Synesthesia.

**Bonsay** · 12-18-2008 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by marcc

Also, dreaming in black and white removes you from the synesthete list pretty much instantaneously.

Why is that?

**Howie** · 12-18-2008 11:19 PM

Is red really red?

I wish I had it!

**marcc** · 12-19-2008 07:04 AM

Originally Posted by Bonsay

Why is that?

There was an experiment to find out whether synesthetes dream in black and white. None of them said yes to this, and some people were shocked, really shocked, to find out about this. I, in fact, was one of those people. I mean, dreaming in black and white seems like losing part of the dream to me!

**Bonsay** · 12-19-2008 04:05 PM

So if you see letters in colour and if I convince you that some squiggly lines are a K, then it should become coloured?

**Patrick** · 12-19-2008 05:24 PM

Numbers are strongly linked with colours for me, and some letters.

**Shift** · 12-19-2008 07:53 PM

*raises hand*

I've got the kind where things have a location, 'spatial-sequence' (aka Number-Form? It's really got nothing to do with numbers though...). Like, music has a location, depending on the loudness and its pitch, and days of the week, and years, and months all have positions in relation to my body. I just thought it was a weird quirk I'd made up until I learned that it's pretty typical for people to come up with the exact same arrangements or not to come up with them at all

Very strange.

**marcc** · 12-20-2008 01:35 AM

Originally Posted by Shift

*raises hand*

I've got the kind where things have a location, 'spatial-sequence' (aka Number-Form? It's really got nothing to do with numbers though...). Like, music has a location, depending on the loudness and its pitch, and days of the week, and years, and months all have positions in relation to my body. I just thought it was a weird quirk I'd made up until I learned that it's pretty typical for people to come up with the exact same arrangements or not to come up with them at all

Very strange.

Makes for a great science fair project

I think I'm one of the few (elitists ftw

) people at my school doing anything related to psychology.