Week Word: Synesthesia

The moment has arrived to discuss this week’s word, synesthesia! First of all, thanks to all of the lovely bloggers who chose to participate in this hectic holiday time!! Please check their entries out at:
Katy at Creating Misericordia
Gina at justahumblebee
Allie at Allie in Wonderland
Cath at Musing in Mayhem
Carmen at Tails of a Biomouse.
Sally at Diaro
Christine at Silver Linings 4 ME
Sally at Sow and Sew

And… next week’s word will be chosen by Allie at Allie in Wonderland, so check her blog out on Monday to see what word she has chosen!!

So, imagine walking into a new classroom in medical school, looking at your professor and seeing a color that will be forever associated with him, and then to start learning diseases that you automatically associate with specific colors!! That is what happens to a close friend of mine who experiences synesthesia.
I became interested in this phenomena of synesthesia when I read that Nabokov saw colors with certain music. How awesome!! It is amazing enough to see colors at all, but to have certain colors paired with other senses is way cool! The official definition of synesthesia is “the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.
• the poetic description of a sense impression in terms of another sense, as in “a loud perfume” or “an icy voice.” ” according to my online dictionary.
If I remember correctly, when the Jewish people accepted the Torah, they saw the music when Moses delivered the text. People must have been experiencing this phenomena for ages.
I am not sure if I experience it, but I do have a strong connection with colors for certain emotions, music, seasons and places. I think about color often, it soothes me. Many times before I go to sleep I will contemplate paintings, designs, etc. and think about their colors and that will relax me.
I am a painter, we think about color and associated it with just about everything. The abstract expressionist painter, Joan Mitchell, was reported to paint often in response to music. Not to listen to music, feel jolly, and then paint a nice painting, but to paint the music.

Tis painting was a piece about the music bells produce.
Don’t you love that? So creative. Beethoven composed violin sonatas expressing his quest to find his love.
So what colors pop into your mind when you see people or think of certain words?
Winter: Blue

Happiness: Fuschia

My granddaughter: Red and Green

So fun, color to me connotes happiness and comfort, guess that is why I am a painter

Read more at: Autumn Leaves.