"Rare condition means I can taste words - my boyfriend's name is like paper"
Credit: SWNS / Sarah Gann
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.
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.