I had never heard of synesthesia before reading this
assignment. It is fascinating to me that there are people who can see different
colors based on what letter they are looking at or perceive numerical sequences
as points in space. This phenomenon reminds me of the film Limitless starring Bradley Cooper. As Cooper’s character becomes
smarter, he too, can see sequences of numbers and letters floating in space
around him. In the article, the author explains that the people with this
condition are typically gifted in other ways. People with spatial sequence
synesthesia, for example, also often have greater memories and can remember
events with much better detail.
As for the
TED video “Different Ways of Knowing,” I first felt that what the speaker Daniel
Tammet was discussing would simply go over my head, but as I listened to him
explain his thinking process, I soon found that I could comprehend and even
learn from his methods of reasoning. What I did have trouble realizing was its
relevance to our film class. As I thought more about it, though, I realized
that as filmmakers, it is our job to find “different ways” of telling stories
and exploit different, experimental methods and techniques to tell those
stories in an original and interesting way.
The video
on cymatics was also very interesting to me. I had never thought about sound waves
having a specific shape to them. Seeing the sand morph into different patterns
and shapes depending on the frequency of the sound was pretty incredible to me.
It opened my eyes to an aspect of the world that I never knew existed.
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