A synesthete may hear colours or see sounds.

联觉者可能会听到颜色或看到声音。

And strangely enough, more synesthetes are left-handed compared to the rest.

奇怪的是，与其他人相比，联觉者大多是左撇子。

When synesthetes, as they're called, hear a word, their sense of taste also becomes activated.

当被称为联觉者的人听到一个单词时，他们的味觉也会被激活。

In general, there are two major groups of synesthetes, projective and associative.

一般来说，有两大类联觉者：投射联觉和联想联觉。

Synesthetes were labelled people with overactive imaginations – a tendency to imagine things that are not true.

联觉者被贴上异想天开之人的标签——想象不真实事物的倾向。

And it goes to show that you don't have to be a synesthete to experience the world through finely tuned, interconnected senses.

就算你不是联觉者，也能通过精细协调、相互连接的感官体验世界。

The condition can also be inherited with around 40% of synesthetes having another close family member with it.

这种情况也可以遗传，大约有40%的通感者有另一个近亲具有这种能力。

But all joking aside, I'm not actually a synesthete, which is the term for people who have synaesthesia.

但抛开开玩笑不谈， 我实际上并不是联觉者，联觉者是指有联觉的人。

Exciting possibilities like tasting someone's name… Remember in my question I asked what synesthete, Jen McCready, tastes when she hears the name 'Neil'.

令人兴奋的可能性，比如“品尝”某人的名字… … 还记得吗，在我的问题中，我问联觉者珍·麦克里迪，听到“尼尔”这个名字时会尝到什么味道？

Some synesthetes have a type of synaesthesia that can involve more than just two senses, but these cases are far more rare.

有些联觉者的联觉类型可能涉及两种以上的感觉，但这种情况要罕见得多。

For example, a sound color synesthete with a blocked ear may not only lose their hearing, but the colors they usually experience may be different.

例如，一个有声音-颜色联觉的人，如果其耳朵被堵住，他们便不仅可能会失去听力，而且其体验到的颜色可能会与以往不同。

People with synesthesia, known as synesthetes, experience the world differently, where their senses are hooked up to each other in ways where one sensory source produces another result, such as tasting sounds or hearing colors.

有“联觉”（synesthetes）的人对世界的感受是不同的，他们的感官会以一种感觉来源产生另一种结果的方式联系在一起，比如尝声音或听颜色。

When a synesthete comes down with a cold, flu or something like an ear infection, it can affect how they experience their condition, either strengthening or weakening it, or making them feel out of whack and not right.

当联觉者患了感冒、流感或耳部感染之类的疾病时，在这些病症会影响他们对自己状况的感受，要么是增强、要么便是削弱其感官，或者是让他们感觉不正常、不对劲。