Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In Vladimir Nabokov's novel, The Gift, the main character Fyodor is a gifted young poet who experiences synesthesia.Fyodor's synesthetic experience of language is compared to that of nineteenth-century French Symbolist poet, Arthur Rimbaud (as expressed in the latter's poem, Voyelles about the perception of colored vowel sounds).
Examples include: "My nostrils see her breath burn like a bush." (Dylan Thomas, When all my Five and Country Senses See) [2] "the silence that dwells in the forest is not so black" (Oscar Wilde, Salome) [2]
In a scene in the anime Zankyou no Terror, the main character Twelve tells Lisa that he has synesthesia and can "see colors in sounds", using the color of her voice as pale yellow, as an example. In Season 2, Episode 4 of The Listener, synesthesia is a brief topic of dissuasion in the start of the episode.
Chromesthesia or sound-to-color synesthesia is a type of synesthesia in which sound involuntarily evokes an experience of color, shape, and movement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Individuals with sound-color synesthesia are consciously aware of their synesthetic color associations/ perceptions in daily life. [ 3 ]
associative synesthesia: feeling a very strong and involuntary connection between the stimulus and the sense that it triggers; For example, in chromesthesia (sound to color), a projector may hear a trumpet, and see an orange triangle in space, while an associator might hear a trumpet, and think very strongly that it sounds "orange".
Benjy is most likely autistic with synesthesia, as his whole life experience based on smells, shapes, and sounds [8] 1976 Harry Hardacre The Hardacres (book series) C. L. Skelton Harry has Little's Disease [citation needed] 1904 Captain Hook: Peter and Wendy: J. M. Barrie: A pirate with a missing hand [9] 1996 Tyrion Lannister: A Song of Ice ...
There are many forms of lexical–gustatory synesthesia and the various taste sensations linked to the neurological condition vary widely from synesthete to synesthete. [7] Examples of many well-known synesthetic taste experiences are recorded in case studies with singular participants that demonstrate the variability of the condition.
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia is a 2009 non-fiction book written by Richard Cytowic and David Eagleman documenting the current scientific understanding of synesthesia, a perceptual condition where an experience of one sense (such as sight) causes an automatic and involuntary experience in another sense (such as hearing). [1]