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Tom

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Now I'm curious as to my color.

I'd say you're a dark blue-gray, Brian. Kind of the color of water with a shadow cast on it.

Do me, Tom! :D

Synesthesia is so fun to hear about, and it always makes total sense...I remember coming up with colors for numbers and the days of the week as a kid, but it was a deliberate effort. And while I can't seem to listen to music without generating images or scenes, I think that's a writer/reader/daydreamer problem, not an extra sense!

Haha, of course! I always see you as a vibrant, earthy red-orange, almost terra cotta.

Having synesthesia that affects music is kind of mind-boggling, even though it's something I've lived with for as long as I can remember. It's not so much an image as this feeling that the music is pinging off your synapses and creating something entirely different. I don't see it so much as sense it. I...don't know how else to describe it.
 

Nimue

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Haha, of course! I always see you as a vibrant, earthy red-orange, almost terra cotta.
Nice! Unfortunately I'm not a redhead in person, just in John-William-Waterhouse avatar. ;)

There must be some kind of video that attempts to simulate synesthesia with a piece of music...okay, I admit, all I can think of is that scene in Ratatouille where the tastes are translated into shapes and colors. Deep, Nim.
 
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ThinkerX

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Sometimes it does! Usually I only associate people with colors after I've known them for a while. Banten, you're forest green. Sheila is lilac, Dragon is electric blue, and CrystallineEntity is pale yellow.

Well, after reading through the prior entries a bit, I am curious: do I have a color?
 
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Devor

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If it's not rude of me to join in with the others, I'm curious as to whether I have a color - and did you mention one for yourself?
 
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Now i'm a bit frustrated that I have to know someone really well and for a long time to see their color, lol. When I try to think of your colors I just think of the colors in your profile pics, mostly.

I like being electric blue though. I find it interesting since my hair is dyed blue irl.
 
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Ban

Troglodytic Trouvère
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Now i'm a bit frustrated that I have to know someone really well and for a long time to see their color, lol. When I try to think of your colors I just think of the colors in your profile pics, mostly.

I like being electric blue though. I find it interesting since my hair is dyed blue irl.

I actually think it might be a similar thing for Tom. The color descriptions he gives are on the whole related to the colors in our profile pictures. Brian's primary color is black, Nimue's is an auburn red and so forth. The interesting part to me is that it seems like his brain adjusts the associated color the more he gets to know someone. The primary color in my profile picture and my previous one is the beige-brown of the koala, which seems to have morphed into a forest green over time for Tom. This doesn't explain how Chrystalline became pale yellow or how you became electric blue. I believe those are purely derived from your personalities.

Gods I love psychology. Really should have done my bachelor in that.
 
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Tom

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Well, after reading through the prior entries a bit, I am curious: do I have a color?

I'd say you're mint green, Thinker.

If it's not rude of me to join in with the others, I'm curious as to whether I have a color - and did you mention one for yourself?

Yours is alizarin crimson. For myself, I don't know if I can pin down a color. Probably cobalt blue.
 
I remember when I was 19, walking down the sidewalk of a busy street in San Francisco, new to the city, and some fortune teller psychic was hawking her services, told me to come in and she could read my future. I said no thanks with a smile and kept walking. She yelled after me and said she could even read auras — "Your aura's black!" At the time, I had a passing knowledge of various new age ideas, and that made me pause in my thoughts. But I kept walking.

Edit: Not a comment on other color related posts in this thread, heh, just a memory triggered by them.
 
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skip.knox

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Which triggers a memory in me. It's from some long-forgotten sitcom, probably dating to the 70s, when "Jesus loves you" was more common a catch-phrase than it is today. The character, intensely frustrated with another character, glares at them, on the verge of erupting, and manages to splutter out, "Jesus ... likes ... you."

Still makes me smile.
 
I remember when I was 19, walking down the sidewalk of a busy street in San Francisco, new to the city, and some fortune teller psychic was hawking her services, told me to come in and she could read my future. I said no thanks with a smile and kept walking. She yelled after me and said she could even read auras — "Your aura's black!" At the time, I had a passing knowledge of various new age ideas, and that made me pause in my thoughts. But I kept walking.

Edit: Not a comment on other color related posts in this thread, heh, just a memory triggered by them.

I wonder if people who can read auras actually just have synesthesia?
 

Tom

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I wonder if people who can read auras actually just have synesthesia?

Huh, that's an interesting theory. I personally have to know someone pretty well to get a color impression from them, but I'm sure there are other people with synesthesia out there who can assign colors to people upon first meeting them.

Last year, a friend dragged me to the psychic fair that was being held not far from the college, and there was this one woman there who claimed to be able to read auras. I was pretty skeptical until she described mine as how I saw it in detail, down to the last tone shift. Not sure how much of that psychic stuff I believe, but I was impressed.
 

CupofJoe

Myth Weaver
Two or three of my friends can see auras as part of their spiritual beliefs. And one in particular will set next to you for a chat and start teasing out your aura like they would do if you had long hair and wanted them to brush it. It was strange the first time they did it, but it is just their way of saying hi and being nice to you.
As I can't see auras I can only attest to their belief in them.
 

Chessie2

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My MIL and I went for a morning walk with some church ladies. It was 50 something degrees, a bit breezy but nice. One of the ladies had a coat, gloves, and hat on and was shivering. She turns to me and says, "This isn't cold to you, huh?"

HA! NOPE. Let's just say moving to Washington has taken us back about 5 months in times of weather. This is Alaskan spring baby! (so long snowy Alaska, I hear the snow just won't stop piling on hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa)
 
Question: Suppose werewolves are real. Would they ever turn into a wolf if they just kept ahead of the full moon by, say, flying on a super fast jet?
 
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