Synaesthesia and 4th edition

[mrteapot]

There are times that I'm very opposed to D&D, and times when I am big in support of it. Right now I'm still coasting along being very positive towards it, which looks to last at least through June, unless I can get a lot more indie gaming in at some point.

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[little__one]

You are so weird. :) And that's why I absolutely wouldn't want anyone else in the world!

I had never even thought about assigning colors to the attributes in D&D. Is there anything else that you connect in a similar fashion? I mean, other than cooking based on colors, which we've already determined makes perfect sense to both me and Sean (of course things that taste brown will go together, etc.)

[pghkitten]

I used to get the same thing at church during the Eucharistic prayer--certain verses of it were always certain colors in my mind. No idea why either, though.

[scholarinexile]

I do something like this, not only with colors, but also with flavors and sounds; some foods just taste like a color to me, and some colors have a sound. I'm not sure if it's synesthaesia, madness, or just subconscious association of related things, but I've heard enough people comment on it to know we're hardly alone.

[lordrefa]

I hate to be the lone one here... But I don't recall doing this ever. If you were to describe to me what something "brown" tastes like I could understand your system -- but I don't think in colors. Or sounds, really.

To the best I can understand myself I think in systems... English language and it's structure is heavy in my mind and I think caused the majority of my inability to really get Spanish. But thinking in other structures isn't hard -- I pick up new computer languages readily when I care to do so...

But, yeah -- my thoughts get ordered and numbered often enough... But not colored or sounded. < /ramble >

I ask Don about this and he said:

[lordrefa]

lord refa: Do you guys assign colors to random things, too? Like DnD stats?
dontremb: I do...
dontremb: STR is Red.
dontremb: Dex is green
dontremb: Con is brown or purple..
lord refa: Keep going.
dontremb: Int is Blue.
mathew trembly: No, except STR, but I read that in LJ
dontremb: Wis is errr.
mathew trembly: And STR is, of course red, but it's the only one.
dontremb: Also green.
dontremb: And cha is purple.

Which is amazingly similar to your answers, Nick. I thought you'd like to muse over that. I'd lean cultural given what you've guessed on, and Don's near identical relations.

Re: I ask Don about this and he said:

[mrteapot]

Con is purple? Clearly, they are mistaken.

In my personal synaesthetic rainbow, all the warm colors are the physical stats and the cool colors are the mental ones (and vice versa).

Re: I ask Don about this and he said:

[lordrefa]

Later on he mentioned something about the 4 elements being assigned colors -- and that influenced his thoughts, somehow... *shrug*