Synesthesia

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Have you experienced synesthesia? What is it like for you?

Wikipedia has listed 8 types: Grapheme-color, Chromesthesia, Spatial sequence, Number form, Auditory - tactile, Misophonia, Mirror-touch Synesthesia, and Lexical-Gustatory.

I'm not sure if I have it, in fact I very much doubt it, but chromesthesia would seem the most relevant. I believe that certain music somewhat correlates to moods which correlates to colors. I also tend to get mental-visual images of wave oscillations when I listen to beat-focused music like hip hop or dubstep.


Some examples of correlations of music to colors:

Red ("raw energy") - Iggy & The Stooges / Penetration
Orange ("lust for life") - Nebula / Giant
Yellow ("joy") - Tom Tom Club / Genius Of Love
Green ("serenity") - Jefferson Airplane / Embryonic Journey
Blue ("morose") - Sun Ra / Tapestry From An Asteroid
Purple ("alluring/exotic") - Silkie / Planet X

 

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That is fascinating, I could certainly see how the numbers-related forms of synesthesia would be useful in mathematics.

I don't have any of these forms, but like ESC I can perceive oscillations and other sounds as abstract movements within my mind. Listening to the more 'inhuman' electronic (stuff mostly from trance and techno) is a goldmine for interesting sounds that produce reactions. Hell, just listening to psytrance is like a trip in itself, before the drugs.

More on music that may be related, specific passages often conjure up images, environments, and ideas. Aural stimuli in general have a very abstract visual quality to me.