Betting game

Let's play a game: let's guess whether I make it to class tomorrow. This is the class that I have missed two weeks in a row, simply because of my inability--exclusively on Thursday--to wake up at the trumpeting of two alarm clocks. This is also the class where I've almost failed two pop quizzes. And the class where we discussed synaesthesia (from previous post). The TF is completely crazy and awesome: apart from her colorful auditory skills, she speaks Esperanto, is married to a linguist, and told me that my thesis was far more important than systems neuroscience. But I'm getting side tracked, we were talking about a betting game, the betting game of the week in my opinion...soooo.....I'll be optimistic and bet on "yes".

Crazy

We discussed ferrets in class today; in particular, ferrets whose brains had been rewired so that the visual input from their retina was sent to their auditory cortex. Basically these ferrets processed sound and vision in the same area of their brain...crazy, isn't it?

This brought about an even crazier discussion of synaesthesia in humans. My TF was saying that color-auditory or color-letter synaesthesia were a lot more common than one would think. She told us we probably knew a couple synaesthetes but weren't aware of it. Then it came out that she herself was a color-auditory synaesthete, and E-sharp (or flat) for her was a yellow-green. She said it helped when tuning her french horn.

Upon recounting this story to Alex, I found out that my roommate is actually a color-letter synaesthete, and the letter q is "bluish-greenish-grayish-purplish." She promises it makes sense. Apparently, her mother and brother are both synaesthetes as well, so my TF was completely right in suspecting that I knew infinitely more synaesthetes than I thought I did. I certainly I wish my alphabet had colors...

Yes, I know.

I apologize for the lame state of this blog for the time being. I promise that as soon as I have a subject to talk about that's more exciting (for the general public) than a non-Nominative one, I will be sure to post a new blog entry.