She can see time

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8248760.stm

Holly Branigan has time-space synaesthesia, a condition which causes her to see time in space

 

oohh that's so weird, she described exactly what I see when I think about time, also the bit at the bottom about having certain colours for different things.. I have different colours for each day of the week.. :/

 

interesting

 

i can see time also, its in the bottom right hand corner on my computer.. or the bottom of HF..
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 06:54 PM.

 

Reminds me of autism.

 

i think everyone in a way associates certain things like that.
it helps you mentally remember and understand a concept like a time scale based upon 12 months.

just like when you try to think of someones name for example, you automatically think about the most significant memory at that time thats in your mind where that person was involved.

e.g. you are trying to remember a new friends name and you think of the party and the events that occurred when you met them.

or, for sports people, when trying to remember what teams made it to what rounds in last years playoffs, you automatically invision the sports bracket you filled out or that was posted on your wall. you remember the shape of the handwriting on it and the position of the teams.

i think some people just have this ability more strongly than others. its an adaptive skill that we've developed over time just like we've become upright walking to better control our environment and survive.

autistic people seem to have qualities like this but to extremes while lacking other basic and normal social and adaptive skills.

yea im a bit high lol but i studied some of this ish in college and this is roughly what psych professors teach about the issue.

 

Until you listen to her describing what she sees, and then you realise she is actually just talking about a calendar

 

I started reading another article on that, this one

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8248589.stm

In it it talks about different forms of synathsesia, such as the association of numbers and letters with colours.

When I was a child I used to associate numbers with colours. For some reason that I couldn't understand the number 1 was white, 2 was yellow, 3 orange, 4 red, 5 green, and 6 was blue. One time in sunday school there was a lesson or game or something where numbers were assigned colours, and they were all different to what I imagined in my head, and I argued until I was blue in the face with the teacher that they'd got it wrong and I just would NOT accept it!

I once asked my friend if he ever did the same thing when he was a child, and it turns out he did, only he associated different colours with different numbers. We even had a small argument over the number 6, I said it should be blue but he was adamant it was orange.

It is slightly curious...

It's nothing out of the ordinary I think, and probably just another fancy name some psychologist dreamt up for something that doesn't really require an explanation.

I thought this was about people starting to become aware of higher dimensions, like in general relativity there is no distinction between time and space, they are all 'dimensions' and there are many more of them out there that we are not aware of other than the 4 space-time. It's kind of difficult to imagine other than mathematically, and I'm not really convinced by it.

 

exacly.

 

A lot of musicians see music as colours... More red from the string section, etc.

Although I have never done it with numbers, I will often remember where I was (location) when learning a new fact. I listen to a lot of talk radio and can often remember where I was in the vehicle when listening to a certain story.

For instance, the story I heard of musicians seeing colour, I was downtown my city and remember the route I was taking and which lights were red on the drive.

Um, now to go read the article. lol

Edited to add: The program I listened too also discussed how people taste shapes. One made apologized to his house guests because he didn't have enough triangle pieces of chicken. It wasn't the actual shape of the chicken though... I love the world we live in.

 

if you think that's messed up try talking to the guy who sees colors as time

 

How would that go then?

Hey Mike, fancy a pint down the old nag later?
Aye sure! What time?
Oh I dunno, around purple o' clock? I can't stay out too lemon though, I've got to be up at yellow tomorrow for work as I have an early mauve appointment at orange thirty.

 

:smilielol5:...

 

Nice. That's funny.

Could you imagine what you could do to a child if that was how you taught them to talk about time. It's just all relative. It's like talking another language. We are all saying them same thing but the words and or sounds are just different.

Personally, I am dyslexic. Even though I learned how to read and write I don't think I learned the same language or learned language the same way as other people have. Along those lines, I think that if the mind is trained to see things in different ways it will.

 

i have a friend that's got a color for every letter..

 

So she sees streaks as time passes or something? How is that the same thing as seeing time? And how can you say you see time when no one has explained what time is. Thanks, BBC News.

 

I used to give numbers genders aswell as words and letters when I was a kid.
1=female
2=female
3=male
4=female
5 male
6=male
7=female
8=male
9=female

1000=male
485=female.

I don't really do this "conciously" anymore but as soon as I think about it I remember the genders to each number ect....NO clue why I do this.

 

i like vonnegut's ideas of how time can be visualized better

 

That's always stuck in my mind as well.

 

This chick don't see shit....