Comments on: Do You See What I Hear? http://www.damninteresting.com/do-you-see-what-i-hear/ A collection of Damn Interesting things Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:45:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: thekenemy http://www.damninteresting.com/do-you-see-what-i-hear/#comment-26460 thekenemy Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:14:41 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=450#comment-26460 This got me thinking about the Brown Noise This got me thinking about the Brown Noise

]]> By: Frank G http://www.damninteresting.com/do-you-see-what-i-hear/#comment-25916 Frank G Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:30:14 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=450#comment-25916 Enter your comment here. Enter your comment here.

]]> By: Frank G http://www.damninteresting.com/do-you-see-what-i-hear/#comment-25915 Frank G Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:29:33 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=450#comment-25915 Thank you Jason for the fast reply, I am (and probably a lot of other fans here) are looking forward to read your articles. And hoping also that the site keeps going after Juli 2010. greetings, Frank G Thank you Jason for the fast reply,
I am (and probably a lot of other fans here) are looking forward to read your articles.
And hoping also that the site keeps going after Juli 2010.

greetings,

Frank G

]]> By: Jason Bellows http://www.damninteresting.com/do-you-see-what-i-hear/#comment-25913 Jason Bellows Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:57:38 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=450#comment-25913 [quote]Frank G said: "Just a short follow up about my comment down here, Alan and Jason don’t get me wrong, I bought your book and it’s great, one of the better books i ever read. And it is way to low priced it should be priced around $ 20.00 because of the good stories. I recommended it to all my friends and clients, and give it away as a gift, you should bring out a follow up. I know you both can write good articles again, just wanted to let you know i am still a fan despite the lack of news or communication. Frank G ;-))"[/quote] I've written an article, and another was mostly done, but hard to finish them when I have no idea if/when will be used. [quote]Frank G said: “Just a short follow up about my comment down here,
Alan and Jason don’t get me wrong, I bought your book and it’s great, one of the better books i ever read.
And it is way to low priced it should be priced around $ 20.00 because of the good stories.
I recommended it to all my friends and clients, and give it away as a gift, you should bring out a follow up.
I know you both can write good articles again, just wanted to let you know i am still a fan despite the lack of news or communication.

Frank G ;-))”[/quote]

I’ve written an article, and another was mostly done, but hard to finish them when I have no idea if/when will be used.

]]> By: Frank G http://www.damninteresting.com/do-you-see-what-i-hear/#comment-25912 Frank G Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:20:48 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=450#comment-25912 Just a short follow up about my comment down here, Alan and Jason don't get me wrong, I bought your book and it's great, one of the better books i ever read. And it is way to low priced it should be priced around $ 20.00 because of the good stories. I recommended it to all my friends and clients, and give it away as a gift, you should bring out a follow up. I know you both can write good articles again, just wanted to let you know i am still a fan despite the lack of news or communication. Frank G ;-)) Just a short follow up about my comment down here,
Alan and Jason don’t get me wrong, I bought your book and it’s great, one of the better books i ever read.
And it is way to low priced it should be priced around $ 20.00 because of the good stories.
I recommended it to all my friends and clients, and give it away as a gift, you should bring out a follow up.
I know you both can write good articles again, just wanted to let you know i am still a fan despite the lack of news or communication.

Frank G ;-))

]]> By: Frank G http://www.damninteresting.com/do-you-see-what-i-hear/#comment-25911 Frank G Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:28:15 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=450#comment-25911 Since this here was the last comment i just use this article to respond to Alan and his bro. Some of you here probably don't like it that i am mentioning this again, but I don't care. You guys are saying that you feel so bad that Alan can't write anymore or is not feeling well okay that can happen, but what i don't get then is why he and his brother are feeling so good on twitter and are using other sites / links to put down stories on there twit site . Again they are totally in there right to do what ever they want to do but i don't feel bad for them, my opinion is that they just don't care anymore about DI, and that's a shame, since they got so many followers. This site is actually the site that DI is following now so I'll just put it on here now. All DI readers just enjoy this site http://www.randomhistory.com/ And Alan and Jason your not the only ones who make D I stories. Frank G Since this here was the last comment i just use this article to respond to Alan and his bro.
Some of you here probably don’t like it that i am mentioning this again, but I don’t care.
You guys are saying that you feel so bad that Alan can’t write anymore or is not feeling well okay that can happen, but what i don’t get then is why he and his brother are feeling so good on twitter and are using other sites / links to put down stories on there twit site .

Again they are totally in there right to do what ever they want to do but i don’t feel bad for them,
my opinion is that they just don’t care anymore about DI, and that’s a shame,
since they got so many followers.
This site is actually the site that DI is following now so I’ll just put it on here now.
All DI readers just enjoy this site http://www.randomhistory.com/

And Alan and Jason your not the only ones who make D I stories.

Frank G

]]> By: MacAvity http://www.damninteresting.com/do-you-see-what-i-hear/#comment-25910 MacAvity Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:31:54 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=450#comment-25910 [quote]Stephen Gordon said: "I do remember having a strong association as a child between colors and certain subjects in school. Math was red, science was blue, history was definitely green. My folders for each subject had to be those colors or it seemed wrong. This was probably not synesthesia either – just a strong association I picked up early and stuck with."[/quote] Yeah, that's not synesthesia, that's the third- or fourth-grade teacher's assignments for which subject goes with which divider in the binder. I have similar associations. The dividers came in a pack of five: red (math), clear/white (English), blue (history), orange (science), and yellow (blank paper). These associations stuck with me throughout my education: my Calculus binder was red because the math divider tab had been red since well before long division, et cetera. Things got confusing around middle school when there were suddenly electives and languages and more than four classes and I had to add green (Latin) and other, less constant, colors. I had a synesthetic classmate. She was the only one who did better than I did on every test, probably directly because of her grapheme-color synesthesia. [quote]Stephen Gordon said: “I do remember having a strong association as a child between colors and certain subjects in school. Math was red, science was blue, history was definitely green. My folders for each subject had to be those colors or it seemed wrong. This was probably not synesthesia either – just a strong association I picked up early and stuck with.”[/quote]

