Do You Think in Colour?

[Tron_fdc]

Originally Posted by 4X4

I simply cant. I can find my way back every time, unless I am drunk.

But I think in colour.

Red and blues, you drunk driving heathen?



Weren't autistic kids that were really good at something, like that because they associated colours with numbers or sounds? I thought I saw a program on that somewhere. Some kid that couldn't tie his shoes, but could play pretty much any piece of music on the piano by ear after hearing it once.

I wonder if 4x4 sees different colours when certain music comes on on the radio?

[BlackEleven]

Can you do math really quickly in your head by thinking in colour.

I saw an interview with one of those savants on tv and he said the reason he could do math so quickly is because he pictures numbers as shapes and colours and would combine them together in his head to get the answer lightning fast.

The guy was unreal people would sit there with calculators and ask him things like "what's 934 * 343?" and he'd come up with the answer faster than they could key it into the calculator. He could do square roots and as and any other mathematical operation you can think of.

They put the guy in a cat scan machine and had him do math problems. When he was calculating the areas of his brain that are usually associated with sight and not mathematically reasoning were active. The typical math centres of the brain were not active at all.

Pretty neat stuff.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

They put the guy in a cat scan machine and had him do math problems. When he was calculating the areas of his brain that are usually associated with sight and not mathematically reasoning were active. The typical math centres of the brain were not active at all.

Pretty neat stuff.

One of the best key-note speakers I ever saw was when I was in Jr. High eons ago and it turns out he's the head of the english faculty for some college and the "linguistics" part of his brain was damaged at birth and had never functioned.

[gottabekd]

I always associated school subjects with colours. This was due to getting different coloured binders for all my subjects.

Blue is English (Language Arts)
Green is Math
Red is Social Studies
That leaves black for Science.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by gottabekd

I always associated school subjects with colours. This was due to getting different coloured binders for all my subjects.

Blue is English (Language Arts)
Green is Math
Red is Social Studies
That leaves black for Science.

Wow. Now that I think about it, when I think of those words, they have colour as well. English is blue and french is purple. Social studies is orange, but the letter 's' by itself is red.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Wow. Now that I think about it, when I think of those words, they have colour as well. English is blue and french is purple. Social studies is orange, but the letter 's' by itself is red.

Do you have really strong reading comprehension skills? This kind of visualizing ability is pretty cool.

People with crappy reading comprehension skills don't visualize at all.

If the letters have colours, do words have colors? "Barn" for instance If you picture the word is the "b" a different colour than the "a" and so on?

Further on that, if you think "barn", do you see the word "barn" or an actual barn?

[Itse]

Somewhat funny, but mostly rather interesting in a "never would've thought of that" way.

Not that I have anything more to say to this. Just goes to show how surprising our little differences can sometimes be.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Do you have really strong reading comprehension skills? This kind of visualizing ability is pretty cool.

People with crappy reading comprehension skills don't visualize at all.

If the letters have colours, do words have colors? "Barn" for instance If you picture the word is the "b" a different colour than the "a" and so on?

Further on that, if you think "barn", do you see the word "barn" or an actual barn?

Not really. If I think of barn, the whole word is brown. If I picture the word spelled out with hyphens, the individual letters have their own colors. B is yellow, a is red, r is black or dark purple and n is green.

As for reading comprehension, yeah, I'm pretty good when I'm interested in what I'm reading. I read fast and absorb almost all of it. Back in grade school, I was usually done the assigned book the same night. Nowadays, I'm not as fast because I don't read regularly. But if I'm not interested in what I'm reading, I often find myself daydreaming even though my eyes are reading the words. Sometimes I have to backtrack 3 or 4 pages and re-read.

[Itse]

Originally Posted by Flashpoint

I have a co-worker who thinks numbers have genders.

4 is a girl number. 7 is male.

Wait, that's all wrong. All odd numbers are female, all even numbers are male.

In my case I know this comes from my roleplaying background. As a GM I have this system to help me improvise that uses a ten-sided die as a randomizer, and then I use those randomized results as seeds for thought. I'm not sure I could explain it in any way that makes sense, but anyway since gender is easy to associate with a lot of things (clothing, types of vehicles, professions, reactions), I often start by rolling a "gender". Odd is female, even is male.

[lambeburger]

Originally Posted by gottabekd

I always associated school subjects with colours. This was due to getting different coloured binders for all my subjects.

Blue is English (Language Arts)
Green is Math
Red is Social Studies
That leaves black for Science.

I'm the same way but for me, math is red and social studies is green.

[FireFly]

Is it odd that when I visualize events it's always in black and white?

[Sparks]

Originally Posted by FireFly

Is it odd that when I visualize events it's always in black and white?

Interesting! For me, I would visualize events in colour.

Also, I'm told some people dream mostly in black and white.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by FireFly

Is it odd that when I visualize events it's always in black and white?

Are you a big film-noir fan?

[Kidder]

Now I'm all thrown off... because when I do math, I don't visualize at all... at least I don't think so.

Like if I want to find out 6 x 8, it plays out like a conversation in my head.

"okay, six multiplied by eight equals [processing...] 48"

Perhaps this is a by product of learning the multiplication table through audio learning, those stupid chants we'd do in elementary math class:

3 times 1 is 3; 3 times 2 is 6; 3 times 3 is 9; 3 times 4 is 12; etc etc

I can't even fathom what it's like to see colours inside your head in order to solve math problems. Truly bizarre, and totally awesomo.

[PowerPlayoffs06]

When I think of words, I think them in lower case but when I write, everything is always capitals.

When I visualize things like the barn, I see a color picture of the object with black words (lower case) superimposed on top like some kind of child's learning book.

[Torture]

Wow...

You have problems 4X4...seek help!

1 is 1, it doesn't have any fata'ing colour attached to it!

[Resolute 14]

I thought I was completely f'ing insane once.

Then I discovered the internet.

Now I know I have a long way to go to get to completely f'ing insane.

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by troutman

Did you ever wonder, is my green different than your green? Maybe your green looks like my red?

yep, and after long debate i don't remember the exact reasoning but we figured that we all must see the same colours or atleast similar.

[Hack&Lube]

Yeah, it's Synesthesia. It was on HOUSE!

[DAN0383]

I only do that with school subjects... wierd.
Social Studies - Blue
Science - Green
Math - Red
English - Brown.