Do you have Synaesthesia? (take the test)

[Kazimiera]

TAKE THE TEST: ARE YOU A SYNAESTHETE?
http://synesthete.org/

Synaesthesia is a condition where two or more unrelated senses merge. The reason why this happens is yet to be discovered although it has been determined that is runs in families and is an autosomal dominant trait.

Some scientists have described it as being a "disorder", but most people with it view it as a gift.

Non-synaesthetes often think that synaesthetes are crazy and abnormal because it sounds like such an absurd experience. If you don't have it, you cannot imagine having it.

Synaesthesia cannot be learnt or acquired. You either have it or you don't. As it is a neurological phenomenon, the brains of synesthetes (people who experience synaesthesia) are wired slightly differently to those who don't experience it.

The estimated numbers vary greatly from 1 in 20, to 1 in 200 or even one in a million.

Synaesthesia comes in a number of forms:

Graepheme - Colour: the person experiences letters and words as having different colours. Different people have different colours. "A" is often red, although not everyone experiences it like that.

Sound - Colour: the person experiences notes as having different colours. They can literally see music.

Number - Colour: the person experiences numbers as having colours. Sometimes the individual numbers (0-9) have colours, whereas some people see entire numbers as being a certain colour (like 87 is a shade of green). The colours are also very specific. The person knows the exact shades.

Personification: this is where numbers of letters of the alphabet have different personalities. eg: 3 is fitness freak and athlete in a yellow shirt.

Gustatory: the person experiences words, sounds or letters as "tasting" a certain way. Eg: 9 tastes like purple chocolate or "q" tastes like candle wax.

There are also two way of synaesthetic experiences, related specifically to the graepheme-colour and sound-colour varieties. The person may "see" the colour in their head, whereas some can literally see the colour in front of them. As if the words had different colours themselves.

As the person is born this way, they often think that other people experience this too and are quite surprised when they learn that others don't.

An example: Someone with grapheme-colour synaesthesia will recognise almost immediately that there is a triangle of 2's in this diagram because they can see the colours, whereas the 'normal' person will have to look longer and harder.

http://www.youramazingbrain.org/images/brainchanges/synesthesia.gif

The diagnostic criteria are as follows:


Synesthesia is involuntary and automatic. (It happens whether you want it or not. It cannot be willed or created, it comes on its own)


Synesthetic perceptions are spatially extended, meaning they often have a sense of "location." For example, synesthetes speak of "looking at" or "going to" a particular place to attend to the experience.


Synesthetic percepts are consistent and generic (i.e., simple rather than pictorial). (Colours or tastes always remain the same)


Synesthesia is highly memorable.



Synesthesia is laden with affect. (There is emotion involved, if someone says that 5 is red and the person experiences it as being blue it evokes an uncomfortable response inside)


These perceptions occur in a normal state. Being on drugs can invoke similar experiences but disappear once the drugs wear off.

There was a book written by a man with synaesthesia. I cannot remember what his name was but the book is called "The man who tasted shapes".

MY OWN EXPERIENCES

I have graepheme-colour, number-colour synaesthesia, personification and also shapes.

I found out I was a synaesthete when I was 28. I tried to describe it to a number of people once and they all looked at me like I was nuts. On the
internet one night I typed "numbers have colours" and came up with a wealth of information. I never imagined that other people had it too.

I also struggled terribly at school with maths. I always thought I was stupid until I realised that the colours were confusing me. The more numbers, the more colours. An algebraic equation is like a kaleidoscope to me.

Certain people have shapes too. This is really hard to describe. My mom, for instance, is a three -dimensional maroon coloured square with black triangular spikes. My grandmother was rectangular and yellowish. I have an aversion to people who are orange diamond-shaped and avoid them like the plague. I know only two and that's enough. The name "Tobias" also has a orange rectangle shape.

My numbers are coloured as follows:

1 - white
2 - orange
3 - yellow
4 - green (Friday and April are the same shade, therefore Friday the 4th of April is a really good day)
5 - blue
6 - red
7 - turquoise
8 - a funny mustard colour
9- brown
0 - black

3624 = 3624


Some links to websites which discuss synaesthesia:
http://www.youramazingbrain.org/brainchanges/synesthesia.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
http://synaesthesia.fws1.com/main.html
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/2/21/144256/437

[Kazimiera]

I have discussed this topic with a number of people in the medical, especially psychiatric and neurological, fraternity from specialist doctors to neuropsychologists and occupational therapists. None of them had heard of this before.

