Synesthesia

On the previous class of creative thinking, Lecturer Mickey introduced a word which was new to me. Synesthesia. It is a condition in which one sense is being simultaneously being perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight. Meaning to say, someone who suffers from synesthesia is able to feel colours, taste words and hear numbers. Wait, this does not make any sense to me? How do one be able to feel colours? It's not the case whereby I'm green of envy, I'm feeling blue today and I'm seeing red! They literally feel with the colour! On Monday though, and especially Monday and no other days, where most working adults will feel blue. Because who doesn't have Monday Blues?

Can't you hear it? The number "3" is yelling at you!

According to a person suffering from synesthesia, The colour of the various words and letters are as follows: The Letter "N" is sienna brown, "J" is light green, number "8" is orange and July is bluish- green. So imagine one that have go through a mathematical exam, and a person with synesthesia would be struggling to give a numerical answer but coloured the answer instead.

While I myself do not suffer from this disorder but there is an App, Sadly by your side which gives us a small glimpse of how synesthesia might feel. It is an interactive music video whereby you are able see colours in music and in songs.  
Video link here

So how does one actually see colours in sound? They see it not in the form of colour pigment such as paints but they see it like the colours we are see in computer screens, the colours of light. They see it in their mind's eye.