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Oct 28, 2026
Georges St-PierreHOST
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Chris RamsayGUEST
it? Synesthesia is a condition where your brain interprets senses in a different way.
Chris RamsayGUEST
Okay.
Chris RamsayGUEST
And so some people, it's different as a spectrum, but some people see sound.
Lyne BinghamGUEST
And so what...
Lyne BinghamGUEST
Synesthesia is sort of a modality influencer or a modality switcher to some degree where one stimulus, one modality stimulus, let's say vision, and let's say if you observe a number, and that number is four, you might get a sensory image of a color.
Lyne BinghamGUEST
Let's say that you see the number four, and the color green pops up in your visual space, in your mind.
Lyne BinghamGUEST
And so we refer to that as synesthesia, where one stimulus promotes or influences or produces another stimulus.
Will WelchHOST
Reading is red.
Will WelchHOST
Donna texts, in school subjects such as folder colors sound like you're describing a form of synesthesia.
Will WelchHOST
Synesthesia, Will.
Will WelchHOST
Okay, look, I had to look it up.
Will WelchHOST
I didn't know what it was.
Kerry DiamondHOST
... what it says.
Kerry DiamondHOST
Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon where stimulating one sensory or cognitive pathway automatically and involuntary triggers an experience in a different pathway.
Kerry DiamondHOST
It is not a medical disorder, a mental illness, or a drug-induced hallucination.
Kerry DiamondHOST
[laughs]
Billy CarsonGUEST
At some point, you have to recognize that you are also the master.
speaker_0HOST
Let's talk about synesthesia for a few minutes.
speaker_0HOST
Synesthesia, for those of you that don't know, I have a feeling many of you do.
speaker_0HOST
It's a fascinating concept, and it's been called a condition.
speaker_0HOST
I don't like calling it that because I think it's a state of being.
QuentinHOST
Yeah.
PhilippaHOST
Angela, I was really interested to read that you've got, if I can even say it right, synesthesia.
KatieHOST
Synesthesia,
PhilippaHOST
yeah.
KatieHOST
When you're listening
Connor WhiteleyHOST
For example, some researchers argue that everyone is born with synesthesia to different extents because of the hyperconnectivity of our infant brains.
Connor WhiteleyHOST
Then, as these connections are pruned, synesthesia decreases over time.
Connor WhiteleyHOST
Despite these differences, there are some tests that help us to gauge the extent to which a person may or may not have synesthesia, like the, the Synesthesia Battery.
Connor WhiteleyHOST
What is important to note is that to have synesthesia, a person's experience of multiple senses being triggered must be consistent over time.
Connor WhiteleyHOST
If hearing a certain sound, like a bicycle bell, triggers another sensory experience, like seeing the color blue, five times, and that's it, that isn't synesthesia.
PoppyHOST
Exactly the premise.
PoppyHOST
And McKenna theorized that eating these mushrooms induced synesthesia.
DaveHOST
Synesthesia is the conflation of the senses, right?
PoppyHOST
Right.
PoppyHOST
Under the influence of psilocybin, you might literally see a sound or taste a color.
speaker_2HOST
Yes, and he found that in a man named Roger Mayer.
speaker_2HOST
Mayer was an electronics genius, and he and Hendrix shared a very rare neurological condition, which is synesthesia.
speaker_1HOST
Synesthesia is a fascinating perceptual phenomenon.
speaker_1HOST
It's where stimulation of one sensory or a cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory pathway.
speaker_2HOST
Right.
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