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Seeing Sounds, Tasting Names: The world of synesthesia

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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Synesthesia

When I hear the sound of a trumpet, it's like a tennis ball being rubbed across my forearm. The public transit train has a bell whenever it goes over things that literally shoots and it feels like red needles. David works at a noisy restaurant so he has to filter out a lot of sounds. Some sounds have like a rubber texture, a trumpet for example.

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