Re: Synaesthesia

Weighing in... I'm never sure I actually *have* synaesthesia, since the
associations are so faint and usually don't show up unless I'm thinking
about them -

On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:20:29AM -0800, Joseph Fatula wrote:

> valien
white

> megraur
some kind of gray

> caelian
red

> seuthul
brown

> caret
red?

> urgom
gray

It's mostly affected by colors of individual letters.  The "ie" of valien
makes it white.  "Megraur" goes blue-white-magenta-green-yellow-brown-green,
so no wonder it's a muddy word :)  "Caelian" is a mystery, as it contains
no actual red.  "Seuthul" has two u's, which are brown.  "Caret" again
contains no red - strange.  But both it and "caelian" started with c, which
is pink.  "Urgom", I don't know, but in this case maybe it's more confusion
with English, as both "urgom" and "megraur" contained g and r, and came
across as gray to me (side note - I always want to spell it "grey" because
a is yellow and e is white) even though g is magenta and r green (when it's
not being purple).

As for months of the year, they start at the bottom of a circle with
January and proceed counter-clockwise.  July-August is at the top, rather
than just July, causing me to always think that August-December is six
months instead of five; spring must be more crowded than fall :)

This always annoys me when I see depictions of the Wheel of the Year in
neopagan books, because they always start at the top and go clockwise.
When I was growing up, I rationalized the counterclockwiseness as meaning
that I was *inside* the clockface of the seasons, looking out.

Amanda

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