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Hearing music and describing it with a smell or scene
I don't think what I do can really be called synesthesia, but when I hear music , I can describe it with smell. I can't physically smell anything, but it's like a remembered smell, where I don't feel it in my nose but in my brain, and still "smell" it, if that makes any sense. For example, someone was trying to work out some music they were writing for piano today, in a minor key, and it made me think of a warm, heavy, spicy men's musk cologne, and it felt and looked like the depressed feeling of a wet,dark, foggy fall day, but with crisp dry leaves, not wet ones. Could anyone, maybe someone into psychology, explain this to me? I'm just curious about it because no one can really relate to me and I don't think it's synesthesia. Thanks :)
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No, its not synesthesia from what I've read. My husband says it's not common but again, its not totally unheard of either. Some peoples brains associate feelings with objects, or non tangible like music or even with brain that have the sense of scent that is predominant.
I dont know of a name dear but my husbands daughter lived with us as a teen until she went to college. The first day she met me, she walked up to about a yard away and took several deep sniffs of me and announced that I passed the scent test. If I hadn't, she may have told her Dad not to date me or marry me. What you do with music, she does a different, not quite the same thing with a persons natural body scent. It gives her a feeling like a good match for a friend or family. She can tell the personality of a person from their scent and other stuff. She also doesnt hug like regular people, she rubs her head on your shoulder like a cat rubs legs, taking on your scent and leaving hers. I know, its quite different but have fun with it. You have a foot ahead of poets and lyric writers bein able to descibe things with words that no one else can.
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