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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wait... So it's not just because I have an affinity for language?

Also: Other people see text in their mind like that? I thought that was just my own quirk.

[–] 200ok 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is so cool! Is it like you're imagining the text, or can you literally see it?

What about words that are muffled or too quiet?

How does it feel/look like when you're in an area that's packed with people? (Thank you in advance!)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's like a mental HUD. Sometimes there's even an internal monologue like the enclopedia checks in Disco Elysium; though it's my voice, not that cool narrator's voice.

[–] 200ok 4 points 1 month ago

Cool superpower!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

reminds me of my reaction when I discovered I had chromesthesia.

"Wait, not everyone sees music visually?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What does the text look like for you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

14 point Times New Roman font (or, well, at least a font with sarifs) above or below whatever I'm looking at, giving the name of and a short description of the thing, or what words I am hearing being spoken.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

14:16:31, 14:16:30, 14:16:29, and so on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

that's just trisolarens trolling you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Like military time or a count down or is it colon separated?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seems like a countdown to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

How long have you had this?

[–] Zangoose 1 points 1 month ago

Is that... a countdown to the next holiday?