Do you associate certain numbers with colours? Or emotions with tastes?
If you do, you may have synaesthesia. And probably just experienced a moment of ‘YES, that’s what it is. I’m not alone!’
But for people who don’t have synaesthetic tendencies, it’s a bit tricky to understand. What do you mean by the number seven being purple? How can sadness taste like sausages?
To give everyone a better understanding of the kind of sensory links those with synaesthesia experience, Great Big Story have asked a bunch of people to share how synaesthesia feels for them.
‘Somewhere in my brain the senses get mixed… Read the full story