{"id":203553,"date":"2023-01-06T10:19:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=203553"},"modified":"2023-10-31T06:47:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T06:47:03","slug":"synesthesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/synesthesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Synesthesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sensation in one area from a stimulus applied to another part.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A strange condition in which the senses become intermingled. People see numbers in color or experience words as tastes. Almost any two senses can be involved. The most common fusion is of the visual and the auditory senses; for example, people see colors and shapes while listening to music.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Scientists have recently become very interested in synesthesia. In the past, the condition was considered to be a fanciful notion, in the same way as J. W. von Goethe\u2019s Theory of Color (1810) was deemed to be a fanciful theory because it maintained that color, among other things, affected our morals. The Theosophical Society drew on many of Goethe\u2019s ideas. It was the metaphysical side of Goethe\u2019s ideas of color that the theosophists developed, stressing its clairvoyant and telepathic origins. A follower of the theosophists, artist Wassily Kandinsky, wrote a book called On the Spiritual in Art where he asserted that \u201ccolors had their own internal meaning\u201d that could be \u201cfelt only by the more highly developed and sensitive observers.\u201d Some \u201cparticularly sensitive observers,\u201d he wrote, \u201ccan stimulate the response of another sense organ, an experience known as synesthesia.\u201d By way of evidence, Kandinsky cited the case of a Dresden doctor who reported that one of his patients, another exception\u00ac ally sensitive person, could not eat a certain sauce without tasting blue. Scientists of the time thought this was all extremely dubious, but might have been less skeptical if the information had been reported in a less mystical way, and had come from a different quarter.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"group w-full text-token-text-primary border-b border-black\/10 gizmo:border-0 dark:border-gray-900\/50 gizmo:dark:border-0 bg-gray-50 gizmo:bg-transparent dark:bg-[#444654] gizmo:dark:bg-transparent sm:AIPRM__conversation__response\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-9\">\n<div class=\"p-4 gizmo:py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 md:py-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 gap-4 text-base mx-auto md:gap-6 gizmo:gap-3 gizmo:md:px-5 gizmo:lg:px-1 gizmo:xl:px-5 md:max-w-2xl lg:max-w-[38rem] gizmo:md:max-w-3xl gizmo:lg:max-w-[40rem] gizmo:xl:max-w-[48rem] xl:max-w-3xl }\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-[calc(100%-50px)] flex-col gizmo:w-full lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)] agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col gap-3 max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"a9ee4851-c434-4b77-a122-0bb64bfced35\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light AIPRM__conversation__response\">\n<p>A secondary feeling triggered by a primary perception, like experiencing colors or sounds when tasting something.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sensation in one area from a stimulus applied to another part. A strange condition in which the senses become intermingled. People see numbers in color or experience words as tastes. Almost any two senses can be involved. The most common fusion is of the visual and the auditory senses; for example, people see colors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Synesthesia - Definition of Synesthesia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A sensation in one area from a stimulus applied to another part.A strange condition in which the senses become intermingled. People see numbers in color or experience words as tastes. 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