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Article: How does pistachio ice cream taste? Green!.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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When is a sound not a sound? When you're a synesthete, because then it's also a shape, a color, a scent, and a taste. Synesthetes are people with a statistically rare medical condition called synesthesia. Just as "anesthesia" refers to the partial or complete loss of a sensation, synesthesia refers to a joined sensation. When a synesthete hears a sound, she might also see a specific color associated with the pitch of that sound, detect its scent, or both. A highly sensitive synesthete might experience a union of all five senses--touch, smell, hearing, taste, and sight.
If a synesthete, for instance, hears a chugging train, he or she also might see blue blobs, ...