Students Share the World of Color They See When Hearing Sound
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 31, 2023
Lizi Shaul ’23 (SFA, CLAS) used to think everyone saw color when they heard their mother’s voice – for her, pale purple.
She also didn’t think it strange that letters would appear in different colors until, in high school, a teacher asked her to read the blue words on a page and doing so didn’t fully make sense – for her, As were red, Bs yellow, and Cs orange.
A lesson on synesthesia in a high school psychology class finally gave her a way to describe the way she saw the world, and until . . .
