Comments on: Time-space fusion

By: Rozzer

Rozzer — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:48:20 +0000

Time-Space synaesthesia is no big deal. A parlor trick in a sense. May give you a slight advantage on multiple choice history exams (I did get a perfect score on the GRE) but is otherwise of no value or advantage. Had it all my life. It’s entirely automatic and requires no energy or effort. It’s just there. Like an in-house pop-up screen on a computer. Except it’s in your head. Anyone mention anything with a time dimension (history, evolution, etc.), well then your internal screen pops up with everything you know plastered across it. Rather like having six toes on one foot, in a sense. Interesting to brain scientists but not otherwise.

By: sakeegan

sakeegan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:41:56 +0000

I guess I have this – and its also heavily influenced by visual cue. For example, I visualise numbers in blocks of ten with the same font as the book I learnt maths tables from. My calendar is similarly to that above, but my perspective is tethered to the current date (I currently see the rest of the year as a loop whilst standing in November)
I tend to imagine everything, especially dates and figures visually. It is so key to how I solve problems such as calculations (numbers float and arrange) I have no idea how non-synthestes do so. Huh.

By: thewaltonfirm

thewaltonfirm — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:50:31 +0000

When I was a kid I went to Montessori school where visual learning was emphasized. A calendar circled the room with a season on each wall. I will always associate summer with the east wall, fall with the south, etc.