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by vortexforgot
1386 days ago
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I do have synesthesia, and this is quite interesting to see. One thing to note is that (at least for me) the colors are very specific. It isn't just "red", it's a specific shade of red that I can pick from a color picker with relatively little error. Sometimes there are gradients involved. So looking at the graphs, none of them actually jump out to me as the "correct" color. |
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Many of the lower digits for me are shades of red, but are kind of comparative.
2 is red. 9 is a dark red. 5 is a lighter red in comparison to 9.
A lot of the higher numbers just kind of turn to black/I separate by digits. And all of the digits can still be black, the colors I associate just kind of get overlayed.
Some, like 6, are kind of confusing. It’s dark purple, but most shades of purple don’t feel right.
Some, like 1, is black or blue. Its definitely black when a digit of a higher number. It’s blue when I think of ordinals/first place.
3 is definitely yellow as a digit, pretty much always, but it gets dirtier sometimes. It can also be red/redish.
4 is like a dark aqua blue I associate heavily with water, but it can also be green, like when I think of the letter D, which I associate because they have the same order.
Would be interested to hear if you also have any associations that are “fuzzy” or context dependent like this. My associations in a given context are very very consistent/have had these same associations as long as I can remember, and I imagine the digits being colored in the way I described, but I’m also not sure if whatever I’m doing is really the same thing as people who actually experience the color quite vividly and automatically. I found a cool article a while back that talked about different subtypes, but I can’t remember if I’ve run across others describing this “fuzziness” aspect. It’s made me doubt whether I really have it, although it seems pretty definite that I do given the consistency with other explanations, but it also seems like it might be more kind of like a labelling/categorization thing for me than like a forced experience thing I hear some other people describe.
EDIT: missed that rendall describes something that sounds the same as the “fuzziness” thing I’m trying to articulate here -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32675007