Synesthesia

[INFOSTUD]

I heard Fezzie discussing how about how he associates colors and numbers.

Sweet Melissa give the psychological term for this occurance; it's something like "synanemsia."

Does anyone know how to spell it correctly? I'd like to read up on it more.

Thanks.

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[GvacNoMore]

The correct spelling is "Synesthesia", and to learn more, http://www.ad-i.com/viral/what/synes2.html

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[INFOSTUD]

GVAC:

Thanks for the spelling and the link to the website.

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[nickeye]

Only heard it for a few seconds. Did anyone point out that he was mostly naming the colors of billiards balls?

2=blue
3=red
4=purple
5=orange

Kinda takes the fun out of it. Sorry.

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I thought it was because of the order the crayons went in the Crayola boxes lol

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[Sunrisa]

Fezzie was neither exposed to billiard balls when he was just a young fezzie..nor did he keep the crayons in the same order. yes there is some interesting coincidences but it seems very real.
and hey im a 2!
that rulesss



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[TheGameHHH]

hey im a 2!
Oh come on Melissa, if we are ranking your looks on a scale of 1-10, you're at least a 3 or 4.... ;-)

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[Sunrisa]

Hey!!!!!!!!

hehe

well its kinda like big jim calling me a 2. you cant get offended..im just not his type.:-)
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[GvacNoMore]

INFOSTUD-I love the new sig pic! I always loved Aquaman, despite how useless Ron and Fez say he is!

And special thanks go to Melissa for letting me know the correct spelling of "Synesthesia"...you didn't really think I knew that, didja?

Oh, and by the way...Melly, you couldn't be a 2 no matter how hard you tried! You're off the charts.

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[sexy bastard]

I actualyl thought people did it like that i always thought that way...but becasue of my neice I think i see where we or some of us are conditoned to the color/number scenario...see remember babys toys are mulitcolored so the little toys have colors and numbers on them so you hit orange its 5 so i think we were conditioned this way by the toy companies...I tell you its a conspiracy damn it.DAmn you Fisher Price, DAMN YOU TO HELL fisher price.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrr lol

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[TheGameHHH]

Great Gvac, I try to make a simple joke about Melissa and you come in and make such a flattering comment that it overshadows my joke and makes her feel good. I gotta hand it to you, you are such a pimp.

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[GvacNoMore]

I just can't help myself, HHH...you understand. I see a beautiful, talented, intelligent woman like Melissa, and I just have to let her know just how wonderful I think she is.

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[Se7en]

That numbers and colors thing freaks me out.

Isn't the numbers / colors thing part of the homicidal triad?

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[Sunrisa]

actually no.

most people with synesthesia are normal in mostly every other way. normal intelligence if not brighter than average and normal psychological sense.
he is fine.

some have mentioned that there is a high number of them that have seen UFOs.
but that is the only really weird thing i read.

i LOVE fezzies brain



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[dymod]

In case anyone's interested,
the Leonard Lopate show
on the NPR station WNYC
(93.9 FM) is doing a story
on synesthesia (seeing
sounds and numbers as
colors), one of Ron & Fez's
favorite topics that they
discussed with Sweet
Melissa from time to time.

It's on right now around
12:30 PM on Friday, Feb 7.

dymod

[Vee]

Intereting!
*pulls radio out from dark corner of shame - blows off dust*

[dymod]

I've found that, although it's
certainly no replacement for
the humor of our two
favorite Buddies, WNYC is a
decent station to listen to
during the day. I've taken to
listening to NPR a lot these
days. (I used to say that
Ron and Fez were like NPR
for retards) .. hehe..

dymod

[Sheeplovr]

i wish it was about Anastasia

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[Reephdweller]

The other day on the show Ron and Fez had a discussion about this thing that Fez does where he looks at people as numbers. Also the numbers have color assignments. It's not like a classification in order least favorite to most favorite. But more along the lines of an aura of some sorts. They referred to it as Sinastacia, but I don't know if that's the proper spelling.

I've never heard of this thing, but I'm intrigued by it. Does anyone else do this? or know more about this sort of thing?

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[Yerdaddy]

<a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Diseases_and_Conditions/Synesthesia/" target="_blank">Synesthesia</a>

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[Mike Teacher]

or know more about this sort of thing?


I'm doing some research with a fellow musician who has it. Tried to call in during segment; busy.

Quickly; Its when stimulus in one sense evokes a response in another. More common in females [2.5:1] ; seems familial.

Anyone else notice hardly anyone spoke of anyone or anything evoking a 'Zero' or a 'One'? This is common, also. Lots more, but the segment is done, alas.
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This message was edited by Mike Teacher on 4-18-04 @ 6:20 PM

[Reephdweller]

One of the things that interested me was that no one seemed to ask if the numbers are only single digit numbers. At least that's what it seems to me. I suppose just the numbers 1-9. Though I was curious if there's a 10, or 11, etc that people see.

It was a fascinating discussion. I've read up on many many unusual things, but I've never heard of this one. I remember them briefly talking about it once when they were in New York but I must've missed what they called it at the time.

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[Whyyouhaddiddat]

when you think about your age, do you mentally picture a timeline with left to right age progression, and you sitting there at your particular age..in my case, 25 is the hilighted number

i'm odd like that, i count stair steps, and love the number 7--symmetry is cool not only physically, but numerically --fuck it i'm weird

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[ozzie]

I'm really not much of a thred starter, but did a search and couldn't find this topic, so here ya go.

