
Scriabin - Prometheus ( article | article | article | ) ( Video/Performance with color-motion ) ( video/performance Pt1 | Pt2 | Pt3 ) " Wassily Kandinsky asserted: "The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would try to express bright yellow in the bass notes, or dark like in the treble."" ".some people percieve colors when hearing sounds" "The ability to feel color through your hands is not uncommoong among blind people." and how you either explained or stayed quiet about your gift? Text (Color 5th ed.) how your experience alters how you do things, particularly how and what you create? when and how you discovered that yours is not a common "everyone does it" experience? what your synesthetic experience is like? If you have a personal account, or can get a friend or family member to describe their experience, please send me a copy at: Synethsesia Experience

But I finally have come to realize that Synesthesia is real."' I thought this was caused by me over-thinking things. It is also like this with days of the week, months, and so on. I would sometimes say things referring to that class and calling it by its color. I remember back in kindergarten thinking that each homeroom had a different color associated with it. "When I actually look at words on a page, the letters themselves are not colored, but instead in my mind they all have a color that goes along with them, and it has always been this way. Personal Descriptions of Synesthetic Experiences "I was very interested to see that other than the basic senses and their counter-parts there are synethesia's for orgasms-color, emotions-smell, pain, and Ticker-Tape, which means that as the Synethetes listens they see subtitles of what the other person is saying."


Sean Day is a composer who "synesthetically "sees"Ĭolors corresponding to musical timbres each instrument has its specific color." * His images were non-objective - not related to what we see in nature -īut attempted a kind of objective reference to what he heard. To the sounds, instruments, melodies and rhythms in the musical composition. Sometimes painted in response to music, aiming to create a visual counterpart Others see distinct colors when they see letters and numbers.

Synesthesia involves an experience by one sensory system whileĮncountering stimuli through another sensory system.įor instance, some synesthetics experience colors when they hear sounds or Color Theory Topic: Synesthesia Synesthesia
