Hearing Music with Synesthetized Ears

In this piece, I was able to find out from finding out about being a full-stack web developer, designer, neuroscientist, professional violinist, composer, and key member of Women Who Code, Kaitlyn Hova is also a synesthete, which means that her sensory perception is very different from what most people perceive. To get a flavor of what it's like to hear color and see music, read this article to discover more about this amazing subject.

Blue and black, or white and gold. No doubt some of you know what is being talked about here. But for those of you who don't imagine you're wasting time on the internet, As you do, you come across a picture of a dress. This dress was a viral meme that broke the internet back in 2015. Now some people thought the distress was blue and black, while others were just as adamant that it was white and gold.

But how is it possible? How could we be looking at the same dress and see two completely different dresses? Does it make sense for all that neuroscience has revealed about the senses? We still understand very little about how and why senses differ from one person to the next. We are becoming more and more aware that they do differ, and sometimes by quite a bit.

In this case, the senses are blended pretty uniquely, and how we found this out took us by surprise. Okay, so back in college, we were taking a music theory course like you do. On the very last day, our professor gave us what he thought was an interesting tidbit. He said some people can physically see sounds, to which I replied, "Duh, what are you saying?" This wasn't news to us, but we were surprised to learn that it made us different.

Imagine being in your 20s and learning something completely new about how you physically experience the world. If our primary understanding comes from the senses, what does that mean for those whose senses are crossed? What can we learn from them? Some people have grown up hearing in color. When they hear a musical note, they automatically see flashes of shapes and colors.

It's just how it's always been; they've never known any other way. But what was news to us, for example, a person with grapheme, which are just numbers and letters to color, synesthesia might see this word like this Synesthesia is the first such word in the sid These are just the colors that some people have experienced for letters, and they are most likely going to be different for any other person.

Synesthesia is just a general term to describe when two senses are inherently crossed, causing simulation from one sense to lead to an automatic, involuntary experience in another. It was once believed that only one in two million people had synesthesia, but more research and genetic links have been found that suggest as many as one in 23 people have some form of it. To put this into perspective, think about every person you know who has an allergy to peanuts.

All right, you got it. Now imagine them all in one group. Then, whether you realize it or not, multiply the size of that group by two. Now it is fantastic being a musician, and using synesthesia to learn songs. To do this, they pay attention to the landscape that corresponds with musical colors. Because this is such a deeply personal experience, it can be challenging to describe it to someone who lacks it.

For this reason, to demonstrate what it means, we made a synesthesia light demonstration to illustrate this for you. These are how the musical notes appear to me. You're really yellow and always read C, and D is always blue. That's just like a weird light cream. G is very green, followed by a that is orange-red, and B that is purple. Okay, we'll wrap it up like this: this is how a song sounds.

We believe that asking people about their senses and how they might differ from one another deeply less frequently than we should. For example, how do you solve a math problem? What goes through your mind before you provide the right answer? Do you see shapes or colors? What does it mean to be aware of your senses? We personally believe that asking someone at the age of 21 about their senses and how they might differ from one another deeply. However, you might be different in any way. What is that emotion? What color does that feeling correspond to? Knowing the answers to these questions may have improved education and given these folks a better understanding of how individuals truly learn.