Saturday, September 29, 2012

Synesthesia and Math

source: Synesthesia- Why Numbers Have Personalities- Feminspire (blog)- Jessica Bagnall

This post was written by a woman who has ordinal-linguistic personification (OLS): which means she associates numbers, letters, months and so on with distinct and discernible personalities. In it she discusses how she associates people with certain characteristics when she first meets them just because of what letters are in their name but focuses most of the article on her description of the qualities and characteristics of numbers 0-9.
For example: "Three is a woman in her mid-twenties, but she has an aged heart and is consumed with bitterness. She used to be much more like Two, until spurned by once-lover Nine, hence her instant and ongoing dislike of Two."

Math must have been like writing a drama series for her. like, "oops, three and two don't get along because four stole four's boyfriend a year ago, but they're going to have to try to get along for five's sake." She must reach some serious ethical dilemas every once in a division problem.

We tend to think of things, especially things like math, as being either black or white, but once you get into all this synesthesia stuff you really reach unchartered waters. 

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