synesthesia

Synesthesia is pretty much just the co-operation of senses. examples of this would be like if you saw a letter and without even thinking about it, associated a color with it, and it would be the same color every time you saw that letter.

It's like last week in 6 x 1 when we watched the film without sound and had to think about what kind of music we would add if we had to make that kind of decision. when i think about it, it makes sense. i'm so used to expecting music that it wasnt that hard to imagine that there was music playing in it. and then when we watched it again with the music, that music fit with the film but it was kinda weird cause i had made my own soundtrack for it in my mind and when listening to it, it obviously wasnt exactly the same. the music that was in it though fit too, just in a different way. but thats one of the things that i love about it, that everybody can have their own opinions and ideas about something like that and there is no one right answer.

i dont think that im one of the people that this happens to because its involuntary but i think that when you think about it, it makes total sense. i mean if i had to assign colors to letters i think i could. and i think that if someone else did it too a lot of the colors would be the same. i mean is it just me or would the letter A have to be red?

the wikipedia article sad that people with synesthesia often use their experiences to help with creativeness. it says that synesthesia has worked as a source of inspiration for artists, composers, poets, novelists, and digital artists. experimental filmmakers fit in perfectly when talking about this topic too. i think that this could very well be true, especially with something like experimental film/film manipulation. a lot of the interpreting would already be done in your mind. you would automatically put certain colors or sounds in certain parts of a film. i also think that it may be harder for some people with synesthesia when something isnt the way its supposed to be in their mind, like if a letter was a different color, would that have any effect on them? would they look at something and say that its not supposed to be that color, that its wrong? would it bother them at all?

in class we talked about how in experimental films that sometimes the music will be added in later to fit the image and at other times the image will be added in to fit with the music. what im now wondering is if people with synesthesia would come up with a similar product no matter which one they started with...you would kinda think that they would seeing as though they tend to associate one thing with another all the time; one color with a letter, certain colors with certain types of music, etc....