Did You Know? 1% Of Humans Can ‘Hear’ Colors

Incrediville
2 min readSep 16, 2020

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Artwork by Incrediville

Hey guys, we have a gift for you.

Don’t be surprised if your buddy shouts out rainbow colors 🌈 when you go to a concert next time. It’s just some magic happening in their heads.

We promise it’s not shrooms. 🍄

Billie Eilish knows. Some people are just born with this superpower.

It’s called synesthesia. It’s a neurological condition in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates a whole bunch instead. People with this condition can literally have an ‘eargasm.’ It’s however, very rare, research revealed only around 1% of the human population experienced this.

There’s actually more than one type of synesthesia. Some people can ‘hear’ colors, others can ‘smell’ words, or you know, all kinds of sh*t. These people are called synesthetes. Duke Ellington, Billy Joel, Pharrell Williams, and Vincent Van Goh… Nah, probably not you and me.

It’s a pretty sweet superpower to have. There are barely any side-effects to it.

But definitely let us know if you like us. Why just watch when you can reply? 🙉

Did we just turn the volume up for you for a second? We knew it bad guy. 1% is way too low.

Again, there’s more than one type of synesthesia. As long as more than one of your senses feels kind of messed around with, you probably have it.

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Incrediville
Incrediville

Written by Incrediville

Illustrating science since 2017 from Taipei. We serve fast food for the thought in this town. (っ◔◡◔)っ This is where we keep our fact sources and art.

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