The amazing brain

Crossed wires
Imagine not recognising your mother, or feeling missing limbs or tasting music. When brain wires get crossed, these things can happen. Even to you.

Seeing sounds and feeling tastes
How would it feel when you read a newspaper and the words glow like brilliant jewels? Imagine the sound of a piano conjuring up the colour pink. And when you feel pain, your world goes orange, as if you've put on a pair of tinted glasses.

Musicophilia
Sacks, a physician, explores the power of music through individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people.

Phantom limbs
Sometimes, after an arm or leg has been amputated, the person continues to feel pain or other sensations as though the amputated limb were still there.

Taste the music, feel the colour
Imagine a world where you feel sounds, taste music or see letters and numbers in colour. Odd? For synesthetes these perceptions are part of everyday life.