Tag: synaesthesia

  • Tasting colours and seeing sound: Synaesthesia

    Tasting colours and seeing sound: Synaesthesia

    “One hears a sound but recollects a hue, invisible the hands that touch your heartstrings,” wrote Vladimir Nabokov, 20th century novelist. He experienced a curious condition called synaesthesia, which comes from the Greek words syn (together) and aisthesis (perception) and literally means ‘joined perception’. The condition basically causes a fusion of sensory perceptions in which…