Essays on Synesthesia

Synesthesia is an event by which the prompting of one sense group gives stimulation to a sensation in another group. The term synesthesia according to Campen and Froger (2008), comes from the Greek terms syn that means together and aesthesis which means to perceive.1 At present, the most popular and widely known form of synesthesia is the hearing of vowels or music in color. Campen and Froger (2008) also add that the different types of synesthesia such as the sense of smell is stimulated by one or more senses such as hearing and sight.2 Color Synesthesia for one is ...

A psychic is a person that confesses to having the abilities to perceive information that is concealed from normal senses. He/she perceives this information through extrasensory perceptions. Psychic abilities are also known as the sixth sense or extrasensory perception. There are no tangible evidences that psychic abilities exist, and the scientific community does not recognize psychic abilities of any kind. Scientific investigations have done numerous investigations into the validity of human psychic abilities. Many investigations have produced statistical results which conclude that there a million to one chances against psychic happening by chance alone, they also concluded that a few have been ...

Human beings certainly do not perceive reality like it really is. This fact is immediately evident through both experiential and experimental evidence. If our senses do give us information about the way things truly are, then how is it that if two people go to a concert, they can walk away with different reviews? Was the concert good or was the concert bad? Which one better reflects reality? Furthermore, what explains the phenomena experienced by people who have had brain injuries? Oliver Sacks has written entire books on the subject, including “The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat.” Does a ...