Out of curiousity...

[SnoobieSnooch]

I was recently reading an article on Colour synesthesia, and it got me wondering about what colours people relate things to, or what things they give a colour.

For some reason, I always put tea as a light grey, other things I count as grey are smelly socks and boredom.

My boyfriend has colours for musical notes or sounds. Which I think links with the warm/cold colours in art. A warm sounding note would be a red or an orange, etc.

Spoons
Do you also label stuff with colours?
What colours do you associate with random things or feelings?
Do these colours ever change or are they always the same?
Do you feel you have a different form of synesthesia, such as Lexical to Gustatory synesthesia, where individual words provoke tastes?


Give me your answers! 8D

[Furr]

In addition to the musical colors, different pitches and durations always 'look' different to me. Like a constant tone is more of a glow, while a quick sound is more like sparkles. Chimes, like those to represent icicles clinging together is a clear, light blue. A series of sparkles for when it begins, and a soft, blue glow for the duration of the sound. A bass is a pumping red or orange, depending on the string. Drums always come out in flashes, and the cymbals start with a flash, then ebbs out in a glow. Colors wary depending on the drum..
Strings, like guitar, violin and such, are always glows.

And I don't label stuff with colors, usually. More like.. shapes or numbers. Colors are always optional, and there's never a meaning behind them.
Powerful emotions are typically red, to me. Love, anger, and the likes. Green is.. well, envy and sick. Yellow is over around the angry area, while blue and black are more apathy and negativity in general. In that way, I'm.. fairly general.

[Bane]

synesthesia proper arises from neurological causes. Senses are 'cross-wired' in the brain. You find things are involuntarily associated. One particular badass is Daniel Tammet, a high-functioning autistic savant who knows numbers as shapes and colors and can perform some pretty wild feats, like quick mental calculations and becoming completely proficient in a language within a week.

I don't really have any associations that aren't stereotypical (green = life, red = anger or aggression, etcetera), and I'm sure most things like that are just my imagination. Overuse or emphasis on intuition might have stretched it into a similar sort of deal, though. A personality or disposition can have a shape, which is also a sort of felt out sensation. We can all become familiar enough with a character that we can imagine what they would do in a given situation; this is just that understanding made into a visual pattern. Names are the same.

Any given pattern/model is often really vivid; I can see it and start to make out the bits of it that correspond with the individual parts of the actual situation, and where they're connected. They're usually simple; spheres and lines, which twist or bend to make the appropriate links. I'm more N/intuitive than S/logical in general, but if I get into the swing of the latter and keep both in about equal use, the picture and its parts pretty much become completely clear. I gather it's a weakness in that concrete, linear sort of thinking that makes the pictures 'out of focus' most of the time, just as it damages my ability to manifest concepts through words.

[Kade]

Every single name I hear is associated with a color to me.

For example, Snoobie sounds lavender imo.

[Pitch]

I associate numbers, dates and certain words with flashes of sounds, gradients or colors. I don't know if I have synesthesia, though. I thought everyone did that. I guess I filter things in the same way Furr is describing.

[Dr. Javi]

When I look at a spoon, I see a spoon. When I hear the word spoon, I think of a spoon.

I see things as they are, I don't associate them with other things. When I hear someone talk about the sound a duck makes, I think about what a duck sounds like. When someone talks about chocolate, I imagine the taste.

I certainly don't think of vague, all encompassing colors when it comes to my five senses.

But maybe, I'm just missing the point of the thread... so... meh.

you're pretty cool

[Soja]

When I listen to musical notes, I see a guitar chart from Rock Band floating off in some indeterminate yet near distance in my vision. Oh dear God help.

[SilverStreak]

I'm a bit of a fatty at heart, so often times I will associate particular experiences, social situations, movies, or other stimuli with food or food smells. (This isn't related to the original topic of color associations I suppose though)

This is particularly strange when I get these associations with art, or music. It means that in some cases, if I don't enjoy something, it is quite literally because I don't find it 'palatable.'

Food for thought.