Synesthesia
Synesthesia is one of the greatest stumps of the scientific community, but what is it? Have you ever listened to music and saw color? Or recognize Monday as an angry man in his 30s wearing a green T-shirt? Some synesthetes, people who have synesthesia, often have these occurrences. Synesthesia is the condition in which there is the occurrence of two senses at the same time.
“Synesthesia is a condition in which one sense...is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses…” (Phillips 1) Synesthesia is unintentionally using two or more of the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, at the same time. This means that someone can feel something if they hear a certain sound, like someone with auditory-tactile synesthesia. Synesthesia is an interesting phenomenon in the sense of having two senses occur at the same time.
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Different people with synesthesia almost always disagree on their perceptions.“ (Phillips 1) There are many types of synesthesia and even synesthetes, who have the same type of synesthesia, have different views on the occurrences happening. One person with auditory-tactile synesthesia might feel a tingly sensation hearing a plop! and another might feel a worm-crawling sensation. Like how everyone has different DNA, every synesthete has a different way of sensing