Seeing Words and Sounds as Colours

[jellybrain]

I had a fascinating conv. with Ds2 earlier.I'm not sure how it started but he basically told me that he sees a lot of words as colours eg. Monday red, tuesday yellow, Wednesday pale blue etc. He then went on to say that he 'saw' music as bursts of colour. I'm not sure if I asked him a leading question but, he was so enthusiatic in his desciptions and seemed really delighted to talk about it. Was a bit that i didn't see things this way and thought it was a bit.

has anyone else experienced this?

this is called Synaesthesia, tis extremely fascinating, and I wouldn't worry at all... I'd be more envious if I were you!

I have number-form synaesthesia and only realised this about 3 years ago, I thought everyone thought like I did

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

There was a huge thread about this just a few weeks ago, loads of MNers have it, it was really interesting to read, hold on will try to link to it.....

here you go

Ooh I have this with days of the week. My colours are different from your DS2's! Will be interested to see the linked thread, wish I'd seen that at the time...

That would be great, I tired searching but, couldn't find anything.

I'm not worried particularly- probably more jealous. Ds says it helps him to remember stuff and he is a very enthusiastic learner... wander if the colours have something to do with it.

If you search for synaesthesia there's quite a few threads on it but the most recent one was fascinating.

Thanks, I'm off to the other thread to have a look. Its very long!