A MAN sees the world dyed pink every time he orgasms due to a rare and bizarre condition. The otherwise healthy patient was referred to a psychiatry clinic after his sex life became a bit more colourful than usual. Referred to as Mr R in a case report published to the Iranian Journal of Psychiatry , the 31-year-old man noticed that objects around him appeared sharper, brighter and pinker whenever he climaxed.
Doctors carried out a number of tests before diagnosing their patient with synaesthesia, a rare and difficult-to-spot neurological condition that causes people to experience a stimulus with more than one sense at a time. The term translates to “perceiving together" and people with the condition might taste different colours, feel sounds or associate words with different shapes and patterns. According to the report's authors, synaesthesia affects up to 4 per cent of the population and there are more than 150 different ways that people can experience the condition.
Read more on bizarre cases But seeing colour while orgasming - as reported by Mr R - is a particularly rare type of synaesthesia. In fact, only 1 per cent of people with the condition report seeing colours during intercourse, the study authors noted. Mr R, a married GP, reported experiencing the bizarre symptom while having sex with his wife.
He told doctors that objects looked sharper and brighter than usual when he kept his eyes open while climaxing. Most read in Health He described these visual changes as ".