Name: Can You Hear Colors? (TEST)
Uploaded: 2022-04-11T03:21:05.000Z
Duration: 14 min 8 s
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Some people hear in color.  Are you one of them?

- Gooooood Mythical Morning! - Can you see sounds? Can you taste words?

Today we're gonna find out if you--  and you-- have synesthesia, which is

the neurological phenomenon where two or  more of your senses are unexpectedly

connected. For example, you might not only see the color blue, but you can

hear it, or taste it, or even smell it.  Only about four percent of the population

- has a version of synesthesia. - Really? That's a lot!

But I'm gonna present a test to find out if you have it or you have it. Are you

ready to find out... Do You Have  Synesthesia... If it Please Ya?

- Does that mean I can get it if I want it? - No, it just means that that was

- what rhymed, so I said it. - And I have an easel here!

- (Link) This is a psychological  test placard.

- (Rhett) Okay. - Are you ready for Test number one?

The question is: Do you associate numbers and/or letters with colors? If you do,

this is called "Grapheme-Color Synesthesia." For example, the number 5 will always--

- Blue! - Be blue. Oh, maybe it is for you.

- Honestly, I just said-- - You just said "blue?"

I don't think I had it,  I just said a letter-- a color.

- That was a color! Blue's a color, right? - Yes it is. And blue will always be

associated with that number, with 5 in  that case. YouTuber Anna Akana, our friend,

- has this, Rhett. So I'm gonna show you-- - Oh yeah, she talked about that on an

- Ear Biscuit. - That's right. I'm gonna show you this.

- Take a look at this. - (Rhett) This a phone number from a movie?

- (Rhett) Five, five, five, five, five. - What do you see, Rhett?

I see fives. Oh! I see backwards fives... a few of 'em, otherwise known as

- (both) twos. - That's good. Okay, now--

- But I see numbers. - You don't see any colors.

- You're not associating any of these-- - I see black numbers on white backgrounds.

Now, if you were a synesthete, you would be seeing something-- this is kind of a

simulation of what you'd be seeing on  the right here. You can see how the fives

are associated with blue, say for this  particular person, and the twos are

associated with red. So for a person who has Grapheme-Color Synesthesia, the

twos would pop out a lot quicker than  they did for you, because they're

- associated with different colors. - So you're saying this is like what would

- happen in their brain. - In their brain.

- They're not gonna actually see blue  - Correct.

or red, but it's so strong  that they're going to--

It would give the sensation that we have, as normal people looking at this, is the

sensation they have by association, colors with numbers or letters.

I can safely say that that did not  happen in my brain. I saw phone numbers

- from movies... - Maybe it happened to you.

- And I saw a few twos. - You know what? Let's move on.

- Oh, that's it! I failed the first test. - It's okay. There's other tests.

- Do I get some medal or something? - You get a high five for trying.

- What if I win? How do I win? - Well, you didn't.

- Okay. - You participated and you got the

Okay, test number two, we're gonna  ask the question: Do you hear in color?

This is called "Chromosthesia." It's the  most common form of synesthesia.

My ears get red sometimes when  people are talking about me. (chuckles)

- That's a different thing. - (crew laughs)

- Don't laugh at that. - No, they get itchy.

A lot of musicians have this. Pharrell,  Billy Joel, Mozart, Jimi Hendrix, and

Kanye West, of course, has this. On Seth Meyer's show, he said, "I give you

paintings, sonic paintings. You know, I have synesthesia. I can see sounds

in front of me." But then he lamented about being constrained by his celebrity

That he wasn't able to really express himself. But there was one artist who was

not constrained by his celebrity status, and that is famous Russian painter and

synesthete Wassily Kandinsky. Here's  what he did: He went to a concert of

- composer Schoenberg in 1911. - Schoenberg!

And then he created a painting based on what he saw when listening to the concert.

- So what I want to do, for test number two, - Oh, I get to do this.

- Uh huh. - This is what this paint is for.

You have a blank slate here.  Grab your painting tools here.

- Look at this. We did a great job on that. - Grab your painting tools at home if you

I'm gonna play String Quartet #2 from the concerto that Kandinsky was listening to.

- I'm sure I'll paint exactly the same thing. - I want you to paint, and then we'll

All right, hit the music.  Just take it in.

(Link) You shouldn't have to conjure up a  visual, it should just come to you.

- (Rhett) I don't have to. Yeah, oh. - It just come to you?

I can see right away that  you've painted something. That's good.

- Yep! - That's about as positive as my feedback

- can get. (laughs) - Would you like me to tell you what's

(Rhett) So that's me and you  on our big dog. We fight fires.

- Oh, we're on a firefighting dog. - Yeah, yeah. He's so big.

He's like Clifford but he's  not Clifford. He's not red.

- He's yellow. - He looks totally normal, but he's--

There's a lot of wildfires out  here in this part of the world.

- I thought he was peeing on our show logo. - (Rhett) No no no no, we find fires.

- Okay, do-gooders. - I almost drew the CBs, the radios,

because we're part of the volunteer fire department, and they call us up,

and we get on the big dog and we go-- He's like a hose, I mean.

- He pees bullets on a fire. - We get to a lot of places that the

- firetrucks can't. And I put the cool sun. - (Link) Right, right.

- (Rhett) And there's also a cloud. - Right. That's really good.

- Thanks for including me in that. (laughs) - (Rhett) Yeah.

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