http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/09/opinion/ha...?hpt=hp_t3

Quote:I was born with achromatopsia, I was born completely colorblind. So I've never seen color, and don't know what it looks like. But since the age of 21, I can hear color. . . .

a color sensor between my eyes connected to a chip installed at the back of my head that transforms color frequencies into sound frequencies that I hear through my bone. . . .

When I started to hear colors in my dreams is when I noticed that my brain and the software had united and given me a new sense. My brain was creating electronic sounds in my dreams, not the device. That was the point when I started to feel no difference between the software and my brain: The cybernetic device had become an extension of my brain -- an extension of my senses. . . .

I started to perceive normal sounds as color, too. Telephone tones started to sound green, the BBC pips became turquoise, and listening to Mozart became a yellow experience, even people's voices had dominant colors. . . .

So I just decided to continue extending my color perception and included infrared and ultraviolet into the color-to-sound scale. . . .

Without knowing exactly how the sound frequencies are selected, I'm not sure I would agree he is actually hearing color. Still, I find articles like this fascinating (although hearing color seems much more distracting than merely seeing it).

Quote:If I'm sad I dress in a minor chord. So if I need to go to a funeral, I might dress in B minor (that's turquoise, purple and orange).

I hope the funerals he goes to are all in New Orleans.

http://suite101.com/article/can-some-peo...ia-a260900

"George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue) may have had a brain disorder that allowed him to see musical notes as colors. The brain disorder would have been a real gift called Synesthesia. Synesthesia is a neurologically based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Those who have this gift see colors for letters, numbers and musical notes. For some the stimulus is limited to music or musical key.

Famous musicians who have or have had Synesthesia were Composer Duke Ellington, the Hungarian composer Frank Liszt, American musicians John Mayer and drummer Brian Chase, Syd Barret of Pink Floyd fame and Olivier Messiaen, the French composer who was widely regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. Recently this subject of synesthesia has been getting some attention with a test being given on Youtube, but the mystery behind it might be explained by science."