Comments by "Zizi Mugen" (@zizimugen4470) on "What It's Like to See Sound | 10 Questions" video.

  1. I have synesthesia of sight/sound. My experience isn’t like hers though. When I hear sounds (specifically as an example, really well-composed music), it’s like putting on “invisible” VR goggles, and I’m existing in two settings at the same time. I’m more attached to my physical body, but music is like watching movies. I’ll sit down and start heavy-breathing like I’m literally on a roller coaster, a starship, a boat, flying through the air, tumbling underground, getting goozed on in a toxic otherworldly cave… It’s not an “active imagination,” I’m seeing the things I hear. I’m not creating it, I’m seeing it. I’m feeling it. I have a sense of an alternate reality AND the one I’m attached to, and I can feel things from that alternate reality affecting my corporeal form. Hearing people’s voices varies though. Some people are hollow and distant. Some people sound like I’m looking up at a canopy of leaves, with a waterfall in my periphery. And again, this is what my mind is being shown through my ears, not my fantasizing about someone. It doesn’t convert so well from sight to sound, or I’d be a musician by now. But I have heard a yellow crayon’s color before. Tbh it was excruciating. I was also on shrooms then. It’s really a pretty friggin’ awesome type of the condition to have. And it makes writing music videos easy. But it also ruins some videos. “Na Na Na” by My Chemical Romance… Goddamn they blew it so badly at the guitar’s bridge. That should’ve been a visually intense scene, even with a grenade detonating and popping the back of the chasing car to flip it over. But no, they did a mf stare-off. Good god they weren’t even listening to their own song when they wrote that video! ><
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