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I hear color.

Eh...sort of.

I have grapheme-color synesthesia, which is a common form of sensory pairing. Being a musician, and understanding what semantics go into understanding and learning music add a whole dimension to the idea of metaphor, perception and language. I hope you enjoy this video essay on everything Synesthesia.

The book I referenced the most in this video - definitely check it out if you enjoyed my video. A great overview!
http://amzn.to/2vB9iIe

If you really dig this video, DEFINITELY check out Dr. Ramachandran's lecture, this is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LorvbKs79w

Thin-thick languages versus high-low in english
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/09c7/bf5efa132b72cbf030f0457cc991de24ac51.pdf

Jamie Ward's paper on the multi-modal basis of synesthesia
http://cogprints.org/6268/1/Cortex_sound-colour_Synaesthesia.pdf

HOW DO WE KNOW SYNESTHETES AREN'T JUST MAKING IT UP? Well...Stroop interference for one.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24269938

Are you a Synesthete?
http://www.synesthete.org/

Table of the different kinds of synesthesia and their occurance
http://home.comcast.net/~sean.day/html/types.html

Prevalance of synesthesia
http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/14073/1/p5469.pdf

That Tommy Edison blind guy color video I mentioned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmMJ5kDskn8

fMRI scans of synesthetes
http://neurologues.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/fmri-scans-synesthesia-is-real/

Cross-Modal Perception
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3670440/

Synesthesia is in fact ideasthesia - experiencing of concepts
http://www.danko-nikolic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Synesthesia2009-Nikolic-Ideaesthesia.pdf

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