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Synesthesia

Started by Randy · 10 months ago

La Shawn has a very interesting post about a condition known as Synesthesia.  Basically synesthesia is the combination of two senses (more?) that are activated from one stimulus.  I saw a 20/20 piece on this years ago and found it very interesting because like La Shawn, I just th ... Continue reading »

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  • B.T.Carolus

    1 year ago

    That is interesting...I do some of those things, too. But I think the alphabet thing is indicative of something else, like that you're super visually oriented (which is a much more useful trait than synaesthesia [it may be because I originally came across the word in a book from Australia, but I believe it is spelled with the extra a]).

    Why do you know el alfabeto en espanol?
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  • Randy

    1 year ago

    I have seen it spelled both ways but you are probably right. One friend said that I probably learned it on flash cards as a wee child and those colors stuck in my head. That could be but...I don't remember flash cards and it's really hard to describe what I see in my head.

    I am not saying you are wrong either. I don't think I have anything anywhere near what some people are saying. Regardless, I am SUPER visual and I always think in pictures and abstractions.

    I studied Spanish in high school for two years and for some reason the alphabet just seemed fun to me.
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  • B.T.Carolus

    1 year ago

    Actually, maybe a more refined way of saying it is that you are really visually oriented and the synaesthesia and the ability to see the whole alphabet in your head are both results of it.

    I took Spanish too, but I had to stop because it turns out I need way different languages for my majors (like Mediaeval Latin [nobody spells it like that anymore except one of my professors, but I think maybe retaining a in things might be a fun idiosyncracy]and Anglo-Saxon). There isn't enough room for Spanish in my schedule if I want to graduate during this decade.
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  • Randy

    1 year ago

    You continue to have fun with that Mediaeval Latin. I wish I could join you but ... no. :) Get graduated and then take Spaenish (nobody ever spelled it like that).

    As I continue to think more about this, how much of Synesthesia is actually over active imagination? I don't think it really matters because this is a look into thinking about thinking and that's intriguing to me.

    ::: ponder :::
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  • B.T.Carolus

    1 year ago

    "Get graduated and then take Spaenish (nobody ever spelled it like that)."

    :) LOL

    You might be right about overly active imagination...but only some people seem to have such an imagination, so it is still special.
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  • Randy

    1 year ago

    "... it is still special."


    Absolutaely.
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  • B.T.Carolus

    1 year ago

    "Absolutaely."

    No, Randy, that is spelled Aebsolutely...At least that's how they spell it in Australia... ;) (Actually, if we still pronounced things the way they are pronounced in Anglo-Saxon, that would actually be how it was spelled/pronounced. Just a random fact from your freindly neighborhood Anglo-Saxon speaker.)

    Plus, the new editing feature is way cool...
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  • Susan Hundley (Via Facebook)

    1 year ago

    I found her post and the comments fascinating. I've forwarded her post on to friends and family and have found that some have synesethia. Very, very interesting.
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  • Susan Hundley (Via Facebook)

    1 year ago

    'Synesthesia'
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  • Randy

    1 year ago

    cool about passing on the note. I can't ever spell it right either and I have seen two versions people claim to be true.
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