synesthesia

Daniel Tammet is a savant, autistic(?), and evidences synesthesia, the condition is apparently the result of an epileptic seizure. There was a thread 3 years ago, but the first time I have seen the videos. It is a 5 part series: "The Boy With The Incredible Brain". He recites pi to 22,000...

I am starting a new thread on this that we can have a narrow focus about whether VFF has synesthesia and whether that in any way explains her claims. I will start with this quote from Ashles.

I'm currently writing a (brief) paper on synesthesia--the phenomenon of having one sensory input produce results characteristic of another sense, such as "seeing" colors with sounds or "tasting" colors--and wondered how many in this group have personal experience with same? The studies I'm...

I apologize in advance for this question, because the background I have on it is spotty. About a year or so ago, I recall hearing on the radio/reading on the Web/hearing from a friend about an article in a magazine/journal/website that suggested the human capacity for metaphor and indirect...