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HelpRe: Color associations
in reply to a message by Xeno
I'm not sure if I count as a synesthete, as my associations aren't something I "see," nor are they something I envision in boldness. Some are more automatic than others, to the point where I don't really notice it. Others, I feel like I have to really focus in to know what color it is, so I don't know if I'm making it up or what. The colors are consistent across time though, so... I can remember noticing the colors as far back as when I first started thinking of names in 2nd grade. Oh, and it only applies to names!
Either way though, it's cool that our colors match up! I know that doesn't seem to happen often. :)
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Current favorites:
Ephraim / Tristram / Benedict / Hamish
Cordelia / Winifred / Edith / Margaret
Vote on my PNL: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/114016
Either way though, it's cool that our colors match up! I know that doesn't seem to happen often. :)
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Current favorites:
Ephraim / Tristram / Benedict / Hamish
Cordelia / Winifred / Edith / Margaret
Vote on my PNL: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/114016
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I think that counts. That's similar to how it is for me. I mean, it might apply to words, I've just never thought about them. Letters and letter combinations form the colors, and some dominate an entire name, and some make a name lots of colors. It's hard to explain the sense that is used to perceive them, though. You don't literally see them, obviously. You don't even think them. They just are. I never knew that this wasn't a normal phenomenon until I joined BtN however many years ago and people mentioned it. I remember liking names as a 7 or 8 year old because they were certain colors too.
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