[bksvol-discuss] Re: about braille
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:57:08 -0700 (PDT)
I know this is off-topic, but I can't resist. My daughter has the most
common form of synesthesia, where all letters and digits are different
colors. She once commented to me that of course the microwave was named
Zachary, because z's were shiny black to her and the microwave was shiny
black, so there we are. It was very obvious to her, but I, in my
ignorance, was unaware that the microwave even had a name, let alone that
it was Zachary. Sounds very similar to your experiences. There are
people who study synesthesia, and there's a book on it too. Maybe I
should donate my book on synesthesia to Bookshare? Anyone else interested
in this?
Carrie
--- Kellie Hartmann <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a sort of synesthetic weirdness too, between touch and sound, but
> only with certain types of objects. When I was little the names of all
> my
> toys were based on this. When I was very little I didn't realize that
> this
> was uncommon and would call things by names that seemed obvious to me
> but
> which no one around me understood. Everyone just thought I was weird,
> which
> is true. <lol> When I realized that I was the only person on the planet
> with
> this characteristic I ceased allowing myself to manifest it, and only
> learned what it was when I heard a program about it on Npr in high
> school.
> Interestingly the objects that cause me to think of names or sounds are
> the
> only things I can get a clear tactile image of in my mind. I can also
> mentally tactilize braille, but it doesn't happen naturally. If I am
> remembering something that I read, even in braille, I only have the
> words
> and ideas, I don't remember anything about the text. In one of my
> interpreting classes we read a lot of material on improving memory, and
> one
> suggestion was that it is useful to picture certain kinds of detailed
> information, like phone numbers or statistics, written in your mind.
> I've
> started to do this, imagining the numbers in braille, and I think it
> does
> help me. Maybe I'll stop having the irritating experience of remembering
> that I've read statistics on a given subject, and knowing everything
> about
> it except the relevant numbers. <lol>
> Ok, that's probably way too much information about my weird brain.
> <grin>
> Kellie
>
>
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