Indigo Blue Summary

Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia is interesting and highly informative both to a synesthete looking for more answers and to a passerby that may never have heard of the condition before. It breaks synesthesia down over the course of its chapters, beginning with examining each different major type of synesthesia and all of the intricacies that come with it. It addresses how these connections can integrate themselves into the concepts of a non-synesthete’s brain through metaphor and language, and explores the biology in which this trait is so ingrained in. The book ends with the acknowledgement that there is still much to discover about synesthesia, and doing so could give way to much larger insights into how the brain works and how we perceive the world.
One fact that I found fascinating was just how common synesthesia really is. In the past there was much debate as to the frequency that synesthesia …show more content…
The book explained the different types of synesthesia with the thoughtful use of figures, tables and diagrams, and was able to effectively convey what a synesthetic experience may be like to the point where even non-synesthetes could understand it.
The book was somewhat dry and slow-going at times, but this was only because the authors took the effort to explain every idea in as much depth as possible yet still make it understandable to a novice in the subject. The scientists were not afraid to admit that there is still many holes in theories and more to learn about this trait. I am excited for what more research will reveal in the future, about both synesthesia, the human mind as a whole. Synesthesia is a multifaceted insight into the inner workings of the brain as well as into how truly different each individual’s perception of the world may