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any one else have this? i have the commenest grapheme-colour type, - digits, letters, months, days years - and had never really analysed til it came up in conversation. just took it for granted really.
if you do have this, what area do you work in? programming, design...do you feel it helps at all?
i do design but strangely color is one of the parts i find the hardest.
just wondering...
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ben
(It is evidently written and designed by someone who has no idea about userfriendly websites and web-pages!)
I have never heard about this particular connection before, but it is fairly common to have abilities that cross the boundaries between different senses.
Many people experience colours or other visual impressions when they hear music. The mother of my oldest son is one of them. Carl Maria von Weber had it the other way around: When seing a landscape he experienced it as a piece of music, something that moved in time.
On one level of perception music is simply numbers and relations between them. Music is a way of experiencing very complicated matematical relations immediately. So are colours and other visual impressions.
It is quite logical that some people should have the ability to feel that connction the other way around: That numbers should give them musical or visual experiences.
