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Tasty words, colorful sounds: How people with synesthesia experience the world, with Julia Simner, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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Sinestesia - Can Sinestedes Experience Their Colours?

Colours inasesia can be experienced by people with different types of synestets. Some experience their colours somewhere in the mind's eye, like a kind of strong internal mental imagery projecto. Sinestedes will see their as projected out in the outside world. Tatatis, in your mind or in theoutside world. And sometimes experienced in unusual ways. I remember a student of mine from 20 years ago who experienced pain as colours. For her, the colours were a cone that projected from her head in colour. If you have coloured letters and numbers and are a projectus in a stete, you may see those colours superimposed on to the text that you're reading. Or

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