When 2+2 equals green | Olivia Warren | TEDxClaremontColleges
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Society gives lip service to the value of unique perspectives, but what should you do when your perspective doesn’t gel with those around you? At age 11, Olivia Warren discovered that she has synesthesia, a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. In her talk, she tells the story of her life with synesthesia and shares her thoughts about how people who naturally interpret our world differently can sometimes possess valuable and unique abilities.
Olivia Warren majored in materials chemistry at Harvey Mudd College and currently works as a business analyst at Deloitte in San Francisco. She was one of two winners of the 2015 TEDxClaremontColleges Student Speaker Competition. Her professional experience includes chemical engineering, materials science, physics research, and industrial phase zero product development.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
This rings many bells. After I tried to convince my kindergarten teacher that 2 plus 4 must be 5, because mixing yellow and blue makes green, and after telling my Mum I was so happy that the price of the newspaper had gone up because now it matched the color of the newspaper boxes, I noticed I should keep my perceptions to myself. In 1st grade it still happened to me sometimes that I answered a math problem with "red" instead of 3 or "green" instead of 5. But when everybody laughed, I just agreed that I had been distracted again. In second grade, I could never remember how much 8 times 7 was, because the numbers and result all blurred to similar earth colours... but I never explained why because I was afraid people would think I'm weird.
When I moved to Barcelona afte graduation, everyone referred to the metro lines sometimes as "the 2" and then again as "the blue line" (or was is the other way around?) and I kept mixing them up. By then I was self assured enough to explain myself. Someone told me this colour-number thing was a sign of autism which confused me, even though I knew I had no indication of autism. Then one friend told me I must have had a toy as a child with numbers on it and... I actually remembered a favorite toy, a register I had had with all those colours on it. Finally I knew what was going on in my head!
And who would have thought, my Mum had kept it stacked away all those years and took it out again to give it to my cousin's toddlers ... and when I looked at it, the numbers were all different to "my numbers".... And I was clueless again.
A few years later I heard about synesthesia and by now I know that it's actually the sounds of words that produce the color for me. I enjoy painting music and I painted the colors of my new credit card number on a piece of paper before I went travelling (and after looking at it a few times, I remembered it by heart).
I don't talk much about my synesthesia because I know that everybody's perception is different and mine isn't more interesting than anyone else's. I just wish I hadn't felt like I was keeping a secret for so long :-)
My mom will answer with numbers sometimes when she means colors, especially when she means green (it's 3 for us, the only connection we share). I'm usually able to correct it before it comes out of my mouth. XD
I think I have grapheme color synesthesia, I’ve never rlly tried to mix colors to get answers (idk why I guess that’s just my thought process) but it messes me up in math bc sometimes things that match up have different colors so I get confused
I have the same thing like I do math different ways regular and color oriented, color oriented is thinking about the colors and mixing the colors to get a color that is a number does anyone relate.
You lost me at 4 = green. Outrageous! It's obviously brown.
Gordon Henderson god, no. Definitely light blue.
Nope it’s pink
@@EasyPianoMusic I've heard some sick stuff in my time, but that's downright wrong.
Monique 365 yeah blue for me!😂
Crimson!
The number 4 is green to me so when I saw this thumbnail of 2+2= green, i was just like Yes indeed
But I disagree, 2 is pink not blue, blue is 3
Yesss!!!
It’s interesting how different the colors are for other people. My 4 is blue, my 2 is brown and my 3 is orange XD
My number colors
0-White
1-black
2-green
3-turquoise blue
4-pink
5-red orange
6-indigo
7-gold or yellow
8-light Purple
9-deep red
this is so interesting, because i have the exact same concept of numbers having colours except most numbers have different colours than yours!
Well I only slightly agree with you about 5 red and 7 yellow
@lol xd interesting we share some colours
I have synesthesia, and I haven’t got problems like that. Yeah.
Her recounting the first time she realized her perceptions didnt line up with the other kids and that almost immediate decision to keep it to herself mirrors my experience in grade school exactly
I have auditory-tactile synesthesia and I can feel sounds. Sometimes, it's awful, the clock ticking and music teachers play in class are very distracting. Tick, tock, tick, tock, Cold tingle in finger, cold tingle in finger. But sometimes it's helpful. I always know when things sound "off," and I'm amazing at identifying voices.
Super, thank you! I use my synesthesia for making passwords and bank codes. Just to use the first letters of the name of the website or the bank and their colors. If anyone wants to know how I do this exactly I can tell you, otherwise, figure it out yourself. For every single website I have thus a separate password I can never forget.
Thanks to your video I suddenly understood why mathematics at school was more difficult for me in algebra when we had to use xyz, which also have the same color for me, the color of the paper! And why it was more clear to me, and more fun when I could use pqr or abc with their many different colors.
Oh my goodness that password idea is genius. I'm going to be using that now thank you
Does anyone happen to know the research article she describes about the background paper color?
I also have it as well, each combination of letters and numbers or lexemes have a different color. S is a mix of green and blue but in the word Synesthesia it becomes yellow and blue
2+2=green for me too. (4 is green)
Same!
Yes
2+2=yellow
yes
Blue*
@@someoneunspecial1729 yes it’s blue XD
Great! ..synesthesia is so interesting...
Sorry but 4 is red
Even though i also have synesthesia and i find it pretty cool, i don't think it's a matter it needs so much attention.
"I find the talks on Synesthesia are remarkably fascinating, "& that could be because my body, or brain, is identifying with these talks"?
"(I think I came across this learning about the psychic/Claire's abilities, ("which I learned I have many)".
("Within the last several years, when looking at flying planes in the sky, (after becoming interested in this fascinating phenomenon), "I see an electric~blue color outlining the shape of the aircraft", (Aura), (and now I'm wondering if I'm gifted with a form of this?)
YES THAT S WHAT I HAVE MY LETTERS ARE NOT FILLLLEED
Me too so that means I officially have synesthesia too
Math must be so fun
Mee too geen like 4
2+2=blue
Agreed
2+2= orange for me lol
Same. Like, a calm, non-jarring copper.
5x3+c-de-90+231x43-(gr+ee)xn)= potato
I have synesthesia but it doesn’t affect how I learn.
Excellent talk!
i have amnesia....ahahaha.....it ryhmes
So, so, good.
love it!!