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Originally posted by Pinokio I'm not sure, but if it's supposed to be different colors? I check some studies in people who have syansthesyaand when they say the colours of the letters and numbers they agree in the same colours, so I thought it wouldbe the same here, rather than and Hallucination or what ytou think the colour is. Correct me if I'm wrong

Yeah, that's exactly what I was wondering. It seems that for some things people have some pretty common perceptions (ex; kiki and boomba), but for others it's entirely subjective. You can just look at the kind of lexicon people use in the producer's forums here. It seems like something you take for granted after awhile, but we all use words like "thick, thin, fat, dry, wet, warm, cold, clear" and a bunch of adjectives reffering to tactile sensations to describe sounds, and somehow we all understand eachother - isn't that strange? I'm also wondering by what mechanism those associations are determined.

I think a lot of people in this thread are kidding themselves.

Most house tracks are yellow/orange for me.
Most trance tracks are white.
Techno tracks are black/grey.
Tracks by Andy Moor are pink.

for me...

I go more beyond ... in some musics I close my eyes and increase the volume and I don't see only a colour ... I have some visions ... I feel like as if I was in another place ... when I listen these songs ...

Hydroid - Incurved
Hydroid - Atlantis (Original Mix)
Chicane - Saltwater (Original Mix)
Chicane - Offshore (Live)
BT - Flaming June (Chicane Remix)
DJ Allan Mc Loud - Ready For Take Off

and many other songs ...

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Originally posted by Arraias I go more beyond ... in some musics I close my eyes and increase the volume and I don't see only a colour ... I have some visions ... I feel like as if I was in another place ... when I listen these songs ... Hydroid - Incurved Hydroid - Atlantis (Original Mix) Chicane - Saltwater (Original Mix) Chicane - Offshore (Live) BT - Flaming June (Chicane Remix) DJ Allan Mc Loud - Ready For Take Off and many other songs ...

Yes, that's called your imagination. Everyone visualises things when they hear music.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Yes, that's called your imagination. Everyone visualises things when they hear music.

yes ... but only if the sound is in an high volume and I close my eyes ... my body does not need to be in movement ... you too

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Originally posted by Arraias yes ... but only if the sound is in an high volume and I close my eyes ... my body does not need to be in movement ... you too

That's the point. If you had synaesthesia you wouldn't experience these things only at high volume, and neither with certain tracks.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J That's the point. If you had synaesthesia you wouldn't experience these things only at high volume, and neither with certain tracks.

exactly

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Originally posted by Omega_M so which one of these is Booba and which one Kiki?

hahahah

I hadn't seen that image in forever! Saw it in some BBC docu about synaesthesia

if you have to think about it, then ur prolly not synaesthetic...it's an involuntary response...i mean, i can "see" colors, etc. when i really focus on the music and get myself involved, but that's a voluntary choice, and even then, i'm not physically seeing the colors, but only imagining them...

people need to understand they're not that special

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Originally posted by cherrybarry if you have to think about it, then ur prolly not synaesthetic...it's an involuntary response...i mean, i can "see" colors, etc. when i really focus on the music and get myself involved, but that's a voluntary choice, and even then, i'm not physically seeing the colors, but only imagining them... people need to understand they're not that special

Nobody claimed to be 'special'. This kind of stuff is actually very frequent - probably more so than people who are left handed. Would you not believe me if I told you I was left handed? It's just the really extreme cases that are rare.

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Originally posted by Aquarian Nobody claimed to be 'special'. This kind of stuff is actually very frequent - probably more so than people who are left handed. Would you not believe me if I told you I was left handed? It's just the really extreme cases that are rare.

Ha. I'm left handed, and I was just reading up on it. Apparently, for thousands of years I'd have been taken as unlucky/evil/a magician. However, apparently I'm also smarter and more creative and also good in a fight due to the surprise element.

EDIT: Also, I'm more likely to be a paedophile. Hmmm.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Ha. I'm left handed, and I was just reading up on it. Apparently, for thousands of years I'd have been taken as unlucky/evil/a magician. However, apparently I'm also smarter and more creative and also good in a fight due to the surprise element.

Yeah, in school they would sometimes break the left hands of left-handed kids to force them to learn writing with their right hand - or they'd just completely kick them out of school.

Tiesto - Urban Train and Corsten's, Rock your Body = Some vague Orange
F Corsten - Right of Way = Some sort of distinctive Blue
Adagio For Strings (F Corsten remix) = Darker Gold
The Thrillseekers pres Hydra - Affinity = Darker Blue with a hint of Purple
Marco V - False Light = Yellow

Just a few examples..

Yup.

But tracks aren't a solid color... every instrument in the track has a specific location depending on its placement in the stereofield and depth, and a specific color and speed of movement.

In Yahel - Avalanche (Yahel Remix), I get this brilliant blue-white flash of lightning through the center of my vision that is the main "talking robot" lead, the bass is black, the hihats are white/yellow/orange out to the sides, and the FX... wow, the FX just crash my brain. Things like sweeps and rises and fills all make brilliant types of fading collisions of color and shape, it's pretty wild.

Good thread. =)

btw - i close my eyes and relax for this to happen, and i have to do it for the whole song.

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Originally posted by cherrybarry if you have to think about it, then ur prolly not synaesthetic...it's an involuntary response...i mean, i can "see" colors, etc. when i really focus on the music and get myself involved, but that's a voluntary choice, and even then, i'm not physically seeing the colors, but only imagining them... people need to understand they're not that special

Synaesthesia is also triggered by certain drugs; not any man-made drugs, though.

It would be pretty cool if they discovered a pill that gave temporary synesthesia for the duration of the pill's half-life.

Why couldn't they? They've found shit that gives temporary schizophrenia, I'm sure they could find something more useful!

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