It’s prime time to discuss an old favorite of mine (and of many color fans): synesthesia, that curious trick of certain brains, mine included, that makes one “see” colors in letters and numbers in dry ...

If I told you the letter “G” is red, you might be confused. But if you had what’s called grapheme-color synesthesia (GC), there’s a good chance you’d argue I’m wrong. That’s because many people who ...

Sympathy ' is a special perceptual phenomenon in which a stimulus causes not only the original sensation but also the sensation in another area, such as 'colors appear in letters and sounds.' With ...

TikTokers with synesthesia have stirred up a trend linking colors to names. And now, even people who don't have the condition can get in on the action. According to Psychology Today, synesthesia is a ...

Ever since I can remember, numbers have appeared to me in specific colors. The number 2 is baby pink, 3 is sunshine yellow, 4 is royal blue-the list goes on. It’s not just that they look a certain way ...

If you happen to find yourself seeing music, smelling color, or unusually combining two other senses, you may have synesthesia, a possibly genetic condition that affects about 4 percent of the ...

Conventional wisdom says that synesthesia is innate -- you're either born with the condition or you're not, end of story. If you happen not to have been born that way but would really, really love to ...

To people whose sensory perceptions stay quietly inside their own sandboxes instead of coming out to play with each other, it will come as no surprise that synesthetes--people who experience letters ...

It’s time to stop scoffing at the synesthetes: linking music to colors is totally normal. It’s not really about the notes, though. Researchers say the colors we find in music are actually the colors ...

I have a form of time–space synesthesia, so the new year arrives for me in a very physical way. I feel myself move around the ...