Learning Synesthesia: 1 Month Update & Print Applications

[@00weirdo67]

Holy shit, this is undeniably fascinating! thanks for plugging gutenburg, I'd never heard of it. Time to chug through some classics, admittedly in regular letters.

[@VangusKhan]

Thank you! And absolutely regarding gutenberg--definitely a goldmine! I'm always surprised by the titles I see on there

[@JewettMusic]

This is really interesting. Synesthesia is not a great thing to have in music. I mean it can be fine, but when they start seeing notes in wrong colors in a book, students with synesthesia start to struggle with the cognitive dissonance. Big bummer when color is so useful. Like, there's a book called Scales Bootcamp that used to be black and white, but now is in color. New students do much better with color, and I don't think that benefit would be seen with synesthesia. I alternate the colors in the teaching materials I make so that I don't accidentally teach synesthesia, haha

[@VangusKhan]

That's fascinating that you mix the colors up on purpose! I wonder what would happen if you used patterns instead? Like black and white patterns--checkerboard, diamond lattice, circle bubbles, etc...

[@JewettMusic]

@@VangusKhan I would imagine well, in some ways, but most of it is text, circles and arrows, and those need color to draw attention, and associations. The color really helps. I'll include a google docs link to a pdf of something I'm working on, but please don't widely distribute this, it's going to be free, but it's not anywhere near ready, lol. drive.google.com/file/d/1zhqoKR23osUuTSN0r0Q5mh3-QMGu9YXK/view?usp=sharing

[@creeperdude1]

Here's an interesting thought do you think you can use this to teach yourself a new language faster? Would be cool if you tried and reported back your findings.

[@lollllloro]

Any chance of publishing the font (or giving some technical insight into creating it)? This seems very fun to try out, but all my experience with fonts (and the tools I have, I think at least) is monochrome.

[@VangusKhan]

I can def add this on future vids to cover how to implement so you can create your own color books :)

[@ClaytonianJP]

you coulda taught yourself that Shavian alphabet instead.