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People with synesthesia experience the world with multiple senses

Ask the Doctors

Dear Doctors: When our grandson first learned his colors, he sang them along with music. We thought he was copying that song for learning the ABCs. But when he got older, he start-ed saying that he “ hears” the colors. We have been told this is called synesthesia. How and why does it happen?

Dear Reader:

Synesthesia is a somewhat rare and quite fascinating phenomenon. It’s a neurologi…

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