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 |~| SUPPORT ME ON PATREON http://www.patreon.com/adamneely FOLLOW ME ON THE INTERNETS http://www.facebook.com/adamneely http://www.instagram.com/its_adamneely Check out some of my music http://sungazermusic.bandcamp.com http://insideoutsidemusic.bandcamp.com http://adamneelymusic.bandcamp.com Peace, Adam