Synesthesia & Synchronicity
Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 11:17PM Oh my goodness, 7's really are golden yellow, and R's are red. Mondays are blue, and Wednesdays are black. I have always known this and tried to describe it to a few people, but no one ever got it. I thought it was overactive imagination or extreme love of color (I joined the Episcopal Church, in part, because it is color coded). Instead it was synesthesia all along - a neurological overlapping of senses so that one associates color with letters, numbers, words or music or perhaps tastes or smells sounds. It is nice to have a word to apply to a lifelong reality I never found another person to understand.
Synchronicity happens to me often, and many people do get that. It is the "God winks" concept; I like to refer to it as "Ask and the door will open; seek and you will find" concept. Then again, I pray for synchronicity because it feels very much like the hand of God showing up in my tiny, unimportant world. It is not at all unusual for me to find what I am looking for or wanted to know by what would appear to be happenstance. Or I will say something riding down the road and hear the very concept repeated in some group setting a few days later (odd stuff, like 'yellow is NOT mellow" and, boom, someone says something like yellow is not a relaxing color after all when you got together to discuss English literature). I also have lots of books on the most unbelievable range of topics through which I flit haphazerdly, depending on my mood. It really is an altogether wonderful way to live, and I would recommend it to anyone interested in creativity and spirituality.
Recently I had a bad day brought on by some deliberate cruelty I would just as soon not describe. On that day I ran across synesthesia and realized what a wonderful little gift God gave me. Several days later I picked up a book I flip occasionally and opened it at one of the three marked spots. I had not read this before; do not know why the blue bookmark was there; suspect it was there from several years ago marking a section I had read. I glaced down and immediately picked up the word synesthesia. I didn't know that was there. I was surprised and delighted. A theme runs through my pain. What is God telling me? Why is this concept appearing in multiple places? Can I smell concepts like fear, truth, lies? I suspect to some extent many people can. Can I see my own prayer? Can I wait in the dark until the colors appear?
Reader Comments (2)
Have you looked into this very much? It's really a cool concept, and I can't believe it took me this long to discover. I think some of the recent interest stems from a 2006 PrimeTime piece I missed. I am glad to know I have a friend who understands this.
Jan