Sometime during the WNEW days, I remember Fez saying that he saw numerals in different colors, and a few callers called in to say that they did the same thing. (Mikey, if you remember this, and have the file, I'd be your bestest budday if you could put it in the file library!)

It was like "5 is Red", "7 is Green", or something like that. He said he didn't remember when it started, or what the colors were based on but he always saw them in color. Some suggested seeing numbers on blocks or flash cards at an early age, but he couldn't remember why, he just always saw them in different colors.

I'd never heard of it before, or since, then one day, a year or so ago, I hear my boys in the back seat talking, and I find out that my oldest sees numbers in color. My chick quizzed him from 0 to 9 and wrote them down, and every now and then while we're driving somewhere, she'll ask him what color a number is, and it's always the same, so we know he wasn't just making up a list. Any two digit number was then the combination of the color of each digit:

0 = White
1 = White
2 = Red
3 = Orange
4 = Brown
5 = Yellow
6 = Orange
7 = Gray
8 = Purple
9 = Pink
10 = White (1 and 0)
12 = Pink (1 White and 2 Red = Pink)

I can ask him months later, and it's still the same. He has no idea when it started, or where they came from, but that's the way they are.

My question is... Does anyone else see numbers or numerals in specific colors? And if you do, WHY? And where / when did it start?

I'll hang up and listen to your answer.

[Knowledged_one]

I'm really not much of a thred starter, but did a search and couldn't find this topic, so here ya go.

Sometime during the WNEW days, I remember Fez saying that he saw numerals in different colors, and a few callers called in to say that they did the same thing. (Mikey, if you remember this, and have the file, I'd be your bestest budday if you could put it in the file library!)

It was like "5 is Red", "7 is Green", or something like that. He said he didn't remember when it started, or what the colors were based on but he always saw them in color. Some suggested seeing numbers on blocks or flash cards at an early age, but he couldn't remember why, he just always saw them in different colors.

I'd never heard of it before, or since, then one day, a year or so ago, I hear my boys in the back seat talking, and I find out that my oldest sees numbers in color. My chick quizzed him from 0 to 9 and wrote them down, and every now and then while we're driving somewhere, she'll ask him what color a number is, and it's always the same, so we know he wasn't just making up a list. Any two digit number was then the combination of the color of each digit:

0 = White
1 = White
2 = Red
3 = Orange
4 = Brown
5 = Yellow
6 = Orange
7 = Gray
8 = Purple
9 = Pink
10 = White (1 and 0)
12 = Pink (1 White and 2 Red = Pink)

I can ask him months later, and it's still the same. He has no idea when it started, or where they came from, but that's the way they are.

My question is... Does anyone else see numbers or numerals in specific colors? And if you do, WHY? And where / when did it start?

I'll hang up and listen to your answer.

There was an hour long program i saw on like the science channel about geniuses. And they had the real rain man - the guy actually reads a book with left eye reading the left page and the right eye reading the right page

There was a guy on there who saw numbers in colors and could do math in his head with high order numbers

[Furtherman]

It's called Synesthesia. I see numbers as they are. But once I start added and dividing and all that.. woo boy... here comes the flop sweat!

[ozzie]

Why come I can't edit my post?

Anyway, thanks for merging it into the proper thread! I never would have found this under "Synesthesia".

[ozzie]

I'm doing some research with a fellow musician who has it. Tried to call in during segment; busy.

Quickly; Its when stimulus in one sense evokes a response in another. More common in females [2.5:1] ; seems familial.

Anyone else notice hardly anyone spoke of anyone or anything evoking a 'Zero' or a 'One'? This is common, also. Lots more, but the segment is done, alas.
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This message was edited by Mike Teacher on 4-18-04 @ 6:20 PM

That's interesting about the Zero and One. I wondered why my son saw both of those numbers in white... or, the absence of color.

I really wish the buddays could explore this with Fezzie a little more, and set up a call with Mike so we could learn more.

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[Furtherman]

Time Lords discovered in California. (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18723-time-lords-discovered-in-california.html)

Time Lords walk among us. Two per cent of readers may be surprised to discover that they are members of an elite group with the power to perceive the geography of time.

Synaesthesia is the condition in which the senses are mixed, so that a sound or a number has a colour, for example. In one version, the sense of touch evokes emotions.

To those variants we can now add time-space synaesthesia.

"In general, these individuals perceive months of the year in circular shapes, usually just as an image inside their mind's eye," says David Brang of the department of psychology at the University of California, San Diego.

"These calendars occur in almost any possible shape, and many of the synaesthetes actually experience the calendar projected out into the real world."

One of Brang's subjects was able to see the year as a circular ring surrounding her body. The "ring" rotated clockwise throughout the year so that the current month was always inside her chest with the previous month right in front of her chest.

Now THIS would be awesome to have, as I wouldn't have to rely on my stupid Outlook Calendar.

[Crossweird]

One of Brang's subjects was able to see the year as a circular ring surrounding her body. The "ring" rotated clockwise throughout the year so that the current month was always inside her chest with the previous month right in front of her chest.

I think I have this. Whenever I sit at my desk, I can picture the current day right in front of me. With Dilbert on it.

And the previous day I picture being near my knees, in a cylindrical "can".