(or colour-to-taste synesthesia)
It could be considered a type of
visual-gustatory or conceptual-gustatory synesthesia
This type
of synesthesia appears to be uncommon. It can exist alone or together with
colour-to-smell synesthesia, as people with this latter type often say that
seeing colours causes them to perceive both olfactory and gustatory concurrents
and it is sometimes even difficult for them to distinguish whether what they
are perceiving is a taste or a smell.
Here are
some descriptions written by people with this type of synesthesia:
“Red is not
cherry. Each color has a unique identificative taste, but the tastes don’t
really correspond to "real life" tastes. Its hard to explain how blue
tastes, it just tastes like blue!
Different
shades all have different tastes, and it can vary greatly. It's all the same
general taste, like blue is always sweet, but the kind of sweet changes from
shade to shade.”
“Brown.
Rich, moist, a very deep flavor, salty and slightly bitter with a creamy
texture. It’s a very specific brown that illicits that taste. Hard to describe.
Purple.
Velvety, overly sweet with a touch of sour and very very rich.”
Not all
colors, but many. It’s not overwhelming really because I’m used to it.
“I taste
and smell colors. Taste is around eyes but when strong enough it hits the back
of my tongue/throat. Aroma is smelled with my physical nose when I breathe air
with it.”
“I can
taste colours, yet only when I think about it, otherwise I don't really notice
it.
When you
look at a colour, you percieve it visually as a colour (i.e. red, green, blue).
But you also view it as a taste. Most colours taste like things that you can't
really relate to. (However, black specifically has a bland, wholesome taste to
it).”
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