Onesynesthete who spoke to Medical News Today gave us a highly impressive description of her experience of color-auditory synaesthesia.

Born in a leap year, she has the rarest blood type and is a colorblindsynesthete. She is plagued by uncertainty, ambivalence, and a feeling of general malaise -- until an unexpected, fatal lung-cancer diagnosis prompts her to embark on a quest to find her biological mother.

Yes, I'm a creativesynesthete with an overactive imagination, but I like to think of myself as eminently logical at the end of the day.

25) Considering the possibility of a similarity in underlying mechanisms between synesthesia and the proposed internal PC mechanism, in our view thesynesthete population may be a good point to start for examining this hypothesis.

Torke's been described as asynesthete who sees music as colours - and this concerto, variations on a four-note "motto" with big brass and percussion punctuation marks, would no doubt be vivid primaries.

Want to know if you're asynesthete? Get some friends, and read a list of 10 numbers from 0 to 9, arranged randomly.

One does not need to be asynesthete like Messiaen or Scriabin to appreciate how vital the sensory realm is in music making.

El Santon presents face-color synesthesia (the brain region responsible for face recognition is associated with the color-processing region); touch-mirror synesthesia (when thesynesthete observes a person who is being touched or is experiencing pain, s/he experiences the same); high empathy (the ability to feel what other person is feeling), and schizotypy (certain personality traits in healthy people involving slight paranoia and delusions).

She is asynesthete and the first journalist to have interviewed Itzhak Perlman, Billy Joel, and the family of Marilyn Monroe about their synesthesia.

pounds 6.99) Alison is asynesthete. She perceives letters, numbers, graphemes, names and words as colours and feelings; she is extraordinarily sensitive to sound.

Crucial to an understanding of the tousled dynamism in Cepeda's work and life is a recognition of its roots in the principles of English poet, painter, andsynesthete William Blake (or "el viejo Blake"), who united opposing ideas and whose aphorism "The Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom," Cepeda used to open Los cuentos de Juana.

Around the same time Schonberg and Kandinsky first met, the composer andsynesthete Alexander Scriabin was working on the never-completed Mysterium, of which he said: "There will not be a single spectator.