Different perceptions? (sorta VR)
OK, so I was watching Private Benjamin and there's this long discussion in there about whether the hassock she just bought is "mushroom" or "taupe". Not that I know the difference between those 2 colours, you understand! But it got me thinking. Most of our traffic lights here in Spain look blue to me, not green! A greenish blue, but a definite blue. I'm not colour blind, I know. DH and I have had quite a discussion on this.
Then of course there are smells etc. To me, as I mention in the broccoli thread, cooking broccoli rabe or Brussels sprouts smell like burning cigars. No one else seems to notice this. I'm not just saying, I don't like this smell and someone else does--they percieve a completely different smell!
So is it possible that this happens to other folks? That what you see as pale brown might look grey to someone else, or what you smell as cigars might smell just like, oh, green beans, to them?
I know I'm not "normal" (whatever that is--reality is a concept) because I do have synasthesia, which means I percieve sound differently to a lot of folks. So is this more of same, or has it happened to you?
Just curious!
i remember asking this same question to my third (?) grade teacher...we wondered if the colors around the room, which taught us our colors, were the same to all of us...how did we know that one person's pink wasnt another's blue?
apparently, it has something to do w/ the number of rods and cones in our eyes....people generally see the same.
of course, with your condition, your perception is where the *blip* is. it is in your brain, your perception.
i have also heard that all people have some level of synasthesia...when we think of certain words, for example, we think of their shapes as round, or jagged, etc. its totally fascinating to me.
i would think that this perception would also carry over to scents. either that, or you and the DH might need cooking lessons!! ;D
I hear voices as colours, sometimes multi-layered, if that makes sense
Seeing colours with sound is associated with having perfect pitch. My son has a friend who has perfect pitch & will see colours when he's listening to music or hears tones. It never stops for him.
I hear voices as colours, sometimes multi-layered, if that makes sense
Yes, it does.That's synasthesia, or at least one form. In my case, it's shapes. I remember seeing my cousin Ben for the first time in like 20 years...we really didn't know each other at all. While we were sitting in his mom's kitchen having coffee, the oven timer went off and I reacted! I yelped, "Oh, turn that off, it's like a string of cast-iron pearls." He stared. "You do it too!" "Do what?" "Sounds have shape."
Damn straight.
I don't percieve the colours as I do the shapes, which I *feel* inside me more than see, but I do find myself using colour to describe certain voices. Like Morgan Freeman: dark golden brown with honey-coloured glints. He always reminds me of that verse from the Song of Solomon: "Honey and milk are under your tongue, your voice is wine poured out."
OK, so neither honey nor milk are vegan, but you get the point. Smooth and sweet.