"My twin sister, Kirsty, and I have a very similar experience of synaesthesia in that our experiences of sounds, tastes, smells, words, noises and motion is very visual. Whether it's a name, a personality, a sound or a smell everything has a colour and a texture in our mind's eye. What's interesting is that the colours and the textures Kirsty and I see can be very different."
"When I drink a glass of chardonnay, I get these swirls of custardy oil but Kirsty might describe the same wine as fuzzy or blobby. It's the same with people's personalities, which we both see as a coloured and textured aura around that person. My best friend Jenn's personality is poo brown, which she hates. For Kirsty, Jenn's personality is yellow and blue with a brown stripe in the middle. We've always found it very jarring, hearing each other's colours."
"On a family car trip to Queensland when we were about five years old we spent a good couple of hours with our mum going what colour is the word Queensland? What colour is the word apple?. The three of us saw different colours and textures for each and we spent hours arguing over who was right. Our dad and our brother didn't say a thing."
Helen and Kirsty Besgrove experience synaesthesia that renders sounds, tastes, smells, words, noises and motion as colours and textures in their mind's eye. Each stimulus—names, personalities, sounds or smells—carries a colour and texture, but the sisters often perceive different colours and textures for the same item. A glass of chardonnay appears as swirls of custardy oil to one and fuzzy or blobby to the other. People’s personalities appear as coloured, textured auras, provoking disagreement when compared. Childhood comparisons with their mother revealed differing associations, and they learned the condition is genetic at nineteen during university.
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