Introduction

I decided to create a blog about Synesthesia. The question I asked was "what is synesthesia"? Well throughout my research in this phenomena I found the answer to my question. Synesthesia is when two senses in the brain get crossed in their paths. So people who have this neurological problem can usually see sounds or taste shapes/object and colors. I read an article about Pharrell Williams and it said that he lives with synesthesia. It is said that one person out of every 250,000 people have synesthesia.

Many researchers will describe synesthesia to be like an acid trip that never goes away. But unlike an acid trip, synesthesia does not affect your everyday life. Many synesthetes live a relatively normal life. Of course when we listen to music and they listen to music there is a major difference. They can see swirls of different colors right before their eyes, where as the rest of us can only hear the notes.

In one of my videos there is a man by the name of Shawn who talks about living with synesthesia. He talks about how he cant eat foods together that give off two different colors. He picks out chicken and ice cream which he says gives off a nice light blue color. "Normal" people wouldn't eat that but to him he cant taste the food he can only taste the color of the food.
It is said that people who have synesthesia have very high IQ's and dont necessarily struggle during school. Its also recorded that people with synesthesia have immediate family that has either been diagnosed with autism,add, or dyslexia.