Fern Flower
Published on November 16, 2018

Synesthesia

Description

Synesthesia (or more precise the concept of Idealize) is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation in one sensory or cognitive system leads to automatic, involuntary response in other sensory system. It is not a mental disorder.

For example, "grapheme-color" synesthet sees or feels the image of the letters or numbers in color, and "musical color" perceive the music in a natural and spontaneously manifesting patches of color, stripes and/or waves.

The phenomenon of synesthesia can develop very individually and is able to have both single and multiple manifestations.

There are two conditional synesthesia:

  • "projected type", in which the synesthet really sees or feels color, odors and other additional quality on top of objects in the world perceived by the senses.
  • "associated type", in which synesthete subjectively there are additional quality in the form of involuntary knowledge or reactions on the level of persistent experiences that physically can not Express.

Meet and intermediate options.

A synesthete might not know about their perception and consider that the way perceive the world. There are those who believe that some mystical properties, for example, the perception of the human aura.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»