awww I want that disease
I only heard of it when Frankspencer (I think) made up a whole story about it. It sounds like the most fun mental illness you can get. Besides Tourettes obviously.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:13, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I don't think it's an illness
It's more like a superpower
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:15, Reply)

no fair
I want toffee flavoured maths.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:17, Reply)

man, so do I!
I really don't get how people live without music being in colour, though
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:21, Reply)

It's all about the shades of blue, man...
Edit: toffee-flavoured maths? How does that work and how can I apply it to my own life?
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:22, Reply)

*shrugs*
I guess it would be like number having colour/form (which I get) only with flavours

This makes perfect sense to me, I suspect not to everyone else
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:29, Reply)

I read the wikipedia article on it
but that's the extent of my understanding really. I think some people do get it the flavour and sound version of it as well as the colour version. Jammy fucks. Haha I wonder if the word jammy tastes of jam.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:33, Reply)

I saw something on TV
which was a theory that it was linked with the development of language
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:37, Reply)

I'm totally teaching my child to taste the language

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:48, Reply)

i fear it's not teachable
I think I worried my mum when I was a kid and pointed out that the smell of two deodorants were like the same note played on different instruments. That was the first time I found out that not everyone's brain does it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:52, Reply)

that's awesome
if my kid is going to have a brain disorder I hope it's that one.

And not assplurgers.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:54, Reply)

Interesting
I can see what you mean about it applying to music; I've noticed that I associate some pieces of music with a particular colour and I've never been able to explain why. And I'm sure I've asked one of my friends to taste whatever I've been cooking and said, "What does that need? It's quite good, it just needs to be more...um...red..."
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:53, Reply)

sounds like you have it, too
I don't think it's all that uncommon - mostly artists and musicians seem to have it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:54, Reply)

From what you said about the deodorants above
I think you may be right. Having tried vast numbers of beers at various festivals I've usually run out of analogies to 'foody' flavours and starting describing them in terms of "being like that one you had earlier, but brighter."

I'd be interested to test a couple of the songs I get very strong colours from and see if other people get the same colour.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:02, Reply)

Give me examples!

(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:03, Reply)

I may have to give you some esoteric examples
As I don't get a strong colour off all songs. However, I have just been testing the following:
Hooverphonic - Eden, I get a strange, empty plateau, a bit like standing on the surface of the moon, except the rock is a sort of purpley-grey.
Emily Loizeau - Sur La Route, I get a very cold white, like being in a blizzard
The Who - Bargain, mostly black, but like being in a cave where you get occasional flashes of the brown, earthy rock around you.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:09, Reply)

Everyone seems to have different
a friend of mine has similar things to me with numbers and colours, but our colours don't match at all
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:03, Reply)

I have exactly that!
Songs are colours to me.

For instance, Smells like teen spirit would be purple, whilst the Foo's Learn to fly would be a greenish/teal and the macarena would be orange.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:00, Reply)

mine is more like
individual notes and sounds having colour or form.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:02, Reply)

Clearly way more intense!
EDIT: Actually, now you mention it, if I'm playing a synth and fucking about with the noises, the texture of the sound would affect the colour I hear. Individual notes don't have the same effect.
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:03, Reply)

very difficult to describe, though
I have it with ideas, too, which means I can work through concepts in my head that way (sometimes knowing the end product of an argument because the colours and shape fit) but then have to work backwards to put it into actual language
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:05, Reply)

Ok, in that case, you're just a good old fasioned mental.

(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:06, Reply)

YAY!

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:06, Reply)

we should totally have a
b3ta synaesthetes club
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:20, Reply)

It's reasonably common I think:
hence Blue Note records.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:24, Reply)