What do you see

Just out of curiosity-
What images do you see when you close your eyes while listening to music? I tend to see something almost like sheet music, each note as a dot, small or large depending on how loud it is. And colors- each instrument has a different color: guitars are silver, hammond organ is usually brown, flutes are yellow, bass is always black. Synths can have any color. The lead in Tom Sawyer- definitely red, while Xanadu is yellow. Pads and Strings fill in a background color. Behind all these notes flash quick images of the instrument itself and the artist playing it. Am I the only one seeing this? Am I off the deep end?

I see firs hanging upside down in the wind. But I'm not listening to music right now.

I don't close my eyes when I listen.. maybe I should

Today I see a giant washing machine. It's big.

Today I see myself rolling paper towel cardboard tubes down a spiral sliding board. 

BardsGarden wrote: Just out of curiosity- What images do you see when you close your eyes while listening to music? I tend to see something almost like sheet music, each note as a dot, small or large depending on how loud it is. And colors- each instrument has a different color: guitars are silver, hammond organ is usually brown, flutes are yellow, bass is always black. Synths can have any color. The lead in Tom Sawyer- definitely red, while Xanadu is yellow. Pads and Strings fill in a background color. Behind all these notes flash quick images of the instrument itself and the artist playing it. Am I the only one seeing this? Am I off the deep end?

I'm much the same, I don't even have to close my eyes to see the colours and patterns quite often.  Each instrument playing has a different colour and sometimes each forms a a narrow line (can widen) and they twist and turn around each-other, they can converge and diverge.  Up and down according to pitch which is similar to sheet music, as well as left to right generally, though some circle back when the music seems to reverse. Sometimes it swirls...  I see it most as a sort of a tapestry of threads (with breaks or tears).  Sometimes as dots or hyphens too, but always colorful and the pitch and tone changes the colours while the line change dimension during loud bits.  As the music gets softer and finishes it goes dark.  When it's loud it gets bright, and sometimes when there's a lot of instruments all together making a big noise it's like a big white light with other smaller colours in it.

Another thing I often get is music blasting in my ears when there's no music sources around (blasting in my brain but it sounds external -- that can be extremely irritating).


Edited by Logan - March 17 2008 at 21:52

I see three green Ludwig Wittgensteins staring at each other disbelievingly. But I'm not listening to music right now.

In this moment I see cigarette smoke... lots of it. (Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner )

I see potatoes. Lots of potatoes.

In this moment I see a violent pianist.