Saturday, August 19, 2006

This is me!


Did any of you see the Primetime segment on synesthesia? Here's a snippet from a website...

Spatial placement of numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week is another form called spatial-sequence synesthesia. "For most of us, February and Wednesday don't have any particular locations in space. But certain types of synesthetes experience precise locations in relation to their bodies for numbers or time units. They can point to the spot where the number 32 is. Or where December is floating. Or where the year 1997 lies," Eagleman says. To study this, he has developed Virtual Reality software to allow his research subjects to physically place their time units exactly where they "see" them.

Does anyone else here have this or is it just me? For me it's time, days and months. The hours in a day start below me and move up, with noon being pretty much right in front of me, and continue up with midnight above me. Days and months of a year are in a straight line, starting to my left and ending to my right. I was never sure if no one, or everyone "saw" time like that.

Here's an interesting website and audio clip about it from the BBC.

And check out this website.

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