Two Sensory Syanesthesia

This is the crossing of 2 sensory modalities. Sometimes they are unidirectional for eg. a certain word produces a sensation of a colour or they can be bi-directional where not only is the latter true but a colour can produce the sensation of a sound.

Here are the examples that have been recorded:

Coloured-Hearing or Chromaesthesia

This is when a sound evokes the perception of a colour. It has been recorded that an opera is like experiencing a painting. Sometimes each musical instrument has it's own colour. In bi-directional hearing, the changing of a traffic light (or robot as it is referred to in other countries) evokes a bell-like sound.

Coloured-Olfaction

This is when a smell evokes the perception of a colour. The smell of garlic may be perceived as blaze orange.

Coloured-Gustation

This is when taste evokes the perception of a colour. Something salty may be experienced as red, something sweet as bluish/purple.

Tactile-Gustation

This is when the taste of something is experienced as a shape. Grapefruit may be a twisted triangular shape (as represented below), other citrus fruit may have similar triangular qualities - an orange may be an equilateral triangle.


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