For sophomore Lily Wolf, every letter and number has a different color. Some sounds and smells have colors, too.
Wolf has synesthesia, a joining of one sense with another. So, when Wolf sees IU, the “I” represents “gray” and the “U” is a “translucent, solid yellow.”
She found out she perceives senses differently during her junior year of high school when she went to a Muse concert with friends. After the show, she made a comment about how she really liked that the stage lights matched the color of the songs, and realized she was the only one who saw that.
“It’s like a memory, but when you go back to start to draw it out, it isn’t all there,” she says. “It isn’t one shade. It is an abstract image.”
Her name?
L — light blue, I — gray,
L — light blue, Y — yellowish
The sound a car makes when it’s in too low of a gear?
Green dots off to the side.
“Glorious” by Muse?
A purple-silver color.
Favorite number?
Four. Because she sees it as the color blue.
