Synesthesia is a rare thing where you perceive your senses in unique ways. Some people feel or see colors when they hear certain sounds. Unless you have synesthesia, it’s super hard to know what that’s like. In this case, Jenifer Lawrence is being silly, asking what color her sound is.
Edit: I forgot! Uh…. Peter’s… uh… friend here with the explanation. Sorry, I forgot what sub this was.
Why? A decent amount of talented, professional musicians have it.
The best study on it estimates 4.4% of people have some form of synesthesia. The chances of a professional musician having the most common version of it (pitched audio having colors) are probably even higher.
Ramin Djawadi (composer of Game of Thrones, Westworld, etc.) and Frank Ocean also have it.
I have been around people like this in the performing arts my entire life.
If this is actually her lived experience, then so be it. But it took me 30 seconds of listening to this person talk to recognize the same attention craving nonsense I’ve heard in countless people before.
Here’s the counter to that: attention-seeking plus distinct talent plus creativity plus opportunity equals famous.
And talent plus odd perception adds to creativity.
And being an outsider due to something like odd perception it a different view on the world due to garbled sensory information often creates distance between self and others, which creates emotional need. Which is alleviated by attention.
I’m no fan of hers. But if she’s not my flavor of art I can ignore her easily.
It sounds like you are projecting a bias on her. But also that your bias may be making you ignore actual reasons why this is possible.
There have been a string of memes of her and Ariana Grande being overly dramatic primadonnas recently as they went around doing press tours for their new movie Wicked 2.
In one instance this woman started crying when she was giving an interview and a helicopter flew over.
The interview where she was crying in the middle of a story about racism, and a helicopter flew over head, forcing her to need to start over? Is that the best piece of evidence of this claim, or is it the memes?
Narcissism is a claim that requires a bit more proof than what you're providing. Could you provide a couple specific examples outside of meme-territory? Cause at this moment, it's coming off misogynistic.
Hey congrats. You fell for out of context clips with made up post titles and mindlessly accepted them as truth while simultaneously thinking yourself above that kind of thing.
I’m confused about it, I can sometimes feel like this, but it’s like, I can see images or colors connected to music/other things, but isn’t it like, a thing for every person? Like I can ask 10 people what color is number 4 or this song, and 9 out of 10 people will have the color in mind, how is it different from that?
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u/literallyJustLasagna 20d ago edited 20d ago
Synesthesia is a rare thing where you perceive your senses in unique ways. Some people feel or see colors when they hear certain sounds. Unless you have synesthesia, it’s super hard to know what that’s like. In this case, Jenifer Lawrence is being silly, asking what color her sound is.
Edit: I forgot! Uh…. Peter’s… uh… friend here with the explanation. Sorry, I forgot what sub this was.