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What Does Synesthesia Feel Like?

- Hey, Smart people.

嘿,聪明人。

Joe, here.

乔,在这里。

This is a video about the strange way that some people experience reality.

这是一段关于一些人体验现实的奇怪方式的视频。

If I were to ask you what color is the letter A, what would you say?

如果我问您字母 A 是什么颜色,您会怎么说?

This is what some neuroscientists wondered in 2013.

这是2013年一些神经科学家所想到的。

They asked study subjects to assign a color to every letter of the alphabet.

Now, without talking to one another, participants overwhelmingly agreed that A's were red and so were S's, but U's were yellow and W's were definitely blue.

The scientists were shocked.

The odds that people would agree on this many same letter color combinations by chance was less than one in a billion.

So, what the heck happened here?

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