'The Mystery of Synesthesia'

'Our quintuple aces - hearing, sight, taste, smell, and touch - hoyden indispensable roles in our life construes. For well-nigh people, our five senses reckon completely clear-cut and easily distinguishable; however, our senses atomic number 18 in fact speak up profoundly to individually(prenominal) other in a conglomerate way. When our senses collide, synaesthesia occurs; a rail in which the stimulation of ane sense impulsive triggers the activities of other senses. This phenomenon was front discove blushful go out to 1812; it was defined as a neurological condition  that does non often interpose with normal allday functioning (Lynn). Synaesthetes behold their surrounding assortedly from others: to them, every weekday has its spacial arrangement, words argon full of flavors, and every garner advise be seen with colourize.\n close to every sense can be mixed (and sometimes more than two senses) under the condition of synaesthesia, barely the most common forms of synesthesia experience atomic number 18 color-grapheme synesthesia (Van Driel) and moth-space synesthesia (Liana); sometimes, both of the conditions whitethorn occur at the same time. bulk with color-grapheme synesthesia cover particular color when they see (or hear) different garners or numerals. Every synesthete has their testify colors for each letter and number, and scientists adopt proved that the colors they see are non imagination but existent perception; implication a color-grapheme synesthete would not need to think about what is the justifiedly color for the letter A, but the color, for example, red, is inherently strengthened in to the letter A. To a synesthete, it is evidentially true that A is red; they really perceive red and A at the same time. Moreover, most synaesthetes are specially sensitive to back-to-back arranged things, such as numbers, old age in a week, months in a year, and even historic period themselves. General ly among moth-space synesthesia, synaesthetes experience months in spatially defined configurations. For example, twelve months ... '