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Kela
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 12:29 pm Post subject: You know you're a synesthete when... |
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Another one of my very favorite threads from before! :mrgreen: Feel free to re-post anything you remember saying in the original thread, or anything you may have already said here if you think it would make a good entry. 
You know you're a synesthete when...
- you go to a baby shower where the mom is having a girl and you want to add lots of letter A's to the decorations because A's are pink.
- you see 'T29' on a license plate and your brain insists it says '429' because T and 4 are both yellow.
- you're always on the lookout for syn-like comments or tendencies in your kids, family, friends, etc.  |
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Emma
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-You analyse your food's shapes to try and work out what goes into it.
-You remember different co-enzymes by their personalities
- You teach chemistry (I'm doing some tutoring) using the elements' personalities as examples. ("Silver is a really great guy, very loyal. And that's why he doesn't dissociate with his girlfriends. He keeps them close to him, even when he's surrounded by cuter water molecules" A valid comment both chemically and synaesthetically speaking!) |
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Fogwolf
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 6:34 am Post subject: |
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-In high school art, you consistently used 'sweet' and 'salty' to describe colours on your annotations |
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MagentaRedBlue
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<*> You make pictures of songs on photoshop.
<*> You can't imagine 5 getting up to any fun if you try, because he's middle-aged and very staid. |
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beth.in.blue
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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- when you're trying to remember a word, you can see/feel/taste/smell/hear it but can't seem to remember what it actually is (and you yell out "i remember that! it has an e and an i in it! It's light green/yellow!!")
- you try to explain how you can feel what the word is but you don't actually know it...and people give you looks
- and yes kela, you're always over-analyzing your friends's/family's comments hoping that they have syn too
- you get really panicy (not a word haha) when you see a letter/number that's the wrong color
- you've taken the test on synesthete.org
(MRB...5 is fun and young! and pink!  ) |
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Japanime Lover
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~ You can no longer use a metaphor without thinking about the Nexus and syn in general
~ You read quotes and metaphors and wonder if that's how someone with a different type of syn really sees it. (or know the people are wrong because it's not how you see it.)
~ And I think we can all agree with Kela's over-analyzing of friends and family. |
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Japanime Lover
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~ You watch Deal or no Deal and tell the people on t.v. which cases to choose based on the color of the numbers. |
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JazzGirl
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| You watch Deal or no Deal and tell the people on t.v. which cases to choose based on the color of the numbers. |
LoL! I have done that! |
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Greyhound
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- when your brother is playing the piano, you ask him to play the music that's like the letter 'S' or the red blue and yellow one - ('I told you when you played it last that it was like an S. You must know which one I mean!') |
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Emma
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You catch yourself saying things like "It smells like Friday in here" in a room full of people. (I'm not even sure where that one came from, but it really did smell like the word Friday feels!) |
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teewhyell
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....you get a new cell phone and you hate the phone # because it's brown/green/yellow. (What a horrible combination!) |
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Kela
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- when your dog gets lost in the neighborhood, you listen for colors -- either her purplish bark or the white and green tinkles of the tags on her collar. (We found her pretty fast, and she's fine -- she crawled through a space underneath a neighbor's fence a few doors down and she was extremely proud of herself.  ) |
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Japanime Lover
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| teewhyell wrote: |
| ....you get a new cell phone and you hate the phone # because it's brown/green/yellow. (What a horrible combination!) |
Or the number is an ugly sky blue/white/ugly pink combination.   It almost made me cry it was so bad. |
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- when you meet someone new called Natalie and keep calling them Laura because the a's are the same colour
- when music doesn't give you a headache, it gives you leg ache...and nobody understands why |
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bandgeek22
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*when you write a song and title it "pastel" because it looks mostly light blue and light yellow. |
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