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Lochloosa

(16,066 posts) Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:22 PM Oct 2018

Watching the Voice, one of the contestants has synesthesia.

She sees music in color.

I have to take drugs to do that.

Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.[3][4][5][6] People who report a lifelong history of such experiences are known as synesthetes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

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Watching the Voice, one of the contestants has synesthesia. (Original Post) Lochloosa Oct 2018 OP

My colors have sound and smells DUgosh Oct 2018 #1

which contestant KT2000 Oct 2018 #2

Sarah Grace. She's 15. Blues singer. And she just moved on. Lochloosa Oct 2018 #3

thanks! KT2000 Oct 2018 #4

One of my musician friends is a synesthete. TomSlick Oct 2018 #5

I read that Tori Amos has that condition flibbitygiblets Oct 2018 #6

I have a little touch of it - The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2018 #7

Jerry Garcia's 🎸 would explode with colors. Lochloosa Oct 2018 #8

DUgosh

(3,056 posts)

1. My colors have sound and smells

Reply to Lochloosa (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:28 PM

Oct 2018

But only so since I was hit on my head as a kid

KT2000

(20,583 posts)

2. which contestant

Reply to Lochloosa (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:33 PM

Oct 2018

has that?

Lochloosa

(16,066 posts)

3. Sarah Grace. She's 15. Blues singer. And she just moved on.

Reply to KT2000 (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:43 PM

Oct 2018

She's about thissss big.

KT2000

(20,583 posts)

4. thanks!

Reply to Lochloosa (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:52 PM

Oct 2018

how these young people get so good is beyond me - a 15 year old singing the blues is pretty amazing.

TomSlick

(11,100 posts)

5. One of my musician friends is a synesthete.

Reply to Lochloosa (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2018, 08:53 PM

Oct 2018

He has an amazing sense of pitch which some believe is somehow related to synesthesia.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)

6. I read that Tori Amos has that condition

Reply to Lochloosa (Original post)

Wed Oct 24, 2018, 10:16 AM

Oct 2018

Didn't realize it was so common

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,734 posts)

7. I have a little touch of it -

Reply to Lochloosa (Original post)

Wed Oct 24, 2018, 11:48 AM

Oct 2018

Mozart's music tends to be blue, especially if it's in D major. It's darker blue if in D minor. Gabrieli and Monteverdi are generally red and gold, and French organ music, which I don't like much, runs to khaki and orange.

Lochloosa

(16,066 posts)

8. Jerry Garcia's 🎸 would explode with colors.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #7)

Wed Oct 24, 2018, 04:05 PM

Oct 2018

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