Heard a very interesting article on the radio tonight about Synesthesia. For those who don't know - read the article:-) Basicaly, using senses in a way not usualy associated. Eg - Seeing music or feeling colours etc.

I was thrilled to bits. For all my life I have been able to associate things oddly. Music, I can often see as threads weaving and warping. I can listen to someone telling a tale and see the peaks and troughs as waves. Even more oddly I can feel logic (as in computer stuff, not wishy-washy philosophy :-) ) as water flowing through pipes and being diverted wehere it is needed. I was worried that everyone else in the world was 'special' in some way. Dylexic, dyspraxic, dypeptic - and now I find that I am just as special - and more inclined to be artistic!

It does have it's downside of course. I often read thread here and can smell bullshit but we had better no go there...

Seriously though. I do find having a visual representation of the music I sing and play (I don't sight read btw) is helpful to my interpretation. I don't think I could have learned to play so many instrumnets (all badly - honest!) without it but, unfortunately, my attention span is that of a goldfish and before I can catch the thread I was following another crosses my path. Hence why I can get a tune out of many things but play none of them:-(

Anyway - enough of me. Anyone else got similar attributes?

Cheers

DeG