Synesthesia is peculiar yet almost envious condition in which the person either sees sounds, taste shapes, or feels colors. A synesthete may have one or more form of the condition! Their senses mix with what they are seeing, touching, or hearing. For example: they'll see the number 5 but will correlate it with the color green; the image flashes through their minds. Little is known about what causes their conditions but scientist now assure that those bizarre sensation are real; they are not make up by the person. To the synesthetes this condition is like an additional sense, a way of living; is as normal as knowing that a circle is round. Yet not all synesthetes are alike. For example one synesthete will see the number 6 and in their minds see orange yet another synesthete will see it purple. Another could feel a shape (external) when another will see it "inside" their head (internal). Synesthetes aren't more vulnerable to mental problems then the non-synesthetes and there's also no evidence that they'll incline to the arts. Yet the artist that do have it are more open and can explain it better then those who aren't because they don't see is a something to be shamed of.
Scientist have noticed that the condition tends to run in the family, therefore they hypothesis that the "cure" could be found in genes. An interesting discovery is that women are more propelled to have this condition then men! For synesthetes the perceptions happen out of "nowhere" and are consistent. Meaning, an octagon will almost always be felt "cold" by the same person. Sean Day has studied 175 cases and has found 19 types so far. The most rarest – feeling shapes and texture pressing the skin while viewing an object. Most common-seeing colors when looking at letter or numbers. Synesthetes should not be confused with being colored blind. When they see
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