• LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    What would the modern human equivalent of seeing the stars for the first time be? I guess we probably wouldn’t really comprehend it even if we had the opportunity.

    • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      I’ve always been sorta jealous of people with synaesthesia. I imagine there’s probably some weird downsides but I’d love to experience it. Just, like, something dumb like what color is my favorite song, or what does 4 smell like?

      • deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 months ago

        My SO has some mild synesthesia, mostly just lights having a “sound”. Like, our neighbor had some really obnoxiously bright flashing christmas lights that were allegedly quite loud. He “heard” something akin to a tiny truck backing up whenever he glanced out the window at the wrong time. He almost always knows if it’s a real sound or a synesthesia “sound”, though there have been a couple of occasions when he has had to ask me if i hear stuff while watching a show or movie that warranted an epilepsy warning. Sometimes he’ll get a smell when listening music that makes him nostalgic, too, but that’s only happened once or twice.

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      8 months ago

      Many astronauts say seeing the earth from space is a similar transcendent moment. Especially the Apollo astronauts who could see the entire earth at once .

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      8 months ago

      Being able to see the full spectrum of colors that actually exist in the world. Every very rare once in a while someone is born with more cones in their eyes, which allows them to see more. The rest of us, though, will never know.

  • iiGxC@slrpnk.net
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    8 months ago

    Can’t pigs lie on their side and roll around though? Then they’d be able to see the stars