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16 Dec 2008, 2:47 pm

There have been times when I was in a deep state of mind, just waking up, or just dozing off when I had music playing. In certain states of mind sometimes the music literally talks to me as if it is a language which I can pick up on. There was one time I just falling asleep when I had chris poland (metal) playing and I heard one of his riffs and thought that it was a "sexist" guitar lick. I know that sounds weird and it is. Very synesthetic. Another time I was dozing off and listening to jazz. There was a trumpet improvisation and right after, a sax solo. I heard at the time that the trumpet was very mad that the sax soloed too quickly after the trumpet. I know music speaks to people, but have you ever had it where the music LITERALLY speaks to you and tells you things?


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16 Dec 2008, 5:44 pm

Definatly. My favourite band's rush



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20 Dec 2008, 9:36 pm

Some music causes chains of images to form in my mind, sometimes quite ominous or apocalyptic ones. Other music calms me, again causing chains of images to run through my head. Sometimes a subtly altered form of the music will form in my head as a certain melody or rhythm is replayed there.


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21 Dec 2008, 4:46 am

The way I percieve music is somewhat difficult to explain. I do feel as if music talks to me, and I can feel the messages in it. As a frequent jazz (all sorts of genres of it, don't feel like listing them all :b) player, I play my solos as if I'm responding to the people I'm playing with. For me music is very vocal, and I often sing/hum aloud exactly what I'm playing (or octaves of it :lol: as my range isn't the best in the world). I also see music in colors, in my mind's eye. Different notes/chords would be different colors, etc. (example: C major is white)



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21 Dec 2008, 3:26 pm

Sometimes. But more often I see colors in response to good music.


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20 Jan 2009, 9:42 pm

history_of_psychiatry wrote:
There have been times when I was in a deep state of mind, just waking up, or just dozing off when I had music playing. In certain states of mind sometimes the music literally talks to me as if it is a language which I can pick up on. There was one time I just falling asleep when I had chris poland (metal) playing and I heard one of his riffs and thought that it was a "sexist" guitar lick. I know that sounds weird and it is. Very synesthetic. Another time I was dozing off and listening to jazz. There was a trumpet improvisation and right after, a sax solo. I heard at the time that the trumpet was very mad that the sax soloed too quickly after the trumpet. I know music speaks to people, but have you ever had it where the music LITERALLY speaks to you and tells you things?

oh yea all the time..mostly i get anime songs stuck in my head. right now im playing "Broken Wings" from Trinity Blood



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21 Jan 2009, 10:14 am

I find the lyrics to speak to me a lot - The music itself not so much unless it is deeply emotive and powerful. I like some evanescence tracks for this reason, and the opening to metallica human is amzing, it literally pumps me up and makes me feel amazing.


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21 Jan 2009, 10:46 am

The human mind can re-interpret various senses to one or another . Some people see colors in numbers. In the last few months various sounds have come through to me as words. The repetitive sound of a slightly defective escalator has come to me as if it were repeating a word. And especially saxophones seem to be actually saying words.



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21 Jan 2009, 10:50 am

No.

Don't think music ever 'spoke' to me.

I see stuff and movements, but music doesn't ever talk to me.

Maybe I'm too literal here... I understand it along the lines that a song tells me 'hey, you should check your mail' or something.


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21 Jan 2009, 12:12 pm

I can't say that it has.



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22 Jan 2009, 3:53 am

This is why I much prefer instrumental music, like solo acoustic guitar or classical. Lyrics take from the beauty of music.



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22 Jan 2009, 10:50 am

Legato wrote:
This is why I much prefer instrumental music, like solo acoustic guitar or classical. Lyrics take from the beauty of music.


But can music add to the effectiveness of a great lyric? Or do you just hate singing?



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25 Jan 2009, 6:35 pm

Music connects with me entirely.
It is like food.

Music talks for me:

Work is an activity on repeat. There are two stereos in my area. I pass by them between twenty and thirty times. Each stereo is within ear shot for about four of about twenty minutes it takes to finish 1 sequence.
I find that close to sixty percent of the time I am listening to one of these stereos, It is playing what is basically in my mind and not the other way around. (although sometimes I change the channel until I find what I am thinking in some other music. this is still added in the sixty because I found what was there anyways) usually the song is over and replaced with something that annoys me by the time i am leaving that area.

Its so real I try and speak through it (Make some new music) when I am stuck inside for the winter.

A Track that I worked this passed fall is posted in musicians show case. It at least shows my mood.



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29 Jan 2009, 9:04 am

history_of_psychiatry wrote:
There have been times when I was in a deep state of mind, just waking up, or just dozing off when I had music playing. In certain states of mind sometimes the music literally talks to me as if it is a language which I can pick up on. There was one time I just falling asleep when I had chris poland (metal) playing and I heard one of his riffs and thought that it was a "sexist" guitar lick. I know that sounds weird and it is. Very synesthetic. Another time I was dozing off and listening to jazz. There was a trumpet improvisation and right after, a sax solo. I heard at the time that the trumpet was very mad that the sax soloed too quickly after the trumpet. I know music speaks to people, but have you ever had it where the music LITERALLY speaks to you and tells you things?

I know, right? Like during random songs, I'll just say "that's sexist!"


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29 Jan 2009, 9:05 am

bigblock wrote:
Music connects with me entirely.
It is like food.

Music talks for me:

Work is an activity on repeat. There are two stereos in my area. I pass by them between twenty and thirty times. Each stereo is within ear shot for about four of about twenty minutes it takes to finish 1 sequence.
I find that close to sixty percent of the time I am listening to one of these stereos, It is playing what is basically in my mind and not the other way around. (although sometimes I change the channel until I find what I am thinking in some other music. this is still added in the sixty because I found what was there anyways) usually the song is over and replaced with something that annoys me by the time i am leaving that area.

Its so real I try and speak through it (Make some new music) when I am stuck inside for the winter.

A Track that I worked this passed fall is posted in musicians show case. It at least shows my mood.

do you believe (op, you, anyone else who affirms) this is a strange synesthesia?


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31 Jan 2009, 9:53 pm

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