Yeah, that’s not synesthesia, that’s the third- or fourth-grade teacher’s assignments for which subject goes with which divider in the binder. I have similar associations. The dividers came in a pack of five: red (math), clear/white (English), blue (history), orange (science), and yellow (blank paper). These associations stuck with me throughout my education: my Calculus binder was red because the math divider tab had been red since well before long division, et cetera. Things got confusing around middle school when there were suddenly electives and languages and more than four classes and I had to add green (Latin) and other, less constant, colors.

I had a synesthetic classmate. She was the only one who did better than I did on every test, probably directly because of her grapheme-color synesthesia.

]]> By: comamoto http://www.damninteresting.com/do-you-see-what-i-hear/#comment-23945 comamoto Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:16:35 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=450#comment-23945 Just read a related article today on CNN.com. They discovered that auditory-visual (sound-color) synesthesia was linked to regions on four different chromosomes, meaning that the cause is more complex than originally supposed. They don't really say much more than that about the genetic origins of synesthesia. The article mostly describes the condition and how it manifests itself. One fascinating tidbit is the speculation over a possible link between synesthesia and Asperger's syndrome, citing a man with both conditions who has memorized 22,000 digits of pi. Here's the link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/09/synesthesia.genes/index.html Just some additional info on a great DI article! Just read a related article today on CNN.com.

They discovered that auditory-visual (sound-color) synesthesia was linked to regions on four different chromosomes, meaning that the cause is more complex than originally supposed. They don’t really say much more than that about the genetic origins of synesthesia. The article mostly describes the condition and how it manifests itself. One fascinating tidbit is the speculation over a possible link between synesthesia and Asperger’s syndrome, citing a man with both conditions who has memorized 22,000 digits of pi.

Here’s the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/09/synesthesia.genes/index.html

Just some additional info on a great DI article!

]]> By: Two Cents from Girth http://www.damninteresting.com/do-you-see-what-i-hear/#comment-23448 Two Cents from Girth Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:15:36 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=450#comment-23448 Generic Poster, That seems to be a great gift you have! Just curious, when you got a box of 64 crayons, did you arrange them by color and or by number? Are higher numbers mixes and shades of colors? Such a fanstinating way to see the world! Probally scary at times, but what an attribute! I have had a great visual perseption and when listening to music, I can visualize, much like forming a picture an author illustrates while writing. The benefits of higher thought! Big fan of visualization! Had that process diminish for a few years, not a fun time... I find reading and browsing helps keep visualization alive and well! Generic Poster,
That seems to be a great gift you have! Just curious, when you got a box of 64 crayons, did you arrange them by color and or by number? Are higher numbers mixes and shades of colors? Such a fanstinating way to see the world! Probally scary at times, but what an attribute!
I have had a great visual perseption and when listening to music, I can visualize, much like forming a picture an author illustrates while writing. The benefits of higher thought! Big fan of visualization! Had that process diminish for a few years, not a fun time… I find reading and browsing helps keep visualization alive and well!

]]> By: Generic Poster http://www.damninteresting.com/do-you-see-what-i-hear/#comment-23444 Generic Poster Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:59:48 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=450#comment-23444 I was under the impression that color-grapheme synesthesia (seeing letters in color) was the most common, not color-sound. I've got color-grapheme... I read an article when I was pretty young about color-sound and really, really wished I could have an experience like that. I had no idea that seeing letters in color was unusual or synesthetic in any way. I got into writing when I was about 12, and always tried to get the names of my characters to have the proper balance of colors in them. I asked my mom for ways to "get this name more green" and she just gave me a bewildered look. (Getting things green is rather difficult, as only A and 2 are green for me.) It's hard to make people understand I don't see the colors on the paper, but in my head. It's not distracting while reading... I can't really explain it. The colors are there, but they sort of fade into the background of my consciousness. Numbers tend not to do this and always jump out at me; I was really great at memorizing chemical formulas and charges on ions when I took chemistry. But this does have a bad side; when in math classes I sometimes find it hard to look at the board, especially if there's a slew of ugly numbers. I particularly hate the combination of 1, 2, 7, and 5 (white, green, hot pink, and red) because those are the most obnoxious numbers. 27, however, is familiar and reassuring to me, as is 29 (green and brownish gold.) I was under the impression that color-grapheme synesthesia (seeing letters in color) was the most common, not color-sound. I’ve got color-grapheme… I read an article when I was pretty young about color-sound and really, really wished I could have an experience like that. I had no idea that seeing letters in color was unusual or synesthetic in any way.

I got into writing when I was about 12, and always tried to get the names of my characters to have the proper balance of colors in them. I asked my mom for ways to “get this name more green” and she just gave me a bewildered look. (Getting things green is rather difficult, as only A and 2 are green for me.)

It’s hard to make people understand I don’t see the colors on the paper, but in my head. It’s not distracting while reading… I can’t really explain it. The colors are there, but they sort of fade into the background of my consciousness. Numbers tend not to do this and always jump out at me; I was really great at memorizing chemical formulas and charges on ions when I took chemistry. But this does have a bad side; when in math classes I sometimes find it hard to look at the board, especially if there’s a slew of ugly numbers. I particularly hate the combination of 1, 2, 7, and 5 (white, green, hot pink, and red) because those are the most obnoxious numbers. 27, however, is familiar and reassuring to me, as is 29 (green and brownish gold.)

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