Do you "see" music?

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I see music in my mind as colors.

NewTime, maybe you should repost this as a poll. I do not see music. I have read that sometimes our sensory perceptions appear to get miswired in the brain. So some Aspies visually see musical notes as colors. This condition goes by the name Synesthesia.

People with autism may be more likely than others to have synesthesia, a condition in which people experience a mixing of their senses, such as hearing tastes and shapes, and seeing numbers in colors, a new study from Europe suggests.

Researchers tested 164 people with autism and 97 people without autism by giving them online questionnaires designed to evaluate whether they had synesthesia. They found synesthesia occurred in about 7 percent of people who didn't have autism, a figure within the range of previously reported rates.

In contrast, 19 percent of people with autism appeared to have synesthesia, according to the study published yesterday (Nov. 19, 2013) in the journal Molecular Autism.

Most synesthetic experiences are visual, but synesthesia can involve any pair of senses, the researchers said. Such experiences can range from seeing the letter A as purple, to conjuring mental images of a triangle shape when suffering a toothache.

Among the 31 people with autism in the study who had synesthesia, the most common forms of the condition were "grapheme-color," in which letters are seen as colored, and "sound-color," in which hearing a sound triggers a visual experience of color. Another forms of synesthesia reported were either tastes, touch, or smells triggering a visual experience of color.

Source: People with Autism More Likely to Hear Colors, See Sounds

It is very-very good

Sort of.

There are folks who literally see color when they hear sounds. I don't do that. But I do sort of associate color and music in my mind's eye..

When I was a party deejay different songs had a kind of "color" in my mind. Dark, or red, or yellow. It was like I painting a painting. If I had a dark dance song in mind to play, and someone requested a similar colored song I might swap out my idea with the request (if I planned to spin "Brick House", and they requested "Superfreak", I would hold Brickhouse and drop Superfreak into the same spot in the mix).

And when listening for pleasure music kind of has a color in my mind. Like Bach is dark, Mozart tends to yellow to green.

Yes. I can see music as colors, as well as individual notes, tempo, and time signatures. I compose music myself, and sometimes (if I really feel like it) it’s in a similar style as Tool, which uses odd time signatures and stuff, so when I write stuff in odd signatures, I know how to count it if I want to play it later. I also have perfect pitch, which allows me to tell what key a song is in as well as whatever note is being played.

I'm the kind of guy who likes to imagine how the music was made and produced. I like to think about what your melody is like on a piano.

Absolutely not. Not even remotely.

I don't but I find it fascinating that people do!
The artist Wassily Kandinsky said he 'painted sound', I wonder if he had synesthesia.

No, I don't have any kind of synesthesia.