{"id":11975,"date":"2015-06-02T10:49:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T05:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yaabot.com\/?p=11975"},"modified":"2024-02-13T10:29:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T04:59:20","slug":"synesthesia-biological-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/synesthesia-biological-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Synesthesia: Biological Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Ever wondered how life would be if you could see sound or smell colours? Or ‘feel’ music, or ‘touch’ light? Or ‘listen’ to food?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n This isn’t as preposterous as it sounds. In fact, this phenomenon is an actual occurrence. It’s called synesthesia.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Synesthesia is a condition where a false perception from other senses is connected to real information from another sense. Your body (or mind, really) confuses impulses coming from one sense to be coming from another. So you get to ‘feel’ light, and ‘taste’ music.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Synesthesia is reported to occur in a single individual in every 250 to 25,000 people, so it ranges from being a common condition to a rare one. It’s a highly subjective experience – an individual may experience different amalgamation of senses, which will vary. People with synesthesia experience a<\/span> consistent, elicited, involuntary sensory impression <\/span>in one sense or classification in response to a triggering input from a special, unrelated sense. What we do know about synesthesia so far, is that it is:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u200b-<\/span>Consisten<\/span><\/strong>t<\/strong> – the same trigger unfailingly results in the same sensory impression. Triggers most commonly are numbers or alphabets, musical sounds or pitches, they can also be time units such as years, months, weeks, tastes, tactile sensation, smells, pain, etc. <\/span>A specific trigger consistently<\/strong> produces a selected tactile impression, similar to a view of shading, composition, taste. Most synesthetes describe very specific colours, textures, pressure sensations, etc. for his or her associated impressions.<\/span> These stay steady for the duration of their lives. Every synesthete constant has a set of associated impressions from\u200beach different synesthete.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
–<\/strong><\/span>Elicite<\/span><\/strong>d<\/strong> – the trigger ought to be existing in an exceedingly sequence for the synesthete to bear their enchained sensations.
–<\/strong><\/span>Involuntary<\/strong> –<\/span> it happens involuntarily, without the person conceptualizing it or eagerly waiting for it to happen.\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nLife with Synesthesia<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n