Ever since I can remember, numbers have appeared to me in specific colors. The number 2 is baby pink, 3 is sunshine yellow, 4 is royal blue-the list goes on. It’s not just that they look a certain way ...

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Green Mondays, pointy chickens and chocolate-flavored metronomes may sound like children’s-book fantasies, but they’re a mundane reality for some people. To them, words can have tastes, tastes can ...

While most of us see sights and hear sounds, some people also hear colors and taste words, a mysterious phenomenon called synesthesia, which occurs when stimulating one of the five senses triggers ...

Carol Steen was only seven when she discovered she was different, upon telling a classmate the letter A was the prettiest pink she'd ever seen. "She looked at me like I was crazy," she recalls. Steen ...

Some people hear colors. Some taste sounds. A few, like me, can taste everything around us. The condition of synesthesia—experiencing one or multiple senses through another sense—offers a world ...

TikTokers with synesthesia have stirred up a trend linking colors to names. And now, even people who don't have the condition can get in on the action. According to Psychology Today, synesthesia is a ...

FARGO - One of Kat Smith’s favorite songs makes her see popcorn butter yellow. Now 32, she still thinks about a middle school classmate. It’s not that she knew him well, but his voice evoked a shade ...

Carol Steen was only seven when she discovered she was different, upon telling a classmate the letter A was the prettiest pink she'd ever seen. "She looked at me like I was crazy," she recalls. Steen ...

For as long as she can remember, Bernadette Sheridan doesn't just hear words, she sees them. Growing up, she thought everyone visualized each number and letter as a different color of the rainbow. It ...

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