The thing to remember is, for us synesthestes, we cant really know what its like not to experience the reactions to stimulus that are characteristic of our conditon, so when people say to me, do u love ur synesthesia, its kinda like asking me to put myself outside of my own perception, because for me to appreciate synesthesia i must juxtapose it with non synesthesia, which i canot do. so really i am glad to just have a mind with idiosyncratic productions, which is ubiquitous in humanity anyway.
hey I think Ive got synesthesia too.but I see colors when I read.a->red b->pink c->green d->its kinda neutral cause like other letters like h it takes the colour of the other letters e->orange f->purple g->neutral h->mentol colour(sth like this) i->white j->neutral k->greenish yellow l->neutral m->neutral n->sky blue o->deep blue p->brown q->light grey r->neutral s->grey t->sth like light brown and grey toghether u->grey v->purple w->dark blue-purple x->bluepurple y->grey z-dark grey
i see colors in numbers and letters too. i didnt realize i had it until i was talking to my friends about it and they looked at me like i was crazy! haha!
i see colors when i listen to music. with my eyes open, i normally see shapes bending and folding as the same color as what i'm looking at. like at a white wall, i see little dots emerging, and what looks like an ocean wave. if i'm listening to music with my eyes closed looking toward light, i see oranges and dim yellows and thick reds. with my eyes covered while closed or looking at something dark i see greens blues and sparkly shapes.
this is fantastic and all of you who have commented on this strange yet beautiful fusion of sound cuasing shapes and colour.
i run a small theatre and am doing a producition based on debussy and his Synesthesia, i would love to maybe hear from you and ask you some qestions if i may!
that goes for all of you who have this beautiful conection with sound and ts visual representation.
hope to hear from you soon.. please feel free to email me at dekoolkatz@yahoo.co.uk
Once upon a long time ago Synesthesia was labelled a disability, when i was young it was nice to have a label, it meant i fitted in somewhere. Having multiple forms of it can be overwhelming, especially when peoples thoughts have a color/sound frequency, walking into a crowed supermarket was often like being a radio shifting through unending channels that forced me to block out the static. As well as seeing the beauty in life, i also heard the bad. Meditation has helped me fine tune.
When you 'see' music does it block your actual perspective viewing or is it more like day dreaming? I would love to experience this some day....get me a hammer...a very big hammer.
@stevenfirst nope, it doesn't. not quite like day dreaming either. We only see it in our heads. It doesn't physically block anything or break our concentration (if we're not intentionally focusing on the colors and the shapes we see).
@stevenfirst It is fun to having it but to be honest, i'd really like to know how its like to not have synesthesia for a day. I'd love to experience the difference.
I kind of get this but without the colours, just the shapes. I have colour/grapheme synesthesia and when I told one of my teachers about it, he told me about a girl he once knew who described being able to see people's auras in different colours which changed depending on the mood of the person. I assume this is a form of synesthesia - one which I'd love to have.
I wouldn't call it a condition because that has a negative connotation. I hate when people call synesthesia a disorder because it's not debilitating...unless you're getting a sensory overload. Most synesthetes however claim their perceptual experiences to be positive and actually helpful in terms of memory especially.
I recently found out that I have synaesthesia, a little different to this as each instrument has a different colour and each chord is a different shade. I also see the colours before my eyes. I can taste certain colours and my months and years are set out before my eyes in a certain way, I know its not there, but its the way I picture it.
It's really interesting stuff, glad theres other people like that too!
This is wonderful. I also have sound/music/color synesthesia, except I really do see the colors in front of me. I recently discovered it was a 'condition', and not a normal occurrence. :P Now that I think of it, some people did look at me funny when I said certain songs had pretty colors.
It's cool to see how others experience sound-color synethesia. And now I have a video that can sort of explain to my friends what it's like for me!
