(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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I paint, when I get the image of the see I can smell it
ReplyDeletepride flags have a sorta "taste" for me
ReplyDeletefor example the mlm flag tastes like fruit roll ups
genderfluid flag tastes like berries
trans flag tastes like cotton candy
non binary (which is what i am) tastes like bananas
but by taste i mean like a minds eye but for my tongue, like a minds tongue
and its also pretty faint
is this synesthesia or am i just weird
Yes, what you describe here is consistent with synesthesia, but probably better described on the page on Concept-taste (https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/02/concept-taste-and-concept-smell.html) than Colour-taste, if your taste reactions are specific to the series of pride flags and not just colours or colour combinations in general. It's very interesting what you describe. Obviously a strong, literal consistent taste in your mouth for the different elements in the series would be a very clear synesthesia, but even if the tastes are only faintly perceived or you only get them sometimes (as long as they're consistent: same element in the series, same taste perception), it would still be considered synesthesia.
DeleteHi, I can taste both objects and colors and I'm not really sure what that means.
ReplyDeleteThe things that I taste are usually very specific. For example, there is one type of green grass that is my absolute favorite, and one singular telephone pole that has just the right texture in which I can taste the flavor I'm searching for. The pole has a rich, artificial, chocolate taste to it with a rough-ish texture.
Does anyone know what that is?