Many people are clearly hooked on their smartphones, laptops, and tablets. By contrast, I’ve never felt the need for a smartphone. I was born with synesthesia, a neurological condition where the senses are intertwined with each other. That little screen in your pocket probably dominates all others in your life, but instead of checking my phone 100 times a day, I visualize music in my head 100 times a day.

Vanessa Potter unexpectedly lost her sight. As she recovered, her senses mingled and hearing and touch changed the way she saw the world.

Head trauma made her see strange colors, even ones that are “not even real. By Sarah Zhang.

A small group of people see calendars not as grids, but as as rings, check marks, and other objects that seem almost vividly real. By Ed Yong.

“To investigate these patterns, he rigged up a contraption involving a frequency generator on his laptop, a rebuilt amp with a speaker pointing upward into a plastic vitrine filled with ink-black water, and a guitar tuner…” By Heather Sparks.

Thoughts and feelings are constellations in the mind of a man with a rare form of synesthesia. By Alissa Greenberg.

Exploring the link between this cross-wiring of the senses and creativity. By Jacoba Urist.

Test your inner synesthesia. By Stephen E. Palmer.

A rare condition causes Joel Salinas to experience other people's emotions and sensations. Is mirror-touch synesthesia a superpower or a curse?

A mother wonders if we are all born with synesthesia. By Kristen Weir.