Synesthesia

Another video that Beyza pointed out to me. Apparently Synesthesia means:

syn·es·the·sia syn·aes·the·sia (sĭn’ĭs-thē’zhə)
n.
A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.
The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.

which is a really cool concept. I like to learn such words because otherwise concepts like synesthesia hardly become alive. They are usually things we triy to explain in sentences like “have you ever felt like…”,  “you know the thing that happens when…”. I feel like when there is a word for such a phenomenon it makes it ten times better. Enjoy the video by Terry Timely:

Synesthesia from Terri Timely on Vimeo.

2 Comments

  1. Greg says:

    One of my friends is a synesthete (or how ever you spell it) it’s pretty cool.

  2. defne says:

    what does that mean really? does he/she compete? =)

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