This leads me to wonder how many synaesthetes are really out there who have been misdiagnosed as having some or other disorder when in fact there is nothing wrong with them.

[Comte Arnau]

I'm a synaesthete and I'm aware of it since I was like 18, but I didn't know it had a name until a few years ago.


I'm only a grapheme-colour type. What's more, only a consonant-colour one. Numbers and vowels are colourless to me.

This is more or less how I've seen them since childhood (the colours are approximate, from the possible ones in the palette):

B - C - D - F - G - H - J - K - L - M - N - P - Q - R - S - T - V - W - X - Y - Z

[Stefan]

This is very interesting. I think most people can taste things they smell, so I won't mention that.

I have a problem with tasting the texture of some things. This is even worse when I eat stuff with a texture I can taste before eating it specifically, because it confuses me I'd say. I can't eat ground meat, flat noodles, etc or I'll throw up, unless it's cooked a certain way - which I can't really describe too well. I visualize sounds as well, although it is something more vague, like an alternating line or wave. Certain sounds also have colors too. I don't physically see them though, so I suppose that doesn't really count. It is more like a day-dream, or model in my mind type of thing.

Numbers have personalities to me, but this is more associated with the shape of the letter and imaginative stories I made up when I was little.

[member]

Amazing! But I don't think that I have Synaesthesia... :ohwell:

[Kazimiera]

I'm a synaesthete and I'm aware of it since I was like 18, but I didn't know it had a name until a few years ago.


I'm only a grapheme-colour type. What's more, only a consonant-colour one. Numbers and vowels are colourless to me.

This is more or less how I've seen them since childhood (the colours are approximate, from the possible ones in the palette):

B - C - D - F - G - H - J - K - L - M - N - P - Q - R - S - T - V - W - X - Y - Z


It's strange that you don't have vowels. Some people have only vowels coloured.


This is very interesting. I think most people can taste things they smell, so I won't mention that.

I have a problem with tasting the texture of some things. This is even worse when I eat stuff with a texture I can taste before eating it specifically, because it confuses me I'd say. I can't eat ground meat, flat noodles, etc or I'll throw up, unless it's cooked a certain way - which I can't really describe too well. I visualize sounds as well, although it is something more vague, like an alternating line or wave. Certain sounds also have colors too. I don't physically see them though, so I suppose that doesn't really count. It is more like a day-dream, or model in my mind type of thing.

Numbers have personalities to me, but this is more associated with the shape of the letter and imaginative stories I made up when I was little.

Smell and taste are connected so they don't count.

The food textures is autistic-specific.

You don't need to see the colours in front of you. Some people see them physically whereas others "see" them in the mind's eye. I see mine in the mind's eye.

If certain sounds have colours then it is DEFINITELY a synaesthetic experience.

[Comte Arnau]

I don't see any real use for it, other than remembering names of people in a vague way, thanks to these colours. For instance, I remember being introduced to someone called Susan only once, and seeing her again many years later, I could remember what her name was because I pictured in my mind a big red stain, so I figured out the name to have two s's. Other than for this type of things, it's pretty useless, so I don't know why it actually exists.

[Kazimiera]

I don't see any real use for it, other than remembering names of people in a vague way, thanks to these colours. For instance, I remember being introduced to someone called Susan only once, and seeing her again many years later, I could remember what her name was because I pictured in my mind a big red stain, so I figured out the name to have two s's. Other than for this type of things, it's pretty useless, so I don't know why it actually exists.

I remember telephone numbers that way and also names. It's just that some people's brains are wired differently than others. It isn't there for a specific reason or use.

Some theorists speculate that at birth all babies are synaesthetic, and that they experience the world though "one large sense". As they get older, the senses split from each other and become separate. The theory is that in synaesthetes they did not separate completely, which is why we still have some of these connections that other people don't.

[Stefan]

Why exactly would only vowels or consonants be colored? Is there a neurological difference in how we process the two different groups, linguistically? That is quite amazing. How does one see Semivowels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semivowel)?



Smell and taste are connected so they don't count.

The food textures is autistic-specific.

I figured. A lot of autistics and aspies have problems with textures far greater than mine. Certain materials hurt them for example. I only have that touch/taste issue, and now that I think about it, I connect sound and texture together as well, but that is fundamental with how vibrations work. Often I feel a sound more than I hear it though.



If certain sounds have colours then it is DEFINITELY a synaesthetic experience.

