Questions from the back of the card: Synesthesia

the interesting idea... the start of this project... the conversations to come

I'm a member of Post Crossing, the internet site for postcard exchange. I sent a card to another Post Crosser, Ilona from Germany. She asked that people tell her which magical power they would like to have. Her question really made me think!

In turn, I thought it would be an interesting project to ask people to pose Thought-Provoking Questions. I would do my best to answer with my opinion, and I would encourage others to add theirs.

And, so was born this blog! I hope that it will be the home for many interesting conversations in the year ahead!

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Colorburst!

From Japan comes this wonderful question (and lovely handmade postcard):

If you describe feelings by colour, what colour(s) is the moment of happiness to you? the moment of joy to you? and why?

Oooooh, how I like this question! I experience a small degree of synesthesia, which is basically a way of perceiving one sense through another. So, for me, for example, the deep blue sky of the western horizon at twilight "smells" like cinnamon. Every time I see that color, it's as if someone snapped a cinnamon stick in half near me. Mmmmmmmm.

Now, I shall consider what color joy might be.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

I'm pretty sure I'm not sure

Inge from the Netherlands wonders...

Are you sure you see the world the same way as everyone else?

Since the time I discovered that no one else believed that fives are green and the letter F is brown and that the early evening sky of intense blue smells like cinnamon, I realized that I don't see (or perceive) the world the same way as other people.

I smell Autumn, but I taste Winter. So, yeah, I'm pretty sure no one gets quite what I do. But I wonder what they do get, from their own perspectives.