I can see the music

[Lindy]

Originally posted by Ultimate_Sandwich
What you're talking about, Lindz, is called synesthesia.
<a href=http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/synesthesia.html>Go here.</a>

You seem to experience it more vividly than some. I can imagine images and colours to accompany music, but not to the point where I can picture it clearly. Sometimes I'll smell something and it triggers a memory, though.

Anyway, don't do drugs. Unless it's marijuana. Is that really a drug, now, come on?

*Dylan

Rawrish indeed, I suffer from a condition now, and I thought it was just insanity.

Also, the reason that smells trigger memories is because the memory cells linked to scent live for a pretty long time, a few years I think, even if it was linked to something only really kept in the short term memory.

There was a big study on it a while back, interesting really.

<a href="http://psyche.csse.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-10-cytowic.html">http://psyche.csse.monash.edu.au/v2/...0-cytowic.html</a>
memory is superior while math and spatial navigation suffer.

Well that makes sense, as shown by remembering something that Murder posted over a year ago, and my general inability to add up simple numbers, boo.

<a href="http://psyche.csse.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-10-cytowic.html">http://psyche.csse.monash.edu.au/v2/...0-cytowic.html</a>
2.8 Not only do most synesthetes contend that their memories are excellent, but cite their parallel sensations as the cause, saying for example, "I know it's 2 because it's white." Conversation, prose passages, movie dialogue, and verbal instructions are typical subjects of detailed recall. The spatial location of objects is also strikingly remembered, such as the precise location of kitchen utensils, furniture arrangements and floor plans, books on shelves, or text blocks in a specific book. Perhaps related to this observation is a tendency to prefer order, neatness, symmetry, and balance. Work cannot commence until the desk is arranged just so, or everything in the kitchen is put away in its proper place. Synesthetes perform in the superior range of the Wechsler Memory Scale.

Well yes, after reading that article, it seems to make sense, I always have to order things perfectly, though I used to think it was something to do with Obsessive Compulsive tendencies, or some such.