"Rare condition means I can taste words - my boyfriend's name is like paper"
A woman can "taste words" due to a neurological condition - and says her boyfriend's name tastes like "paper".
Sarah Gann, 30, grew up associating words with certain tastes - but assumed everyone else did too.
It turned out she has synesthesia, a neurological condition where the stimulation of one sense - in Sarah's case, sound leads to the stimulation of another - taste.
The mum-of-two doesn't associate a taste with every single word, but does taste lots of common ones.
Sarah says the word 'teacher' tastes like purple tropical Skittles, and the word 'think' tastes like chocolate milk.
'Church' tastes like powdered donuts and 'ball' tastes like nacho cheese.
Her own name doesn't have a flavour, but her partner Jakob Clayton, 27, tastes like paper, she says.
Sarah Gann, 30, grew up associating words with certain tastes - but assumed everyone else did too.
It turned out she has synesthesia, a neurological condition where the stimulation of one sense - in Sarah's case, sound leads to the stimulation of another - taste.
The mum-of-two doesn't associate a taste with every single word, but does taste lots of common ones.
Sarah says the word 'teacher' tastes like purple tropical Skittles, and the word 'think' tastes like chocolate milk.
'Church' tastes like powdered donuts and 'ball' tastes like nacho cheese.
Her own name doesn't have a flavour, but her partner Jakob Clayton, 27, tastes like paper, she says.
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00:00The word school tastes like butterscotch. This can be candies, desserts, pudding, anything
00:18butterscotch. The word English tastes like salt. And the word game tastes like this kind
00:24of nacho cheese. I just have one of the more rare forms where I just taste words. I do
00:38not taste every word of the English language, but the words that I do taste are always the
00:41same. For instance, blue is always chocolate. School is always butterscotch. Whatever the
00:48word may be. Maniac, Animaniacs, they all taste like Kit Kats to me. And the word play, bananas.