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I have some time so I thought I'd tell you guys about this and see if any of you share it with me. :3

It has come to my attention rather recently (within the last year or so) that I have synesthesia.  Synesthesia ([link]) is when two senses become mingled and cause the brain to perceive one concept from two different perspectives.  For example, I have ordinal linguistic personification ([link]) wherein I give numbers, letters and some words personalities, genders and sometimes color.  To a lesser extent, I have number form synesthesia where I see numbers and different types of number organizations on a visual map around me.  Not many people know this about me since I didn't know it was unusual and I'm only now learning about it.  

I'm sort of worried you guys will think I'm crazy with all this and I swear I didn't know that other people didn't do this until recently.  Anyway, I thought I'd tell you about my numbers:

0 - This number is genderless and grey.  I refer to it as my 'God' number since it does not speak but knows all and sees all.
1 - He's a cool kid.  Young and with a baseball cap.  Sometimes I color him yellow or gold.
2 - She's a bitchy upstart.  A dull red.
3 - A haggard overweight girl who could be mistaken for a boy.  Pale pink.
4 - Heroic 20 some year old man.  Blue.
5 - 2's mother and an even duller red.  She reminds me of the Dutchess from Alice in Wonderland.
6 - A sly, sexy young girl.  Pale yellow.
7 - He's very similar to MJ-7 from Trying Human!  Sort of a dull dark bluish green and kind of emo.
8 - A dumpy overweight 40 some year old man.  I often see him as 3's dad. Orange.
9 - 6's mother and the same sort of sexy sly woman. Pale yellow.
10 - 1's father and like one of those sporty dads. Navy blue.
11 - 1's dumb cousin. No color association.

I'm not sure why but this is where my personification of numbers ends.  They just repeat after this with the number on left always being the dominant personality and then switching after 100 to the number furthest on the right being dominant.  There is also a hill in my spacial timeline with 11 dipping down to 12 and then continuing on a flat surface to 20 where it goes back up again to another number plateau.

I'd go over all my letters but it would be really tedious for me to type them all out.  I'll just give some examples of my favorite and not so favorite letters.

B - He's kind of overweight and cool.  Always joking around a lot.
F - Older man with a mustache.  He's really smart.  (I tend to associate the word 'if' with this personality as well.)
L - You're going to laugh but Longus is really close to how I see L's personality.  Cool and casual and kind of grinning all the time.
T - I love the letter T.  He seems like the kind of person I could go to about any problem.  He has a crush on S and U is his best friend who's always trying to get him a date with her.
X, Y, Z - I've always associated these three with an evil trio with Z being in control.  X is masculine and Y and Z are feminine.
M - I really don't like this letter for some reason and I think it's because she bosses N around.  She also wears a lot of expensive jewelry.
C - This is pretty close to how I see Rose but with shorter frizzier hair.  I also strongly associate 'C' with the color red and hide the letter 'C' in Rose's hair because of this. [link]

If you have any questions about letters I haven't talked about, just ask me.  I think I might try drawing some of my favorites. X3  At some point, I'll try to draw my spacial timeline.  I have a few different ones for my age, world history, and number orders in general.

As a side note, it is confusing for me that my MAJESTIC 12 members (minus 7) don't look or personify how I see 'my' numbers.  I did this on purpose for design reasons rather than just trying to confuse myself. lol  Never in a million years would I associate the number 8 with a sexy young thang. X3
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Mood: Wow! ~LadyKuonji Dec 21, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
That is so cool!! I am doing a paper on this and I read about the Color/Letter combo but never personality/letter combo!
I would love to ask you some questions if thats ok?
If you want to here is the [link] to a journal asking about some of the things I woule like to know. Not everything is on there so if you do respond I may ask you a few more questions.... if thats ok that is....

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Hey, so I was on news scientist today and I found an article on a new type of synesthesia. I thought since you research and are interested in it (in addition to having it) that you'd like to read it (if I remember/am on next time you are on Livestream I'll probably post it there as well).

Here's the link:

Or Copy & pasted:

Time Lords discovered in California

* 00:01 01 April 2010 by Rowan Hooper
* For similar stories, visit the Astrobiology and The Human Brain Topic Guides

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.

Sci-fi fans – Anglophile ones, at least – know that the coolest aliens in the universe are Time Lords: time-travelling humanoids with the ability to understand and perceive events throughout time and space. Now it seems that people with a newly described condition have a similar, albeit lesser ability: they experience time as a spatial construct.

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.
I see… time

"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.
Regenerating patterns

Brang and colleagues recruited 183 students and asked them to visualise the months of the year and construct this representation on a computer screen. Four months later the students were shown a blank screen and asked to select a position for each of the months. They were prompted with a cue month – a randomly selected month placed as a dot in the location where the student had originally placed it.

Uncannily, four of the 183 students were found to be time-space synaesthetes when they placed their months in a distinct spatial array – such as a circle – that was consistent over the trials.

A second test compared how well time-space synaesthetes and ordinary humans could memorise an unfamiliar spatial calendar and reproduce it. Time-space synaesthetes turned out to have much better recall than the time-blind majority.

Brang suspects that time-space synaesthesia happens when the neural processes underlying spatial processing are unusually active. "This enhanced processing would generalise to other functions of spatial processing – mental rotation, map navigation, spatial manipulation," he says.

Brang did not speculate on whether time-space synaesthetes could regenerate, or if they have two hearts: both key characteristics of Time Lords.
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Sorry--here's the article link: [link]
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I don't have it but I think it's interesting/cool. I knew about it before but only because I read a book years ago - it's called A Mango-Shaped Space, you could try it if you'd like it. The main character has synesthesia.
I'd love to see your chacters!
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*YourInnerDemons Dec 21, 2009  Hobbyist Writer
Dude! You too! I thought I was alone in doing that! I do it with letters. J has always been a bad guy.

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*chaosfive55 Dec 20, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
That's very interesting, because back in grade school I ascribed personalities to numbers, my pencils, and a host of other unlikely things! 5 was and is my favorite--he's like me, a smiley smartalecky type but well-centered!
Just thought i'd share that:shrug:

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*Honeykitten Dec 17, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Pfft, come on girl, why whould we think that? :D Of course we don't think you are crazy or anything :hug: Yes, I have heard about this ability before, I find it quite interesting how one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to an automatic, involuntary experience in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. The human brain sure is one mysterious creation, there's a lot about the mind that we don't understand yet :D

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~Sphynxette Dec 15, 2009  Student Digital Artist
Wow. I thought this was completely normal and everyone saw letters and numbers that way.
It's weird how you think things are the same for everyone else until someone points it out. That's happened to me a couple of times this year. For example, I've had fructose malabsorption my entire life and never realised it until somebody got me tested. I thought that everybody felt sick after eating food, it was just how it worked :S
And aural hallucinations too. I hear music and voices in my head especially if I'm lying down or in a car. The voices never talk to me, they just ramble on and the music is always an orchestra with lots of violins.

It just goes to show how many different things we could have without realising it.
Btw, 3 is a jackass. Stay away from him >:|
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Omigod, I thought I was the only one who did this :XD:
I used to make up little sitcoms with numbers. 5 I always pictured as male, usually dark red. thinks he's really cool and is always trying to get 13's attention. (she's a beautiful blond, usually pink.)
Glad to know I'm not the only one.
A little disturbed to know that it's a disease :XD:

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*chaosfive55 Dec 20, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
5 IS cool! He's always smiling...my lucky number!

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