CHAT: Synesthesia

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>> >> Numbers and letters evoking colors    69%
>> >
>> >*WOW*.  I always thought it was a bit weird, but I do this, and never
>> >realised it was a widespread thing.  I see some words but *especially*
>> >numbers as colours.  Or rather, shades of grey.  I had no idea other
>> >people did too!
>>
>> Hola, Don,
>>
>> It looks like you're in good company here on Conlang. Since I posted,
>> three people on the list have mentioned that they have some synesthetic
>> sensibilites; I just checked the article I quoted from the Dec.
>> Discover magazine and the occurrence is thought to be one in 2000 in the
>> general population.
>Make that four people on the list - I definitely have synesthetic
>sensibilities - each number has a definite color, and each letter as
>well.  Different mathematic operations have certain pictures in my head,
>for example, multiplication is drawing a diagonal line; I view a year
>(or a month, week, etc) as a sort of loop...Lots of things have their
>own pictures.  And speaking of another really strange quirky thing:  I
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>Nicole
I'm a bit confused about what synesthesia is exactly.  All words conjour up=
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colors in my head and I see things like Nicole describes. For instance, the=
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alphabet looks rather like piano keys and August is sort of a muted yellow.=
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But to me, that's quite different from having synesthesia and tasting color=
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etc. I guess I just assumed that everybody sees words as colors and differe=
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designs. Is that not true?