What's It Like To Hear Colors? - A VR 360° Synesthesia Experience
What would happen if some of your senses overlapped? What would that experience feel like? In this special 360° episode, we show you what it's like to have synesthesia. HOW TO WATCH: In...
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♫ music ♫ My name is Kaitlyn Hova. I'm a software engineer, neuroscientist, and a musician. I also have synesthesia. Synesthesia is a blending of the senses. 1 in 23 people have a form of it. For me, when I hear, specific musical notes, I see specific colours... ...and these colours are much brighter... at night. ♫ violin ♫ What you're seeing in front of me, is a lot like what I see ...when I hear this music. ♫ violin ♫ Each one of these coloured lights corresponds to a particular note The colours are always the same. ♫ violin ♫ I've seen these colours my whole life. But I didn't know that was unusual, until I was 21 years old. ♫ violin ♫ It was the final music theory course, for my music major, that, at the e...
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♫ music ♫ My name is Kaitlyn Hova. I'm a software engineer, neuroscientist, and a musician. I also have synesthesia. Synesthesia is a blending of the senses. 1 in 23 people have a form of it. For me, when I hear, specific musical notes, I see specific colours... ...and these colours are much brighter... at night. ♫ violin ♫ What you're seeing in front of me, is a lot like what I see ...when I hear this music. ♫ violin ♫ Each one of these coloured lights corresponds to a particular note The colours are always the same. ♫ violin ♫ I've seen these colours my whole life. But I didn't know that was unusual, until I was 21 years old. ♫ violin ♫ It was the final music theory course, for my music major, that, at the e...
