The Girl with Machine Synaesthesia
A teenager in Texas reportedly experiences what psychologists are describing as “machine synaesthesia”. She says:
“I feel a connection to pretty much everything with some kind of mechanically-powered moving part."
"The best analogy I can use to explain it is a radio. My senses are my radio, picking up stimulus and playing it back in my brain”
“It’s as if the machine and I are connected, and I can feel what it feels through that lens without actually “becoming” it."
Popular analysis here: http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/10/5087706/extreme-synesthesia-texas-teenager-says-she-can-feel-the-machines-around-her