<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Ballastexistenz]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Mel Baggs]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/author/ameliabaggs/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Stupid brain tricks.]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Someone else had made a video of their associations of personalities, genders, and colors with numbers, and I replied with a video response of colored letters and numbers:</p>
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<p>Be aware that synaesthesia tends to be way more fascinating to synaesthetes than non-synaesthetes, so the video might for all I know be very boring to most people.  Synaesthesia usually has an emotional component as <em>part</em> of the neurological response at the time, so every time I see a letter as having a color, or a sound as having a texture, or whatever, there&#8217;s a &#8220;Wow this is really cool&#8221; response going on in my head that&#8217;s just as involuntary as the sensory association itself (and synaesthesia is involuntary, rather than consciously imaginary).  So <em>I</em> would have trouble getting sick of watching colored letters and numbers (provided they&#8217;re the right colors &mdash; the wrong colors drive me nuts), but I don&#8217;t expect the rest of the world to find it so fascinating.  Although I expect Bev will probably like it because it shows the number 8 twice.</p>
<p>I wish I had the animation skills to make an animation of the assorted colored lines and blobs and shapes that go with the music, too, but I&#8217;ll have to content myself with letters and numbers.</p>
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