Synaesthesia

How one synaesthete sees "Saturday"

• Hearing Colours, Eating Sounds -- BBC
  
  
• The man who heard his paintbox hiss [Wassily Kandinsky] -- Ossian Ward, The Telegraph (10 June 2006)
  
  
• The Synesthesia Project -- Vision and Cognition Lab, Boston University

In the News . . .

• Why It Pays to Taste Words and Hear Colors -- Live Science (22 November 2011)

• People 'See' Common Letters in Brighter Colors -- Live Science (25 September 2007)
  
  
• Rare but Real: People Who Feel, Taste and Hear Color -- Live Science (22 February 2005)

• grapheme → color synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored
  
  
• ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities
  
  
• In sound → color synesthesia, individuals experience colors in response to tones or other aspects of sounds.
  
  
• In a rare form of synesthesia, lexical → gustatory synesthesia, individual words and phonemes of spoken
  
  language evoke the sensations of taste in the mouth.
  
  
• In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a (three-dimensional) view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise).
  
  
• It is estimated that synesthesia could possibly be as prevalent as 1 in 23 persons across its range of variants (Simner et al. 2006)