:'( I'd give anything to have synesthesia, there's black a few times things have popped into my eyes, but thats with hard work, or when im half asleep/awake, so i cant tell if it's real or im just forcing myself to see it
@djziggurat synesthesia doesn't come with hard work at all. It just naturally comes. Just like it's natural for you to hear music you're playing or taste food you eat. I see it as a sixth sense :) you can't force it though. i think that's what you might be doing by the sound of it
awesome video! nice work! I am a graphic arts design student and i am working on a project associating music with color. I am pretty interested in finding out if you have all associated tone or pitch with certain colors my aim is to draw a known musical piece. Since i am only a musician and a soon to be designer and don't have synesthesia i would appreciate your help
I'm sorry I grew out of synesthesia. (emotions and emotional concepts had their own colors/textures/(indescribable)) Maybe I grew out of it because I suppressed it so much, because I didn't want to be this stupid, crazy person, and since I figured I was the only human in existence with this experience, I'd better make myself straight with god and force myself to be normal, acceptable. ('screaming' yellow from abdomen above, 'sandpaper' dark-red below) If only I knew then what I know now :-(
You know 727, I don't that's entirely uncommon. I've read that many children have synesthesia but it doesn't continue into adulthood. When I was young I remember places and days of the week had colors...it was natural to assign them for me but unlike with synesthesia, my set of places, days to colors was not defined indefinitely. It changed. Those with this perceptual difference have the same set and it never changes. A is always blue or E flat is always grape.
I get very similar shapes and positions (minus the strings) as you do, only for me the colours are more constant to the instrumentation. Ever seen Disney's Fantasia - Toccata and Fugue?
wow, my Synethesia is almost the same, only I have more horizontal lines when I listen to music. I also have more than just seeing music, like when people talk, I can see the words in front of me, letters are different colors, everything I look at has a gender and their own personalities.
@Cerratosaurus that is awesome! I really want to learn more about my Synesthesia, and I was wondering that if I paid more attention to it, then if it would grow stronger or something, but even if it isn't very strong, it's still amazing
my notes have personalities too! I don't have music->color as intensly as you do. But I have music->touch. Pianos feel soft and violins feel hard and rough.
Cool video, i've posted a response...a video I made a few months back. Hope you like it...a bit of a different spin on the theory behind it but I think it works nevertheless...check it out and enjoy! Darko PS. Keep up the good work!
Loved your video Cerratosaurus. I had a quick question for you. I experience this as well and you nailed it!!! I have a weird question for you. Do you ever see what you are thinking about while listening to this music IN those particular daydream-like colors?
For example: you are thinking about eating a Hamburger at McDonald's, do you see the color of the hamburger when listening to music or does your Synesthesia 'get in your way' of visually seeing these things in your minds eye?
I'm synesthetic as well. Words have a taste and/or texture to me. I also see shapes or textures when I hear music, but not in color as so many other synesthetes do.
Your video visually described exactly what I see when I hear music, with the little round tamps of the piano and the squiggly, falling wiggles of the horn(?). That was amazing, :)
Thanks for the encouraging comments! I'm hoping to make more of these down the road.
Actually, for the beginning piece with the circles and squares, I took a bit of aesthetic license there because that was the first one that I worked on and I was more concerned with just the color. I don't necessarily see circles and squares for piano...the shapes all depend on how the key is attacked on the instrument. Staccatos are little dots, for example.
Well, yes, all synesthetic experiences differ from person to person. Also, keep in mind that this video is merely an attempt to visualize what I was seeing/feeling for these pieces of music.
I'd go with "daydream" because it's not something that I can physically see. It's very subconscious. I tell people that it's sort of like the state of mind when you're not fully awake, but you're listening to music before bed and you're, like you said, daydreaming. Your brain is always "awake", so listening to music conjures up shapes, colors and textures without you consciously having to work towards doing it yourself.
Wow this is really cool. I have synesthesia too, I have the music into shapes and colours and movement and numbers and letters are colours. I dont see piano as the circles and squares, but I think its fascinating that you do. For me, the thing at 0:46, the liney thing? Thats more like a saxophone for me. But great job! I still cant find a way to animate mine. Thanks for posting this, the only music video to make sense.
I WANT SYNESTHESIA! HOW CAN I GET IT?
Pianoasis 2 weeks ago
that is NOTHING like what I saw! but it was very well done. :) it'd probably be very informational to someone who doesn't experience synesthesia.
facitponitnam 3 months ago
The thing to remember is, for us synesthestes, we cant really know what its like not to experience the reactions to stimulus that are characteristic of our conditon, so when people say to me, do u love ur synesthesia, its kinda like asking me to put myself outside of my own perception, because for me to appreciate synesthesia i must juxtapose it with non synesthesia, which i canot do. so really i am glad to just have a mind with idiosyncratic productions, which is ubiquitous in humanity anyway.
