| A few details about me and about
what I'm doing: |
I studied geology and in my spare time I like to read and paint, and
I am very much interested in the Dutch language and a little bit in philosophy.
Since the end of 2003 I am aware that my internal, colourful order has
a name. I have been living with my coloured letters, numbers, weekdays,
time periods since I can remember, and I use this consciously (telephone
numbers or birthdays I remember, for example, by the colours of the numbers,
like many other synnies, and I am planning in my head with the help of
the day's colours).
My numbers are lined up on an inner number beam that bends 90° bend
at the numbers 20 and 100.
Weekdays, months and other periods of time also have a characteristic
order for me that remained the same since my childhood.
In the letters the vowels are coloured intensely, the consonants are comparatively
pale and not all of them have colours. The colours of the vowels also
determine the colours of words. Even if I hear the words, I see them in
colours. The word "acht" (in "achtgeben" = take care)
I hear in matt red because of the red A (the "ch" makes the
red matt), but the word for the number 88 (achtundachzig) I hear in dark
blue (because the 8 is blue). If I read a text, all the vowels seem to
shimmer slightly in colours on the paper/monitor - but not the consonants;
their colour only exists in my imagination.
I also have noise and music synesthesias in myself, they were so natural
for me in former times that I never studied them consciously. Examples:
female voices often tend to yellow, male voices usually are coloured somewhere
between yellow brown and almost black and are composed of tiny cubicle-like
structures. The voice of Xavier Naidoo sounds greenish for me - this is
very unusual for human voices and also a reason why I do not like to listen
to him. Hoarse voices become whitish.
Violin tunes are yellow lines or (if several violins are playing) combs.
Violas become brownish. Guitar tunes are brownish semi-circular "scraps",
an electric guitar becomes metallic brown. Clarinet tumes sound greenish-yellowish
to me, greasy and pasty. Piano tunes are spheres, and low tunes have brown
tints and a flaky-granular structure; higher tunes become yellow and smooth.
I perceive these colours and structures as a unity on an inner level
in my head that has no overlay with the outside but no boundary - and
it is as if the colours are perceived via my ears.
In my family I found more synesthetes.
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