According to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Synaethesia is a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color.
In simpler words : It is a figurative uses of words that produces an output that have many senses included in one thing that was described.
How a person with Synaesthesia experienced a thing?
To make you understand more on this topic, lets take a look on the examples below :
- " I don't know what colour green looks like, but I know what green tastes like. " -Torio Camerino-
- For a normal person, they see the picture as in left, but for those who have Synaesthesia, they see the picture as in on the right.
How many types of Synaesthesia ?
There are estimated up to 35 types of synaesthesia exists in this world. Most common are :
- taste hearing (hearing a sound produces a taste
- sound touch (feeling an object produces a sound)
- color graphemic (letter and number n occasionally shape produces color and simple pattern
- colour auditory (auditory input produces colours, textures and shapes)
Does synaesthesia is a disease ?
Synaesthesia is actually not a sort of disease or mental disorder. In facts, some researchers have prove that synesthetes can be very good on certain tests of memory and intelligence.Fun facts on synaesthesia..
- 1% of person in this world have synaesthesia
- To people with number color synaesthesia, roman numerals have no color.
- Synaesthesia commonly viewed as ability despite of disability
How a person could know whether they are synaesthesia or not?
There are tests created to know a person having it or not.Here is link where you can try to tests whether you are categorized as synaesthesia or not :
http://www.synesthesiatest.org/test-yourself
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