Ticker-tape synaesthesia – when real life comes with subtitles
Ticker-tape synaesthesia – when real life comes with subtitles
A rare variation of the phenomenon in which people’s senses are intermingled involves the mind’s eye seeing speech in captions. Scientists believe the condition arises from excessive neural connectivity and stimulation
Wait... So it's not just because I have an affinity for language?
Also: Other people see text in their mind like that? I thought that was just my own quirk.
This is so cool! Is it like you're imagining the text, or can you literally see it?
What about words that are muffled or too quiet?
How does it feel/look like when you're in an area that's packed with people? (Thank you in advance!)
reminds me of my reaction when I discovered I had chromesthesia.
"Wait, not everyone sees music visually?"
For some, it might feel as though their mind is mimicking the physical act of writing the word, a phenomenon known as motor imagery. “Some might notice typing words on a phone or a computer keyboard,” says Price.
I have this, really interesting to know there is a term for it. Actually, “had” is more accurate, as it slowly diminished over the years and has essentially gone away now, probably stopped happening in my mid 20s or so. Sometimes it was handwriting, but usually QWERTY keyboard typing or even T9 dumbphone typing.
Also experienced other mild forms of synaesthesia too, but those are gone now as well. Kinda miss it sometimes. Being a kid was kinda magical.
Fellow synaesthete here but color grapheme, not the type of the article. May I ask what's your approx age now? I've also noticed a mild decline in my own, but it's still there. I'm in my mid 30s.
I’m early 30s now. Interesting yours is still there. I also previously experienced color grapheme synaesthesia (more specifically just numbers which were coloured) but that went away by the time I was about 12.
Damn, where do I sign up?
this is the killer app for smart glasses for me
Oh shit, it’s me, I’m bitches.