[evincarofautumn]

I expected yet another “synesthesia—isn’t it interesting!” article, and was pleasantly surprised. As a synesthete (grapheme→colour and sound→colour), I find that the topic has been done to death, and non-synesthetic writers tend to romanticise it to the point of outright misrepresentation. Anyway, the brain’s peculiar propensity for conflating senses seems to have proved useful for once. Props to this guy for hacking his brain to get around a stroke of bad genetic luck.

[corin_]

I agree that the topic gets written about often, and usually pretty terribly - but because of that I was hoping it was another "synesthesia - isn't it interesting!" article, just a rare good one.

I don't have it myself, but did study music with someone who had it, and since then it's always fascinated me.