Thread: Visual thinker task, can you do it!

doesn't it say mental images?


i looked up Daniel Tammet on wikipedia. oh my god i don't know why i haven't heard of him, he's fascinating. i have synethesia too and i'm really interested in it, but i just see a different colour for every letter and number. it's nothing like THAT.

In his mind, he says, each number up to 10,000 has its own unique shape and feel, that he can "see" results of calculations as landscapes...

seriously, that is awesome. i have to read his memior now.

Really? You're synethesia? Thats awesome =D Does it ever seem to get in the way? Well.. I guess you can't realy compare to what it would be like without it..


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Synaesthesiatest.jpg

^ will the 5s and 2s in there pop out with different colors?

Anyways, about him seeing "landscapes". when he thinks of numbers. Can you see landscapes normally? Perhaps if you could, you might be able to see them when you think of numbers. But I have no idea how it works so i don't really know =O

it doesn't get in the way, i didn't even know about it for a long time. (actually on the contrary i think it helps me remember some things). a friend of mine was talking about it in an IM conversation and i realized i "see" a different colour for every letter and number. i don't actually see it, i just know it. at first i thought i was the type that saw colours for music, because i noticed once that i saw a different colour for certain songs. that was when i listened to CDs in a CD player (oldschool, haha). but i figured out it was the track number and not the music.

as for the picture, the 5's are orange to me and the 2's are yellow, but i don't think i could point out the triangle any faster than a non-synesthete. i think it's more obvious to some people with it.

and i doubt i could ever see what Daniel Tammet sees. it wouldn't come to me naturally anyway. i just see a colour, that's all.

Originally Posted by paperdoll

doesn't it say mental images?


i looked up Daniel Tammet on wikipedia. oh my god i don't know why i haven't heard of him, he's fascinating. i have synethesia too and i'm really interested in it, but i just see a different colour for every letter and number. it's nothing like THAT.

seriously, that is awesome. i have to read his memior now.

Honestly this is why I first became interested in acid. I had studied synethesia and thought it extremely fascinating, especially if you could train your mind to use it in ways in which it became more than a disorder as psychologists describe it and more of a genetic improvement. I then heard that acid induced similar conditions to synethesia in your brain and it was my new favorite drug. Of course I have no way of knowing how similar it actually is.