TheTerrificTurtle 7 months ago
hey I think Ive got synesthesia too.but I see colors when I read.a->red b->pink c->green d->its kinda neutral cause like other letters like h it takes the colour of the other letters e->orange f->purple g->neutral h->mentol colour(sth like this) i->white j->neutral k->greenish yellow l->neutral m->neutral n->sky blue o->deep blue p->brown q->light grey r->neutral s->grey t->sth like light brown and grey toghether u->grey v->purple w->dark blue-purple x->bluepurple y->grey z-dark grey
love it!
VAcylia97 8 months ago 2
Do you like having synesthesia? It just seems like a fun way to see the world.
Aphroditeuf16 9 months ago 2
@cometfireato2 Haha, yeah, I guess so. But with meaning!
Cerratosaurus 9 months ago
that piano melody is perfect
cometfireato2 9 months ago
So it's kinda like windows media visualztion vision
cometfireato2 9 months ago
@ESicky, thanks! I'm honored.^_^
Cerratosaurus 10 months ago
I use this video to explain my synesthesia to my friends! Thanks for making it!
ESicky 10 months ago
i see colors in numbers and letters too. i didnt realize i had it until i was talking to my friends about it and they looked at me like i was crazy! haha!
expecttheunexpecable 11 months ago
i'm pretty sure i have synaesthesia
i see colors when i listen to music. with my eyes open, i normally see shapes bending and folding as the same color as what i'm looking at. like at a white wall, i see little dots emerging, and what looks like an ocean wave. if i'm listening to music with my eyes closed looking toward light, i see oranges and dim yellows and thick reds. with my eyes covered while closed or looking at something dark i see greens blues and sparkly shapes.
do you think i have it?
andrea97mw2 11 months ago
0:44 could someone please let me know where this music is from? Thank you
GOLDENARMY1000 1 year ago
@GOLDENARMY1000
1. "La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair)" – from Claude Debussy's first book of preludes
2. "The Last Man" – from The Fountain soundtrack
3. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" – The Beatles (off of the Sgt. Pepper album)
Cerratosaurus 11 months ago
*i see colours in numbers and letters!!:) i love it and i don't think is weird
vac978 1 year ago
i have th same thing but i see colours when i read...for example "a" is red!
vac978 1 year ago
@vac978 "A" is red for me, too!
Cerratosaurus 1 year ago
@Cerratosaurus SAME!!!
amyluvsmj 1 year ago
I wouldn't be surprised if he did … I think he's quoted as saying how creating music is like painting pictures.
Cerratosaurus 1 year ago
I wonder if Claude Debussy was a Synesthete. Franz Liszt was.
johntel16 1 year ago
heya, i sent u an email to ur inbox, could you check please. thank you!!!!!
nancy198710 1 year ago
this is fantastic and all of you who have commented on this strange yet beautiful fusion of sound cuasing shapes and colour.
i run a small theatre and am doing a producition based on debussy and his Synesthesia, i would love to maybe hear from you and ask you some qestions if i may!
that goes for all of you who have this beautiful conection with sound and ts visual representation.
hope to hear from you soon.. please feel free to email me at dekoolkatz@yahoo.co.uk
much respect
isaac
DeKoolKatz 1 year ago
Once upon a long time ago Synesthesia was labelled a disability, when i was young it was nice to have a label, it meant i fitted in somewhere. Having multiple forms of it can be overwhelming, especially when peoples thoughts have a color/sound frequency, walking into a crowed supermarket was often like being a radio shifting through unending channels that forced me to block out the static. As well as seeing the beauty in life, i also heard the bad. Meditation has helped me fine tune.
11Tigeress11 1 year ago
wow, how did you get the Synesthesia?
i found it completely amusing
HeyGennie 1 year ago
you did an AWESOME job. must've been hard to translate that in the exact way that you saw it. kudos!
bumblebeedancer 1 year ago
By 'see', I mean an involuntary association in my brain like a daydream.
