Comments on: “Seeing” Sounds and “Hearing” Food: The Science of Synesthesia

By: texaz

texaz — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:09:26 +0000

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By: Grace Komasaka

Grace Komasaka — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:34:53 +0000

I have synesthesia with food/word relationships. As a child, I thought all people experienced language with taste. At age 32 learning Japanese, I realized that the connections were not being made with the new language (unless a Japanese word sounds similar to an English word). Also as I get older (52 now) a new thing started happening: sometimes the related word comes into my head when I’m eating (cottage cheese … “spelling, spelling, spelling”). Have changes in synesthesiac’s experience been noted anywhere?

By: red

red — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:33:31 +0000

Too bad we cannot do this by choice! It would help learning and retention of information.

By: Paul Lamb

Paul Lamb — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:58:50 +0000

Except that A’s are really green and so are E’s. So is S. But O is white, P is blue, D is brown, and so on. I can often see the shapes of sounds, especially when I am listening to symphonic music. Someone put forward the idea that synasthetes invented metaphor.

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:12:28 +0000

Letters have their own colours for me. Doesn’t matter if it’s black script on white or vice versa: ‘a’s are yellow, ‘e’s are blue, ’s’s are leaf green… It’s handy when reading: each word has its own colour-scheme, so I can kinda gloss over the individual letters.

By: Jumblepudding

Jumblepudding — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:02:00 +0000

Hmm. I don’t know if connecting personalities to numbers counts, I think that comes from Sesame Street. For me, 1 was a playful kid , 2 was a beautiful maiden, 3 was kind of an overeating jerk, 4 was a gallant idealist who wanted to marry 2, and 5 was 2’s domineering father. (notice the family resemblance)six was 5’s wife, 7 was a solitary beatnik poet, and so on it goes up to 100, who was a superhero.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:52:08 +0000

My wife is a synesthete. She was so excited to learn that other people experienced similar relationships. Someone wrote a book about it a few years ago that brought her attention to the condition. Her experience is expressed with numbers and colors having genders ages and love relationships. “9″ is the wife of a 44 year old dominate “Red.”

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:20:05 +0000

Sounds like a very interesting experience. I remember watching something on the Discovery Channel about this awhile back and I believe there was some research on how this condition affects their memory. It was shown, though I’m not sure how controlled the research was, that those with synesthesia had a higher than average recollection of events. Certainly not to absolute genius levels, but enough to make an impact upon the data.

By: opossum

opossum — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:42:48 +0000

When I hear Ozric Tentacles, I see colors and shapes.