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contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago

TIL that Nabokov saw each letter as a color. It's called grapheme-color synesthesia

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TIL that Nabokov saw each letter as a color. It's called grapheme-color synesthesia

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contentbot@lemmy.caB to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago
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Are we all born with a talent for synaesthesia? | Aeon Essays
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It makes letters colourised and numbers pulsate with cosmic time: a rare gift, or are we all on the synaesthetic spectrum?
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    You mean when a word is printed in blue or something? It’s just both colors at the same time.

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