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13 June 2008

Synesthesia on demand

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Many of us have a touch of synesthesia -- seeing numbers or hearing musical tones as colors, thanks to a lucky bit of crossed wiring in the brain. Many commenters on Vilayanur Ramachandran's TEDTalk talk engagingly about their experience with it. Want to know what it feels like? Try this: a synesthesia generator >>.

It's a feature of the hypertext exploration site Hypertextopia. And yes, you can change the colors -- so if you see A as white and C as green, but your brother insists that A is red (because, as Ramachandran points out, synesthesia runs in families, but no one has it in exactly the same way), just click the row of letters below the text window.

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  • digi klan – August 16 2008

    Sounds very interesting. i will try soon.
    so when you say something like " youtube videos" every family see different things? so it must have been genetical or something.
    i will check it out on that source.


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