Light indigo, slightly-yellow orange, sea green, sea green, somewhat more yellow orange (i.e. hello)

[matt1993]

Hi all! I'm new here. My synesthesia types, for anyone curious:

- Grapheme→color synesthesia

- What I'm currently calling "song→color synesthesia".

Comments

[matt1993]

In "Mango Shaped Space", a YA novel, the character with grapheme-->color synesthesia has trouble with math because the numbers are written in white chalk or gray pencil, rather than their appropriate colors. It confuses her.I know that people with grapheme→color synesthesia have a harder time with math equations that are written in a single color, but still, I'm not even particularly fast if someone verbally gives me a math problem and I imagine the numbers in my mind in their proper colors

[yoru_yume]

I have sound--colour and grapheme--colour syn, but I'm...really not good at maths at all XD. I do tend to recall number sequences by colour though, and sometimes I get confused if the colour of a written number or letter is different to my own colours for them

[matt1993]

I do tend to recall number sequences by colour though

I do that too! It would be a lot more useful if I could even use it to memorize things that I don't expect to have to recall, though...and it would also be more useful if F, J, L, and T didn't have such similar shades of green so I could recall new words and names that easily :|

[irrational84]

I'm not sure about correlations between grapheme→color synesthesia and mathematical ability (other than the fact that I have grapheme→color and am majoring in math), but I bet you could find that square root a lot quicker with Newton's method!

[matt1993]

I didn't even think about using Newton's Method for square roots! Guess I'm not extraordinarily good or extraordinarily fast at math, then :(

Actually, though, I only think Newton's Method would be faster for the first iteration. Lemme try to figure out the square root of 93 (changed it because I still remember 10.630... from the square root of 113 and don't want to cheat by still knowing it):

93/9=10.3333... (9+10.3333...)/2 = 9.6666...
93/9.6666...=279/29, and I don't have the decimal equivalents of fractions with 29 as the denominator memorized, so I either have to a) try squaring 9.7 with my other method, b) use long division to figure out 279 divided by 29 (so far, all I know is that the integer part is 9), or c) keep it as a fraction and continue Newton's Method, thus winding up with an approximation for the square root of 93 that's even harder to convert to a decimal. Clearly, after the first iteration, a) is by far the fastest and least complicated solution. But hey, at least I can skip a few steps now! :)

[broken_moons]

1. I had a similar realization of synesthesia as you, where reading about synesthesia made me realise it was happening to me, but it had never been so vivid as for me to think everyone had it. And yes, it took me a while figure out what my colours were, mostly because it's internal and instinctual rather than visual

[matt1993]

2. As far as I know, yes. I mean, my secondary synesthesia is grapheme > colour, and I suck at math. I am good at remembering strings of numbers, though, even better when they have pretty colour patterns that are easy to memorize.

I'm not bad at math - I'm just not very fast with it. And I'm good at remembering strings of numbers by their color, but only if I know for certain that I'll have to remember them later, which leads to people who test my memory (for instance, to see whether or not I need accommodations for the SATs) only observing my memory when I expect to have to recall things and thus mistakenly believing that my memory is perfect.