Perhaps Your Mind Was Never Ordinary

An uplifting look at synaesthesia and the strange beauty of human perception.

Sain thee, seelie wights.

This post is about synaesthesia, a way of perceiving the world that’s a gift to writers. I’ve written about it before, but it continues to be fascinating.

What is synaesthesia?

Some people hear music and see colours.

Some people read numbers and feel personalities arising from them as distinctly as if they had entered a room. Som…