If you are synaesthetic you smell a podcast?

Todays word, synaesthetic, can be found in a recent post a MindHacks.com.

The word synaesthetic is spelled s-y-n-a-e-s-t-h-e-t-i-c and s-y-n-e-s-t-h-e-t-i-c. The first spelling, the one with the a is the British/English style. Synaesthetic is an adjective that describes an experience that involves more than one of the five senses. More specifically it describes an experience when one type of stimulation causes the sensation of another sense.

An example of an synesthetic experience is seeing music in addition to hearing the music. This is the most typical synesthetic sensation but the word describes any experience that involves multiple senses provoke by a single sense stimulus.

A synesthetic description uses words normally associate with one sense to describe an different sense. For example "Her house smells like the color blue." A visual description. blue, is used to describe a smell.

The Mind Hacks post is about a synesthetic musician who can taste music. She relates specific tastes to specific musical tones.

You can read more about synaesthesia at Univeristy College London Psycology site- . What is Synaesthesia? There they also invite you to tell them about your synaesthesia.

UPDATE (06/14/05): Psyblog has a post about new findings in synaesthesia.