A recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition suggests that people with a unique perceptual trait called ...

Wherever I see the color '4,' it glows orange in my mind's eye. I still see it as black on a white page but I know, somewhere deep down, that it's really orange. It's the same way I know that 7 is ...

The letter "c" is light blue, "a" evokes a sense of "weathered wood," and "r" feels like "a sooty rag being ripped." So wrote the novelist Vladimir Nabokov -- and he wasn't simply being poetic. He was ...

Four percent of the population, when seeing number five, also sees the color red. Or they hear a C-sharp when seeing blue. Or the even associate orange with Tuesdays. And among artists, the number ...

Do normal people also experience synesthesia? A form of synesthesia exists in all our brains. For instance, we speak of certain smells of particular liquids--like nail polish--as being sweet, even ...

Tasting words, smelling shapes and other synesthetic experiences can have their advantages. The condition has long been linked to creativity—as the lists of famous artists, writers and musicians with ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Imagine what the world would be like if numbers had specific spatial locations, music had shapes, or colors made ...

René D. Quiñones Molina of Puerto Rico is a synesthete and blogger. To be a synesthete is to be a person in search of community. With no one to talk with for most of one's life about the experience in ...

For most people, colors are colors and words are words. There's no overlap. But for me, a "synesthete," colors and words are blended together. Monday is pink, September is yellow, the letter "J" is ...

(Flickr/Viewminder) Wherever I see the color '4,' it glows orange in my mind's eye. I still see it as black on a white page but I know, somewhere deep down, that it's really orange. It's the same way ...