What if instead of remembering your best friend's phone number, you recalled it as a yellowish-orange color? -
said Wheeler.- there's actually a name for it.
Grapheme-color Synesthesia, the type of Synesthesia that Wheeler experiences, is the most common type, said Hagen.- I know the end of the phone number because I know it is pink and blue
she added.
While the majority of people with Synesthesia see each letter and number in a different color, there are about 35 variations of Synesthesia. -
I would say nine
she said.-
Hagen said.
He agrees that there is a genetic component, but he also proposes that the elicitation of extrasensory information could be a result of projecting consciousness on inanimate objects as children.
When children are first learning the alphabet, they tend to give each letter a personality and it might be at this stage that a cross between the senses occurs, Hagen said.
People first notice that they have Synesthesia at the age of five or six, Hagen said.-
he said.-
then they don't know that that's weird.
In fact, it wasn't until LeCron met Wheeler two years ago that she even knew she had Synesthesia.
I always thought it was just a weird quirk that I had
but I didn't know it actually had a name
LeCron said.
The second section of Hagen's research is the study of Synesthesia in everyone, he said.-
