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Health Leader, Color My World (2004)
Typically, synesthetes don't see their colors floating out in space, although this is a matter of debate, Eagleman says. Most describe it as a strong mental association, something like "it is just self-evidently true that a 3 is blue".
Other synesthetes describe the color as being "out there" in the world. But the differences, Eagleman suspects, may be a matter of semantics, description, and/or an issue of the vividness of visual imagery. The problem is that trying to explain what it is like to be synesthetic is like trying to explain sight to a blind person. In any case, synesthetes know when they see a letter written in black ink that it is, in fact, written in black ink. They imagine and retain it, however, in color. The same Rainbow Brite effect occurs with words, months and music.
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I'm still reading up on all of this since I got distracted for a few hours. There's a great deal of information out there that I have yet to uncover, but apparently, you don't have to project your impressions outward into the world to be considered a synesthete.
The above are just snippets taken from much longer articles, linked in large part because this is a handy way to keep track of and share them.
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