The Synesthetic Brain Works Differently

Seeing colors when listening to music. Tasting an ice cream and feeling a caress on your cheek. Touching a flower and experiencing a sweet taste in your mouth. These are all examples of synesthesia. This is a neurological disorder that thousands of people experience all over the world. However, what’s the synesthetic brain really like? Furthermore, how can this ability be explained? We know that figures like Vincent Van Gogh, Vladimir Nabokov, Wassily Kandinsky, and Nikola Tesla could experience two senses at once. For a long time, experts thought that synesthesia was a characteristic of minds with a tendency to…