test your own synesthetical talents

Can you see music? Can you hear colurs? Can you describe a taste with forms? What kind of synesthetic abilities do YOU have? A few nice experiments and tests can be found here.

famous peoples synesthetics

Many famous people have had synesthetic experiences and gave descriptions. Instead of trying to make a distinction between the real and the pseudo synesthetes we ere giving you a few short excerpts of the their testimony.

discrimination and fear of synesthetics

the fact that emotions can be described or evocated with sights and sounds or tastes and smells is nothing really extraordinary. Its a fact that in almost all cultural fields there are traditions of using certain colours, sights, songs and food, together to create an atmosphere.

But if synesthetically gifted people express their impressions they can get some rather harsh reactions by various people.The History of Synesthesia is a good example for the failure of science and the existence of prejudice among people. In the 1950s this ability was even treated like a psychological illness.....

.A short collection of ugly reactions can be found here

crash test environments

*"knowledge for all"

like many other non-commercial projects, synlabor is not able to pay the rights to show copyrighted material. So we will mostly use open source documents or pictures from our own material if we dont have the explicit permission of the copyright owners.

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