Colourful characters: fame, genius, memory and synaesthesia.
Is the letter E always blue, or yellow in your mind’s eye? Is the numeral 5 purple-coloured with the personality of a slightly sleazy man in his 40s, facing toward your right side? Do some pieces of music or singing voices often create a sensation of colour, images or fragrance? Is your mental conceptualisation of the months of the year always arranged in an oval shape, angled away from you? Does your mind have vivid annotated calendars going back to your childhood, arranged in space? Can you identify musical notes by their colours or flavours? Congratulations! You have something fascinating in common with some of the most brilliant and original minds to have ever graced this planet! Sounds like you are a synaesthete, one of us. Tests of various types of synaesthesia can be found here. The Synesthesia Battery Synesthesia is often framed in popular television shows and pop science writing as a disabling, confusing, mixed-up abnormality in brain functioning. Certainly, ...