What types of synesthesia do you have? color-grapheme
How long have you known you had it/how did you find out? As soon as I knew the alphabet I had it, but I didn't know it was a "real" thing that other people had until I heard something about it on NPR when I was around 25, and I didn't know the name of it until maybe last year (I'm 29 now).
What do you DO (job/study/hobbies)? Does your synesthesia affect this at all? Ha! Would you believe I'm actually a writer? It doesn't really have an affect except that I tend to mix up F and R sometimes because they're both brown.
Any other good synesthesia based stories/experiences? I never doubted I had synesthesia until I discovered it was something that other people had. Weird, huh?
Suggestions? Information? Ideas? No, sorry, but I'd be happy to talk/email. The whole thing is weirder to me know that I know it's a "real" thing, as I said, and I find it makes it harder to define.
Any chance you're based in/near Chicago or DC? Yes, I'm in DC.
tldr yep yepchyropteraJanuary 8 2010, 04:44:58 UTC
Wiki has a handy List of people with synesthesia that might help you out (some of them have integrated it into their jobs, as you're talking about).
The main page that links to there, from here has, "Famous synesthetes include David Hockney, who perceives music as color, shape, and configuration, and who uses these perceptions when painting opera stage sets but not while creating his other artworks." I seem to recall (though I don't know who it was; I'm sure he's in that big list though) there was a composer in the 1800s(ish? maybe?) who wrote his music in a certain way, and invented an organ that projected the correct color of light when he played a certain note (or something to that effect
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How long have you known you had it/how did you find out? As soon as I knew the alphabet I had it, but I didn't know it was a "real" thing that other people had until I heard something about it on NPR when I was around 25, and I didn't know the name of it until maybe last year (I'm 29 now).
What do you DO (job/study/hobbies)? Does your synesthesia affect this at all? Ha! Would you believe I'm actually a writer? It doesn't really have an affect except that I tend to mix up F and R sometimes because they're both brown.
Any other good synesthesia based stories/experiences?
I never doubted I had synesthesia until I discovered it was something that other people had. Weird, huh?
Suggestions? Information? Ideas?
No, sorry, but I'd be happy to talk/email. The whole thing is weirder to me know that I know it's a "real" thing, as I said, and I find it makes it harder to define.
Any chance you're based in/near Chicago or DC?
Yes, I'm in DC.
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Yikes, and I'm a writer.
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The main page that links to there, from here has, "Famous synesthetes include David Hockney, who perceives music as color, shape, and configuration, and who uses these perceptions when painting opera stage sets but not while creating his other artworks." I seem to recall (though I don't know who it was; I'm sure he's in that big list though) there was a composer in the 1800s(ish? maybe?) who wrote his music in a certain way, and invented an organ that projected the correct color of light when he played a certain note (or something to that effect ( ... )
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