I don’t know if this is in the right place but here we go. I haven’t really thought about this one until lately. Everything I see has like a tint of colored noise to it. The noise looks like it is dynamic. It also doesn’t cloud my vision at all. I was just wondering does everyone see colored noise?

I'm not sure I understand, although this sounds very interesting. Let's say you see a book, for example. Could you describe the colours you see and how they look, in your perception? And, what do you mean by noise, exactly? I'm trying to comprehend more about what you are talking about.

If I look at a solid color. For example a white piece of paper I see bright little lights that are kind like noise. Noise in the since that it’s a distortion. I have no eye problem and have perfect 20/20 vision. Last time I was at my eye doctor I asked him about and he kinda treated it as "wtf". So it was somewhat embarrassing.

There is what they call white noise that is noise and sound from all spectrums of sound. There is also what they cal pink noise that is cleaner and weeds out most of the highs. I have every reason to beleive that each color of the visible spectrum has a corresponding note. There are 8 notes, Do, Re, Mi, La, Fo, Sa, Ti, Da and 7 colors, Roy G. Biv, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. There is either a missing color or a missing note because we are not counting Infra-Red and Ultra-Violet. If you do the math you will find that waves are waves no matter if they are sound waves, light waves, ocean waves, tidal waves or frequencies beyond our senses. All the waves are related. My point is that if you take a wave you can feel and square it a few times it will become audible, square it a few more times and it becomes a short wave radio signal, then a TV signal and into microwaves before you are finally able to see it as color. The wave then passes into the Ultra-Violet spectrum, then morphs into the much higher frequencies of Gamma Rays and finally Cosmic Radiation.
There is nothing wrong with you. Your ears are either seeing things they are not used to or your eyes are hearing things unfamiliar but it is not un-natural. It's just RF interference crossing over like when someone on a CB radio messes up your TV signal or lightning interferes with a signal or compass.

Another possibility is that it's electrical activity and the effect of light on our eyes. I experience it too. Just imagine a very fine mist of rain going in no particular direction and which can seem to have different colours attached. Similarly, when you look at something very bright like the Sun, you can have an imprint of light left on your eyes even when you look away. I think it's related.

You know the experience of getting up too quickly and seeing white flashes of light at the periphery of your vision? I read somewhere that those flashes are electrons moving through the blood vessels in our eyes.

saw this on 20/20, people have their sense mixed up. Everyone has it at birth but these people didn't grow out of it..

THis one guy could "TASTE" words and sounds..

i have the same thing, except only at night. what some people are talking about is called Synesthesia which is when two or more sense are coupled together. it does not sound like that as you didn't say the static was influenced by your other senses (and usually it'll be very obvious if you have it). it sounds more like visual snow.

That's called synesthesia.

From a book called Psychology, Being Human. That could get very distracting.

Salyer, could it be that people have misinterpreted your choice of words? Did you mean by noise that the visual boundaries of objects are not sharp, but appear to have a somewhat fuzzy tinted edge?

So noise not in the sense of disorderly sound, but rather in the sense of a disorderly visual element?

When I said noise I was referring to what I see verse what I am looking at. For example I look at the clock on the way but also see what kind of looks likes a lot of tiny particles moving about. As in the noise you might get from a speaker but visually I guess. I don’t know any other way of explaining it. Nothing looks distorted but everything seems to be covered in these tiny little particles.

Are the dots like the video static you might see on a (analog) television set when the reception isn't very good?

it could be nerve related or even vascular related as well. and you could still have 20/20 vision.

aura's and some visual effects from the brain can look like vibrating colors. like an odd colored odd shaped rainbow that can fill all or part of your visual feild. a neuro opthamologist would know more.

It is a condition called Synesthesia. Here is a Link to synesthesia article

Visual snow

Sounds cool!

I have this every now and then as well. I always attributed it to dust particles on my actual eyeball, or sometimes, the unnatural lighting can make 'noise' appear. I don't think it's synesthesia that you are describing, cause I don't think you mean audible noise, but more like noise on a photograph.

I think it is normal, especially when looking at bright object or in unnatural light.

I don't think that's what Salyer described. To my mind, don't think of the 'noise' as a visualisation of sound. Think of that noise as a way of describing a subtle mask that pervades vision. It could well be too much sugar in the blood leading to some kind of nerve spangling interference, an internal, static like stimuli within the eyeballs.

Hi, salyer.

Thanks for answering. Please consider getting it checked out professionally.

A regular opthamologist can either give you the definitive answer, or refer you to someone more specialized if need be.

It's not "normal" and the only way to tell if it's serious or not is to get professional advice.

Thanks, I had this my whole life but figured I would post it on here.

Synesthesia is cool. I had a psych. prof discussing this in one course, one of the tests was particularly interesting.. I forget the purpose of the test, I believe it was to see at what level the synesthesia operated. The particular test subject would see specific colors with each number (so 1 was maybe orange, and 5 was red etc..). The format of the test was to essentially have several sheets absolutely covered in numbers, each sheet would have one digit select where that digit would only occur once. If a normal person does this, it is fairly lengthy in general to find that one number when you are asked to look for it. In this persons case they could essentially point right to it instantly.. as though a normal person was looking at a blue-green page and asked to point at the single red dot.

For the OP.. if your situation was a case of synesthesia typically the noise would be consistent with some other sense and not just random.

Nocturnal,

Coincidentally I stumbled across an online synaesthesia test that incorporates that very test. Check it out, it's very cool if you are already interested in it. Click on THIS LINK and then click on the test entitled "Do you see what I see?"

Cheers!

shot in the dark

i beleive with all the elictrical crap flying around [radio waves, cellphone signals, xrays.,etc] that it is possibly interference or your eyes/mind learning to incorporate that interferance.

is this so hard? Visual snow

I have always seen words and names as diferent colours. Not every word, but quite a few. It helps in remembering names. For instance, my name is Anna, which is a yellow name. I don't tend to see music as colour though, which is a shame. However, with music I do get impressions of shapes and patterns.

There is an artist who lives near me who has synaesthesia, and makes a living out of it. He sees music as colour and paints to it. I believe he is quite successful. Annoyingly (and ironically - after my previous statement) I don't remember his name. I'll see if I can find out.

Also, it seems that the famous artist Kandisky was a "sufferer".

Not entirely sure that fits, since the noise is supposed to be tinted, visual snow seems to essentially be 'grey' or neutral. Also the OP says it doesn't cloud his vision, and it sounded like visual snow did cloud vision partially.

the article i posted never said that visual snow is of a certain color or clouds vision.

Ah i think i know what he's on about. If you look up at the sky in the morning or evening (too hard during the day) You can see little specs flying around all over the place, diffrent coloured specs. you can kind of get it when you close your eye an press on it untill you see things flying about.

Synthesisia?

It's not synesthesia, people. Salyer does not mean "noise" as in sound that you hear, the word noise means anything that's fuzzy, like when you look at a TV without an aerial and it's got lots of black and white dots.

Salyer, it sounds to me like you either have visual snow, or a condition called Scheerer's phenomenon, sometimes referred to as Blue field entoptic phenomenon. It's caused by the white blood cells in your retina absorbing blue light, the 'shadows' cast by this absorption result in you seeing dozens of illuminated dots that fly around. Lots of people have it, not many realize it. Don't worry, the only harm it causes is sometimes irritation.

Click <-- Here is an article to learn some more about it.

I hope that helps.

I have seen voices as colors too, drink orange juice and it will intensify the experience.LOL
by the way where did you get the acid?

I knew this sounded familiar, I watched that too. Thanks..JN