Feeling Sound

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Does anybody else 'feel' sound?

With feel I mean: Feeling like touching something with your hand.
With sound I mean: Everything hearable, cars, music, wind, water ...........

No, I don't feel sound.

Do you think you might have synesthesia? (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia )

Apparently one of the most common forms of synesthesia is to experience sounds as colours, but I would guess there are some synesthetes who "feel" sounds instead.

This happens to me, too. Not all the time though, normally only when I'm feeling particularly sensitive. It's like the noise is touching my skin somehow, especially if it's really distinct in pitch/loudness. It's veeery annoying to deal with when people are talking. I get horrible migraines regularly too though and had thought it might relate to those somehow.

I get that with water. Like, if I put my head against the metal tub when the shower is running, and cover my ears.

Wow, what a coincidence - I just mentioned that I feel sound on Facebook yesterday.
I have synesthesia in a few different ways: numbers and letters have colors, which I suppose is more common, and yes, sounds have textures and temperatures. Most of the time this is pleasant and interesting - some sounds feel unbearable. Music also has shapes, but I think that's probably true for a lot of people.

I thought everyone felt sound. It's vibrations after all.

The vibrations from loud and low pitched sounds can sometimes hurt, like being punched in the stomach. And high pitched sounds also sometimes hurt, like being stabbed in the head.

Physically feel sound, and emotions tend to have a tonal quality as well.

But I have to admit, when I first saw the thread title, I wondered... "Did anyone ask Sound if that was ok?"


M.

I feel as sound as a Pound.

How do you mean 'feel'? I'm not sure I get what you mean... You get a sensation in your hand depending on what you hear?
When I listen to things I tend to get a different knocking/tapping/drilling/humming sensation in my head or body, maybe it's the same thing. I dunno. I'm slightly synesthetic anyway. So maybe that's it

Oh, wow... I hadn't thought of that as anything odd. I've always felt sound, as waves or pulses hitting my head. When adverts come on suddenly loud, I cover my head because it hurts... because it feels like someone hit me. When I listen to beautiful classical music, it's like I'm getting bathed in waves of energy, and I love it, like a stim.

I'd never thought of it before, but yes, I do feel sound.

Music, wind, water and pleasant sounds I feel calmly in my head, a sort of glowing sensation, it's very soothing.

Annoying sounds (vacuum-cleaners, trucks, plastic bags and sometimes my mother ) feels like knives in my head and down my spine.

It indeed looks a lot like Synesthesia, but only without colour.

i feel some music (and certain visual stimuli) mostly in my head. the best way i can explain it is like the opposite of a headache or a little brain massage. it almost hurts to stop .. i have been wondering if this is sound > touch (and vision > touch) synesthesia but it doesn't seem similar to how others experience those types of synesthesia, although these are rare types and i can't find much about them. so maybe it's just inducing a light hypnosis state or something? either way i'm not gonna complain .. it's awesome.


here are a few songs that usually do it for me. best listened with headphones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1W46TKrLd8
(interesting note, Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin has synesthesia)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrpGhEVyrk0
(interesting note, lyric: "i see colors in my head")

i'd be interested to see if anyone else gets anything from those songs?

and there is another Aphex Twin song that actually made me nauseous when i listened to the whole thing (sadly, as I love Aphex Twin)

p.s. there are about 60 types of synesthesia. the colored numbers & letters sort (i think this is grapheme > color synesthesia) seems to be the most common, and you can actually prove it with a test.

Not sure if this is quite what you had in mind. But when I listen to music, particuarly music I enjoy, it feels like a wave I'm riding upon. Though intangible, I feel carried away even on a slight physical scale by the changes in tempo, chord changes, key changes, etc.

Though that very well be just a more colorful way to explain a phenomenon natural to most people. There must be some common denominator as to why music is so generally loved and admired the world over.

I feel sound go through my body, when I listen to my music, and it gives me great pleasure.