Our senses are our friends, and we use them from sniffing the milk container to checking if the street is safe to cross to avoid a disaster. Check out these 10 examples of people who have heightened senses, which may or may not make you envious of them. Williams claims to have synesthesia, a perceptual condition in which activation of one sensory or cognitive route causes involuntary sensations in another. The artist admits he can’t see colors while listening to music, but he can hear two sounds and mentally correlate them. Many art historians believe Vincent van Gogh suffered from chromesthesia, a type of synesthesia in which a person links colors with sounds.

Source: The Nation June 10, 2022 14:04 UTC