Synesthesia Types

Synesthesia is neither an illness nor abnormal and simply represent in all likelihood just one end of a spectrum where sensory inputs can trigger stronger and more widespread brain activity than in non-synesthetes. Neuroscientists estimate that nearly 130 types of synesthesia exist (e.g., unusual multisensory perceptions or cross-talk between various sensory decoding areas in the brain). For example:      

·        Tasting words or sounds when they hear them

·        Seeing sounds when seeing colors

·        Hearing visual motion

·        Time-space perception of months of the year in circular shapes

·        Experience sensations of touch or emotions when they see others being touched

·        Perceiving numbers, letters, or days of the week as having specific colors

·        Low sounds elicit visual images of dark colors

·        High sounds lead one to images of light, bright colors)

·        The meanings of words can produce the same flavors as their sound or written shape 

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