Synesthesia, others "bother" you? ;)

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I started reading Tammet's book and be claims he is born on a blue day. Which for him is Wednesday.

Also they tried to lend me this PDA specially programmed so you could "easily" manage your week, it had a week where every weekday had a different color. Thing is it totally mismatched with the colors I have for days in my head. They never THOUGHT that might be a problem. Fortunately that option could be disabled.

Still it kid of irks me little when people say things like Wednesday is blue. It feels SO WRONG.

Not deadly serious here, but yea it does irk me a bit.

Of course Monday is blue. Everyone heard Mondays are blue. Monday is a bright clear blue, get a little different blue and it is not Monday blue anymore. Tuesday is yellow, not too bright, almost like with a touch of green, like a lemon. Wednesday is orange. Thursday is brown. Friday is also blue but darker. Saturday is bright red. Sunday is white.

Mondays are Blue, but Tuesdays are Ruby.

I was born on a Wednesday too. A GREEN day. This type of thing doesn't bother me too much, as I don't experience the colours very vividly. However, I thought it was slightly insensitive to call the book that. Even more so Cytowic's book "Wednesday is Indigo Blue". People who don't experience syn and are reading the book for interest's sake wouldn't be bothered by the titles, but I've heard plenty of synnies having a whinge about them

It always bothers me when people color numbers, letters and days wrong, but generally I simply note them as wrong and try to move past it.

Just to share though, I agree that Wednesday is a blue day, a dark midnight or navy blue..

Monday is tan or "skin" colored
Tuesday is a bit fuzzy, but it a fair day, some kind of white or eggshell
Thursday is very orange
Friday is very red
Saturday is very yellow
Sunday is silvery grey

Letters and numbers also have color, some more clearly than others, they also have gender and personality, somewhat.

Time, as in hours of the day, days weeks, months, years and centuries occupy a physical place to me, hours are a bit different, but generally, past is to my left and behind me, future stretches forward to my right.

Synesthesia is fun..

Wednesday is yellow. Thursday is green, Friday is darker green and Saturday is blue. Monday is red and Tuesdays are orange. The number eight has always been purple.

I find synesthesia fascinating

As you all ought to know, the days of the week are:
Sunday-- yellow
Monday-- cream
Tuesday-- pinkish peach
Wednesday-- bright red
Thursday-- dark brownish red
Friday-- dark gray
Saturday-- light gray



This is really awful when you try to learn Japanese, because the days of the week in Japanese are:
Sunday
Moonday
Fireday
Waterday
Woodday
Goldday
Dirtday

(Not even joking.)

It's quite confusing. I have to remind myself not to translate it as "silver" instead of "gold" just because I can't picture Friday that way. Doesn't help that of course kinyoubi is silver anyway.

(...And I'm not even synesthetic. At least, I don't think so. Every time I think about it I wonder what makes me so certain of that conviction... except that I don't hallucinate colors, per se, so it's obviously something else entirely. I just associate certain things with certain other things. Everyone's weekdays are colored, aren't they?)

I think I read time from left to right because I read from left to right. But up to 2000 I pictured every century as a line from bottom to top. But at 2000 it didn't work anymore. for some reason I couldn't begin a new line so the first years of the 2000s became like a tail like appendix to the 1900 line. I think my mind decided this looked so stupid and wasn't functional so it agreed to bend the 1900s so it starts from bottom to top but bends gently to the right to be horizontal around 1960.

When I was at school my Wednesdays were grey. After that they became orange. I guess while trying to coping with school wednesday and thursdays were hard days so they got boring colors, LOL!

DF, it sounds like you may have synaesthesia. There are different ways chromographic synnies perceive the colours, and that can be just an "association", rather than a projection of colours onto the page, for example.

yellowtamarin... I can also trace many of my associations back to some perfectly logical source. In elementary school, I saw some folding chairs marked with "Fri." in the same shade of gray that has since been Friday's color. When I had OT on Saturday, I saw the street where my OT had her practice for Saturday, but since it's returned to being gray. Janissy is the blue color of half the posts here, because that's the color of the first post of his that I saw. Not sure why Kiley is yellow, though. And not every word has a color, nor do I see them every time I think of the words. Does that still sound like synesthesia to you?

@frag, do what I do: make it a wavy line of varying colors, with the winter solstice on the bottom and the summer solstice on the top (roughly), with a light blue for winter, brown for autumn, summery colors for summer and rainy gray colors for spring. That way you always know what season you're in. It works for days, too. So do columns. (Time is definitely the thing I experience the most visually; I have no clue how anyone would understand it otherwise.)

Synesthesia sounds really neat, to be honest. I'd love to have it.

I don't think it's Synesthesia in this case, but I end up associating numbers and letters with colors; 1: Red, 2: Blue, 3: Yellow, 4: Green... it doesn't go that far, but with music keys it tends to. C - Blue, D - Green, E - Orange, F - Purple, G - Green (darker, more foresty), A - Red, B - Yellow. F# - Brown.

Well I don't think I have synesthesia but when I picture prime numbers in my head I can form a color coded chart of all the multiples from 2 up.

I get flashes of textures when I'm touched and strong feelings from numbers. I currently have a fascination with 182. It seems friendly. I have color impressions from days, but it doesn't bother me if others have different impressions. Certain days are stronger than others - Monday, Thursday and Sunday.

And sometimes a singular musical sound will make an image flash.

The textures is my biggest experience.

Thanks! Do you want to hear what results I get?

I do not have synesthesia, therefore I cannot understand why you'd be bothered by the way other people see the world. I understand that it may be irritating to adapt to calendars or planners because the days and numbers tend to be coloured and it can be very confusing with real synesthesia (if you think 7 is red and 5 is yellow when your planner tells you that 7 is a green day and 5 a red one, you could have trouble memorizing the days).

However, even among people who do not have synesthesia such as myself, I think it is common to associate colours or qualities to days, letters and numbers because we tend to colour things a lot when we are kids or just because life is better with colours.

I actually like to think that Monday is blue, Tuesday is green, Wednesday is yellow, Friday is also blue but darker than Monday, Saturday is orange, Sunday is Pink. I was born on Thursday but cannot tell which colour it is. But I do not see these days in these colours and I think everyone has their own "truth" when it comes to this.