HYPERESTHESIA, SYNESTHESIA AND BIRTH

A particular challenge for authors is to convey “sensory pictures” to readers using words. Such pictures are typically conveyed in sentences, and require exceptional word-choice. An interesting side-issue is that of synesthesia (“crossed senses” e.g. feeling a smell or hearing a taste). This is a topic of particular interest to me, and one i broach in my newly released Sci-Fu (Science-based Futuring) novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) where the protagonist is hyperesthetic for smell. What would it be like to smell one’s birth during each moment of the experience? What would birth be like from a hyperesthetic, synesthetic or even a normal baby’s sensory point-of-view?

Raymond Gaynor’s THE EDGE OF MADNESS Special eBook Sale – regularly $7.95, only $2.99 12-30 September 2020

The Edge of Madness