I find myself becoming increasingly disappointed when a singer or some such person in the public eye who I’ve heard about does not live up to the colour I saw for them. What I mean is, as I’ve mentioned before, people seem to have colours that are somtimes unrelated to just their name, so their name can have a colour but then they as a person might be a different colour (very confusing). I always find it a bit disconcerting when someone turns out to be the ‘wrong’ colour.
For example, the singer Jack Penate was very vibrant orange (because J is orange), but Jack has always been black to me so that was the first confusion. And then I saw a photo of Jack Penate and he SO was NOT orange and it was all wrong. He’s more of a fuzzy browny black in person.
I suppose it works the other way around too though – it’s quite nice when someone does match their colour, like Kate Nash. I had imagined her to be orangy brown from the first time I heard her (possibly because the song she sang was Caroline’s A Victim and ‘Caroline’ I saw as orange). It was refreshing to then see her on tv and realise that the colours I imagined weren’t a bad match for the colours of her in person.
I still haven’t been able to pinpoint what it is about a person that makes them a certain colour though. I think it will always remain a mystery.
October 11, 2007 at 5:44 pm |
I do exactly the same thing, do you have a small range of colours that people could be then catagorise them accordingly or it it more ramdon than that? i seen to have the same few colours and similar people (usually- sometimes its random) are a similar colour. I experience the same confusion with i name sometimes that is a different colour all together. I think for me the colours are based on attributes of that persons personality but thats not always the case for me often i know imediatley what colour a person is then sometimes it takes a while.
February 2, 2008 at 12:01 am |
I have personality > color synesthesia as well. Every person has a set or one color at any given moment that I am looking at them. I think it’s based on their personality characteristics.
June 5, 2008 at 3:20 pm |
I do much the same thing, and I have a few questions for you, if you don’t mind answering.
I’m a fairly young synesthete (midway teenager), and is it possible for synesthesia to make itself apparent not in childhood, but during puberty? Maybe I had just never noticed it before (I have music-color synesthesia, and only began playing an instrument in middle school. However, when the colors came, they came quickly and majorly. Now all I have to do is hear someone talk to begin seeing colors).
Also, is there any insight into what really causes synesthesia? Is it something to do with your genes, when you’re born, or does it develop afterwards?
Thank you so much. And as for your last statement on the post, I think it’s something that has to do with emotion colors (not sure if anyone else gets these). I attribute certain colors to certain emotions, or certain feelings. When a person tends to emote or act a certain way, I attribute the slew of colors that goes with how they feel, to them. It sounds a bit more complicated than it really is, and it happens to me automatically.
June 19, 2008 at 9:29 am |
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Williamsburg.
April 15, 2009 at 4:38 pm |
Hey, cool tips. Perhaps I’ll buy a bottle of beer to the man from that chat who told me to visit your blog
May 21, 2009 at 4:42 pm |
Пора переименовать блог, присвоив название связанное с доменами
может хватит про них?
May 23, 2009 at 12:46 am |
Пора переименовать блог, присвоив название связанное с доменами
может хватит про них?
May 23, 2009 at 8:59 pm |
я бы сказал не интересно, а разумно
May 24, 2009 at 6:24 pm |
Здорово!
May 26, 2009 at 7:47 am |
Оригинальная идея. Интересно сколько времени он на это потратил
June 3, 2009 at 10:32 pm |
Thank you to everyone who posted a message on here over the last couple of years – this blog had been left untouched but your messages still arrived at my inbox and I read them all.
I will begin to reply to them on the blog over the next few days, even comments from two years ago.
Thanks for reading.
July 2, 2009 at 5:18 am |
I’m not sure whether I have an “overactive imagination” or I am a personality-color synesthete. I might have been doing this before and I might not remember, but just in the past month or two I’ve had the urge to title people with colors. It will bug me until I have the right one, too.
I know that what I feel has NOTHING to do with favorite colors- (I visualize these things in my head if I think of their personality/ picture)
My favorite color is aqua, but I am clearly and undoubtibly an orange. My mom loves red, although she’s a brown…etc.
What do you think?
July 29, 2009 at 7:44 pm |
I’ve been wondering about synaesthesia for a while because recently I’ve been noticing things a bit like you describe. Sometimes I just have to label people with colours, and I don’t have to think about it, I can just see the colour they are.
It always seems to relate to there personality: bubbly people are more yellow/red and people who feel fake or are trying to fit in with others seem orange. People who bitch always seem pinky and quiet people are purple. Blue is people who are quite open and green is a talkative personality.
So I see personalities as colours, but not like letters or numbers. Sometimes if I think of a word, like sky, I see blue, etc, but I wonder if this is just an over-active imagination?
I don’t know! What do you think?