When You Hear Colors and Taste Shapes

For the past couple of months, we’ve explored the senses and how each one affects our health and well-being. In our last episode of this season, we examine a trait known as synesthesia – in which the senses intertwine, like seeing colors when you hear music or tasting flavor when you feel texture. Neurologist and author, Dr. Richard Cytowic ( ), joins Dr. Sanjay Gupta to explain what happens in the brain when the senses blend. We’ll also hear from musical artist, Christen Lien, ( ) about what it’s like to live and perform with synesthesia. 

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22 comments

  1. 여름에는 태풍과 홍수 그리고 겨울에는 폭설. 바로 천벌 입니다. 인과응보는 우주의 진리 입니다. 아직도 반성하지 않는 일본인들은 종말을 맞이 할겁니다.
    얼어버린 상태에서 진도 8 강진.. 그리고
    방사능 눈과 . 화산 한방도 부탁해~
    모조리 박살나고 증발해 버리기를..
    두손모아 기도… 아멘 ~
    태풍, 홍수, 장마, 폭설, 지진, 화산, 해일의 종합 셋트 = 일본
    여기서 지진이 일어나면 최고인데..
    천벌은 영원 하리라~~~
    일본 끝내주네 화이또
    한국과 일본의 진실은 ‘Pull & Push’ 채널만이 전한다.

  2. Hi Julia Chatterley. Know if I’m Superman and you are Lois Lane, and if I heard you correctly. You suggested that I ask the Prime Minister of Australia for permission to go “Walkabout”. … I think it’s a great idea. But I’d be heart broken if Anthony Albanese said no. …I wouldn’t want to live in Scotland or Japan.

  3. Sooo interesting as I was first introduced to this condition, now I know is a trait, in a meeting I facilitated. I clearly remember our discussion afterwards of how this couldn’t be: hearing tastes? Rubbish. Thank you for educating me in a clear concise way that now is totally understood. The human body is quite amazing and mysterious all at the same time not unlike synesthesia.

  4. Well 🌬️if you listen to the song ⚡Strawberry fields forever✨..do you see psychedelic 🎵 colors and shapes 💥that change as the music 🎶 progresses?

  5. WTF is that charlatanism?
    When you become a MD in the Western hemisphere, you have to choose: it’s either crackpot, Indu mysticism or Sciences. You can’t do both in public!

  6. if babies as developing and for a while after birth have natural synesthesia imagine how chronic unpleasant sensation (like witnessing or feeling ab^se) must affect their brain development. 😢

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  8. I see colors during orgasm very bright vivid colors I have never these colors in real life. Is that a similar process.

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