Synesthesia?

[zama80]

This is very interesting. I see numbers in patterns too and use patterns for character recognition. I also relate colors to temperatures which I always thought was somewhat odd. Yes, I'm also in IT.

Hey, maybe it's an IT thing. What do you think Tim?

I think maybe people who visualize things a certain way will excel in certain careers. I excelled at anatomy, biomechanics, physics, and computers in school. Ask me to write a novel and you will be waiting a long long time. I took guitar lessons for eight years and I was average (at best).

Juts my two cents

T

That makes sense to me. When I was in the Army my MOS was Tactical Sattellite Communications, and I was always able to visualize the signal flow through the equipment easily. Which makes trouble shooting problems easier. Same thing with computer and network hardware after I got out. Software is a different story, it is very nebulous to me and I have to work at it. I am a tactile learner, so once I physically work with it and put it in my own pattern I'm good. My wife is very good with software, but we usually can't help each with software problems becasue we see it differently and therefore explain it differently. And therefore fight over who is not explaining it correctly.

[beckerc07]

What's interesting is, you may have already read one of those reviews, and didn't know it, because the person didn't know that isn't how everybody operates. I think we're getting a very good picture into just how many people have this and never even realized it. The wiki states that at least 1:23 people have this disorder in some way or another, but that there has been so little research done in it, that that ratio may be much greater than previously thought. From what I've read, doctors freely admit that there are sides to Synesthesia that have yet to be discovered, let alone understood.

I am able to step back into my memories and look around in them, looking at something closer that I may have missed at that original point in time. That may in fact be one facet of Synesthesia, albeit a rare side of it, but with all the different visualizations I've read about concerning this disorder, it seems to fall right inline. With the utter lack of study though, who knows.

Any way you can post a link to that review, or summarize?

[Ecks]

That makes sense to me. When I was in the Army my MOS was Tactical Sattellite Communications, and I was always able to visualize the signal flow through the equipment easily. Which makes trouble shooting problems easier. Same thing with computer and network hardware after I got out. Software is a different story, it is very nebulous to me and I have to work at it. I am a tactile learner, so once I physically work with it and put it in my own pattern I'm good. My wife is very good with software, but we usually can't help each with software problems becasue we see it differently and therefore explain it differently. And therefore fight over who is not explaining it correctly.

No sh*t. I worked as a satellite controller (One of the guys you called in to give reports to). When were you in the army?

[Gravity]

What's interesting is, you may have already read one of those reviews, and didn't know it, because the person didn't know that isn't how everybody operates. I think we're getting a very good picture into just how many people have this and never even realized it. The wiki states that at least 1:23 people have this disorder in some way or another, but that there has been so little research done in it, that that ratio may be much greater than previously thought. From what I've read, doctors freely admit that there are sides to Synesthesia that have yet to be discovered, let alone understood.

I am able to step back into my memories and look around in them, looking at something closer that I may have missed at that original point in time. That may in fact be one facet of Synesthesia, albeit a rare side of it, but with all the different visualizations I've read about concerning this disorder, it seems to fall right inline. With the utter lack of study though, who knows.

Any way you can post a link to that review, or summarize?

Sorry, I was saying that we may have already seen one, I'm not sure that we have.

[zama80]

That makes sense to me. When I was in the Army my MOS was Tactical Sattellite Communications, and I was always able to visualize the signal flow through the equipment easily. Which makes trouble shooting problems easier. Same thing with computer and network hardware after I got out. Software is a different story, it is very nebulous to me and I have to work at it. I am a tactile learner, so once I physically work with it and put it in my own pattern I'm good. My wife is very good with software, but we usually can't help each with software problems becasue we see it differently and therefore explain it differently. And therefore fight over who is not explaining it correctly.

No sh*t. I worked as a satellite controller (One of the guys you called in to give reports to). When were you in the army?

No kidding? Small world huh? I was in from Jan 87 - Jan 94. Were you in California? I ran AN-TSC93 + 85 rigs.

[Ecks]

Lol way before my time 06 - 10. I was at ft meade MD

[zama80]

Ah, good ole Ft. Meade. I had a few shots through there we I was in Honduras. I think I went through there a couple times when I was in Germany too. Did you guys cover Europe?

[Ecks]

Yeah. Landstuhl. I was only at meade though. Small world indeed.

[RaschNuts]

So I was looking into common colors for cigarwebsites to get ideas for a class project I am doing. While doing so I came acrss this article and thought it tied a bit into this post with regards to people wondering about color and reviews.

http://robustojoe.com/tobacco-cigars/cigar-colors/