The Shrine

So today I was watching 60 minutes. First was this thing about this American deserter during the Korean war who now lives in North Korea. Guy is pretty much a douche bag a little and a bit of a nut case. But next, the most intriguing segment I've seen in years. It was a about a British Savvant who memorized 20,000 decimal places in Pi and recited them at Oxford. Took him 5 hours. He also was able to learn Icelantic in 7 days. The crazy thing is during the report they were talking about how he sees numbers and how each number has a color to it. Something clicked in my head at that moment and whenever I was learning numbers in a foreign language I don't know why but my head always wanted to associate a color with a specific group of numbers. That's when I heard the name of the affliction or attribute or whatever you want to call it. I believe I may have Synesthesia. It's just remarkable to finally know that what I've been doing for almost as long as I can remember, putting color to music, associating color to periods of time, days, months, certain dates even. I guess it makes me think I'm not the only one who's seeing the same thing when I close my eyes and count to 30. Synesthesia.

So why do I love the Wiki? Cause it explained it and linked a couple of other things I tend to do like Lucid Dreaming. I partook in that just this morning a little bit and it also happened earlier last week.

The crazy thing is, I don't believe anyone else in my family has this, or if they did, they don't talk about it.

have you seen Waking Life?

it has some interesting opinions about dreams and other things existential.

Do you do more than just associate a color to numbers? One of the amazing things about that guy - I've heard about him elsewhere, in a show on savants - is that he's able to do complex arithmetic by manipulating the colors and shapes in his head, and then "read" the numbers off what he sees.

Kupek wrote:Do you do more than just associate a color to numbers? One of the amazing things about that guy - I've heard about him elsewhere, in a show on savants - is that he's able to do complex arithmetic by manipulating the colors and shapes in his head, and then "read" the numbers off what he sees.

No, I can't do that. Or atleast I don't know how to yet. The colors he sees in his head are more pronounced I think than what I see. Where each individual number has a color, a series of numbers will all have the same color to me, or they will fade to one. For instance I see 30 as yellow all the way to number 36. 37 to 40 are dark red with 40 actually being close to brown or black.

Man, that's really weird. I think everybody sees numbers and words in different ways, but I'd never heard of color association before.