I often see numbers and dates on a spatial timeline in my head when I discuss or read about a certain year. I've always wondered why years and things like words and people's names affect me and make me feel a certain way and now i think I know why.

Do you ever see letters as being colored or "feel" sounds or have any other sort of jumped up senses?

Days, Weeks, Months and Years are located within an imaginary space in my mind. Weekdays and years are arranged in a 3-dimensional circle; a bit like a clock that is lying on the floor. Wednesday for example is located somewhere near 3 o'clock and the 5-year (like 1995, 2005 or 2015) somewhere at 11 o'clock. It is the same for every decade and I think like that since I have a sense for decades and years.

http://abload.de/img/yearsxbsxr.png

The picture more or less also shows how I see the numbers 1-10. Centuries or the numbers 1-100 are even more strange. I can't even draw that. It's a very long, curved line.

This is how I see weekdays:
http://abload.de/img/days07qqr.png

I often see numbers and dates on a spatial timeline in my head when I discuss or read about a certain year. I've always wondered why years and things like words and people's names affect me and make me feel a certain way and now i think I know why.

Do you ever see letters as being colored or "feel" sounds or have any other sort of jumped up senses?


http://cdn4.teen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/divergent-bad-movie-reviews-4.gif

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Wow, very interesting! I guess I might be on to something.



Days, Weeks, Months and Years are located within an imaginary space in my mind. Weekdays and years are arranged in a 3-dimensional circle; a bit like a clock that is lying on the floor. Wednesday for example is located somewhere near 3 o'clock and the 5-year (like 1995, 2005 or 2015) somewhere at 11 o'clock. It is the same for every decade and I think like that since I have a sense for decades and years.

http://abload.de/img/yearsxbsxr.png

The picture more or less also shows how I see the numbers 1-10. Centuries or the numbers 1-100 are even more strange. I can't even draw that. It's a very long, curved line.

This is how I see weekdays:
http://abload.de/img/days07qqr.png

I don't see numbers and dates in a really exact or precise way, but I do have a 'spatial' sense of them to a certain extent.

If this is a serious subject for a topic, then it should be in the 'Tenacious Tuxedo Talk' board?


Maybe. People might think that this is strange, but I actually feel that way. I didn't know about the term until yesterday, though, but I think this is really interesting.

@winteriscoming:

BTW: I would like to thank you for letting me know that I am actually a "sequence-space synaesthete" :)

http://cdn4.teen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/divergent-bad-movie-reviews-4.gif


That's what I'm thinking.

That's what I'm thinking.


Read the wikipedia article and you will learn about it...

It seems that synesthesia is really a rare thing. Otherwise, more people could relate to it.

It seems that synesthesia is really a rare thing. Otherwise, more people could relate to it.


I think everyone is synesthetic to a certain degree actually. Reading is pretty much learned synesthesia.

I think everyone is synesthetic to a certain degree actually. Reading is pretty much learned synesthesia.


I have read something different. Synesthesia is something you can't learn and only a small percentage can claim this "talent".

I kind of "see" colors with numbers, months, days of the week, and some letters of the alphabet or certain syllables.

0 = white; 1 = black; 2 = yellow; 3 = blue; 4 = green; 5 = off white/vaguely peach; 6 = orange; 7 = red; 8 = yellow; 9 = brown

January is blue
February is red
March is light blue
April is magenta-ish
May is bright blue
June is green
July is the same color as "5"
August is red
September is light green
October is dark blue
November is brown
December is red

http://cdn4.teen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/divergent-bad-movie-reviews-4.gif


http://i.imgur.com/0w6Rctk.jpg

(Just kidding, synesthetes, but it's the first thing I thought of when I read this.  By all accounts, synesthesia is actually kinda neat and much less debilitating than whatever's afflicting Gene Ray.)

I don't have it; though I can remember dates very well in a way that most people would find remarkable. I remember for example buying a green pluche snake at Ikea on December 30th 1996. That's not what most four year olds do..

I don't have it; though I can remember dates very well in a way that most people would find remarkable. I remember for example buying a green pluche snake at Ikea on December 30th 1996. That's not what most four year olds do..


I can remember dates sometimes but not all the time.

I kind of "see" colors with numbers, months, days of the week, and some letters of the alphabet or certain syllables.

0 = white; 1 = black; 2 = yellow; 3 = blue; 4 = green; 5 = off white/vaguely peach; 6 = orange; 7 = red; 8 = yellow; 9 = brown

January is blue
February is red
March is light blue
April is magenta-ish
May is bright blue
June is green
July is the same color as "5"
August is red
September is light green
October is dark blue
November is brown
December is red


Because of all that spam that came after your post, I did not notice it before today! That's actually pretty interesting!  8)