17 example sentences using synesthesia.
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From what I can tell, there's no pattern in any synesthesia.
People without synesthesia take much longer to locate the 2s in the field of 5s.
So if present, shouldn't an effect of induced synesthesia be well known by now?
This is exactly how synesthesia happens for me.
I can see exactly what we would think with the color-syntax association, but it's not quite the same as my synesthesia.
Some people have color synesthesia: they experience various patterns as colors.
So like "fourteen thousand" does not trigger the synesthesia I get for those individual digits, nor does "Amnesia" trigger my "strong" synesthesia for A, M and N. I hope this makes sense.
That's how confusing the internal "association" is, and why I am inclined to believe that "one does not simply learn synesthesia"...
You could argue everyone who is literate has synesthesia - I can not look at symbols representing the alphabet and not hear the associated phonemes in my head.
The language felt "pointy and argumentative" in the area of my mind that has developed this weird "code sense synesthesia" that has developed over years of looking at so much different stuff.
Not the association of colors and sounds, but visual-mathematical synesthesia.
Feynman had a neurological condition called synesthesia [1], which is when senses get mixed together in the same neurological pathway and you can "taste" a sound or "hear" a color.
As someone who has synesthesia, a background in engineering, and currently studies music technology, I'm pretty confident saying this has nothing to do with the former.
It's so hard to describe the synesthesia between words-colors, to such a degree that I'm inclined to say that any learning would be simple association, and not the synesthesia that I experience myself.
For example, in number-color synesthesia, the person experiences numbers as having colors regardless of their literal visual color.
It's possible to give the synesthesia "orientation" or "position", but most of the time it occurs to me wherever its synesthetic counterpart occurs, usually with the same "position" in my internal operating "cyberspace".
I don't have any references handy, but I've read a few accounts of musical and math prodigies who have a form of synesthesia that allows them to "see" notes and numbers, respectively, which allows one to reason about abstract concepts as easily as you or I could spot the difference between a circle and a square.
Synesthesia definitions
a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
See also: synaesthesia