Yeah it's based on pitch mostly. Higher sounds have lighter colors, and lower sounds have darker colors. Multiple sounds that harmonize with each-other can add together, while those that contradict and compete with each-other subtract or overshadow. Never do they blend though, as one would think.



I wonder if there are any animals that utilize these skills though. It could be very useful in certain survival situations.

[Comte Arnau]

It's strange that you don't have vowels. Some people have only vowels coloured.

I know. The only person I know IRL who's also got it only sees coloured vowels.

I don't know why I rule vowels out. I never bothered to think about why, but it's just this way. I see them all black.


You don't need to see the colours in front of you. Some people see them physically whereas others "see" them in the mind's eye. I see mine in the mind's eye.

Yep. To me it's like a vague stain in my mind. I don't see them while reading, only when words are singled out for some reason.


I remember telephone numbers that way and also names. It's just that some people's brains are wired differently than others. It isn't there for a specific reason or use.

I wish it was numbers with me too. At least there'd be a practical use for it. :D

I read some famous musicians had it and associated notes with colours.


Some theorists speculate that at birth all babies are synaesthetic, and that they experience the world though "one large sense". As they get older, the senses split from each other and become separate. The theory is that in synaesthetes they did not separate completely, which is why we still have some of these connections that other people don't.

Very interesting theory, because I've always thought it was like some sort of child trauma. :p People say I taught myself to read, and I had always wondered if the cause was in one of those children books with coloured initial letters.

[Kazimiera]

Why exactly would only vowels or consonants be colored? Is there a neurological difference in how we process the two different groups, linguistically? That is quite amazing. How does one see Semivowels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semivowel)?

I figured. A lot of autistics and aspies have problems with textures far greater than mine. Certain materials hurt them for example. I only have that touch/taste issue, and now that I think about it, I connect sound and texture together as well, but that is fundamental with how vibrations work. Often I feel a sound more than I hear it though.

Yeah it's based on pitch mostly. Higher sounds have lighter colors, and lower sounds have darker colors. Multiple sounds that harmonize with each-other can add together, while those that contradict and compete with each-other subtract or overshadow. Never do they blend though, as one would think.

I wonder if there are any animals that utilize these skills though. It could be very useful in certain survival situations.

I don't think that we process vowels and consonants separately. I do remember reading that some studies have been done regarding the vowel/consonant question. Just don't ask me to find the material.

In order to have graepheme-colour synaesthetia one needs to be able to write, I would assume. What about people who are illiterate? I wonder if synesthetes who can write cyrillic and roman have differing sets of colours, or if they merge according to sound or shape.

[Kazimiera]

I mentioned my synaesthesia to my mom the first time when I was 28, only to realise that she was one too. We had never spoken to each other about it.

We compared letters, numbers, months and days of the week and there is 70% correlation. If it is a genetic trait, I wonder if the specific sets also run along genetic lines because I have also read that children often have similar colours as their parents.

[Comte Arnau]

I wonder if synesthetes who can write cyrillic and roman have differing sets of colours, or if they merge according to sound or shape.

I can read Cyrillic and other non-Latin alphabets, but they were learned as a teenager. It does not work for me with those letters, so I guess it's something acquired in your early childhood or with your native alphabet.

[Stefan]

In order to have graepheme-colour synaesthetia one needs to be able to write, I would assume. What about people who are illiterate? I wonder if synesthetes who can write cyrillic and roman have differing sets of colours, or if they merge according to sound or shape.

One would also have to consider the effect of language on color as well. Certain languages haven't got words for certain colors, and in effect, these colors are perceived differently by the people. I watched a documentary of some tribe in Africa who could notice the difference of certain shades of colors we couldn't see, but also could not see certain shades of other colors as we see them. It was all very intriguing.

[Stefan]

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[Kazimiera]

Vladimir Nabokov isn't only known for Lolita but also being synesthetic (along with his wife and their son). He grew up in Russia and his synesthesia was in Cyrillic. Apparently when he learnt English it "transferred". What interests me though is how it transferred. Did the sounds of the letters have certain colours or was it the shape of similar letters on which the transfer happened.

[Kazimiera]

One would also have to consider the effect of language on color as well. Certain languages haven't got words for certain colors, and in effect, these colors are perceived differently by the people. I watched a documentary of some tribe in Africa who could notice the difference of certain shades of colors we couldn't see, but also could not see certain shades of other colors as we see them. It was all very intriguing.

