Synesthesia

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This has been bugging me for quite a while now, so hear me out. If it doesn't make any sense, tell me.

As a filmmaker, I'm truly unsure whether this is just my gift of strong imagination and aspiration or whether it's synesthesia or something similar which has a specific condition name for it.

I've researched about synesthesia, but I think what I experience might be something similar or irrelevant. It's like whenever I listen to a song, read a book, or watch a film, suddenly, and without warning, I somewhat experience a thought/daydream, which can somewhat contribute as an idea towards making a film, and it will constantly bug me until I write that idea down. Sometimes it happens to something relevant like I listened to Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You", and completely envisioned a music video-esque short film about a man leaving his woman, in a span of 3 minutes, just when the song really kicks in.

I can also somewhat hear music and put it to a colour, and sometimes refer certain names to certain objects. I think this might be synesthesia though.

Bear in mind, I'm trying to explain this as much as I can, but it's really difficult to word it, in a way you can help me understand what it's all about.

From what I understand I experience a similar things. I associate things, such as songs with places, and names with things, such as the name 'Hayley' always makes me think of bells, and a few other things. Maybe its synthesesia I don't know.

Sounds like a form of synthesesia to me. Although I could be wrong.

I doesn't sound like synesthesia as I understand it. I have synesthesia. In particular scent/taste overlap almost completely, and sights have sounds and textures associated with them.

However, there's a lot of variety under the rubric of synesthesia. Two introductory links on synesthesia:

http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psych ... towic.html (an article by Richard Cytowic, an expert on the subject. I've read many of his articles, and they are very informative).

http://cytowic.net (Cytowic's page, including his books and other material).

The classic book on the subject is "The Man Who Tasted Shapes" (by Cytowic). Whatever you want to call it, your experience seems fascinating and valuable.

No, doesn't sound like synesthesia to me either, and I have too. Mine is I see different colors and shapes in correlation to different sounds. Thats's a pretty common type of it. When I was a kid, I used to lie on the floor of my bedroom, in the dark, listening to music and being fascinated by all the colors and shapes I saw in my head. But it's not like an coherent idea or series of ideas, it's "generic" visualizations rather that "pictorials," as Cytowic would describe it.

If you see colours in music that is sort of synesthesia. I see shapes in music and see colours through touch.

I can relate to the first part too. When I listen to songs I can come up with my own stories.

OK, thanks for your feedback.