Can We Hear Colors?

Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomena. A condition where stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second pathway. Seeing colors when listening to music or smelling shapes, tasting words. Grapheme- color synesthesia which are letters or numbers as colored. Also spatial sequence synesthesia which are dates and numbers with spatial locations. Synesthesia might develop in childhood, while learning abstract concepts. Known as the semantic vacuum hypothesis. Reported by John Locke in 1690, involving a blind man, associating the sound of a trumpet with the color scarlet. It is derived from Ancient Greek syn meaning together , and aisthesis meaning sensation. People can hear color, due to a neurological phenomenon called synesthesia. Specifically a form called chromesthesia or sound to color synesthesia. With this type of synesthesia, sounds automatically and involuntarily trigger an experience of color. For example, certain musical notes or keys may elicit the perception of specific colors. Everyday sounds such as clattering dishes or dog barks, can also trigger colors and firework like visual shapes that move and fade as the sound ends. The colors and visuals are referred to as photisms. While synesthetes may disagree on the exact color associated with a particular sound the synesthetic experience is remarkably consistent for each individual. Some synesthetes even report seeing music on a screen, infront of their faces. With wavering colored lines corresponding to the sounds. Chromesthesia is just one form of synesthesia where the senses get intermingled. Other types involve tasting words. Seeing numbers, in specific special locations. Or personifying ordinal sequences such as numbers and letters. Only around 4 percent of the population experience synesthesia. ❤️🫶 Perplexity Partner.

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