synaesthetic

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I suspect I'm mildly synaesthetic or just plain weird.

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  • I suspect I'm mildly synaesthetic or just plain weird. —  Vespertine Erotica
  • Grimaud is the hauntingly beautiful, 39-year-old French pianist who loves wolves, claims to live a solitary life and, like Scriabin, is synaesthetic (that is, she hears in colors). —  The Buffalo News: Home
  • This slowing of response is generally taken as evidence that synaesthetic experiences are real and automatic. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • It's because you're all doing a cross-model -- synaesthetic abstraction -- meaning, you're saying that that sharp inflection, Kiki, in your auditory cortex, the hair cells being excited, Kiki, mimics the visual inflection -- sudden inflection -- of that jagged shape. —  VS Ramachandran on your mind
  • You're the flattest big brother I've got. —  Mother Of Storms
 

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