#synaesthesia

[animanightmate]

He's got a point there…

Source: https://x.com/multistable/status/1780665031018905993?t=bLuf8eF07Baa7P3QrX_BFg&s=09

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I can't remember the dream but it was brown and it happened last night. It wasn't themed brown (I don't think) but every time I try to remember it I can only think of brown. This gave me a crisis that made me research synaesthesia.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I have to ask: Why base 12? I am intrigued by it but what is your reasoning? Also purely out of curiosity what colour is 12 to you?

Base 12 is the BEST okay so if you use 10 as your main standard unit of everything, here's the thing: what if you need to split it into quarters? What about thirds? You cannot use whole numbers for those, you have to decimalise to 2.5 and 3.3333333333 recurring which is DISGUSTING

But 12! Unlike 10, which can only neatly divide by 1, 2, 5 or 10, 12 is out here, swag as fuck, like "Oh did you say division? I can divide for you baby, please choose from 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 12." GOOD MATHS. Good clean maths. Does what it says on the tin. Nice and neat. You can even keep using your fingers for it, just use two digits on each thumb and voila, 12 convenient hand units. Have I sold this yet? I hope I've sold this yet. Am I being convincing? Good maths.

Also 12 is yellow and blue because I see diglyph numbers as being made up of their individual integers and 1 is yellow and 2 is blue, but the word twelve is a sort of soft light green, a little more yellow than blue and a bit desaturated. It's also metallic with a soft dip in the middle.

[fairyhaos]

with my synaesthesia, the colour of joshua is something very tangible, which is incredibly rare.

joshua is a warm, rosy pink colour. the colour of blushes, of shy compliments, of sweet cheek kisses and falling in love. he's warm like the feeling of summer fraying into autumn, where the intensity of heat has begun to die down and the world has become more mellowed, more gentle.

he's the colour of tinted heart sunglasses, of satin soft tulips and handwritten confessions, of pinkened filters in rom-com scenes. he's pink like pastel, strawberry cotton candy at fairgrounds, and sugar-sticky kisses at the top of ferris wheels.

joshua is the rosy pink of gentle adoration, like cherub's lips and cupid's heart-tipped arrows. he's like youthful love, skipping down streets with hands interlaced, spending all of eternity in one another's arms. the pink of joy.

like love-worn silk, joshua is soft, softened and smoothed in the places where someone has caressed the fabric until it melded into the shape of their hands. he's soft like the skin of peaches, like whispered love under blankets, like marshmallows being fed from the hand of someone you adore.

he's rosy pink, like new love, like young love, like precious love. joshua is a rosy pink you can touch, can feel the smoothness and the gentleness under your fingertips.

joshua's colour is the colour of warmth.

synaesthesia tags: @jeonginssa ,, @jeonwonwoo ,, @weird-bookworm ,, @summery-bat ,, @jiji-verse ,, @moonlitskiiies ,, @butiluvu ,, @loversepiphany ,, @a-wandering-stay ,, @valenhui ,, @yonabutnotyuna ,, @sweet-like-caramel ,, @evasaysstuff ,, @odxrilove ,, @kyeomyun ,, @slytherinshua

[breathergames]

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[weirdlookindog]

[lilymoonlily]

[thatshad]

Here's my contribution to the birthday zine. My song was Once Upon a Time. I have synasthesia and decided to lean into it when making my artwork.

[moneyisnobject]

"Synaesthesia"

Gill Schmid Design

[cruxymox]

this picture you have placed for me

i do not know if it is photograph

or painting this paper

i close my eyes

i run my fingers across the slow, so

verdant, lush

this morose & dreaming forest

you have found for me

our buzzing hidden in desperate green

slow i run my fingers

& i have been slipping into skies

my rain, i may have been

there is so much here

i am clouded

i open my eyes

your need is heavy

for the slow so of the photograph

or painting, that memory

i cannot find it

my fingers should be dripping

i bring them to your face

for i wish to see

[neurospicyyy]

I’m just going to give a quick shout out to any neurodivergents who don’t have ADHD or autism.

