Im not sure how it originally came up, but one day i was talking with classic and his girl and the converstaion got into "seeing" sound. In other words, when a sound is made, a color is associated with that sound that you can visualize. I always could see colors in sounds and honestly i thought that evrybody else could too.. well after classic's girl schooled me, i actually learned that NOT evrybody can "see" music. About one in four have SOME ability to do it and some experience it more intenstely than others .. i even learned that some people can actually "taste" sound as well. There actually a scientific name for it as well.. its called synthnesthesia. After reading up on it, I def got a strong case .. i always could see the music as far back as i remeber and certain sounds represented certain colors and when a song playing its almost like a moving painting. Whats crazy is that I went through life thinking that everybody associated sound with color..
I am just curious who does/has this and who doesnt .... this is from wikipedia.. theres actually mad forms of it but this post is referrng to the sound - color form of it which i most defintely have. pretty intersteng shit if you ask me... chime in if u can relate or if have some other form of it because there many .. some people associate numbers with colors, or taste with numbers, or taste with colors, and other shit too ... pretty crazy.
Sound → color synesthesia
In sound → color synesthesia, individuals experience colors in response to tones or other aspects of sounds. Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues break this type of synesthesia into two categories, which they call "narrow band" and "broad band" sound → color synesthesia. In narrow band sound → color synesthesia (often called music → color synesthesia), musical stimuli (e.g., timbre or key) will elicit specific color experiences, such that a particular note will always elicit red, or harps will always elicit the experience of seeing a golden color. In broadband sound → color synesthesia, on the other hand, a variety of environmental sounds, like an alarm clock or a door closing, may also elicit visual experiences.
Color changes in response to different aspects of sound stimuli may involve more than just the hue of the color. Any dimension of color experience (see HSL color space) can vary. Brightness (the amount of white in a color; as brightness is removed from red, for example, it fades into a brown and finally to black), saturation (the intensity of the color; fire engine red and medium blue are highly saturated, while grays, white, and black are all unsaturated), and hue may all be affected to varying degrees (Campen & Froger 2003). Additionally, music → color synesthetes, unlike grapheme → color synesthetes, often report that the colors move, or stream into and out of their field of view.
Like grapheme → color synesthesia, there is rarely agreement amongst music → color synesthetes that a given tone will be a certain color. However, when larger samples are studied, consistent trends can be found, such that higher pitched notes are experienced as being more brightly colored (Ward, Huckstep & Tsakanikos 2006). The presence of similar patterns of pitch-brightness matching in non-synesthetic subjects suggests that this form of synesthesia shares mechanisms with non-synesthetes (Ward, Huckstep & Tsakanikos 2006).
I am just curious who does/has this and who doesnt .... this is from wikipedia.. theres actually mad forms of it but this post is referrng to the sound - color form of it which i most defintely have. pretty intersteng shit if you ask me... chime in if u can relate or if have some other form of it because there many .. some people associate numbers with colors, or taste with numbers, or taste with colors, and other shit too ... pretty crazy.
Sound → color synesthesia
In sound → color synesthesia, individuals experience colors in response to tones or other aspects of sounds. Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues break this type of synesthesia into two categories, which they call "narrow band" and "broad band" sound → color synesthesia. In narrow band sound → color synesthesia (often called music → color synesthesia), musical stimuli (e.g., timbre or key) will elicit specific color experiences, such that a particular note will always elicit red, or harps will always elicit the experience of seeing a golden color. In broadband sound → color synesthesia, on the other hand, a variety of environmental sounds, like an alarm clock or a door closing, may also elicit visual experiences.
Color changes in response to different aspects of sound stimuli may involve more than just the hue of the color. Any dimension of color experience (see HSL color space) can vary. Brightness (the amount of white in a color; as brightness is removed from red, for example, it fades into a brown and finally to black), saturation (the intensity of the color; fire engine red and medium blue are highly saturated, while grays, white, and black are all unsaturated), and hue may all be affected to varying degrees (Campen & Froger 2003). Additionally, music → color synesthetes, unlike grapheme → color synesthetes, often report that the colors move, or stream into and out of their field of view.
Like grapheme → color synesthesia, there is rarely agreement amongst music → color synesthetes that a given tone will be a certain color. However, when larger samples are studied, consistent trends can be found, such that higher pitched notes are experienced as being more brightly colored (Ward, Huckstep & Tsakanikos 2006). The presence of similar patterns of pitch-brightness matching in non-synesthetic subjects suggests that this form of synesthesia shares mechanisms with non-synesthetes (Ward, Huckstep & Tsakanikos 2006).
