Do you "see" music?

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Is it a pleasant feeling to show off to people who don't know you?^^

Well, I don't see music as 3-dimensional objects like we know them from seeing with our eyes.
My mind holds a kind of universal "sensation" which then can be interpreted as everything that matches to this universal sensation (pictures, colour-compositions, situations, pure emotions, irreal/imaginary things etc.
You know, it's like you also don't really see for example a 4-dimensional construct (with the timeline as a constant) as a 3-dimensional picture when you think about it but somehow sensate it although (imaginary). Why should anybody be boundt to think just in the way he/she speaks/sees/hears/smells/tastes or feels with his/her body? It's hard to explain but it's there. Maybe different for everybody, but yeah...

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Um... what?

Yes I can see it and I have sketched pictures of some tracks of mine.

Yes, I see music as colors and patterns. When improvising I sometimes approach it from a visual sense, "What color would look good here?", sort of abstract expressionist, instead of "what note or chord would sound good here?" I play in nonstandard tunings fairly often and due to that, I hear music in relative pitch so I do not assign colors to given notes. I do see individual colors and colored patterns associated with given intervals however, but they are different for every piece of music. Also when I get my guitar & amp sounding right and the notes "bloom" the way I want them to, I close my eyes to see the colors created. It's sort of like dipping a heavily-charged watercolor brush into a wet-washed field.

I have unconsciously developed a mnemonic scheme to memorize specific parts of the songs I learn - what part I need to play where, etc - by seeing a "preview" of a visual pattern which cues me to insert the musical phrase where it belongs. These patterns are different for every phrase and for every song, though I notice there is a recurrence of an almost houndstooth-like field in a few different songs. The colors are different for each, though.

Every song has a specific color for me. Yes, it does have to do with the notes but I really don't know how to go into that. Also, my mind creates imagery to the lyrics, and I'll also see certain creative dance moves at certain moments that I think would be good in a video to the song.

i dont see the music, or get any induced images for that matter, but there is some effect on me, aside from the induced emotion.
i can also indeed follow every instrument playing, to the accuracy of "that guy there".

for me, i 'feel' myself playing the music, activating my fingers and embouchure as if i were the player.
the good effect of that is that i can realn new songs/pieves by just hearing it performed once or twice, without really needing to pick up my instrument, while others playing the same part have to spend hours practicing to even get about half the notes right...