What do you see
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Topic: What do you see
Posted By: BardsGarden
Subject: What do you see
Date Posted: February 18 2007 at 02:31
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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? |
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Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: February 22 2008 at 19:09
| I see megaphones, shopping carts, and toothpaste. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 06:20
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I see firs hanging upside down in the wind. But I'm not listening to music right now. |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: February 26 2008 at 19:20
| Today I see five-legged pants flapping in the breeze on a clothesline attached to a cement mixer. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 26 2008 at 19:30
| I don't close my eyes when I listen.. maybe I should |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: February 26 2008 at 19:45
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I'm so impressionable that I see myself acting in a way according with the music. really but quite often I see images I've seen over the past few days which have proven hard to forget ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: February 28 2008 at 19:32
| Today I see a giant washing machine. It's big. |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: February 29 2008 at 18:07
| Today I'm visualizing a 40-wheeled bus transporting wheat stalks. Hmmm.... |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: March 06 2008 at 20:41
| Today I see myself rolling paper towel cardboard tubes down a spiral sliding board. |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: March 17 2008 at 21:27
| Camels and stamps, stamps and camels. Oh my. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 17 2008 at 21:50
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). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
BardsGarden wrote:Posted By: Christine
Date Posted: March 18 2008 at 19:46
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A ship being tossed around by a stormy sea, and odd shady characters. ------------- catsfootironclaw |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 14 2008 at 15:30
| I see three green Ludwig Wittgensteins staring at each other disbelievingly. But I'm not listening to music right now. |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: September 14 2008 at 15:41
| Depends on what it is. Often imagery of all kinds... Larks' Tongues In Aspic pt. 2 is stabbing explosions in a sea of acid, slowly crawling up over an island of rock. Fracture... an earthquake, concluding in the world splitting apart and drifting into space. Lizard... a medieval tapestry juxtaposed with soft scenic cuts. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 15 2008 at 12:24
In this moment I see cigarette smoke... lots of it. (Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner  )
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: September 15 2008 at 15:28
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I see stars and ancient galaxies of celestial warriors seeking their seat amongst the gods. The image merges into high mountain meadows filled with columbine, Indian paint brush in red, purple and yellow. Forest fauna gather near a stream feeding the meadow for an afternoon drink as birds flitter and chirp about. Then I open my eyes and see broken glass, twisted metal, flashing red lights,flames and blood, because listening to music and CLOSING YOUR EYES WHILE DRIVING IS A REALLY BAD IDEA!!! ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: September 15 2008 at 20:51
| I see potatoes. Lots of potatoes. |
Posted By: St.Cleve Chronicle
Date Posted: September 30 2008 at 12:01
| When I was listening to Lark's tongues in aspic pt1, Muir's percussion made me see millions of coffee cups falling from the sky. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 30 2008 at 14:26
| In this moment I see a violent pianist. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 20:36
| I see a woman behind a huge block of ice, and behind her I see Jacques Cousteau on the deck of his ship. |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: January 18 2009 at 10:04
| I see particle camps on top of a unobtainable medicine. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 21 2009 at 12:21
| Starless and bible black. |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: January 21 2009 at 16:29
| I see dinner bubbles. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 21 2009 at 16:30
| Two shoes. I can't tell the colour. |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: January 21 2009 at 16:33
| I see dishonest potatoes. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 21 2009 at 16:36
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Wait, I forgot to close my eyes! OK, now I've closed them. I can't see anything! I must be blind.  (How can I tell if my eyes are open? What if I only see things when they're closed?  ) |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: January 21 2009 at 21:13
| I see scarlet heat and consenting telescopes. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 21 2009 at 23:50
| I see Cheetah Girls. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: January 22 2009 at 16:07
| The inside of my eyelids. |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: January 22 2009 at 16:24
| I see unsound onions boiling in chicken broth. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 25 2009 at 09:28
I see the progressive insurance chick. 
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Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: January 26 2009 at 18:49
| I see leaky verses and shallow exponentials. |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: January 27 2009 at 11:21
I see metal 
------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: January 27 2009 at 17:49
| I see a null automobile bouncing beneath hotel beards and grammar delights. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 29 2009 at 05:56
| A round square. |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: February 09 2009 at 18:58
| I see professional hindsight calculations before the implementation of copyright law and cole slaw buffets. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 10:25
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I see pretty little flowers.
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Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 15:06
| I see a grandmother clearing geometry from the laundry room. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 15:07
| I see lots of cheese. Lots of lots of cheese! |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 15:11
| I see generalized trees volunteering for desert duty. |
Posted By: Gustavo Froes
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 15:12
Where you on LSD?  |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 15:19
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In this moment I see Charlotte Gainsbourg.
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Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 18:59
| I see descriptive beans and mindless biologists. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 15 2009 at 07:10
| I see eyeballs attacking me in a red dungeon. |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: February 23 2009 at 21:09
| I see army beams and lump towers. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 01:16
| I see Pythagoras poking at the red moon. |
Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 09:21
I see a bunch of people never giving a serious thread topic a chance.
 ------------- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 10:47
I see myself as one of them.  |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 19:38
I see myself saying "me too." |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 24 2009 at 20:23
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Some people are synaesthesists, who see colours or shapes when hearing music, others have tactile impressions or perceive smells. A famous example for synaesthesia is Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. An example of a musician of today who is a synaesthesist is classical pianist Hélène Grimaud. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |