‘In the Bright Oval’ (1925), Wassily Kandinsky
Does everyone see the world in the way that you do? Do they see the same colours and hear the same sounds? The simple answer is ‘no’, and people with synaesthesia experience the world in quite an unusual way. Synaesthesia is a remarkable phenomenon that is experienced by a small number of people. It involves the mixing up of the senses, such that sounds are ‘seen’ or sights are ‘smelt’.
Sean Day is a synaesthete and describes it like this:
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