JITOTM32: Synesthesia
Five is blue. Mountains are bitter. Get it? If you do, you're either a poet, or a person gifted with synesthesia. Synesthetics can sometimes 'feel' colour, or 'hear' visual stimuli. The phenomenon is both intriguing, and revealing when it comes to speculating on how the mind may work.
Taste the synthesis of the senses in this week's episode of JITOTM, Synesthesia.
posted by David Newland at 5:14 PM
2 Comments:
Hi David and Jay,
Before listening to episode 32, I always thought of synesthesia as a disability, but your comments on "crossed wiring" gave me a new perspective. I had never conceived that there might be an advantage to tasting words or seeing the colour of numbers. Thanks!
PS Bring back Song-of-the-Week.
12:56 PM
In this podcast, David Newman asked if there was a link between autistic savants and synesthesia. In specific cases, such as Tammet's, there is.
12:47 PM
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