The Wikipedia article on Synesthesia was interesting in how it branched out on the types of synesthesia. Grapheme-color synesthesia (numbers and letters having individual colors) being the most prominent form of it. Chromesthesia is the association of aural components with colors.
More forms are presented but I will not talk about them. It is not considered a disability, because it is not consider to impair the livelihood of people who have it.
What struck me as interesting is how synesthesia is used in art and music, and how there is a presents of the blending of the senses.
The TED talks were interesting as well. Cymatics incorporates sound data and their shapes and can be used for scientific exploration.
Daniel Tammet's talk was interesting in how it shows the role of synesthesia in art, language, and
mathematics. He gives an illustration on how the word 'hare' gives a sad pictorial quality of vulnerability.
The short we watched in the first class Monday had a cymatic quality. The animated strings responded
to the music, and there was a sense of intensity to the red and green color pallette.
The idea of cross-sensory perception is interesting, because it is atypical but not "wrong,"
In other words, it isn't a distortion of reality, but a viable experience with reality that few people possess. Food for thought, indeed.
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