The letter "c" is light blue, "a" evokes a sense of "weathered wood," and "r" feels like "a sooty rag being ripped." So wrote the novelist Vladimir Nabokov -- and he wasn't simply being poetic. He was ...

Discover the fascinating world of synesthesia, where senses intertwine, allowing unique perceptions like tasting words and ...

Wherever I see the color '4,' it glows orange in my mind's eye. I still see it as black on a white page but I know, somewhere deep down, that it's really orange. It's the same way I know that 7 is ...

Four percent of the population, when seeing number five, also sees the color red. Or they hear a C-sharp when seeing blue. Or the even associate orange with Tuesdays. And among artists, the number ...

Tasting words, smelling shapes and other synesthetic experiences can have their advantages. The condition has long been linked to creativity—as the lists of famous artists, writers and musicians with ...

Do normal people also experience synesthesia? A form of synesthesia exists in all our brains. For instance, we speak of certain smells of particular liquids--like nail polish--as being sweet, even ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Imagine what the world would be like if numbers had specific spatial locations, music had shapes, or colors made ...

René D. Quiñones Molina of Puerto Rico is a synesthete and blogger. To be a synesthete is to be a person in search of community. With no one to talk with for most of one's life about the experience in ...

A is candy-apple red, the first color of the rainbow and my name, everything’s blood-beginning. Are you sure you didn’t just memorize the colors from those alphabet charts in kindergarten? a skeptical ...

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James Charles’ singing voice tastes like $5 vodka in a plastic bottle. This is not a metaphor—this is literally what TikTok user @tessfstevens tastes when she listens to the internet personality belt ...

(Flickr/Viewminder) Wherever I see the color '4,' it glows orange in my mind's eye. I still see it as black on a white page but I know, somewhere deep down, that it's really orange. It's the same way ...