I have read about this too, but unfortunately don't have the bandwidth in order to watch the video.

Because a language does not have a word for a particular colour, that does not mean the person cannot see it.

Interestingly, on a similar note, I read that children can only start recognising purple at the age of 5. Look at children's blocks. They are vivid colours, but purple is never one of them.

[Comte Arnau]

Also important for me is the 'power' of the initial capital letter, as its colour is for me the most important of all. And while I don't transfer this between alphabets, I do between languages written in Latin.

For instance, months of the year. The first month of the year is called Gener in my language, and so I picture it in a greyish white, quite suitable for winter. But when I turn into English, since it's called January, the whole word has an orangish tone, and the month looks warmer. This looks like absurd and crazy for non-synaesthetes, but it just happens automatically. :D

[Stefan]

I have read about this too, but unfortunately don't have the bandwidth in order to watch the video.

Because a language does not have a word for a particular colour, that does not mean the person cannot see it.


In the video there was a set of greens that all looked the same, but one of them was a slightly different shade. The Himba could pick out that green.

Then they had a set of greens, but one of them was blue. The Himba were unable to pick out the blue, because their word for the blue was the same as the word for the greens.

I think it has to do with how they categorize the continuous spectrum of colors into discrete entities expressed through words. We, in the west, categorize it differently and we have a wider range of discrete words for such categorizations.

Here is the diagram.

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ring1.jpg

[Comte Arnau]

In the video there were a set of greens that all looked the same, but one of them was a slightly different shade. The Himba could pick out that green.

Then they had a set of greens, but one of them was blue. The Himba were unable to pick out the blue, because their word for the blue was the same as the word for the greens.

I think it has to do with how they categorize the continuous spectrum of colors into discrete entities expressed through words. We, in the west, categorize it differently and we have a wider range of discrete words for such categorizations.

There are many languages in the world in which they have the same general word for both blue and green.

Just like there are languages in which they see light blue and deep blue as different colours and have different words for them. And it will look weird for those people that English speakers call both of them blue.

[Kazimiera]

Also important for me is the 'power' of the initial capital letter, as its colour is for me the most important of all. And while I don't transfer this between alphabets, I do between languages written in Latin.

For instance, months of the year. The first month of the year is called Gener in my language, and so I picture it in a greyish white, quite suitable for winter. But when I turn into English, since it's called January, the whole word has an orangish tone, and the month looks warmer. This looks like absurd and crazy for non-synaesthetes, but it just happens automatically. :D

I totally understand!

Interesting that January for you is orangey, because it is for me too.

I don't get influenced by capital letters, in fact they lose most of their power because are "stringy".


In the video there were a set of greens that all looked the same, but one of them was a slightly different shade. The Himba could pick out that green.

Then they had a set of greens, but one of them was blue. The Himba were unable to pick out the blue, because their word for the blue was the same as the word for the greens.

I think it has to do with how they categorize the continuous spectrum of colors into discrete entities expressed through words. We, in the west, categorize it differently and we have a wider range of discrete words for such categorizations.

I would say that the limitation lies with language and not with sight.

[Stefan]

There are many languages in the world in which they have the same general word for both blue and green.

Just like there are languages in which they see light blue and deep blue as different colours and have different words for them. And it will look weird for those people that English speakers call both of them blue.

I think the difference is that I can distinguish the difference between light blue and dark blue. While I can't distinguish the difference between the colors in this.

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ring1.jpg

[Allenson]

Interesting stuff.

I think I might have a mild strain of it. I do associate numbers with colors--though it's incomplete. Five is red, six is blue, seven is green, eight is kind of an off-white, nine is orange, not sure about 1-4 though. One and two both seem black, three might be yellowish...

I also see time in my mind's eye in 3-D and sometimes around me spatially. I picture a week as it would appear in a calendar backwards in my mind and starting on Monday but read right to left. So, instead of SMTWTFS it's SSFTWTM. There are colors there too: Sunday is yellow, Tuesday is orange, Wednesday is blue, Thursday is green, Friday is red. Not sure about Monday or Saturday though....

Oh, and music too. Interestingly, individual notes don't do it for me but chords do. I play guitar some and I certainly associate chords with colors. Again, not completely but to a certain degree.


:cool:

[Kazimiera]

Interesting stuff.

I think I might have a mild strain of it. I do associate numbers with colors--though it's incomplete. Five is red, six is blue, seven is green, eight is kind of an off-white, nine is orange, not sure about 1-4 though. One and two both seem black, three might be yellowish...

