Is any of you here a synaesthetic?

[sklebil]

The following article https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7029/abs/434038a.html;jsessionid=6151 in a recent issue of Nature has inspired me to ask here. FYI, I am not.

[xvimbi]

Check out this thread:

https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,7275.0.html

Have fun!

[c18cont]

Does sinaesthetic count?

John

[invictus]

Well, to be honest, I am actually a synaesthetic and an ambidextrous person, no, i am serious, damned serious. Everytime i hear a piece of music, colors start flashing in my head, and i can see music as colors, i treat it as a gift, not a disease. Its a wonderful sensation

[c18cont]

WOW.......

John

[Bob]

Does that happen with any sound invicturs?  I mean you must be seeing colors all day then right?

[invictus]

Invictus

Yes, everytime i close my eyes, any sound, will make colors, it can be annoying when you are meditating and somebody starts playing Hilary Duff CDs

Sometimes, talking would also 'trigger' it

[abell88]

When I am falling into a doze, if I hear a sudden sharp sound I will often see a flash of light (and experience a full-body twitch). Occasionally I will twitch, see the flash, and hear a sound like glasses being clinked without any external stimulus. Nothing so exciting as Invictus's experience, however!

[ravelmaniac]

Scriabin was a synaesthetic.  He often mentioned the constant waves of colors that he could sense in his music.  Interesting, huh?

[da jake]

I have these very vague memories from when I was 2 or younger being able to see sounds as colours. I was so young and these memories are so fleeting that I couldn't recall any circumstances surrounding them. Sound doesn't provoke colours for me anymore at all, if it ever did in some point in my life.

It's also possible I'm just remembering a dream from my early childhood.

I guess I'll never find out for sure.

[BoliverAllmon]

this thread is very intriquing. I never knew that people saw sounds as colors. I personally don't see colors.

boliver

[ravelmaniac]

Synaesthesia, is, of course, very rare.  I once met a remarkable piano teacher who had synaesthesia and perfect pitch, and each note had a different color for him.  In addition, pieces with clear tonal centers seemed to him as having a sort of "overarching" color, along with other associated colors.  I find it fascinating. 

[BoliverAllmon]

I am finding this fascinating also. Are there any books on this?

[Aziel]

I'd like to play for a synaesthetic.


Aziel Kain could Benifit!!

[felia]

hey, guys..

i got it, if a piece really nice...i will got the smell of the piece..like CHopin Grand polonaise always remind me of Mint ice cream...SWEETIE!

Bach gives me very classical old church smell..!

some of the chinese ehtnic song will then gives me a shcandalwood smell....Funny~!

[invictus]

When i play a piano, wheni am playing it correctly, the colors are always very 'nice', when i make a mistake, my eyes hurt

[bernhard]

Sinaesthesia? Have a look here:


https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2379.msg20523.html#msg20523
(Sinaesthesia)


An interesting book that talks at length about this subject is:

Diane Ackerman – “A natural history of the senses” (Chapmans)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[da jake]

If anyone is interested in the story of the second coolest synaesthete ever (after my buddy Scriabin), check out the story of Solomon-Veniaminovich Shereshevsky ("S"):

https://www.happychild.org.uk/acc/tpr/gtm/1098slvs.htm

[lostinidlewonder]

I think synaesthetic is borderline schizophrenic, where the mind cannot control associating one thing to the other and the head just keeps chaining off all these assosiations. But the idea where sound can cause an effect on the body which has little connection is very obvious.

I don't see colors but I can feel deep within my chest a sensation which causes an emotional/physical response when I listen to music. I see direction, I guess it is a result of sight reading practice anticipating how the dots on the page move as the sound moves, but as well i think more importantly it is the holy and pure magnetic like tug that music has on the soul of people. When we hear something very happy we feel like we are rising, our chests are filled, but when you hear something totally devastating and sad you feel much heavier I guess. Both which insipre amazing musical emotion neither greater than the other, but opposites like North and South poles of a magnet.

So I feel physically from within this movement when listening to music. That is probably why people move involantary when they play piano, I can't help moving my entire body when I play some passages of music which just rips you from the inside out.

[dbrainiak914]

Haha, my teacher had a friend who was a synaesthetic.  When he gave a concert (mostly Scriabin I think), he wrote down on the score which parts of a piece were which colors.  My teacher then controlled the light system of the concert hall, and as the guy would play, my teacher changed the lights!  His directions were simply the score, written which colors at certain areas.  He said it really worked well.  So this whole time the guy and the piano is bathed in some hue of light, and when the color changed, you really could identify listening that the piece changed it's feeling a bit.  I would've loved to see that.

[prometheus]

Synaesthetia has nothing to do with either borderline or schizophrenia.

Also, most 'Scriabin experts' don't think he was synaesthetic.