That's really interesting boomlinde. Never heard of it! Haha, but I'm pretty sure that's not me because I've been able to see sounds as far back as I could remember.

Either way, that doesn't surprise me. You condition your brain to think a certain way in a game, and when a situation relevant to that game presents itself to you in your life, your brain should revert to that conditioned action.

That seems like a very cool hypothesis. Also, I didn't know that tetris players did that thing with architecture ,though I do play the knight's tour, and whenever I see a group of tiles I will instinctively do my tile method (basically, I have two polyominoes that are equivalent to a knight's jump that I try to fit at many as possible into one shape, but with however many combinations needed to prove that a tour is possible)

colors are commonly used in classical music to describe... "colorful" music (basically, weird harmonies). sharp and flat, like A# Bb ETC.

Explain more what this fruity loops syndrome,  cause you might be a synesthete.(explain or draw out what you see, if you see anything at all)

I think that there is a "Fruityloops syndrome" that is often mistaken for synaesthesia. Perceiving lines, colors and boxes along with sound and music could as well be a result from too much sequencing or playing guitar hero, IMO, just like a manic tetris player would obsessively try to mentally fit tetrominoes into every architectural crevice around (been there, done that ). I wouldn't consider myself a synaesthete, but I definitely suffer from the fruityloops syndrome.

But I think that most people around me have made occasional synaesthetic-ish observations. There are "loud colors," "soft sound" etc. that don't really make sense from any logical standpoint (and you can go even further, thinking about "sharp" and "flat" tones, feeling "blue" -- there's really a whole lot of cultural baggage that comes with colors, sounds, emotions and shapes). Most people are also able to intuitively translate music into motion and moods into colors, maybe because of cultural training.

Sup fellows!

I am excited for the collab now

Yup, same thing then.

in head, not eyeball vision

Like, in your head or in your "eyeball" vision?

I see them in different positions in space, it's pretty cool.

Oh man, I never get over-stimulated. Nothing looks more awesome than just a ton of varied noise and sounds, it's so cool man.

And Saskrotch, don't think that counts hahaha.

Gunrunner, numbers and stuff kind of do that for me. I see timelines different than anyone else I know. Specifically times of the day and years and months. They all have colours and textures and feels to me.

I'm both envious and glad I don't really have such an ability. Normal sensation is often a bit too much for me to handle. It would be awesome to have correspondences with every sound. It would be awful to not be able to turn it off if you went someplace rather cacophonous. I can barely take crowds as it is.

Here's a recent article on the subject:
http://www.gnxp.com/wp/2011/06/21/synae … savantism/

What I found particularly interesting in the comments was that one can replicate the effect of number-color synethesia, via training. Granted, it's a mental visualization process rather than an immediate sensory reaction, but the ability to use it to pull off feats of mental calculation are rather astounding. It would probably take more work than it's worth to create a similar system for color and sound.

i dunno if this counts but opium tastes like purple to me, and ketamine tastes like cyan

also when ever i finish a track ALL I SEE IS GREEN SUP LOL

hearing music as visual input = cool

looking at a painting and hearing voices = schizophrenia

that's color-association, congratulations, welcome to club synesthesia

Reading about clinical populations in college, it seems most people that have this are actually troubled by it rather than proud. They suffer from an over-stimulation of senses when in an area with large noise-like traffic, for example. Still, absolutely fascinating.