Daniel Tammet has two forms of synesthesia - grapheme-color, where letters and numbers have colors, and sound-color, where sounds induce moving colored pictures. He can visualize numbers as unique 3D shapes and instantly do complex math mentally by seeing the results. Tammet learned Icelandic in a week and speaks 11 languages. He has written two bestselling books about his experiences with synesthesia and savant skills.

1. Daniel Tammet and synesthesia

2. Daniel tammet recent picture

3. Different form of synesthésia Graphème  color : individuals letters or numbers are tinged with a color

4. Different form of synesthesia Sound  color : voice, music and environmental sound induces pictures and colors who moves around and fade when the sound stimulus ends.

5. Different form of synesthesia Numerical synesthesia : numbers are represented by 3d géométrical forms and every number get his own form

6. number Pi mental representation painting by Daniel Tammet

7. Mental map of numbers from synesthete

8. Daniel is a graphème color and a numerical synesthete. He learn to speak icelandic in one week and speak eleven other languages He has extraordinary computationals skill.He can do every computation as speed as computer because he simply see in his mind the mental representation of the result

9. Daniel paint his mental represantation of two numbers

10. … and doing their computation

11. Pi and its decimals

12. Following to that many documentary are consecrated to him and for break his frame of computer guy he write his memories « born on a blue day » Two years later he write a second book « embracing the wide sky » where he attemps to shed light on the mystery of savant’s mental abilities.

14. Their books are considered as best seller and he travels around the world to promote their The same year he settle down to avignon where he is still leaving.