All my numbers and letters have a color specific to them (and something like a personality), which has remained consistent all my life.
@Vestralux, So glad you described your synesthesia in greater detail. Are you therefore painting when you are writing? A page is therefore a blank canvas and your creativity is an unlimited color palette? Does a word change in hue when you add extra letters to it? For instance, a word like inspire - how does it alter when it becomes inspirational or even uninspired? When a word doesn’t fit in the symmetry of the sentence or detracts from the meaning you wish to convey, does it look colorless or greyed out?
I've never thought about it as "painting when writing," but that's a profoundly beautiful description of what all writers do, yourself included, I'd say. ?
And, yes, words change in hue when new letters are added! That said, I have to be thinking of the words mentally to see these color changes. The words I'm typing into this text box appear black ... because they are, ha. The color (and other) associations a letter, number, or string of letters and numbers has to me is only seen mentally, or as an overlay from my interior field—the same way we see our visions or any other kind of visualization.
So, to answer your question about whether I edit unwieldy words out of sentences based on color symmetry or because they appear grayed out: nope. I'm sure I do it the same way you do—on feeling.
To answer your question about the word "inspire," it's a fluid movement of white-to-yellow-to-pale amber. (Not all words are fluid or kinetic in the same way.) Interestingly, the letter "p" is green for me, and "r" is a dark navy, but those colors don't show up when I think of "inspire." Weirdly, "inspirational" does become green in the middle. And "uninspired" is just a muddy brownish orange, then nothing. That's because, for me, the letter "u" is always an earthy brown, and the letter "n" is orange. The color of the rest of the word kind of disappears after the "un." I've never thought about it, but I guess that expresses the energy of "uninspired" pretty well.
If you know of someone with this type of synesthesia (grapheme), you can test them. Find out what their color associations are for different letters or numbers, and then test them months or years later. Their colors will never change.
E.g 528 Hz is the frequency of love; would it always be the same red or pink or green (that being the color of the heart chakra), or nuances of the color family on each encounter?
I believe love has infinite frequencies, probably countless we haven't discovered (or helped create) yet. Listening to 528 Hz, I see many colors, actually. And I feel a sensation that's difficult impossible to describe. I'd need to use my hands to show you the shape and directionality of the energy, but it flows toward me in round ribbon-like tubes that are soft the way that velvet is soft if velvet were also water. (Epiphany: my parents did way too much LSD.)
I see all kinds of colors in the chakras, which I know isn't that unusual. Sometimes a human or a spirit's heart chakra appears a beautiful golden wheat color, for example. Or there may be many sunset hues, including violet, in the sacrum. (For most living people, I'm often just noticing where the lights are off, so to speak—where there's a freeze or an absence of energy.)
@drolma ?
I've enjoyed the discussion here, but does anyone have an update on the person the thread was named for? Asking for a friend ?
This is so interesting! Thank you for letting us have a peek into your world. I find synesthesia fascinating. I don't have that ability - except for one time at a Grateful Dead concert when the videos on the giant screens tasted like pizza ? But I may have had a little chemical help with that ?
If you would indulge me (us?) a bit, what does your handle VestraLux looks like to you? I'm so curious.
Thank you!
Oh boy.
one time at a Grateful Dead concert when the videos on the giant screens tasted like pizza
I happened to catch the last live Grateful Dead show that ever played. (Summer of '95, Soldier Field, Chicago, one month before Jerry died.) And I totally feel you. ?
what does your handle VestraLux looks like to you?
It starts out parakeet green ("V") and turns indigo ("L"). The phrase vestra lux means "your light" (yes, yours!), so there's also a feeling of luminosity to it which isn't associated with the letters necessarily.
I've enjoyed the discussion here, but does anyone have an update on the person the thread was named for? Asking for a friend
Haha! Thank you for being the sensible, direct, focused Laura we love.
I'm not going to look again in the way that I did before (suffice it to say that I learned a valuable lesson), so if anyone else is having a strong psychic sense about it, I'm quite curious myself.
Thank you @vestralux!
That's beautiful and just what I imagined.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming...
I believe love has infinite frequencies, probably countless we haven't discovered (or helped create) yet.
@vestralux, Thank you so much. It has been a sumptuous and rich treat, getting a glimpse of the multi-woven, multi-layered tapestry that is your world. You’ve relit my interest in shamanism - in the 1990’s, I receiveD a blessing from the Q’ero shamans who had travelled from the Andes to LA. They were dressed in their heavy woolen clothes, but toughed out the California summer to do their part in fulfilling the prophecy of the eagle and the condor. Next, I read every book on Peruvian shamanism written by Alberto Villodo but fast forward to now, I m happy just to learn to speak to animals and plant spirits. I believe that is one level of consciousness in shamanism (I’m reading about the 8 orbits now).
So many more questions to ask and experiences to share but maybe we can pick this up in another thread. Btw, I must have missed this - what lesson did you learn from your journeying into the Liminal for KJU? With much gratitude.?
I've enjoyed the discussion here, but does anyone have an update on the person the thread was named for? Asking for a friend ?
Yep, he reportedly did a ribbon cutting ceremony, though no pictures have been provided.
It would be interesting to see if he is in public again soon. Also if there is film or photos. He is known for having a body double...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52508437