I also see time in my mind's eye in 3-D and sometimes around me spatially. I picture a week as it would appear in a calendar backwards in my mind and starting on Monday but read right to left. So, instead of SMTWTFS it's SSFTWTM. There are colors there too: Sunday is yellow, Tuesday is orange, Wednesday is blue, Thursday is green, Friday is red. Not sure about Monday or Saturday though....

Oh, and music too. Interestingly, individual notes don't do it for me but chords do. I play guitar some and I certainly associate chords with colors. Again, not completely but to a certain degree.


:cool:

Funny that you mention the spatial thing. My husband is not synesthetic but he describes the year as being like a huge long ribbon. He can see it infront of him and it stretches as far as the horizon (I told him that's the biggest ribbon I've ever heard of!). When it is summer he is in front of the ribbon, when it's winter he is behind it. I don't know. And then somewhere it runs from east to west as well. And it is yellowish.

Interesting thing about the music, is that some people have it only with certain instruments. I don't have sound-colour synesthesia so I couldn't even imagine what it must be like to be able to "see" sound. Some people only have it with wind-instruments. I have read that there is a sound-colour variety where chords have a certain colour but music in general does not.

Graepheme (letters, numbers) - colour is the most common.

I agree with you about Sunday being yellow. Tuesday is NOT orange, its blue! I get this weird feeling inside thinking about Tuesday being orange. It doesn't sit well with me. :p

[Talvi]

Smell and taste are connected so they don't count.



Not if you are me. I cant smell the things I taste :D


Anyway, I am very confused how it is possible to see people and things as having shapes that really arent there.....

And even more difficult is to understand how its possible to personify numbers...

And its interesting how there are so many people on this site who have this condition.

[Kazimiera]

Not if you are me. I cant smell the things I taste :D


Anyway, I am very confused how it is possible to see people and things as having shapes that really arent there.....

And even more difficult is to understand how its possible to personify numbers...

And its interesting how there are so many people on this site who have this condition.

For us it is very hard NOT to. It's not something you have to think about. It happens automatically. I hear/see/read 2 (two) and an explosion of orange goes off in my head. Imagine trying to do algebraic equations and then ask me again why I failed maths! :D

[arcticwolf]

From your answers, it does not appear likely that you have synesthesia.

[Comte Arnau]

I finally took the test. Long as hell, I almost gave up.

I'm definitely a synaesthete. I ranked as such in all scores (grapheme-colour, day-colour and month-colour).

In the Associator vs Projector, I'm the Associator type.

[Kazimiera]

I finally took the test. Long as hell, I almost gave up.

I'm definitely a synaesthete. I ranked as such in all scores (grapheme-colour, day-colour and month-colour).

In the Associator vs Projector, I'm the Associator type.

I'm an associator too. Apparently the projector kind is less common.

[Kazimiera]

Here are my test results

http://i1162.photobucket.com/albums/q526/katzentatzen79/synes.png

[Stefan]

What did you guys get for this?


Vividness of Visual Imagery

Your VVIQ-2 Score is 3.34375

This test quantifies how vividly different people can visualize objects and scenes. A score above 3 suggests a higher level of vividness relative to the general population. We are using this questionnaire to understand whether synesthetes are better at mental imagery than controls.

[Kazimiera]

Your VVIQ-2 Score is 4.0625

This test quantifies how vividly different people can visualize objects and scenes. A score above 3 suggests a higher level of vividness relative to the general population. We are using this questionnaire to understand whether synesthetes are better at mental imagery than controls.

[Frosty]

Your VVIQ-2 Score is 4.8125
Interesting test really...

[michelle]

Thread resurrection.
I'm an ordinal linguistic personification type. 1-12 all have specific personalities, ages, and relationships to each other.
I didn't see if anyone mentioned that synesthetes have been found to score in the superior range of memory and cognition compared to non-synesthetes. I thought that was an interesting find.

[Jackson]

Interesting, i started taking the test but none of it seemed remotely like my experiences. I might take it a little later on, but i'm 99.9% sure i don't have Synaesthesia. Sounds pretty cool though, would be great if you are an artistic person in some form or another.

[michelle]

Interesting, i started taking the test but none of it seemed remotely like my experiences. I might take it a little later on, but i'm 99.9% sure i don't have Synaesthesia. Sounds pretty cool though, would be great if you are an artistic person in some form or another.

What experiences do you have? There's a variety of types, maybe they didn't mention yours?

