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This woman who trained EUROPEAN ASTRONAUTS says babies are born with 150 hidden sensory abilities, and she believes we begin shutting them down before a child can even TALK.View quoted post on X
Dr. Iya Whiteley spent years studying how pilots and astronauts think, perceive danger, and make decisions under extreme conditions.
In a conversation with neuroscientist Mayim Bialik, Whiteley discussed SYNAESTHESIA, a neurological phenomenon in which sounds can trigger colors, words can evoke tastes, and numbers can have their own colors or personalities.
Whiteley cites around 150 known forms of synesthesia, and she makes a startling claim:
"Our babies are born with all of it. Every newborn arrives with synaesthesia."
She says that between six and nine months, the brain begins pruning pathways that aren't being reinforced.
Imagine a child hearing a frog croak and saying the sound is BLUE. An adult immediately corrects the child, explaining that frogs are green and sounds cannot have colors.
Whiteley argues the child might actually be describing a genuine sensory experience, one the adult no longer has. She says we aren't teaching them about the world; we're teaching their brain to close a door.
And here's where it gets interesting.
In 2011, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, found that certain shapes influenced color preferences in babies just 2 to 3 months old. They did not observe the same effect in 8-month-olds or adults.
The findings raised an intriguing possibility: some sensory connections that exist early in life may fade as the brain develops.
However, this doesn't establish that all babies possess 150 forms of synesthesia or that parents correcting their children causes these connections to disappear.
But if a child says they can HEAR a color, why are we so certain the child is wrong and the adult is right?