Re: Vowelspace vs. Colorspace

> >And now for something completely different:
>Wow, you're a synaesthete! I'm not one myself, but it's always struck me as
>a very interesting and magical way of seeing the world (on Huna, all
>wizards are syaesthetes). A while ago I did an evening class on history of
>art, and wrote an essay about Wassily Kandinsky, the synaesthetic abstract
>artist who saw his paintings as musical compositions. Have you been able to
>make use of your experiences in conlanging?
>
>Pete
I'm only very mildly synesthetic; I don't really "see" sounds. I just form
an association, as if eg. [i] and the color white shared some property X
(whose exact nature is of course not possible to convey by words). And I
need to think of it specifically, it doesn't (usually) come instantly. So I
haven't really been able to use it to my advantage. It does add extra color
to life, tho ;D

But like I mentioned, a highschool friend of mine was more heavily
synesthetic; he could name the color of almost anything instantly. I never
figured out if he actually saw something, too. And he was not limited to
connecting auditive and visual signals; he could also connect people and
colors, colors and shapes, shapes and odors, etc.

John Vertical