This book discusses the experiences of people with synesthesia. It was mentioned as one of the books written by Dr. Guy Leschinzer.
So one of the individuals in that book is an individual who is not a patient, who doesn't have anything wrong with him. He's got a condition called synesthesia, which is the melding, the combining of...
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This book discusses the experiences of people with synesthesia. It was mentioned as one of the books written by Dr. Guy Leschinzer.
So one of the individuals in that book is an individual who is not a patient, who doesn't have anything wrong with him. He's got a condition called synesthesia, which is the melding, the combining of certain senses.
So he gives a really good example of his, you know, in childhood, his friend had a girlfriend whose particular name in him gave him a awful taste.
And he every time he his friend mentioned this girl's name, his mouth was filled with a terrible taste. So he will read words, he will hear words and all of those words will be associated with a particular taste that has lasted his entire life.
And it's been very fixed. So as a kid, when he started reading, he learned how to read by looking at the tube map on the way to school.
And each of those tube stations has got a particular taste associated with it. And that taste has remained fixed throughout his life. Now, this sounds really very strange, but actually we know that some degree of synesthesia, some degree of melding of our senses is actually quite common, that up to about 4% of individuals exhibit some form of synesthesia.