Pink laugh and a liquorice sentence

Synaesthesia comes from syn [union] and aistheses [sensation], in which a stimulus received in one sensory modality gives rise to an experience in another. One of the most common forms of synaesthesia is a sound/sight connection, where the person [synaesthete] ‘sees’ sound, or ‘hears’ visuals. Another is inherently knowing what colour different numbers or letters correlate to. Or knowing the personality of your appliances. Or knowing what a triangle tastes like. Or where in relation to your body 1999 is.

I love this video: it looks equally likely to have come from Sesame Street, or from an acid soaked nightmare.



And of course:

Fun facts: True synaesthesia is involuntary, women are eight times more likely to have it than males, as are those who have difficulty telling their left from their right(?)