Source: the Synesthetic Experience- MIT
This website talked mostly about the definition of synesthesia. I was not surprised to learn that a lot of people with synesthesia don't know that they have it. We don't really talk or know all that much about synesthesia yet, so why wouldn't people with synesthesia assume that everybody else experiences certain things in pairs of senses as they do?
Another thing I found interesting was that the site also mentioned how synesthesia wouldn't logically be a product of the human brain, since evolution points towards an increasing separation of function whereas synesthesia is defined as "an involuntary joining in which the real information of one sense is accompanied by a perception in another sense... and the additional perception is regarded by the synesthete as real"-- bringing forth the possibility that brain function is more intermingled than what evolutionary studies have found.
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