Synesthesia
def. A condition in which normally separate senses are not separate. Sight may mingle with sound, taste with touch, etc. The senses are cross-wired. For example, when a digit-color synesthete sees or just thinks of a number, the number appears with a color film over it.
Honestly, I used to think I was nuts. I would see things that were not really there, I would hear strange bells and music when looking at pictures, whenever I saw the number 5, it was a bright lime green color and when anyone said the word "citrus" I felt as though someone just stabbed me in the stomach. I really just have a sensory condition called synesthesia.
It is actually really weird, because this is how I have seen things all of my life, and it is impossible for me to imagine what things look like from other people's eyes.
Although synesthesia used to scare me, now I actually really treasure it. I feel like I have a greater appreciation for the world, being able to experience things through more than one sense. Although synesthesia is a rare condition, there have been many people in history with synesthesia such as Stevie Wonder, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Patrick Stump, just to name a few.
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