Anyone else have this weird thing when young...

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When I was little, people/names/words were either 'wet' or 'dry'.

I felt they had this quality very deep down, to my/their core.

Sometimes a 'wet' person/name/word would absolutely repulse me, and sometimes the same for the 'dry' equivalent. That is - neither 'wet' nor 'dry' was always a bad or always a good thing.

I'd think to myself or tell my Mum things like "Oh, no no no, [classmate] is sooooo dry" often followed a shiver, if it was replusive to me, or followed by saying "I like her" if I did and the wet or dryness was good.

Often, the name "Catherine" would be dry, like I had STRAW in my mouth, but this was sort of because I found the owner of the name (a certain girl in my class) to be dry too, based upon some indecipherable reason associated with a combination of her appearance/way of speaking/personality.

The name 'Jessica' was always wet. A 'Jessica' in my class had an identical twin 'Fiona'. Fiona was dry. Jessica was wet.

Edit: I can still do this now, and find these qualities in people or names of things still, but it isn't something that pops into my head instantly and strongly like it used to when I was younger. I have to decide to think about it, and then I can assign the 'wet' or 'dry' quite easily in the same old way.

So. Anyone else have things like this? Vehement feelings that things/people/names have inherent qualities that in reality they don't actually have, but feel very very strongly that they are those things?

Last edited by Lexa on 04 Jun 2012, 11:45 am, edited 1 time in total.

I used to classify names as hot and cold when I was a child. Certain words and people would be hot and certain words and people would be cold. There was one time that I was talking about the kids in my preschool describing them as hot and cold. My mum laughed and my dad told me never to do that again.

Thanks for replying. I wonder if this is a thing many other people experience or have experienced in the past.

Perhaps I should have put this in "General Discussion" in order to get more views....

wel there is such a thing as dry humour and i know i like girls better when their wet but thats probably a other subject all together.

This might be a form of synesthesia.

It is another subject altogether - but then you already knew that.

Thanks for your reply.

Even though synaesthesia is to do with numbers and colours being linked and so is not what I'm talking about, I do see what you mean.

It is a similar type of thing.

I do other similar things to the 'wet/dry' thing too, like: I have two house keys, one for the back door and one for the front. They have these peculiar little fluorescent rubber covers over the bit you hold between your fingers when turning the key in the lock. One key has a pink cover and one has an orange cover.
To me, for some reason, pink is 'first' before orange, so the pink key should be the front door key. It isn't. I CAN NEVER EVER EVER get out of my head the fact that the orange one opens the front door and the pink one opens the back door. To me - pink is just first before orange. I don't know why. Thankfully, I have a duplicate set of keys that are all plain metal with no coverings.

Also - words have characters for me. Not particularly tangible characters, but characters nevertheless. For example, I used to remember biology terms (complex chemical names etc) for my Biological Sciences degree exams without really having to learn them by rote - the words would just sort of automatically ping into my head as soon as I read them, with a certain 'feeling' about each being instantly obvious. The 'feeling' they would give me, or their 'character' would vary according to the word length, which letters were in the word, how the word sounded and if it looked nice or nasty (some letters are nice and some are nasty )

Number/color synesthesia isn't the only kind. Any two senses can be crossed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Yep. You're right. I don't know why I even typed something so inaccurate, since I'd actually just been reading that Wikipedia entry before I made this topic