![]() ![]() The painter Wassily Kandinsky (that’s his painting above) is famous for his abstract paintings of music. Synesthesia seems to run in families, and it seems to be more common in individuals with neurological conditions such as autism, seizure disorders or brain trauma. But synesthesia may be unpleasant: a woman in my extended family once told me that she suffers physical pain every time she looks at another person’s face. ![]() Sometimes sensory or cognitive input can be interpreted as emotion or mood. Some synesthetes have connections and associations among all five senses – seven senses if we include vestibular (balance) and proprioceptive (spatial awareness and movement) senses. In grapheme-color synaesthesia, letters or numbers are seen as possessing colors and in lexical-gustatory synesthesia, words or parts of words cause taste sensations in the mouth.Ī person who experiences synesthesia is called a synesthete. For example, a stimulus such as music may be perceived as color, or vice versa. Synesthesia is a subjective, secondary, involuntary sensation that is different from an actual stimulus. Is this a form of synesthesia?” Yes, it is. ![]() A friend of mine recently wrote, “My daughter just explained to me that she is a picky eater because foods (and other things) taste like colors and sometimes she doesn’t want to eat that color.
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