Learn English meaning of synesthesia

Date: Apr 26 2017

Intro

Synesthesia is an amazing human condition. People who have synesthesia perceive the world differently. Some of their senses are mixed. For example, a person with synesthesia might smell numbers. Or they might have an auditory experience. They might see colors when they listen to music.

Synesthesia is a popular topic in neuroscience classes. People with synesthesia are tapping into their brains in interesting ways, and many science students want to know more about this.

Vocab

neuroscience n.

Definition

Example My brother studies neuroscience because he wants to know how humans think.

auditory adj.

Definition

Example The auditory experience of listening to music relaxes many people.

perceive v.

Definition

Example It's interesting how you can still perceive bright light through your eyelids even when they are closed.

sense n.

Definition

Example My mom’s sense of smell is very strong.

tap into v.

Definition

Example If we could tap into some public money, our project would be all set.

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Do you know someone with synesthesia? What type of synesthesia is most interesting to you?

Comments

hermitlady

China

No. I don’t know the person who has synesthesia. There is no person with synesthesia round me. All about synesthesia I know is from the novel or heard about.

But the synesthesia I comprehended is about Mysticism which is about life and death and ghost and prophecy and so on. Of course, that is I am most interesting in. even those, I didn’t see or feel yet, only I heard from others or read from the book, the novel.

I like the story about ghost , about the one’s previous existence, about one’s future. I am really curious the person who can write such story. How does she or he think of? I would think the authors who can write the story about ghost and the one’[s previous existence have the synesthsia.