Quote Originally Posted by aixelsyd View Post
I also experience the color association when I compose music. It's innate, really. I also, in my mind's eye, have a sense of texture and can sort of visualize lines and movement depending on the rhythm and tempo, but color has more to do with chords and harmony. I don't know if it has anything to do with Ni, though. But I feel it's also natural to visualize music. I can visualize scenes that go with the music I hear as well as create. I don't know how it relates to Ni but I don't think it's exclusive to Ni ego.

I've come to find, though, that with many classical pieces, a story is associated with the piece. I had an SLE conductor who says that stories have nothing to do with music, that music exists for music's own sake. I agree with him on that, from a composer's POV (I create music for the sake of music, being led by my ear, my emotions, and pure spontaneity as I play around with chords and single notes until something clicks inside of me, and like a sculptor, I chip away the excess until I have a fully formed melody and harmony), but I don't think it's at all unusual to have a visual association with music (I'm talking about the instrumental quality, purely, and not lyrics and songwriting) that lends to a sense of pattern, color, and even a story.
Yes I have that sort of association myself. I mean the visual stuff, though excluding colours.


Quote Originally Posted by Aylen View Post
Yes, Ni I do not need to close my eyes for a story either. It is the intense fractals that require me to close off physical vision. They are more vivid, at times, than anything I can see with my eyes open. They seem to stream through my consciousness and without effort, on my part, they evolve into intricate patterns, morphing then dissolving leaving something new in their place I could spend hours watching them if I didn't end up falling asleep after awhile. Then I will have a lucid dream, sometimes.

My stories and my dreams feel very real. Like I have lived them before. They come from somewhere...

I am sure that I do not experience grapheme-color synesthesia. I just know I see these amazing, often beautiful, images and colors with my eyes closed. Sometimes they take shape and other times, not so much. It is like they exist on/in another dimension of reality and I can go there. Once I had my eyes closed and I was submerged in electric blue. It took no form, just color, when I opened my eyes I was surrounded in electric blue for a few moments. In those moments I was unable to see my own body. I only saw the color. As I child I distinctly remember seeing the world through a red filter a few times. To explain that I would say it is like putting on a pair of sunglasses that changes the tint of everything I see. I had a MRI so I know it is not a brain tumor.
Pretty interesting

Don't know if it's Ni, I have some special synesthesia myself, though not of the form you describe

I do have the basic grapheme-colour one but it goes way beyond that. I have other visual and auditory components to characters and digits and other text based symbols and if I focus hard enough it can link into some entire meaningful mood that sometimes actually leads me somewhere. Sorry I don't want to elaborate on this in this thread but it's pretty interesting really. Feels like a link to the unconscious sometimes.

Maybe related to the auditory imagination thing you quote about above from T.S. Eliot.