Zoals Pve terecht opmerkt :
Who needs spirits or invisible worlds. De werkelijkheid is véél fascinerender.
Citaat:
ome types of synaesthesia interfere with everyday living. As one synaesthete told me recently, if someone says a word that tastes of roast beef whilst you're eating your strawberries, it can ruin a tasty treat.
But for those who have it, time-space synaesthesia can be useful, even fundamental to everyday life.
"When I'm making plans, I can look at my mental calendar," says Holly. "I always find it odd that other people don't have that."
And one particular case study caused Dr Simner to wonder whether time-space synaesthesia might be an advantageous thing to have.
She and her team became interested in a type of savant with a condition known as hyperthymestic syndrome.
"This is a savant whose amazing ability lies in their ability to recalling dates and events in time," she explains.
Researchers in the US wrote an article about their patient - a woman who displayed the condition.
"This person can tell you exactly what they were doing on any particular day of any year of their life," says Dr Simner.
"She can tell you which of her shoelaces she tied up first in 1974 on a Tuesday afternoon, what clothes she was wearing when she first ate a hamburger."
In a very small section of the study, the American team mentioned that this savant described how she could see time in space.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8248589.stm