[decimon]

Synthesis ping.

[Rio]

Me Too

[randog]

I have synaesthesia—I see music in color. Never knew I had it until I read about it as a teenager.

[Sawdring]

I watched an episode of Ingenious Minds where the man had an ability to self teach himself electrical engineering but he had a strong case of Asperger's syndrome. He wrote a book describing his condition and he is helping doctors develop a cure in the brain for it. The stuff he designed with sound was cutting edge in the 70's and he only got more intelligent from there. He worked for Pink Floyd and made electric guitars for KISS.

I'm sure you could DVR the episode on Ingenious Minds on the Science Channel.

Mr. Robison's website and book:

Look Me In The Eye

[exDemMom]

Synaesthesia has different manifestations. Letters and numbers only have the color of the ink or electrons they are printed with.

Movement, however, has sound, which is independent of any sound actually associated with it. For example, today I saw an ambulance with flashing lights but no siren. The red lights flashed with a distinctly different tone than the yellow lights. They sounded a lot like European sirens.

I wonder if a lot of composers have motion/sound synaethesia. That would explain how Beethoven was able to compose, even though he was deaf.

[G8 Diplomat]

I have grapheme-color synesthesia. I see numbers and letters in color. Even in different alphabets.

About 1 in 2500 people have G-C synesthesia. It would be interesting to know how exactly this type of synesthesia developed, since it couldn’t have existed before writing was invented. Synesthesia exists in other forms (like associating taste with musical notes) which could have existed in pre-writing times, but most of its forms have to do with letters, so it must have developed after the advent of writing.

[martin_fierro]

My brain hurts.