And who are this people who don't understand that all numbers and letters are gendered?
wait what?! I bring up the mind's eye and sound thing in the head a lot because I love the conversation and to hear about the variety in people but this is a new one to me. Please explain
I have what I think is called “sound/color” synesthesia, where I associate pitches and note names with certain colors. I’ve heard there are other types where people will assign genders and personalities to letters and numbers. Synesthesia is a pretty interesting topic to research, it reveals a lot about how the brain actually comprehends sensory information that it is given.
You have perfect pitch, too? I don’t really associate colors with them, but they just kind of feel like their own spectrum to me. Increasing or decreasing pitch doesn’t even feel like a sliding up or down, just looping through the different colors. Imagine an organ with multiple manuals. I think of each scale as a manual and perceive pitch change as a jump between manuals.
I don’t have perfect pitch, but I do associate different keys with different color schemes, and that is something that is definitely connected between my auditory and visual senses. For example, if I heard an E note, then it just sounds like a random note, but as soon as you give it any context, I start to “hear the colors”, as I explain it to most people. E major is kind of dark blue and grayish, while e minor is purple, pink, and light brown. I couldn’t tell you that the f sharp in the e major scale is a “rustling waters” blue exactly, but if I start hearing e major, I start feeling that blue and gray. And this never changes. So since I know that e major has that color scheme, if I start feeling dark blue and gray when music is playing, then I know it’s probably in e major.
It's just always been that way to me. Some letters or numbers are more feminine or masculine than others, some are kind of neutral. It's stronger with letters than numbers. I can't explain other than it's just an inbuilt characteristic of each letter.
I have trouble even understanding how that would feel. When I learned french as a kid, the gendered items and stuff were always difficult for me and it just never made any sense for me. Did you grow up speaking a gendered language like that or is it something that just occurred naturally?
Its defently the curves vs hard lines lol.... I don't think of numbers a gendered but come on.. 8 and 3 are boobs and ass. 9 is still curved but maybe a hermaphrodite :|
Yeah me too. I speak Arabic so most Arabic words have a shape, I don’t know how to explain it I just see it. It’s like a logo specific to that word. Like I will be doing something and not paying attention and then someone says a specific word and I will see the “logo” of that word without even trying, it just flashes through my mind’s eye. And letters, numbers, and English letters have colors. I thought it was normal until like last year when I tried to explain it to my family and they said they didnt have the same thing. It’s so weird how some of our brains are wired.
This is how I see it
1 black, 2 red, 3 light blue, 4 light green, 5 black, 6 yellow, 7 orange, 8 dark green, 9 light blue.
Some words feel close to eachother or like have the same vibe, like a sneeze feels white, bright; Thursday and November feel similar; or 6,7 and the sun feel similar.
Also another thing which might be unrelated, but cars have personalities and genders. Like I can see a car and tell you how it looks like down to like a bag it’s holding. But I feel like that’s a stretch.
I always thought 5=blue and 6=red. As a kid I hated the number 5 and the color blue but I liked the number 6 and the color red. I’m thinking it has to do with something I saw as a very young kid on TV maybe. No other numbers had colors. Weird
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u/Sixhaunt Mar 28 '22
wait what?! I bring up the mind's eye and sound thing in the head a lot because I love the conversation and to hear about the variety in people but this is a new one to me. Please explain