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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
For those who I haven't already told, I am a sysnesthete. More specifically, I'm a grapheme - colour synesthete. This means that
I see letters in my head like this.
Well, not really. I is actually white in colour. And the entire word usually takes on the colour of the first letter, sometimes with the more brighter coloured letter sticking out. Some letters I'm not so sure of what colour it is, like L, N and Z. But most have a definite colour in my my head. I see numbers and chinese characters like this too, but since I deal with the english alphabet the most, it's the one I'm most familiar with.
I've had this for as long as I can remember. I think what formed it were the alphabet picture books that I used to read in kindy and nursery, though that wouldn't explain the chinese sysnesthesia either. I always thought it was common in people, till one day someone told me that some people see things in colour, which appeared strange to me. I thought everyone saw alphabets in their head in colour.
But I think it's cool, Feynman was a synesthete too lol. And I guess being a synesthete makes me feel a little special (or weird, which is still special).
To stop people from coming up to me and asking me, "so, what colour is A?" (the answer to which is red), the list below shows what colour corresponds to which letter (courtesy of synesthete.org).
To find out more about synesthesia or if you think you are a synesthete, you can visit,
http://www.synesthete.org/ for more information.
:)
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