And Sapphire is for September.
I'm sure we've all heard of synaesthesia, the neurological trait where folks have one part of their brain crosswired with another. The most commonly known variant is the one where senses are plugged into each other so the synaesthete tastes sounds or perhaps hears colours. Others abound such as "grapheme-->colour" feature associational links between alphabets and numbers or "sound-->colour" where sounds trigger explosions of colour in the visual field of the synaesthete.
All good, all good but this has to be the strangest - and coolest - form yet - time-space synaesthesia! The year, perhaps even your entire past, experienced as a colour-coded ticker tape dragging behind you and floating ahead.
So what exactly does she see?
"For me it's a bit like a running track," she says.
"The track is organised around the academic year. The short ends are the summer and Christmas holidays - the summer holiday is slightly longer.
"It's as if I'm in the centre and I'm turning around slowly as the year goes by. If I think ahead to the future, my perspective will shift." - via Peter Watts
You should check the Watts post out anyway for some fascinating extrapolations.
All good, all good but this has to be the strangest - and coolest - form yet - time-space synaesthesia! The year, perhaps even your entire past, experienced as a colour-coded ticker tape dragging behind you and floating ahead.
So what exactly does she see?
"For me it's a bit like a running track," she says.
"The track is organised around the academic year. The short ends are the summer and Christmas holidays - the summer holiday is slightly longer.
"It's as if I'm in the centre and I'm turning around slowly as the year goes by. If I think ahead to the future, my perspective will shift." - via Peter Watts
You should check the Watts post out anyway for some fascinating extrapolations.