The Doctor Who Really Feels His Patients' Pain

[SeniorCitizen007]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-43572639

 

Like Jesus and the leper?

 

When you experience a transitory pain, or sensation could it be that you're picking up what someone else nearby is experiencing?

[Joshpantera]

This is a pretty interesting condition. 

 

Synaesthesia is a condition in which one or more of your senses is merged with another rather than experienced separately. Some people perceive taste when they hear music while others experience colours when they look at letters and numbers.

Salinas has early memories of the condition such as the bell ringing in blue and yellow at his primary school in Florida.

"When colouring in at school I was very specific that my B had to be just the right shade of orange and that my number one had to be yellow," he says.

"Sums also didn't make intuitive sense to me. My two was a red maternal person and my four was a blue friendly person. So how could a two plus a two equal a four?"

However, his colour associations also helped him remember information making him "a whizz at vocabulary and spelling".