Are You Visual?

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

When I think of things I see them in my mind.

For instance...

I see the week as 2 squares at the bottom (Saturday on the right and Sunday on the left when facing it) and the days of the week make a clockwise semicircle of squares from Sunday around to saturday. But the weekday boxes are never on the same level of the weekend boxes. They begin and end equal to the top of the weekend boxes.



When someone gives me a phone number to remember I picture the keypad and see the numbers (often actually move my fingers as if I were entering the numbers) being pressed.

Colors have temperature ranges (warm & cold) but that isn't out of the ordinary.

I view the way someone words their statement as pointed or round & smooth.

Sounds are sharp (like a knife) or round.

When directing a choir I will lean to one side when the song makes an incidental flat because flats lean... to me at least.

I see waves when notes are out of tune and stillness when they are in tune.

Anyone else?

Or am I just crazy.

You are not crazy at all! Many people share common ways to retain information or process information. I think you are wise, knowledgebale, and self aware!

Blessings, Rhoni

[LadyChocolate]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

When I think of things I see them in my mind.

For instance...

I see the week as 2 squares at the bottom (Saturday on the right and Sunday on the left when facing it) and the days of the week make a clockwise semicircle of squares from Sunday around to saturday. But the weekday boxes are never on the same level of the weekend boxes. They begin and end equal to the top of the weekend boxes.



When someone gives me a phone number to remember I picture the keypad and see the numbers (often actually move my fingers as if I were entering the numbers) being pressed.

Colors have temperature ranges (warm & cold) but that isn't out of the ordinary.

I view the way someone words their statement as pointed or round & smooth.

Sounds are sharp (like a knife) or round.

When directing a choir I will lean to one side when the song makes an incidental flat because flats lean... to me at least.

I see waves when notes are out of tune and stillness when they are in tune.

Anyone else?

Or am I just crazy.

lol! crazy!! yep! but I understand. It must be the creativity coming out. I remember being in band and our teacher was asking us to close our eyes and listen to the music. Then he asked us what we saw. I knew I was out to lunch then because the other students were saying, they could see where the clarinets would come in and then the brass section would take over. They could also see where the percussion made the highlights of the musical pieces.... Well, I didn't see any of that.... When the music started and I closed my eyes, all I saw was myself, in a beautiful victorian dress and the love of my life wisking me away to a beautiful mansion but before we got there, there were warriors trying to kill my prince and he fought them off with just a spear... and we lived happily ever after. YEah, my teacher looked at me with a raised eyebrow... so did the rest of the class....

Yes, I see things visual... When I was in typing class at school, I got to where when I was thinking of words, I would actually type them in my head or move my fingers like I was actually typing.... it helped me type a lot faster.. I'm just not very accurate! lol

[Digging4Truth]

WOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has a name.

From Wikipedia
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Synesthesia
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For other uses, see Synesthesia (disambiguation).

Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesae or synaesthesae)—from the Greek syn- meaning union and aesthesis meaning sensation—is a neurological condition in which two or more bodily senses are coupled. In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a three-dimensional view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise).

While cross-sensory metaphors (e.g., "loud shirt", "bitter wind" or "prickly laugh") are sometimes described as "synesthetic", true neurological synesthesia is involuntary. It is estimated that synesthesia may be as prevalant as 1 in 23 persons across its range of variants (Simner et al. 2006). It runs strongly in families, possibly inherited as an X-linked dominant trait. Synesthesia is also sometimes reported by individuals under the influence of psychedelic drugs, after a stroke, or as a consequence of blindness or deafness. Synesthesia that arises from such non-genetic events is referred to as adventitious synesthesia to distinguish it from the more common congenital forms of synesthesia. Adventitious synesthesia involving drugs or stroke (but not blindness or deafness) apparently only involves sensory linkings such as sound → vision or touch → hearing; there are few if any reported cases involving culture-based, learned sets such as graphemes, lexemes, days of the week, or months of the year.

Although synesthesia was the topic of intensive scientific investigation in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was largely abandoned in the mid-20th century, and has only recently been rediscovered by modern researchers. Psychological research has demonstrated that synesthetic experiences can have measurable behavioral consequences, while functional neuroimaging studies have identified differences in patterns of brain activation (for a review see Hubbard & Ramachandran 2005).

Many people with synesthesia use their experiences to aid in their creative process, and many non-synesthetes have attempted to create works of art that may capture what it is like to experience synesthesia. Psychologists and neuroscientists study synesthesia not only for its inherent interest, but also for the insights it may give into cognitive and perceptual processes that occur in everyone, synesthete and non-synesthete alike.

There is a LOT more info on the wikipedia page but I won't bring all of that data over here...

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by LadyChocolate

Yes, I see things visual... When I was in typing class at school, I got to where when I was thinking of words, I would actually type them in my head or move my fingers like I was actually typing.... it helped me type a lot faster.. I'm just not very accurate! lol

When I am nervous I type the numbers one through twenty with my fingers. (one two three four etc)

I used to sign my alphabet back when I did a lot of interpreting for the deaf.

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

When I am nervous I type the numbers one through twenty with my fingers. (one two three four etc)

I used to sign my alphabet back when I did a lot of interpreting for the deaf.

This is something I do also...I fingerspell with both the right and left hand...it is somehow therapeutic.

Blessings, Rhoni