does any know about Synaesthesia, and/or have ever...experienced it?

Question

A synaethete, when hearing music, will see colors, or when they see colors they will hear music.

Answer 1

I think Kandinsky and other artists were known to have it...however synaesthesia isn't *just* experiencing sounds as colors or the reverse. Consider this example:

I" also have a tendency to see colours/personalities/faces etc in objects like toothbrushes, cutlery, appliances, furniture, the various positions my cat lies in.....anything really. One synaesthete emailed me saying (among other things) she saw things like shampoo and conditioner, etc as having personalities. For me it's like everything has a presence and personality. For example if I'm in a room with, say, a nosy bookshelf, a chatty vase or a critical ironing board and I'm trying to work, I may have to leave.

~ Many concepts such as time, direction, emotion, etc have shapes/colours.

~ I notice new things as the stimuli come to me. Also, since reading responses from other synaesthetes I've realised things which I'd never even previously thought about. I guess synaesthesia is just such a part of daily life that I'm not always consciously aware of it. It's kind of like having a pulse: it's always there but you don't always think about it."

When I read that, it came closest to describing my own experience. Except I never called it synaesthesia before.

Answer 2

No, sorry, what is it?