i hear in my mind/all of these voices/i hear in my mind/all of this music (and it breaks my heart, and it breaks my heart)

Ordinal-linguistic personification (OLP, or personification for short) is a form of synesthesia in which ordered sequences, such as ordinal numbers, days, months and letters are associated with personalities

Cakins (1893) describes a case for whom whose “T’s are generally crabbed, ungenerous creatures. U is a soulless sort of thing. 4 is honest, but… 3 I cannot trust… 9 is dark, a gentleman, tall and graceful, but politic under his suavity” (Calkins 1893, p. 454).

For synesthete MT “I [is] a bit of a worrier at times, although easy-going; J [is] male; appearing jocular, but with strength of character; K [is] female; quiet, responsible…” (Cytowic 2002, p. 298).

I don’t know if I have synesthesia but wow. I find this fascinating. All my friends and my parents thought that I was a weird kid. :P I have always thought of J as a girl. Shy, somewhat timid, a Betty-like character pining after K (she opens doors for him). K is oblivious to her attention, he the macho-type completely in love with the lovely, luminous (perfect) L.

I’m probably just flattering myself, but still pretty fascinating.

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