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synesthesia

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synesthesia [‚sin·əs′thēzh·ə]
(psychology)
The condition in which a sensory experience normally associated with one sensory system occurs when another sensory system is stimulated.


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Synesthesia exercises: describe how a painting would taste or what is would sound like, etc.
The equally wonderful "Tangled Notes in Watermelon," by Dian Curtis Regan, tells the story of a young girl with synesthesia who loses her grandmother, but gains a special friend with a similar gift.
Kondo's interiority relies on the formal qualities of Geisha Man: strikingly excessive details, disorienting synesthesia, a jumbled collage of texts, and, at times, histrionic mediations of an elevated register.
 
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