Obviously she means the weird blue background, Todd.
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Ke Ban: Thank you, everyone! We hope you enjoyed our dance!
Ke Nan: Everyone, please come join! Lets have fun!
Todd: That was very nice.
Selkie: Yeahs... buts I haves a question.
Selkie: Howd's hey make those colors?
Todd: Um what colors, Selkie?
Ke Nan: Everyone, please come join! Lets have fun!
Todd: That was very nice.
Selkie: Yeahs... buts I haves a question.
Selkie: Howd's hey make those colors?
Todd: Um what colors, Selkie?
The color is out of space
Echo powers? Or Sarnothi eyes?
Soitainly!
maybe it is the resonance itself making an appearance. it was described as some kind of background force that all sarnothi had some connection to. could see an active festival type setting making it more active than just the normal background.
Ye forgot the KSSHT
… and to rectify Todd’s speech bubbles
… and something’s very odd with Ke Ban’s bubble (or Ke Nan’s – whoever is on the left)
rectify -> rectanglify
I thought they were an echo-created light show.
I’m interested to find out if they can only be seen by Sarnothi, by Echos, or if Selkie has a synesthesia-type ability awakening.
My sister had synesthesia, which her and my dad first noticed when she was learning to read, and she asked him why certain letters of the text were different colors. Or later on, she would ask about the color aura that was presenting around his body. I have heightened sensory perception, and am sensitive to specific energies, but she was the only person i ever met who had the visual presentations.
Synesthesia would be a fascinating concept to explore, especially visually, but I think something that major would have to have been established far earlier than this. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I would assume that by Selkie’s age she would have already been exhibiting signs of such a condition.
It would depend on if anyone has noticed yet.
To give you an idea, I didn’t get glasses till I was in 3rd grade and I had fairly bad eyesight. When you have no point of reference, you can assume everyone sees/hears/feels like you do. I had no clue at all I was not seeing as well as others and just thought I was dumb for not seeing/understanding what others did.
I know someone who didn’t realise they had synesthesia until they were in their mid 20s. They were like “Isn’t it interesting how different words have different colours?” and other people were like “But they… don’t?”. They’d just assumed everyone had the same experience.
I’ve seen speculation that most people have it in some form or another, even if you don’t include the well known link between smell and taste.
I was one of the ‘I thought everyone sees things this way so it doesn’t seem abnormal’ because I was in high school when I realized that my depth perception is so lacking that I cannot see 3d movies. It was on our school trip to Disneyland and we were watching the 3D bugs life show. I had no idea things were coming out of the screen until I asked my friends what the kids in front of us were reaching out for and they all looked at me like I was crazy.
I can’t do 3D movies, either, but it’s more because it gives me headaches and makes me go cross-eyed. Trying to percieve depth of objects that aren’t there.. and it looked kind of double-image to me.
I’d never seen one before, but a couple years ago, my son won tickets to a special 3d pre-release of the warcraft movie. I tried, but it was more comfortable for me without the glasses.
I was in high school when I realized that other people could actually make mental images of items. I always thought it was a figure of speech! It wasn’t until I was talking with my younger brother about a past issue I had had with a graphic drawing class (figuring out how to draw cubes with bits missing from them) and he mentioned that he just pictured the cube in his head and then rotated it to get an idea of where the missing bits were supposed to be that I realized that people weren’t just being hyperbolic when they talked about getting lost in a book, or it just wasn’t how I had pictured it.
In fact, I discovered that I thought completely verbally, no images… and I have a very hard time doing visual recall. I’m a little face blind too. I can’t pull up a mental image of someone to describe them. When bringing up childhood memories, very little is visual, most of it is emotional. I can’t tell you the color or pattern of the linoleum of the kitchen floor, but I can describe the contentment of helping my dad bake bread, the feel of butter between my fingers as I greased the loaf pans, how tired my little arms got kneading the dough, the taste of the bread right out of the oven, with the butter just melting into slice, and down my arms.
It wasn’t until I was in my forties that I even got a name for it; Aphantasia.
Nah, it’s pretty common for people not to realize they have it until their late teens or 20s, especially for more subtle kinds of synesthesia. It’s such an internal experience that often people have little reason to describe or question it beforehand.
Ok, it never occurred to me before that synesthesia could be responsible for the origin of the idea of auras around people, but in hindsight this is Obvious and as a neuro student absolutely fascinating!
Quick look at the emotion-evoked synesthesia page on UofToronto’s neurowiki seems to back up this idea.
He says, without vetting the source or even reading the whole article like an idiot.
Hey Vindcara, go easy on Vindcara, okay? I’m sure he’s a good guy, even though he can be a bit of a doofus at times.
🙂
Go easy on Vincara! Look, It is hard when we find something SOOo exciting … and then see that it is a grand falloon.
Oh, cheeeeeeze, I’m old, help me! Help meeeeee….
How about I read that a year after it came out? And I know which author wrote the book, and which author the author was trolling with the pen name he used
Yeah, Kurt was great, but I miss Zelazny, THERE was a guy who used his words like The Old Masters used oil paints. Blending, shading, complimentary colors, dissonant colors, vibrant colors, Nine Princes! Contrasting Brand, Blaize, Corwin, Dworkin, it’s like “A Lion in Winter” on steroids.
I found out this year that I have a form of synesthesia. I’m 39. 😅
Granted, mine is a really subtle type, but apparently most people don’t see spoken words. I found out that was weird about ten years ago, and found out it was a form of synesthesia really recently (It’s called tickertape). It’s just really impossible to know how other people are (or are not) experiencing the world.
I would assume that living underwater, where the sunlight doesn’t go all that far down, would mean that you have the ability to see different things then land dwellers do. Since she spent most of her growing up time on the land she would not know this about her vision. Now deep underwater she can see things that her father, who is not a water dweller, does not have the ability to see.
I don’t know how the girls made the colors as they danced, but I assume that all of the Sarnothi can see them.
Similar to if I had color vision and everyone in my town was colorblind. Not any special ESP thing. Just that my vision was a little different then everyone else’s.
Selkie: Howd’s hey make those colors?
Todd: Plants
Selkie: I KNEWS ITS!
Lol, you. Color out of space indeed!
One time I made colors like that in a pool. I spent 3 days in the hospital with a kidney infection and a kidney stone the size of a grape.
My advice to Selkie is to try not to breathe that in.
Ain’t modern medicine great?
I wonder if Benny saw those colors too…
…No, I wonder if Benny saw DIFFERENT colors. That would be so freakin’ cool!
Synaesthesia was entirely what Walt Disney’s Fantasia was all about.
What happened to that first speech balloon, Dave? O_o