Anyone here have any form of Synesthesia? (You might not know you do)

[joe]

As far back as I can remember, peoples names were always a certain "color" to me. I remember this kid Connor in elementary school, I always thought "Connor" was yellow. Same thing with music. Some songs, are just a certain color. It's not something I can control. "Hotel California" was always red. "Many Men" by 50 cent was always blue. And not just ANY red or ANY blue. In my mind it's a certain distinct color, and the color NEVER changes. I first heard many men 9 years ago. The color is still the exact same.

Nowadays I don't get it with names as much. But I still do with music. Not with everyyy song, it's only certain ones. I'd say.. maybe 45% of every song I hear. Or less.

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



Synesthesia is a neurologically-based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.[1][2][3][4] People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes.



According to Richard Cytowic, sound → color synesthesia is "something like fireworks": voice, music, and assorted environmental sounds such as clattering dishes or dog barks trigger color and simple shapes that arise, move around, and then fade when the sound stimulus ends.[3] For some, the stimulus type is limited (e.g., music only, or even just a specific musical key); for others, a wide variety of sounds triggers synesthesia.


In the rare lexical → gustatory synesthesia, individual words and the phonemes of spoken language evoke taste sensations in the mouth. According to James Wannerton, "Whenever I hear, read, or articulate (inner speech) words or word sounds, I experience an immediate and involuntary taste sensation on my tongue. These very specific taste associations never change and have remained the same for as long as I can remember."

You guys ever heard of this? Anyone here have any form of Synesthesia?

[Abd El-Krim]

Hendrix had that.

[RedBlackAttack]

Hendrix had that.
....are you saying that Joe needs to buy a guitar?

[Dwade305]

aught

[crounsa810]

I've always had it when it comes to music. Certain songs have always had a color with them. Nice to know it's weird. Great.

[joe]

I should also elaborate on the title. I said "you might not know you have it," because a lot of people never even second guess it. "Yea, some songs are certain colors, so what?" I always just figured it happened to everyone, until I started asking people "what color do you think this song is?" And got back icy glares. lol


....are you saying that Joe needs to buy a guitar?

haha

[iamgine]

How bout this song. Anything?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc

[joe]

How bout this song. Anything?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc

haha actually no i dont seem to have a color for that song. but i have madddd good memories attached to this song, so thanks for taking me down memory lane. :pimp:

[Abd El-Krim]

how's the shit work.

If you transpose a song is it a different color?

[joe]

how's the shit work.

If you transpose a song is it a different color?

not sure what you mean

[gigantes]

i've heard of it. only know one person for sure who has it, and she's an online friend.

i suspect that a lot of people have some form of synesthesia, only mild cases. maybe with some form of training, though, the ability could be developed and expanded upon.

funny... we're very close to the limit for how far civilisation will ever go, yet we still know so little about the mind itself. but possibly civilisation itself gets in the way of that.

[joe]

i've heard of it. only know one person for sure who has it, and she's an online friend.

i suspect that a lot of people have some form of synesthesia, only mild cases. maybe with some form of training, though, the ability could be developed and expanded upon.

funny... we're very close to the limit for how far civilisation will ever go, yet we still know so little about the mind itself. but possibly civilisation itself gets in the way of that.

Totally, it's so wild, some of the weird things that go on with the human brain..

[CeltsGarlic]

How bout this song. Anything?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc

Yellow to me

[joe]

I don't get it. So you see the color yellow, or you think of yellow. Is everything you see in a yellow tint, or just like some yellow?

For me it's more like.. the song itself IS yellow. Just the sound of it is YELLOW for some reason. As far as whether you see it/think of it/ etc.. I think it's more, you feel it.

To me it always just made sense that a song would be a color, lol, it's so weird that some people just don't have that. Like..."Comfortable" by Lil Wayne will forever be beige to me. LOL. Sounds so weird to say it out loud

[boozehound]

As far back as I can remember, peoples names were always a certain "color" to me. I remember this kid Connor in elementary school, I always thought "Connor" was yellow. Same thing with music. Some songs, are just a certain color. It's not something I can control. "Hotel California" was always red. "Many Men" by 50 cent was always blue. And not just ANY red or ANY blue. In my mind it's a certain distinct color, and the color NEVER changes. I first heard many men 9 years ago. The color is still the exact same.

Nowadays I don't get it with names as much. But I still do with music. Not with everyyy song, it's only certain ones. I'd say.. maybe 45% of every song I hear. Or less.

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






You guys ever heard of this? Anyone here have any form of Synesthesia?
knew OP was mental! Ha, just kidding. sort of

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Tonight's discussion ISH.

We will help a FELLOW ISH'er on constructing a movie !

The subject will be emotions and music.

We want your best song input on music concerning that will provoke

DESIRE



ANTICIPATION
-. i.e. Jaws theme without the horror suspense


JOY

etc.

[RidonKs]

he shouldn't grab a guitar, he should grab a paint brush

[Dresta]

Nabokov had it so each letter was a different colour, and i also remember him saying it is quite common in children, but that 'stupid parents and teachers' condition it out of them by saying things like "don't be stupid, e isn't blue" and so forth; though how true that is, i do not know.

Listening to music is definitely more than an auditory experience for me: i see and feel it (not colours though), which can sometimes cause sensory overload. Loud dissonant sounds genuinely make me feel unwell. But this is just perhaps high sensitivity to sound, and gradations of sound, so different maybe - i dunno.

[warriorfan]

Listening to music is definitely more than an auditory experience for me: i see and feel it (not colours though), which can sometimes cause sensory overload. Loud dissonant sounds genuinely make me feel unwell. But this is just perhaps high sensitivity to sound, and gradations of sound, so different maybe - i dunno.

stop jacking off

[Timmy D for MVP]

I had Sythesia the keyboard tutorial software.

They sound similar.

:confusedshrug:

[Dresta]

stop jacking off
Looks like you're projecting your own insecurities onto others again bruh.

[Overdrive]

For me it's more like.. the song itself IS yellow. Just the sound of it is YELLOW for some reason. As far as whether you see it/think of it/ etc.. I think it's more, you feel it.

To me it always just made sense that a song would be a color, lol, it's so weird that some people just don't have that. Like..."Comfortable" by Lil Wayne will forever be beige to me. LOL. Sounds so weird to say it out loud

Shouldn't synesthesia basically start a pseudo-hallucination? What you describe is more like crosslinking of certain names(in this case of colours) to songs. Synesthesists usually see everything in yellow, when they hear a yellow song/tone - like the world got colourized in photoshop.

[RidonKs]

Nabokov had it so each letter was a different colour
that is truly cray

wonder what happened to joe... maybe he'll be back around the block soon enough?



Shouldn't synesthesia basically start a pseudo-hallucination? What you describe is more like crosslinking of certain names(in this case of colours) to songs. Synesthesists usually see everything in yellow, when they hear a yellow song/tone - like the world got colourized in photoshop.
is this true? my assumption was like your crosslinking description, whereby colours might flash across your vision or when you close your eyes, because of an assotiation with a certain sensation, feeling, whatever is happening around you, etc... but it was all a very mild experience

but what you're describing would be unnerving, friggin overwhelming if i hear woody guthrie and all of a sudden the world tints green like a heineken bottle in front of my eyes... that is scary.

[Jailblazers7]

No wonder Nabokov was such a great writer. Just the exercise of writing/typing must have been an insanely pleasurable experience.