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• Into her darkness, a churning synaesthesia, where her pain was the taste of old iron, scent of melon, wings of a moth brushing her cheek.
• For example, I myself have a type of synaesthesia: The sounds of musical instruments will sometimes make me see colors, about a yard in front of me, each color specific and consistent with the particular instrument playing.
• Synaesthesia can occur particularly powerfully during mescalin and LSD intoxication, and is often given mystical significance.
• On a phonemic level, phenomena of synesthesia have often been described and studied. Practically all children and a good many adults—though for the most part adults will deny it—spon- taneously associate sounds, whether phonemes or the timbre of musical instruments, with colors and forms.
• For one of the enigmatic features of synaesthesia is that, within a given cultural group, the kinds of associations made by specific subjects occur according to statistically verifiable recurring patterns. As Jakobson explains, ‘When we ask whether /i/ or /u/ is darker, testing such phonic oppositions as grave vs. acute, some of the subjects may respond that this question makes no sense to them, but hardly one will respond that /i/ is the darker of the two’ (1981:44).
• Linking moods with colours is one example of synaesthesia.
• [...]it may be stated that the concept of synaesthesia is instrumental for understanding music videos, since videos are based on the soundtrack′s visual associations.28