Do you "suffer" from synesthesia?
How does this look to you? After my comment on Colour Taste and Cover Versions , (7th Sep)about the taste of paint box colours, a friend of mine wondered if I was a synasthetic. This has nothing to do with appreciating the beauty of certain sins (lovely as some of them are) but is the stimulation of one sense by another. Having established that I am a synesthete, the question then followed how badly synesthetic was I? Not as badly as my mum and aunt, it would seem. They're identical twins (supposedly) and they see different colours for each letter of the alphabet. Some letters have the same colour but others are completely different. I can't do this. But I would like to be able to. And I don't think of myself as suffering from my senses prodding each other into noticing things. People suffer from abnormalities, ergo synesthesia must be something we suffer from. But we don't consider artists or musicians from suffering from genius. We envy them even ...