember back to Nursery School.

Like the number 4 is definitely red whereas 6 is brown, 7 is purple. 1 to 10 all have different colours associated to them yet when I get to double figures they then are all the same tone. 20-29 are orange, 30-39 are green etc..

eg. *Because* is also orange to me. *Mirror* is grey and *Nice* is purple.

I just presumed everybody thought like this although I tend to think that I may have got this colour association from watching too much Sesame Street as a kid.

Where each number and letter of the day would be flashed on the screen throughout the programme in primary colours.

Oh I also visualise Wednesday as green too.