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Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.50,0:00:15.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine a world
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.75,0:00:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which you see numbers and letters as colored
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.89,0:00:19.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though they're printed in black,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.75,0:00:21.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which music or voices trigger a swirl
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.83,0:00:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of moving, colored shapes,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.92,0:00:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which words and names fill your mouth
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.86,0:00:27.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with unusual flavors.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.59,0:00:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jail tastes like cold, hard bacon
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.44,0:00:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while Derek tastes like earwax.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.09,0:00:35.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome to synesthesia,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.81,0:00:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the neurological phenomenon
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.07,0:00:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that couples two or more senses in 4% of the population.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.03,0:00:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A synesthete might not only hear my voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.50,0:00:44.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also see it,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.41,0:00:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taste it,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.92,0:00:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or feel it as a physical touch.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.77,0:00:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sharing the same root with anesthesia,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.06,0:00:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meaning no sensation,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.40,0:00:55.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,synesthesia means joined sensation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.15,0:00:57.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having one type, such as colored hearing,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.45,0:00:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gives you a 50% chance of having a second,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.70,0:01:00.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,third,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.12,0:01:01.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or fourth type.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.70,0:01:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One in 90 among us experience graphemes,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.76,0:01:08.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the written elements of language,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.31,0:01:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like letters,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.98,0:01:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,numerals,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.43,0:01:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and punctuation marks,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.80,0:01:12.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as saturated with color.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.85,0:01:15.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some even have gender or personality.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.31,0:01:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Gail, 3 is athletic and sporty,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.50,0:01:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,9 is a vain, elitist girl.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.32,0:01:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By contrast, the sound units of language,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.69,0:01:25.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or phonemes,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.95,0:01:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trigger synestetic tastes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.86,0:01:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For James, college tastes like sausage,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.37,0:01:32.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as does message and similar words
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.41,0:01:34.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the -age ending.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.70,0:01:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Synesthesia is a trait, like having blue eyes,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.54,0:01:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than a disorder
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.12,0:01:41.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there's nothing wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.75,0:01:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, all the extra hooks
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.10,0:01:45.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,endow synesthetes with superior memories.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.100,0:01:49.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, a girl runs into someone she met long ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.31,0:01:51.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Let's see, she had a green name.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.35,0:01:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,D's are green:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.31,0:01:52.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debra,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.85,0:01:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Darby,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.23,0:01:53.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dorothy,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.65,0:01:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Denise.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.15,0:01:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes! Her name is Denise!"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.92,0:01:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once established in childhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.36,0:02:00.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pairings remain fixed for life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.74,0:02:03.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Synesthetes inherit a biological propensity
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.25,0:02:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for hyperconnecting brain neurons,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.28,0:02:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then must be exposed to cultural artifacts,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.02,0:02:08.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as calendars,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.87,0:02:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food names,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.54,0:02:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and alphabets.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.24,0:02:13.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The amazing thing is that a single nucleotide change
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.83,0:02:17.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the sequence of one's DNA alters perception.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.38,0:02:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this way, synesthesia provides a path
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.79,0:02:22.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to understanding subjective differences,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.05,0:02:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how two people can see the same thing differently.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.38,0:02:27.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take Sean, who prefers blue tasting food,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.97,0:02:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as milk, oranges, and spinach.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.30,0:02:32.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gene heightens normally occurring connections
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.69,0:02:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between the taste area in his frontal lobe
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.94,0:02:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the color area further back.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.48,0:02:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But suppose in someone else
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.27,0:02:41.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the gene acted in non-sensory areas.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.68,0:02:43.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You would then have the ability to link
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.58,0:02:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seemingly unrelated things,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.77,0:02:47.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the definition of metaphor,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.95,0:02:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeing the similar in the dissimilar.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.79,0:02:52.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not surprisingly, synesthesia is more common
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.100,0:02:55.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in artists who excel at making metaphors,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.37,0:02:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like novelist Vladimir Nabokov,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.54,0:02:59.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,painter David Hockney,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.29,0:03:00.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and composers Billy Joel
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.69,0:03:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Lady Gaga.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.14,0:03:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But why do the rest of us non-synesthetes
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.00,0:03:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,understand metaphors like "sharp cheese"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.58,0:03:10.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or "sweet person"?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.63,0:03:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It so happens that sight,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.01,0:03:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sound,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.34,0:03:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and movement
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.89,0:03:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,already map to one another so closely,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.30,0:03:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that even bad ventriloquists convince us
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.73,0:03:19.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the dummy is talking.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.65,0:03:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Movies, likewise, can convince us
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.48,0:03:23.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the sound is coming from the actors' mouths
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.53,0:03:25.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than surrounding speakers.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.69,0:03:28.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, inwardly, we're all synesthetes,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.45,0:03:30.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outwardly unaware of the perceptual couplings
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.45,0:03:32.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happening all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.53,0:03:34.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cross-talk in the brain is the rule,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.75,0:03:36.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not the exception.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.64,0:03:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that sounds like a sweet deal to me!