I always thought I was weird...

i was listening to MGMT most of the morning and I always close my eyes when im just chillin in bed listening to music and when Of Moons, Birds and Monsters came on eyes closed, i got super into the music, felt every emotion everything oh and not to mention all i could see was ribbons of color with my eyes closed. Then it hit me, was this what N*E*R*D was referring to when they named the illest album of 08 Seeing Sounds. I've always listened to music...closed my eyes and could either see people dancing( i still think im weird for this) like full out routines or colors. In the effort to curve some of my boredom, avoid working on my english paper and to seriously just learn more about myself, I typed in " seeing color while listening to music" in a google search and got redirected to a wiki page about Synesthesia. Its fascinating. literally. tho.
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Sound → color synesthesia
Cytowic calls sound → color synesthesia "something like fireworks": voice, music, and assorted environmental sounds such as clattering dishes or dog barks trigger color and simple shapes that arise, move around, and then fade when the sound stimulus ends.[3] For some, the stimulus type is limited (e.g., music only, or even just a specific musical key); for others, a wide variety of sounds triggers synesthesia.
Sound often changes the perceived hue, brightness, scintillation, and directional movement. Some individuals see music on a "screen" in front of their face. Deni Simon, for whom music produces waving lines "like oscilloscope configurations—lines moving in color, often metallic with height, width and, most importantly, depth. My favorite music has lines that extend horizontally beyond the 'screen' area."[3]
Though individuals hardly ever agree on what color a given sound is (composers Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov famously disagreed on the colors of music keys), synesthetes show the same trends as non-synesthetes do. For example, both groups say that louder tones are brighter than soft tones, higher ones are smaller and brighter than low ones, and low tones are both larger and darker than high ones.


whats crazy. is they say this type of synesthesia can be easily achieved from doing like drugs like LSD or whatever. but lol ive never done LSD in my life.