FARGO - One of Kat Smith’s favorite songs makes her see popcorn butter yellow. Now 32, she still thinks about a middle school classmate. It’s not that she knew him well, but his voice evoked a shade ...

(WJW) — Hearing music and seeing color are typically two separate sensations. But for actress Cynthia Erivo, it all comes at once. The “Wicked” and “Wicked: For Good” star recently joined a roundtable ...

Synesthesia, the neurological condition in which one sense involuntarily triggers another, produces measurable changes in the body’s autonomic nervous system, not just unusual perceptual experiences.

Vladimir Nabokov first noticed, at age 7, his special gift of synesthesia when playing with colorful alphabet blocks that "were all the wrong color." Source: Contributor: Neil Overy/Alamy Stock Photo.

Q: Is there really a condition where someone can hear a sound and it makes them see a color? A: Yes, and that condition is called synesthesia. It will be the topic of today’s column. We have five ...

Some people hear colors. Some taste sounds. A few, like me, can taste everything around us. The condition of synesthesia—experiencing one or multiple senses through another sense—offers a world ...

For most people, sound is heard, colour is seen, and taste is felt – each sense neatly occupying its own space. But for a small section of the population, the boundaries blur. Music may appear as ...

For most people, colors are colors and words are words. There's no overlap. But for me, a "synesthete," colors and words are blended together. Monday is pink, September is yellow, the letter "J" is ...

Sometimes, when the sex is really good, the colors come. As Holly approaches orgasm, a pastel filter descends over her vision, lasting through her climax and into the afterglow. She tends to see just ...