{"id":18219,"date":"2021-02-18T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunstrategic.com\/blog\/?p=18219"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T10:01:24","slug":"what-is-synesthesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunstrategic.com\/blog\/what-is-synesthesia\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Synesthesia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Synesthesia is a neurological disorder in which data that is supposed to activate one of your senses activates many of your senses. People who have synesthesia are called synesthetes. The term &#8220;synesthesia&#8221; derives from the Greek words &#8220;synth&#8221; (which means &#8220;together&#8221;) and &#8220;esthesia&#8221; (which means &#8220;perspective&#8221;). Synesthetes will be able to see music as colors when they hear it, and &#8220;taste&#8221; textures like round or pointy when they eat food. Researchers are also uncertain how widespread synesthesia is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are at least 80 recognized synesthesia forms, but some are more common than others:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Mirror-touch synesthesia<br>Though rare, mirror-touch synesthesia is notable because it can interrupt the life of a synesthete. In this type of synesthesia, an individual experiences the same sensation as another person in response to a stimulus. Seeing a person getting tapped on the shoulder, for example, will make the synesthete feel a tap on the shoulder too.<\/li><li>Chromesthesia<br>In this common type of synesthesia, sounds and colors are related to each other. For some synesthetes, the musical note &#8220;D&#8221; can correspond to seeing the color green.<\/li><li>Lexical-gustatory synesthesia<br>This is an uncommon form of synesthesia in which hearing a word results in taste. For example, the name of an individual could taste like chocolate.<\/li><li>Grapheme-color synesthesia<br>This is a common type of synesthesia characterized by the presence of graphemes (letters or numerals) shaded with color. Synesthetes do not equate the same colors with each other for a grapheme, although the letter &#8220;A&#8221; tends to be red to certain individuals. People who experience grapheme-color synesthesia often report seeing impossible colors when red, green, blue, or yellow graphemes appear next to each other in a word or number.<\/li><li>Number form<br>A number type is a mental shape or a number map that is the product of seeing or thinking about numbers.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synesthesia is a neurological disorder in which data that is supposed to activate one of your senses activates many of your senses. People who have synesthesia are called synesthetes. The term &#8220;synesthesia&#8221; derives from the Greek words &#8220;synth&#8221; (which means &#8220;together&#8221;) and &#8220;esthesia&#8221; (which means &#8220;perspective&#8221;). 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