Synesthesia (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

Individuals would write or phone to say, “You saved my life,” or “I didn’t know there was a name for what I felt. I thought I was the only one in the world.”

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Speaking about Wednesday Is Indigo Blue, Oliver Sacks said, “Twenty years ago, synesthesia—the automatic conjoining of two or more senses—was regarded by scientists (if at all) as a rare curiosity.

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