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I've got synthenesia, where i percieve music like colour. But certain songs are almost so powerful to me that i can listen to them for days at a time, and these songs almost enter into me, as if these songs are part of me.
Does anyone else have something similar?

My songs

Anywhere- Evanescence
Power Of Goodbye- Madonna
Virginia- Tori Amos
Joga- Bj:ork
Evacuating London- Chronicles of Narnia OST
The Only One- Evanescence
Eden- Sarah Brightman
Earth Song- Wacko Jacko
and many more.

I probably have it.

Tim

Some songs are so catchy that I listen to them for months. I listen to Sunshine Jive's "Sunshine Jive" on multiple occasions nowadays. It's so obscure that I can't even find the lyrics on the internet but I LOVE the song.

I often imagine colours when I listen to music (songs in the minor key are often blue, black, green, or brown, while songs in the major key are often brighter, for instance, and I make up music videos in my head based on the images the song evokes) but I don't think I have synaesthesia because it's not always automatic. I think I know just what you mean about songs becoming a part of you though. Sometimes it depends on what I'm feeling. Like when I am depressed or sad, Thomas Newman's (he's done scores for movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Road to Perdition, and The Green Mile) more sombre string and piano arrangements fit with that perfectly, and I listen to them a lot. And when I am happy, upbeat songs (like Jimmy Eat World's Authority Song or Jack Johnson's Upside Down) do the same thing. I love the Beatles and their songs tend to do that too.

Classical Music does that to me. I see a different colour for each insturment, or arrangement and it's a wonderful feeling.

Was born with music-color synthenesia also.

My Songs
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"Burn In Hell!" - Clawfinger
"Bite The Hand That Feeds" - NIN
'The Complex" - Blue Man Group
'Weak And Powerless" - A Perfect Circle
"Schism" - Tool
"Question!" System Of A Down

These songs cause extremely vivid color patterns.

Ooh, SOAD is pretty vibrant i agree.

i associate musical components of a song with colors and swirls that orchestrate together to make a music video of sorts. is that synthenesia?

in my humble non professional opinion, yes.

I have what i would consider 'mild synaesthesia'.
Some music i see as landscapes, or as travelling over landscapes like a fighter-pilot or in a computer game. I also 'feel' music, though this maybe considered 'normal'.
The synaesthetic effects seem to vary in intensity, sometimes i go for months without experiencing them.

Anyhow Soma; for somebody with synaesthesia, you have terrible taste in music.
No offence, enjoy

I have never seen colors through music and i have tried to attach certain colors to music: but what i find interesting is that i would label some of the tracks you picked as having a powerful soul, not vibrant colors.

...Sort of. Generally I kind of percieve music in terms of moods and tones, but I do sometimes "hear" colors in the music.

I doubt I have it but I have a very minds eye sense of music that's similar. For me I feel the motion and kinetics of music a LOT.

Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton does that to me.

I supppose I also see music (or words) as color. At some times, and with some songs, it's stronger, but it's always there. Usually, I'll stick to one or several songs by one band and listen to them for weeks or months. Then, after a while, when I get into a mood like the one when I was listening to these songs, I may come back to them again and spend another several weeks or months listening exclusively to them.

Some of my favorites are:
Beatles:
Straberry fields forever - rosy with golden lights, white
Moody Blues:
Nights in white satin (original symphonic) - really rich bordeau red, scarlet, other reds
Tuesday afternoon - scarlet with golden lights
Radiohead:
Street spirit - sunny and darker yellows, oranges, gold
Bulletproof - bright orange, bright lettuce and grass greens
Fake plastic trees - hues of lighter grass green and lettuce green
How to disappear completely, Treefingers - grays, dull silver
Lucky, Climbing up the walls, The tourist, Exit music (for a film) - browns, some beiges, black, sharp whitish-silvery lights in different proportion
Knives out - scarlet, vermillions
Pyramid song - darker and lighter vermillions, pale orange
Dollars and cents - some brown, beiges, brownish-golden lights
The morning bell - scarlet, darker rich reds, golden lights
Dead Can Dance:
Spider's stratagem - quivering sea of brown and white, tongues of yellow-golden light dancing
Indus - hues of brilliant, deep dark blue and indigo, some equally brilliant dark turquoise and emerald green
Nierika - navy blues, some brighter blue
Song of seraphim - explosion of brilliant sunny yellow and gold on some light lettuce green
Pink Floyd:
Echoes - deep dark emerald green, some grass green, golden lights, black and green undulation in the middle of the song
Set the controls (original Saucerful version) - deep deep rich burnt carmine and bordeau red, with many multicolored lights
Shine on you crazy diamond I - black with golden twinkling stars and streaks of gold
Shine on you crazy diamond II - sky blue, some black, sharp, cold silver streaks
Wish you were here - sharp, bright sky blue, golden lights and streaks of gold
Jimi Hendrix Experience:
Midnight lamp, Are you experienced, Third stone from the sun, Purple haze, All along the watchtower, May this be love, House burning down, 1983... - rainbow!

Kansas' "Dust in the wind" and the Sephardic song "La rosa enflorece" (one of my favorites among favorites) are glowing oranges and sunny and lighter yellows, woven with streaks of gold, like light playing in the leaves in the fall.

All of Mike Oldfield's "Voyager" is mostly yellows, oranges with streaks of gold; "Guitars" is strings and streaks of silver on very deep midnight blue, with some navy blue; "Tubular bells III" is mostly brilliant pinks with purple and gold.

Mike Oldfield's "Weightless" and Dead Can Dance's "Radharc" are - rainbow.

Not only can I "see" music. Every single sound also has a shape. Some perfumes smell "fluffy". If I twist my knee, I can "see" the pain.