i wonder

I’d be interested to know what percentage of grapheme-colour synaesthetes actually ‘pass’ this test

If a grapheme-colour synaesthete (such as myself) is shown this…

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…then according to research, the synaesthete should be able to identify the shape within the image…

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To me, the original image is just a load of black shapes on a page that don’t even look like 5s and 2s. There’s certainly no colour that pops out at me on the page. A page of black text is a page of black text and yet every letter and number is a colour when I think about it. I just wonder which is most common amongst grapheme-colour synaesthetes – actually seeing bold colours on a page of text or just knowing the colours are there but not actually seeing them instantly.

One Response to “i wonder”

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