Cerratosaurus 1 year ago 2
When you 'see' music does it block your actual perspective viewing or is it more like day dreaming? I would love to experience this some day....get me a hammer...a very big hammer.
stevenfirst 1 year ago
@stevenfirst nope, it doesn't. not quite like day dreaming either. We only see it in our heads. It doesn't physically block anything or break our concentration (if we're not intentionally focusing on the colors and the shapes we see).
bumblebeedancer 1 year ago
@bumblebeedancer Quite amazing....must be fun to have at times...I wish I could experience it for myself...even if only for a day.
stevenfirst 1 year ago
@stevenfirst It is fun to having it but to be honest, i'd really like to know how its like to not have synesthesia for a day. I'd love to experience the difference.
bumblebeedancer 1 year ago
I kind of get this but without the colours, just the shapes. I have colour/grapheme synesthesia and when I told one of my teachers about it, he told me about a girl he once knew who described being able to see people's auras in different colours which changed depending on the mood of the person. I assume this is a form of synesthesia - one which I'd love to have.
missgracegallagher 1 year ago
I wouldn't call it a condition because that has a negative connotation. I hate when people call synesthesia a disorder because it's not debilitating...unless you're getting a sensory overload. Most synesthetes however claim their perceptual experiences to be positive and actually helpful in terms of memory especially.
Psiafrat 1 year ago
@Psiafrat quite so. it's also a joy to have.
bumblebeedancer 1 year ago
I recently found out that I have synaesthesia, a little different to this as each instrument has a different colour and each chord is a different shade. I also see the colours before my eyes. I can taste certain colours and my months and years are set out before my eyes in a certain way, I know its not there, but its the way I picture it.
It's really interesting stuff, glad theres other people like that too!
Sashaface001 2 years ago
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myhaleydear 2 years ago
This is wonderful. I also have sound/music/color synesthesia, except I really do see the colors in front of me. I recently discovered it was a 'condition', and not a normal occurrence. :P Now that I think of it, some people did look at me funny when I said certain songs had pretty colors.
It's cool to see how others experience sound-color synethesia. And now I have a video that can sort of explain to my friends what it's like for me!
myhaleydear 2 years ago
:'( I'd give anything to have synesthesia, there's black a few times things have popped into my eyes, but thats with hard work, or when im half asleep/awake, so i cant tell if it's real or im just forcing myself to see it
djziggurat 2 years ago
@djziggurat synesthesia doesn't come with hard work at all. It just naturally comes. Just like it's natural for you to hear music you're playing or taste food you eat. I see it as a sixth sense :) you can't force it though. i think that's what you might be doing by the sound of it
bumblebeedancer 1 year ago
awesome video! nice work! I am a graphic arts design student and i am working on a project associating music with color. I am pretty interested in finding out if you have all associated tone or pitch with certain colors my aim is to draw a known musical piece. Since i am only a musician and a soon to be designer and don't have synesthesia i would appreciate your help
filoppan 2 years ago
@filoppan I could help you?
bumblebeedancer 1 year ago
I'm sorry I grew out of synesthesia. (emotions and emotional concepts had their own colors/textures/(indescribable)) Maybe I grew out of it because I suppressed it so much, because I didn't want to be this stupid, crazy person, and since I figured I was the only human in existence with this experience, I'd better make myself straight with god and force myself to be normal, acceptable. ('screaming' yellow from abdomen above, 'sandpaper' dark-red below) If only I knew then what I know now :-(
727Phoenix 2 years ago
You know 727, I don't that's entirely uncommon. I've read that many children have synesthesia but it doesn't continue into adulthood. When I was young I remember places and days of the week had colors...it was natural to assign them for me but unlike with synesthesia, my set of places, days to colors was not defined indefinitely. It changed. Those with this perceptual difference have the same set and it never changes. A is always blue or E flat is always grape.
Psiafrat 1 year ago
Im jealouss . i wish i had synesthesia
ilovebritishaccents 2 years ago
I get very similar shapes and positions (minus the strings) as you do, only for me the colours are more constant to the instrumentation. Ever seen Disney's Fantasia - Toccata and Fugue?
echidna1000 2 years ago
@echidna1000 Yes! I loved that movie growing up -- now I think I know why. ;)
Cerratosaurus 2 years ago
@Cerratosaurus
We should introduce MORE babies to Fantasia, maybe it'll induce the condition. MWAHAHAHA!!!!!
echidna1000 2 years ago
wow, my Synethesia is almost the same, only I have more horizontal lines when I listen to music. I also have more than just seeing music, like when people talk, I can see the words in front of me, letters are different colors, everything I look at has a gender and their own personalities.
