I can see the music

[Todie]

Originally posted by Lindz
Music and sound matters more than vision though, since I have perfect rhythmn so I can match my movements and actions to music, which makes things odd when I'm walking and listening to a song with an alternating or odd rhytmn.

I do that. Everywhere I go, there's music in my head. It can be rather annoying at times when I'm trying to get something done.
I listen for pitches in lights and when a fork drops and so on. I know I'm dorky like that.

[fire_of_avalon]

I can "hear" electricity too. And I'm not sure I really understand this thread, so I don't think I can do what y'all can do. I dream things that happen sometimes though, but only stupid things like watching people fold clothes.

[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

[EternalBahamut]

It is the coolest when you are in the middle of a song and everyone in the band hits all the notes and alll the right tempos and you get chills up and down your bad, but no I never really saw music.

[Nait]

I'd really want to sense something like synesthesia once.

[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.

[ShiggtyLuffLuff]

if im not mistakin isnt your ears suppose to have something to do with music and not your eyes?...or do i just not know what im talkin about like usual?

[Todie]

Some people are real big into seeing the music as well as feeling it. I really don't see it, but I feel it all the time. But we all have an internal sense of rhythm, whether or not we think we do. Some people are just better than others. Why do you think you attention catches a nifty rhythm or riff in a tune? There's rhythm and music in everything. May not be our system of pitches, but it's there. Well, I guess I got off topic........back to "seeing" music. I think it differs. I have trouble trying to put color with music. I try to put actual events with it or think of giving it a certain character.

[Peegee]

Originally posted by Guu
I can tell with TVs and CRT monitors, but I can't with LCD screens - maybe it's the electron gun which is what I'm hearing

Why is that? I can 'sense' when a TV is on as well *confused*

[eestlinc]

I believe LSD does this. So if you can do this without taking a substance that causes long term psychosis, good for you.

[Meow]

Originally posted by Lindz
P.S. I'm not on drugs, only once, and that was in public in the middle of London.

Heh. Despite that i never have any intention of taking drugs, that movie-romanticized image of transcendent, awed drug abuse kicks in and i can't help but think that wandering around London under the influence of mind-bending substances would just be crazy-cool.

i can't think of any time i've had any synesthetic experiences. Sure, my computer monitor and the halogen lights in my dorm hum like crazy, but that's just an effect of running electricity through their components.

Woo?


<b>EDIT:</b>

Originally posted by eestlinc
I believe LSD does this. So if you can do this without taking a substance that causes long term psychosis, good for you.

That's interesting. Perhaps synesthesia stems from the presence or overabundance of a similar chemical in the brain. Or maybe even the same one.

[eestlinc]

yea, I believe the chemical in LSD causes the various sense nerves to cross each other, causing you to taste sound and hear colors, for example.

[Drizzt]

I can let the words unfold the right way, if I am committed to that .

I can see sky blue eyes.

Fish by the ocean, sand by the shore, stars in the sky, grass in the fields. I can smell your shampoo and if it's the same as mine, i can identify it as so. I can not play guitar well ... though i did try, i can dream when i sleep (sometimes).
They are either very pleasant dreams, or horrible unforgettable nightmares.

I can get stoned with coffee's caffeine, i can breath, i can't sing.

Oh Well ... and so on, and so on.

[Lindy]

Originally posted by Blanco Meow
Heh. Despite that i never have any intention of taking drugs, that movie-romanticized image of transcendent, awed drug abuse kicks in and i can't help but think that wandering around London under the influence of mind-bending substances would just be crazy-cool.

It was around the houses of parliment and number 10 downing street too, the biggest police presence in England, good job on my part.

Also, as it's said in that article, synesthesitics are suffer more from other kinds of hallucinations, so maybe it's so great since I do have other, less wonderful hallucinations.

I still enjoy it anyway, and if they ever manage to find some way to causing it without any side-effects, then try it, please.

[Kirkpatrick]

Originally posted by Guu
I can tell with TVs and CRT monitors, but I can't with LCD screens - maybe it's the electron gun which is what I'm hearing

Hey, I can do that with TVs, but I'm not sure about Monitors...I shall have to try! I didn't know other people could do that, I'm not (quite) so alone anymore!