What is synesthesia?
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Even as someone living with synesthesia, this is somewhat difficult to explain. Two or more senses are linked so that when one sense perceives something, the other(s) do as well. For example, I have three linked senses. I taste things when I hear certain sounds, and when I read certain words. I have lexical-gustatory synesthesia, which basically means words have tastes. None of these tastes happen to be foods, and many of them are not fully tastes at all -- rather sensations on my tongue.
I find it easy to become over-stimulated, and often need to give myself a break from everyday sounds. Luckily, many of the sounds that trigger unpleasant sensations are not in common, everyday speech, and music seems to have no effect whatsoever. I do spend alot of my "down time" playing videogames, especially with bright colours and strange music -- it's a relief to stimulate other senses while my tongue gets a break.
You can see colors when you hear musical notes that correspond to each one.
It's when your senses are all kind of mixed together. Like every time you hear the word computer you see it as the color blue or every time you think of tuesday it smells like peaches.
synesthesia (noun)
Physiology & Psychology
the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. • the poetic description of a sense impression in terms of another sense, as in “a loud perfume” or “an icy voice.”
This is when you hear a noise and it produces the sensation of a specific color.
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It's a weird phenomena when different senses get jumbled together. For example, its common for a person with this condition to see (or identify) certain words with a specific color. An individual's responses to this are consistent.
syn·es·the·sia also syn·aes·the·sia (sns-thzh) KEY
It is a condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another (for example: hearing a sound produces the visualization of a color).
It can also be a sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.
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