Arousal arrives in red, and an orgasm comes accompanied by bursts of oranges. For people with sexual synesthesia, this is not the hackneyed firework metaphor, but a description of the rich sensory ...

There is this issue that some musicians have called perfect pitch. It’s different from relative pitch. I have that simply from a lifetime of experience. It means that I can roughly guess the note ...

Imagine sitting at a piano and watching colors bloom in the air with every note you strike. Or reading a book and seeing each letter glow in its own distinct hue — the letter A a vivid crimson, B a ...

For most people, colors are colors and words are words. There's no overlap. But for me, a "synesthete," colors and words are blended together. Monday is pink, September is yellow, the letter "J" is ...

Vladimir Nabokov first noticed, at age 7, his special gift of synesthesia when playing with colorful alphabet blocks that "were all the wrong color." Source: Contributor: Neil Overy/Alamy Stock Photo.

It’s hard to pinpoint when synesthesia, the rare neurological condition where a stimulus that affects one sense prompts a response in a different sense, was first documented. Scientific literature ...

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 year, almost like I'm traveling along a structure. December sits low and ...