Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge

Synaesthesia, a phenomenon known to science for over a century, is a rare form of perception in which one sense may respond to stimuli received by other senses--as in "color hearing." This book provides the first history of synaesthesia and of the controversies about its significance. Kevin Dann offers new perspectives on this unusual mode of perception and its relation to the evolution of human consciousness. .