{"id":35764,"date":"2017-03-31T18:05:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T01:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/synesthesia-is-the-odd-condition-of-tasting-music-hearing-colors-or-seeing-flavors"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:06:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:06:55","slug":"synesthesia-is-the-odd-condition-of-tasting-music-hearing-colors-or-seeing-flavors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/synesthesia-is-the-odd-condition-of-tasting-music-hearing-colors-or-seeing-flavors","title":{"rendered":"Synesthesia Is The Odd Condition Of Tasting Music, Hearing Colors, Or Seeing Flavors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synesthesia-is-the-odd-condition-of-tasting-music-hearing-colors-or-seeing-flavors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For most of us, listening to music, reading a good book, or talking to a friend on the phone are all great ways to wind down. But for someone with synesthesia, activities like those take on another dimension. Synesthetes, as they\u2019re called, experience a blending of two or more senses so that music may have flavor, words may show up in imaginary colors, or voices may elicit different tactile sensations. Scientists don\u2019t yet understand the root causes of this real-life superpower, but what they\u2019re discovering so far is exciting.<\/p>\n<p><i>Related: <\/i>What Is ASMR, And Why Does It Make You Tingle?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/curiosity.com\/topics\/synesthesia-is-the-odd-condition-of-tasting-music-hearing-colors-or-seeing-flavors-curiosity?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20170330fbk00CRSTsynthesth&utm_term=01science&utm_content=link182\">https:\/\/curiosity.com\/topics\/synesthesia-is-the-odd-conditio...nt=link182<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of us, listening to music, reading a good book, or talking to a friend on the phone are all great ways to wind down. But for someone with synesthesia, activities like those take on another dimension. Synesthetes, as they\u2019re called, experience a blending of two or more senses so that music may have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58235,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35764\/revisions\/58235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}