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Haha! I have it (synesthesia). I always forget about it's not normal. By the way, mine was developed/intensified in my early teens due to psychedelic usage. I

Haha! I have it (synesthesia). I always forget about it's not normal. By the way, mine was developed/intensified in my early teens due to psychedelic usage. I see the shape and colour of sounds like a video. To a certain extent, tactile sensory input, and even smells trigger visual patterns for me. It's like having a mental HUD doing winamp visualizations 24/7. Sometimes gets a bit tiresome.

GotAnyMegadeth 14y ago
I didn't realise it wasn't normal until I was 11. We were on a coach trip back from a day drip to France and I said "Glad to be back in England, the road signs smell much better" and all my friends were horrified. My brother has it too, so we would often talk about it growing up, seemed normal to us...
pazimzadeh 14y ago
What do different notes sound like? Are they variations upon a theme, or does each sound look completely unique?
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y ago
  For me at least, notes only make up part of the colour/feel. The tone, texture etc., of the notes makes more difference. Also notes change depending on context. A note out of no where on it's own will be a lot different if sounded next to other notes.
- friendly_chap 14y ago
  The pitch of a sound mostly controls the size for me, so the same sound on different note is very similar. Amplitude makes almost no difference. The texture makes them very unique though. Sub basses, like a deep sine is usually dark yellow for me, or sometimes very dark grey, and they are soft and very large, like an infinite floor. Percussive elements tend to be round. Kickdrums usually look big, round, dark, with a hard and shiny edge if it is a rocky kickdrum with punch, and they look like a sphere cut in half if they are weak. Here are a couple of more examples - Trancy leads are the only sounds which I percieve turquoise - Electro synths tend to be very bright yellow or orange - Drum and bass basses are mudded grimey brown, grey, etc - Flutes, sax and wind instruments are light yellow too, with a really interesting shape - Guitar and similar pluck instruments also amaze me, they are very distinctive - Violins are red, and very shiny, like fire.

GotAnyMegadeth 14y ago

I didn't realise it wasn't normal until I was 11. We were on a coach trip back from a day drip to France and I said "Glad to be back in England, the road signs smell much better" and all my friends were horrified. My brother has it too, so we would often talk about it growing up, seemed normal to us...

pazimzadeh 14y ago

What do different notes sound like? Are they variations upon a theme, or does each sound look completely unique?

GotAnyMegadeth 14y ago
For me at least, notes only make up part of the colour/feel. The tone, texture etc., of the notes makes more difference. Also notes change depending on context. A note out of no where on it's own will be a lot different if sounded next to other notes.
friendly_chap 14y ago
The pitch of a sound mostly controls the size for me, so the same sound on different note is very similar. Amplitude makes almost no difference. The texture makes them very unique though. Sub basses, like a deep sine is usually dark yellow for me, or sometimes very dark grey, and they are soft and very large, like an infinite floor. Percussive elements tend to be round. Kickdrums usually look big, round, dark, with a hard and shiny edge if it is a rocky kickdrum with punch, and they look like a sphere cut in half if they are weak. Here are a couple of more examples - Trancy leads are the only sounds which I percieve turquoise - Electro synths tend to be very bright yellow or orange - Drum and bass basses are mudded grimey brown, grey, etc - Flutes, sax and wind instruments are light yellow too, with a really interesting shape - Guitar and similar pluck instruments also amaze me, they are very distinctive - Violins are red, and very shiny, like fire.