“I knew an Exo who could taste velocity. Said his favorite flavor was one kilometer per second.”
DEFINITION/SUMMARY:
Synesthesia “Union of the Senses”
- A phenomenon in which senses are combined, means “union of senses”
- There is a great variety in the types of synesthesia, and within each type, individuals report differing triggers
- With over 80 forms of Synesthesia, the majority of synesthetes are completely unaware that their experiences are different and defined
- A condition in which one sense (for example, hearing) is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight
- Another form of synesthesia joins objects such as letters, shapes, numbers or people’s names with a sensory perception such as smell, color or flavor
- A common form of synesthesia is—grapheme-color synesthesia (colored letters and numbers).
- The empirical evidence indicated this was an incorrect explanation of a set of phenomena traditionally covered by Syn-aesthesis or “co-perceiving”, it implied the association of two sensory elements with little connection to the cognitive level
- Synesthesia presumes that both the trigger and the resulting experience are combined and are of sensory nature