MZHappipappi 2 years ago
Very cool. Same here, for chords, at least -- each one has a personality and gender.
Cerratosaurus 2 years ago
@Cerratosaurus that is awesome! I really want to learn more about my Synesthesia, and I was wondering that if I paid more attention to it, then if it would grow stronger or something, but even if it isn't very strong, it's still amazing
MZHappipappi 2 years ago
@Cerratosaurus
my notes have personalities too! I don't have music->color as intensly as you do. But I have music->touch. Pianos feel soft and violins feel hard and rough.
2InsaneChickens 2 years ago
Cool video, i've posted a response...a video I made a few months back. Hope you like it...a bit of a different spin on the theory behind it but I think it works nevertheless...check it out and enjoy! Darko PS. Keep up the good work!
DarrenMarkDarko 2 years ago
when i see color for music its more like bursts of color as if someone was dropping food coloring into a bowl of milk
maddiewaddiemae 2 years ago
Loved your video Cerratosaurus. I had a quick question for you. I experience this as well and you nailed it!!! I have a weird question for you. Do you ever see what you are thinking about while listening to this music IN those particular daydream-like colors?
For example: you are thinking about eating a Hamburger at McDonald's, do you see the color of the hamburger when listening to music or does your Synesthesia 'get in your way' of visually seeing these things in your minds eye?
smilksy 2 years ago
Wow, I hope I can make a video to show my Synaesthesia too. :3
SynestheticSoul 2 years ago
Chris,
The Synesthesia is amazing! I love every bit of it. Keep up the good work bud.
djtunit 2 years ago
I'm synesthetic as well. Words have a taste and/or texture to me. I also see shapes or textures when I hear music, but not in color as so many other synesthetes do.
Your video visually described exactly what I see when I hear music, with the little round tamps of the piano and the squiggly, falling wiggles of the horn(?). That was amazing, :)
andreaturtle 3 years ago
Words have a taste to you? can you tell me more?
Words as in, hearing words, or written words?
Divigen 2 years ago
I have synesthesia too and I absolutely loved this. great job!
jerelyn412 3 years ago
Thanks for the encouraging comments! I'm hoping to make more of these down the road.
Actually, for the beginning piece with the circles and squares, I took a bit of aesthetic license there because that was the first one that I worked on and I was more concerned with just the color. I don't necessarily see circles and squares for piano...the shapes all depend on how the key is attacked on the instrument. Staccatos are little dots, for example.
Cerratosaurus 3 years ago
My synesthetic experiences are different.
I actually visualize different kinds of stuff when I hear music, than from you.
I typically just see dots and lines with color based on the tone, and it's always in a black backround, not white.
unvmoi 3 years ago
Well, yes, all synesthetic experiences differ from person to person. Also, keep in mind that this video is merely an attempt to visualize what I was seeing/feeling for these pieces of music.
Cerratosaurus 3 years ago
I'm tying to understand this experience. Is it like a mental image, like a memory or a daydream, or is it more of an hallucination?
SARAHH213 2 years ago
Hi Sarah, thanks for watching!
I'd go with "daydream" because it's not something that I can physically see. It's very subconscious. I tell people that it's sort of like the state of mind when you're not fully awake, but you're listening to music before bed and you're, like you said, daydreaming. Your brain is always "awake", so listening to music conjures up shapes, colors and textures without you consciously having to work towards doing it yourself.
Cerratosaurus 2 years ago
Thanks for answering :)
SARAHH213 2 years ago
Wow this is really cool. I have synesthesia too, I have the music into shapes and colours and movement and numbers and letters are colours. I dont see piano as the circles and squares, but I think its fascinating that you do. For me, the thing at 0:46, the liney thing? Thats more like a saxophone for me. But great job! I still cant find a way to animate mine. Thanks for posting this, the only music video to make sense.
FlyingBanjosInc 3 years ago
wonderful job:)
Hortadorosario 3 years ago
Congratulations to your Project!
I can absolutely feel your colours and I'm glad someone has produced such...beautiful art to express this way of feeling,tasting,hearing.
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Greez
TrickleGER 3 years ago