This isn’t a fictional trait! Some authors, composers and musicians “see” music and translate the shapes, colors and images of that music into books or songs. Sage tastes words, sees voices and feels shapes on her skin. Some people, like the main character Sage O’Murphy in my novel Almost Sage, are synesthetic on multiple levels. Just about any sense combination is possible. Someone else with synesthesia might see colors associated with letters and numbers, or hear sounds when they taste food. For example, a synesthete may hear a sound and see a color, or smell a scent and feel something on their skin. Synaesthesia is a brain phenomenon-a neurological condition-that causes people to experience one sense when another is triggered. In How Colors Affect Your Mind, Mood and Mental Health I describe how “neurotypical” or nonsynesthetic people are affected by colour.
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