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When a couple people get together and chat in a room at a higher volume than usual, I can hear voices in the noise generated by a water faucet or shower when I get home. I think it's like the Tetris effect but with audio -- I have to concentrate quite a bit to track the various conversations while in the first setting, and when things quiet down, the ol' radio still wants to tune to a channel...

Tetris effect
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
They may see colored images of pieces falling into place on an invisible layout at the edges of their visual fields or when they close their eyes

Interesting, I work as an agronomist and get this if I’ve been scouting for some problem that requires special focus to find, like cutworms, for prolonged periods of time. I’ll get faint images of them when I close my eyes.

Not disturbing in the slightest, I just knew I’d been hard at it.

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