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And IllegalBrain, if I do have syneshtesia, I definitely don't think it is a special rare type. It's just that have tried to develop it more than most people. Thus can be used in a different way. I think that a lot of people would have something similar to me, but may not notice it or really give a shit.

Not sure of the meaning jono. A lot of Tool songs seem to have very abstract lyrics and meanings. But to me the spiral seems to be a metaphor for human growth and development, in an emotional/spiritual sense. "We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been." meaning that if we are open to experience, then we will greatly benefit from it, learning the true meanings of life. Yet i could have interpreted it totally wrong. but thats my opinion.

Tool - Lateralus Black then white are all i see in my infancy. red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me. lets me see. as below, so above and beyond, I imagine drawn beyond the lines of reason. Push the envelope. Watch it bend. Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines. Black then white are all i see in my infancy. red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me. lets me see there is so much more and beckons me to look thru to these infinite possibilities. as below, so above and beyond, I imagine drawn outside the lines of reason. Push the envelope. Watch it bend. over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind. Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line. Reaching out to embrace the random. Reaching out to embrace whatever may come. I embrace my desire to I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow to feel inspired to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral to swing on the spiral to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human. With my feet upon the ground I move myeslf between the sounds and open wide to suck it in. I feel it move across my skin. I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me. what ever will bewilder me. And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been. We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. Spiral out. Keep going. The bold is the most powerful part of the song for me, gives me hope.

Yeah I did take that into account Sparkster, but I hear colours from songs that I have downloaded (thus never seeing the cover art). I also think that most intelligent musicians would create cover art that portrays their music in some way, so it makes sense that I would also relate the two And IllegalBrain, I know they are not exactly the same colours. But your A and B (red and yellow) are not that far away one the colour spectrum from my orange and red. And I thought green was pretty close to blue, I assumed dark green but by the sounds of it I was wrong. Just curiosity.

For dgd and IllegalBain, here is my opinion of the ABC colours. A - Orangie Red, B - Blood Red and C - Blue

Thats pretty cool dude, weird but cool.

Perhaps I have broken my head hahaha Now that I think about it, I have had sorta similar things happening to me IllegalBrain. Except mine are in reverse. I had a dream a few months ago in which I was working in a kitchen. I was doing seemingly unimportant tasks such as washing dishes, entering a cold room, etc. About a week or two later I got a job working in a kitchen. On the second or third day that I was working there, I got hardcore deja vu. I was doing the exact same thing that I was doing in my dream. Like I had seen the future in my dream. Freaked me out a bit. I also had a weird memory of a random event will cooking (the memory was totally unrelated to what I was doing at the time and was too obscure to fully make out).

I'm not sure if this is scientifically proven or not, but I have heard a few people say that smell is our most easily remembered sense. Maybe it is easier for our brain to associate a smell with a memory, rather than an image. When these smell memories occur, I usually know exactly what the smell is but it takes me a while to get a mental image of what else was happening or who was there at the time. That doesn't explain you though IllegalBrain. I have never had profound memories unless accompanied by a smell or sound. I always think of past events, some with more fondness than others, but they never give me the overwhelming sense of feeling like a child again. And I will put up my opinion of the ABC colours when a few more people have stated theirs. None have been the same so far, IllegalBrain is sorta close.

Now that you mention it Ace, I do remember learning to read and write with the aid of coloured flash cards in preschool/infants school. That does help to explain the letter and number side of things but there is still the auditory part to consider. It may be explained by my before mentioned inability to read music, but ability to read musical numbering. My brain could well have just mad the colour/number link automatically. About the yawning phenomenon, I get a similar thing but not while yawning. It is usually just a random smell that appears out of nowhere but gives me an overwhelming sense of nostalgia. Some examples are the smell of a certain green budding plant, a certain fungi, the smell of my parents or relatives home and new plastic smell. The new plastic smell is the most profound. It is mostly related to when I was a kid, opening a new toy or video game or something like that. It makes me feel like I am 6 or 7 years old again. Most of these arise when I am either looking forward to something that maybe related to that smell. Maybe your body was telling you to go buy a hotdog that day hahaha.

You could be right IllegalBrain, I have never been medically diagnosed with synethesia before or anything to that extent. I just assumed as much. It has been happening to me for at least the last 5-6 years that I have consciously noticed (about the time that I started to become passionate about music). They have done tests on UNI students to get a rough idea how common it is. Apparently a lot of people have it in a very mild form. The way they tested it was by getting a group of people to assign a colour to each letter in the alphabet, and repeated it at least twice. The people that were thought to have synesthesia were able to assign the same colour to each letter every time they undertook the test. The people that didn't have synesthesia returned a random test each time. Although this test has obvious flaws (i.e. the ability to simply memorise what colour you assigned to each letter), I believe that it discovered that 60-70% of the test population had a mild form of synesthesia. Just for shits and giggles, let me know what colour you think the letters A,B and C are. I know what I think they are, but am curious to see if anyone matches up.

Hey IllegalBrain. It's somewhat hard to explain. I don't actually see a solid image in front of my eyes, nor do i see the sound waves. It is more of a mental image or association, comparable to thinking of a colour and remembering what that colour looks like. If a song contains an notable key change, this will conjure up a more vivid mental image.e.g. I associate the change from the key of D to E (0 to 3 in drop D tuning) with the colour green. If I was to see the colour green on a piece of paper, I would get the same emotional response as hearing the above mentioned (green) key change. So in conclusion, (haha it sounds like i am writing an essay for school) it is more of an emotional and mental association to a particular sound. A particular sound is associated with a particular colour, but it all happens in my minds eye. Dunno if that helps you at all because I am starting to confuse myself. ha

Yeah I saw that doco on the maths genius. I have seen a couple of others with similar cases. People being able to do insane mathematical equations because they are able to see number grids/patterns that allow them to easily keep track of whatever they are working out. I find this sort of stuff really interesting and wonder whether its just a weird mistake/mutation or some form of evolutionary step. A new higher level of interpretation of the world. I will try to find that book too Shiva, Cheers

I really like the two B+W animal photos. I love how even though the Wombat is dead it is still a beautiful shot. Nice perspective shots too. Good Effort.