The uncommon sensory perceptions of synesthesia explored through
accounts of synesthetes' experiences, the latest scientific
research, and suggestions of synesthesia in visual art, music, and
literature. What is does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste
voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color?
These uncommon sensory experiences are examples of synesthesia,
when two or more senses cooperate in perception. Once dismissed as
imagination or delusion, metaphor or drug-induced hallucination,
the experience of synesthesia has now been documented by scans of
synesthetes' brains that show "crosstalk" between areas of the
brain that do not normally communicate. In The Hidden Sense,
Cretien van Campen explores synesthesia from both artistic and
scientific perspectives, looking at accounts of individual
experiences, examples of synesthesia in visual art, music, and
literature, and recent neurological research. Van Campen reports
that some studies define synesthesia as a brain impairment, a short
circuit between two different areas. But synesthetes cannot imagine
perceiving in any other way; many claim that synesthesia helps them
in daily life. Van Campen investigates just what the function of
synesthesia might be and what it might tell us about our own
sensory perceptions. He examines the experiences of individual
synesthetes-from Patrick, who sees music as images and finds the
most beautiful ones spring from the music of Prince, to the
schoolgirl Sylvia, who is surprised to learn that not everyone sees
the alphabet in colors as she does. And he finds suggestions of
synesthesia in the work of Scriabin, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Nabokov,
Poe, and Baudelaire. What is synesthesia? It is not, van Campen
concludes, an audiovisual performance, a literary technique, an
artistic trend, or a metaphor. It is, perhaps, our hidden sense-a
way to think visually; a key to our own sensitivity.
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