"Rare condition means I can taste words - my boyfriend's name is like paper" - video Dailymotion

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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.  'Church' tastes like powdered donuts and 'ball' tastes like nacho cheese.

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00:00Let's talk about some more words that I can taste.

00:03The phrase grow up tastes like nerd ropes.

00:07The words grow and up by themselves do not put together a nerd rope.

00:11The word school tastes like butterscotch.

00:13This can be candies, desserts, pudding, anything butterscotch.

00:18The word bike tastes like nutty buddies.

00:21Bicycle does not.

00:22It tastes like nothing.

00:23And also it's not just any chocolate and peanut butter dessert.

00:26It's just this one.

00:27It's the texture.

00:28The word English tastes like salt.

00:32And the word game tastes like this kind of nacho cheese.

00:36Maybe it's because of the concession stand.

00:38I don't know.

00:39It's words I can taste part two.

00:40Let's go.

00:42Blonde is pudding.

00:43Any and all pudding is blonde.

00:46Both concrete and ash when I hear these words I think of milk dipped in cookies.

00:51I guess some of these are kind of a texture thing for me so anytime I hear these words

00:54I just think of that soggy milky cookie.

00:57I don't know.

00:59Church is powdered doughnuts, white powdered doughnuts always.

01:02Pink is icing.

01:03No specific type of icing just when I hear the word pink I immediately taste, imagine

01:08tasting icing.

01:10The word think is chocolate milk.

01:11So from my first video I said clock with white milk.

01:13I don't taste chocolate milk at all with clock.

01:16Same thing with think.

01:17It is very specifically chocolate milk, not white milk at all.

01:20And the word harsh is a Twix candy bar.

01:23When I'm eating these foods I don't necessarily think of the words.

01:26I'm just hearing the words that makes me think of the food, if that makes sense.

01:30So let me know what words you can taste.

01:31Okay, so I'm going to try to explain what I mean when I say I can taste names or taste

01:35words.

01:36So basically there's something called synesthesia and it's when you experience one sense through

01:41another.

01:42So I think one of the most common forms is when people hear a song or a certain type

01:46of music and it is a color to them.

01:49So maybe this type of music is green, this particular song is pink, things like that.

01:54Or they see a shape and they're like triangles are always red, circles are always blue.

01:58Whatever the case may be.

02:00I don't really experience any of that.

02:01I just have one of the more rare forms where I just taste words.

02:05I do not taste every word of the English language, but the words that I do taste are always the

02:10same.

02:11For instance, blue is always chocolate, school is always butterscotch, whatever the word

02:17may be.

02:18I don't taste it, like actually get the real taste of butterscotch in my mouth, but I just

02:24imagine if I were to take a bite out of school, that's what it would taste like.

02:27Sounds so weird.

"Rare condition means I can taste words - my boyfriend's name is like paper"

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