I am beginning to research and I have found a lot of background information that I can use for my presentation, as well as some more specific information and studies that are just interesting to read. There has been a lot of research into getting non-synesthetes to develop synesthetic connections through different processes, for example hypnotism, and what that can tell us about how synesthesia develops. I did not mention in my last blog post that one of the reasons that I am interested in synesthesia is because I have number-color and number-letter synesthesia. (123456789, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz). The numbers and letters don’t actually appear to me to be a certain color. Someone described how synesthesia is for me very well by saying that if you hear or see the word “banana,” you think of the color yellow in the back of your mind. It is like that for me but for all the letters and numbers, and there is no particular reason for the letters/numbers being the color they are for me. Other people sometimes have different experiences with synesthesia. Some synesthetes actually see a letter/number/word/note as a color. There is some great art in which people have painted what they see when they hear music or experience other stimuli. These are a few of the interesting things I have learned about in my research. Moving forward, I will begin to develop a quiz to find out the synesthesia rates at Emma Willard.