Emotion-colour, emotion-shape, emotion-texture and emotion-image synesthesia
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Emotion-colour, emotion-shape, emotion-texture and emotion-image synesthesia
Though we don’t often think consciously about the connection, it is nearly impossible to separate color and feeling. Our language confuses the two with regularity. Our moods brighten and darken. On a sad day, we might have a black cloud over us or merely feel a bit blue. And when things are going well, we say life is golden.
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Intuitively perceiving emotions in other people can be a stimulus that triggers synesthetic concurrents such as colour (possibly also with shape and movement/direction ), smell , taste or tactile sensations . These types of synesthesia are very uncommon.
Perceived emotion-to-colour (and other concurrents)
The soul being one with the body, the former may well experience a psychic shock, caused by association acting on the latter . For example, red may cause a sensation analogous to that caused by flame, because red is the colour of flame