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How to Deal with Sensory Overload as a Sensitive Person

By Jenara Nerenberg — 2020

Sometimes it feels like the world wasn’t designed for sensitive people. Here are ways to take care of yourself.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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Billie Eilish Says Her Synethesia Inspires Her Creative Process

She also told Jimmy Fallon he appears to her as a “vertical brown rectangle.”

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The Beauty of Crossed Brain Wires

Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous.

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Do People with Synethesia Draw Out Expression in the Autistic?

Anecdotal observations from my own dealings.

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Synesthesia

It is estimated that approximately 3 to 5 percent of the population has some form of synesthesia and that women are more likely to become synesthetes than men.

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How We All Could Benefit from Synaesthesia

Developing the mysterious condition in the 96% of people who do not have it may help to improve learning skills, aid recovery from brain injury and guard against mental decline in old age

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I Have Something in Common with Marilyn Monroe—and You Might, Too

Marilyn Monroe had synesthesia, a sensory condition that has led to a broad reconsideration of perception in general.

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How Synaesthesia Inspires Artists

A number of famous artists have experienced synaesthesia—a union of the senses. Holly Williams explores its history and her own experience of the condition.

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Synesthesia

Synesthesia is a fancy name for when you experience one of your senses through another.

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Everyday Fantasia: The World of Synesthesia

With the help of sophisticated behavioral brain-imaging and molecular genetic methods, researchers are coming closer to understanding what drives the extraordinary sensory condition called synesthesia.

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Can You Teach Yourself Synesthesia?

Yes! Maybe? Red-orange!

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