Flashing Lights
 

I always thought this was normal and so never mentioned it to the doc or anything, but after a casual conversation I'm wondering if I'm alone.

I can hear flashing lights, and anything that strobes, including animated .gif images with low framerate.

The pitch of the sound depends upon the color, brightness and frequency of the light. For instance, the red flashing lights on distance radio towers sound like a slow "wooooummp.....wooooummp" whereas a distance car turn signal is more "phomp, phomp, phomp."

A low-framerate gif may sound like "Chog, chog, chog" as each successive frame passes.

/me offers bat, point at head.

I can hear certain lights, not gifs though. I can also hear electronics. It's not normal, but my doc says it's nothing to worry about, so [thumbup].

Me too,and I like it.http://discussworldissues.com/forums...ies/devil1.gif

yupp same here,..
sometimes i can even taste colors ! http://discussworldissues.com/forums...lies/cool1.gif

yup, sometimes hear different lights, usually fluorescent lights, neon lights and xeon flashing lights, but also annoyingly, Tv's

WELL I CAN GO ONE BETTER !

I can hear, smell, feel,taste and fart colours even the ones that are in the infrared spectrum.

I can also sense other sub atomic particles

I can listen to the TV while it's muted.

so mr broken rabbit what does the tv remote control sound like ?

Sounds like Synesthesia to me. Since you hear such distant objects.

I can only hear it when I see it.

You sure you're really hearing it and not imagining it then?

Well, it certainly sounds audible to me. All2humanuk is probably on the right track.

Indeed. I'm the same and find it quite pleasant most of the time.

Although that can get a bit annoying after a while. http://discussworldissues.com/forums...ies/laugh1.gif

What's worse are the flashing "WINNAR" ones. It just induces a cacophony of irritating sound.

i can hear electrics, at first it was strange but now its pretty cool, the wierdest sensation is when a TV i plugged into a switch and turned on at a switch but not actually on to show picture if ya know what i mean, it gives a low sound high pitched ring, http://discussworldissues.com/forums...ies/laugh1.gif

I AM ELECTRONICSOUNDPHOTON MAN! http://discussworldissues.com/forums...ies/laugh1.gif

Meh, i find it funny even if no1 else does. [thumbup]

yeah I can hear humming of transformers or the high pitch chatter of the guns in the telly as they warm up...

no biggy really

or DO you planks mean you can hear the electrons passing through the wires and circuitboards or you can hear the pc's processor.

if yes then I can hear cosmic radio background radiation from dead stars billions of years ago...

Do you mean the high-pitched sound every (crt) tv makes?

Some random quote from some random website (googled for it):

It is usually a high pitched whistle from the horizontal scan transformer. A television (well, an old-fashioned CRT based one, anyway) has a flying dot that paints the picture on the screen. That flying is drawn across the screen about 15,000 times a second. The dot itself is totally weightless, but the components that generate the voltages that move it have to turn on and off at that rate. Sometimes they move fractionally every time they do so, which produces that high pitched sound. Or do you even hear the sound when the screen is not switched on?

I find I pick up electronic whines (like a low humming in my electric tooth brush, low quality speaker noise (when off ^^) and TVs) annoyingly well, I find it hard to sleep with them.

It's actually not abnormal for electronics or lights to emit audible frequencies, so before you go claiming synesthesia and go on TV, bring a good microphone+recorder and make sure the sound is not measurable :D

I'm looking out my window at a radio tower four miles away and I can still hear it. If I close my eyes, I can't.