That's so interesting. Frankly, I love the idea of that test but don't think I'd pass it. I believe I'd have to find the five, which would then feel more green to me in a field of all those pale yellow S's (I literally realized S's are pale yellow while envisioning this test). I am, if anything, and associative synesthete rather than a p…
That's so interesting. Frankly, I love the idea of that test but don't think I'd pass it. I believe I'd have to find the five, which would then feel more green to me in a field of all those pale yellow S's (I literally realized S's are pale yellow while envisioning this test). I am, if anything, and associative synesthete rather than a projective one, the latter being the sort who actually sees a colored shape when trumpets play or whatever.
Other little things I remember: Leonard Bernstein was synesthetic and when he conducted, he used to say thing like, "Could the strings play that section a little more orange?" See also Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. And many people have low-level synesthesia traits we don't really think about, like saying someone is wearing a "loud" shirt, or the Bouba/Kiki effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
Do you follow Nathan Pyle (the Strange Planet cartoonist) on Insta or Twitter? He does a lot of great polls that take the Bouba/Kiki effect and streeeetch it out to things like, "If GRBD fought XKLZ, who would win?" or "Which vowels are even and which are odd?"
That's so interesting. Frankly, I love the idea of that test but don't think I'd pass it. I believe I'd have to find the five, which would then feel more green to me in a field of all those pale yellow S's (I literally realized S's are pale yellow while envisioning this test). I am, if anything, and associative synesthete rather than a projective one, the latter being the sort who actually sees a colored shape when trumpets play or whatever.
Other little things I remember: Leonard Bernstein was synesthetic and when he conducted, he used to say thing like, "Could the strings play that section a little more orange?" See also Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. And many people have low-level synesthesia traits we don't really think about, like saying someone is wearing a "loud" shirt, or the Bouba/Kiki effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
Do you follow Nathan Pyle (the Strange Planet cartoonist) on Insta or Twitter? He does a lot of great polls that take the Bouba/Kiki effect and streeeetch it out to things like, "If GRBD fought XKLZ, who would win?" or "Which vowels are even and which are odd?"
Oh interesting! I'll have to check him out.