You’re still valid if you:

Are dyslexic

Have aphantasia

Have synaesthesia

Have OCD

Have alexithymia

Are dysgraphic

Are dyscalculic

Have tourette syndrome

Are bipolar

Have a personality disorder

Have anxiety

Have an intellectual disability

Have down syndrome

Or more!

The jury might technically be out on a few of these, but if your condition affects your way of thinking and comes with a strong sense of identity, you are completely justified in calling yourself neurodivergent. Nobody should judge you for it.

[unlimited-nobu-works]

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off - Synaesthesia

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Okay but i have a question, bc you speak multiple languages. Feel free to tell me to naff off if you'd rather not answer, but

With synaesthesia, would two words with the same meaning in two different languages "look" (if that's the right word?) the same or would they be different because they look different on paper/sound different when spoken? So like, say, Welsh "love" vs English "love"?

No no, happy to answer!

They're different. I mean, there are always subtle nuances with these things anyway, because two cultures will never have a perfect circle of a Venn diagram in understanding a word, so to me 'cariad' and 'love' are very, very subtly semantically different anyway (the verbs are more different again, actually - 'caru' and 'to love' hold slightly different weights. I use them at different times with my husband.)

But yeah, fundamentally, they get different colours and shapes. Cariad is more pink, love is more yellow. Cariad holds the softness and security and peace of the cwtch, love is the happiness and joy of a sunny meadow with a light breeze. Cariad is more personal, love is more open. Cariad feels squishy, kind of? Almost like florist's foam, except it bounces back to its original shape when you stop pressing. Love is like a sphere with a non-gross gel-like outer layer, wet but not wet, and then an inner core like... a peach or something. Solid but not rock solid.

Actually, numbers are probably the best example of this. When I think of numbers in Welsh, the colours change. One is yellow in English, but un is a beautiful rich bottle green that shimmers very slightly.

[fairyhaos]

most of you guys will know how long i struggled with the colour i see woozi as, and it's because my synaesthesia is seeing him as a blend, a mixture, an amalgamation of two colours.

woozi is... well, in all honesty, he's the beach. my synaesthesia sees him as turquoise and sandy brown, but it's more than that. he's rippling, moving, constantly being shaped by the wind and the waves and the way of the earth. he's the way that the sea and the sand interact together, and yet he is also each element separately, all at once.

he's an hourglass, the colour of traditional hourglasses, with the individual grains falling as one golden strand, a reminder of time and movement and life. he's the warmth of the tarmac in the summer evening, or the dry beach at night, warm from all the light and memories it has absorbed during the day, radiating it back into the world as delightful, heartwarming softness.

and yet woozi's also the cool licks of turquoise waves on a beach, forever moving, playful and bright and full of vibrancy. he's the colour of the sea disappearing over the horizon, spilling blue off the edge of the earth, somewhere you cannot even begin to think of. he's neverending, life-sustaining, deeper than the universe, a crystalline and murky blue all at once.

woozi is the promise of life, of memories and history and future life. he's mystery, he's time, he's secretive and all-knowing and all-telling all at once. he's simply... woozi.

synaesthesia tags: @jeonginssa @jeonwonwoo @weird-bookworm @summery-bat @jiji-verse @moonlitskiiies @loversepiphany @a-wandering-stay @valenhui @yonabutnotyuna @sweet-like-caramel @evasaysstuff @odxrilove @kyeomyun

[squirrelbee]

sometimes I am genuinely baffled how often there aren't any words for what I want to express. as a neurodivergent person, I experienced a lack of vocabulary for my experiences all my life. and I want to change that. language is so powerful and we deserve to put words to our experiences, even though we aren't given any because the world views our experience as something shameful that you're not supposed to talk about. I want to encourage every neurodivergent person to create words for things we don't have words for yet. you have a right to be heard.

[quinntoday]