[Jackson]

What experiences do you have? There's a variety of types, maybe they didn't mention yours?

I just meant my experiences in general, rather than anything specific. As far as i know i don't have any experiences of this particular kind, but it's interesting. :)

[michelle]

I just meant my experiences in general, rather than anything specific. As far as i know i don't have any experiences of this particular kind, but it's interesting. :)

Oh, gotcha. ;)

[Elsa]

As far as I know, I have never experienced synaesthesia, though I find it very interesting.



An example: Someone with grapheme-colour synaesthesia will recognise almost immediately that there is a triangle of 2's in this diagram because they can see the colours, whereas the 'normal' person will have to look longer and harder.

http://www.youramazingbrain.org/images/brainchanges/synesthesia.gif

I had to look up a multi-coloured version to be able to see this. I would never have noticed the triangle otherwise.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/wp-content/media/synesthesia1.jpg

[Kazimiera]

:bump2:

[UkrainianGirl]

Result:From your answers, it does not appear likely that you have synesthesia.
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Strange. I never even knew of such a thing.

[DRUM]

So do you actually see the symbols colored? What if a number is already a different color on paper, does Synesthesia override that or do you see both, one physically, other mentally?

[Kazimiera]

So do you actually see the symbols colored? What if a number is already a different color on paper, does Synesthesia override that or do you see both, one physically, other mentally?

If the number or letter is typed out or written like on a computer screen or piece of paper, I physically see it in black and white. However, I see the different colours in my head, the mind's eye if you want to call it that. Four is green, a very certain shade of green with a texture, not just any green. I physically see "4" written in black but it is automatically green in my head. I don't need to think about it, it happens all the time, everywhere and cannot be switched off. The green of four is the same green as Friday and April. Friday 4 April is always a happy day for me because all the colours line up. Tuesday 5 May is also good because they are all the same shade and texture of blue. :lol:

For instance, to me "2" is orange. If it is typed 2 it gives me a very uncomfortable feeling because two isn't turquoise. There is absolutely no way that two is turquoise. It gives me a strange feeling inside, because something isn't right about it.

You get associators and projectors. Associators (like me) are more common. Associators will see the number or letter on paper (in black) and the colour will pop up in the mind. Projectors physically see the number on the page turn red or blue.

I had an experience with 8 a few weeks ago. I could never describe to you the exact colour of 8, other than that it is like a mustard-yellow cigarette-butt colour but I'd never physically seen the colour of 8. Until recently. A car drove past me and it was the first time I have ever seen (with my own eyes) the colour of 8. I was so excited about it because that colour has eluded me for decades. It was a moment of "YES! IT EXISTS!!"

For me it is very strong with numbers and days of the week. Some numbers have personalities too, some stronger than others.

One is an athlete-type person with a sweat band on his head. He's thin and not very clear. I don't like him much. Two is a jolly, fat old grandma wearing a tropical-flowered (specifically hibiscus) blouse. I like her. She's friendly. Five is an aristocratic woman, her face is covered with a thick navy blue embroidered veil. She's beautiful but distant, somewhat sad, and because of the veil I don't really know what she looks like.

Seven is a ghost crab. Specifically a ghost crab taken from this angle and these colours. Seven is turquoise, similar to the body of the ghost crab. And it is very angular. Sometimes 7 is a pale, old man with very square glasses (like the ghost crab's body).

https://66.media.tumblr.com/d9953090512c734ddb02821fb4881925/tumblr_mypytfdRrT1sq1114o1_1280.jpg

I'm sounding completely crazy here to people who don't experience this. Oh well, I hope I gave you a bit of insight! :lol:

[crazyladybutterfly]

In the video there was a set of greens that all looked the same, but one of them was a slightly different shade. The Himba could pick out that green.

Then they had a set of greens, but one of them was blue. The Himba were unable to pick out the blue, because their word for the blue was the same as the word for the greens.

I think it has to do with how they categorize the continuous spectrum of colors into discrete entities expressed through words. We, in the west, categorize it differently and we have a wider range of discrete words for such categorizations.

Here is the diagram.

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ring1.jpg

i see one as different , the second on the left

[Svipdag]

To me, phrases and measures of music have shapes which have nothing to do with the arrangement of the notes on the staff.
Some of the shapes are like living organisms, some are geometric. Usually, the shapes are grey.

[Neon Knight]

In my visual imagination high pitched sounds are bright colours and low pitched ones are dull colours. That's all really.