[reporter]

This is really interesting to me. I can't hear it and I am a native english speaker. I was just in a room of people and played it and everyone clicked into the meaning right away. I played it about seven more times and I guess I kind of hear it now, but still, not really.

I did horrible in elementary school and high school until I realized I was what I labelled myself a "visual learner". I excelled in college and am just about to finish my PhD in evolutionary biology, largely because I stopped attending lectures and decided to learn everything on my own. After listening to this illusion I decided to search for auditory dyslexia and sure enough there are disorders like this and I definitely fit the definition, especially central auditory processing disorder. Does anyone know if this test is correlated with audio disorders or where I can get more information on this?

[dbbolton]

I wonder if I have something similar. Often times when someone spells a word or recites a number, it's as if I'm completely "spaced out" and don't get any of the information (while actively paying attention) unless I make a conscious effort to visualize the letters/digits as they are being spoken. I also frequently experience visual disturbance type dyslexia when reading and I always assumed the two phenomena were somehow related.