Synesthesia
Synesthesia (sin'es-the'zhe) n. Also synaesthesia. A phenomenon in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as the hearing of a sound resulting in the sensation of the visualization of a color. [New Latin: SYN- + (AN)ESTHESIA] -- syn'es'thet'ic (-thet'ik) adj.
There are many different kinds of synesthesia. Some of the more common and well-known kinds are auditory-visual, which causes people to see colors and patterns when they hear music, and colored-grapheme/phoneme synesthesia, which causes a person to see-- and hear--words in color.

I have what is called auditory-gustatory synesthesia. Basically, I taste words. The name auditory-gustatory synesthesia is a misnomer, though, since the taste is stonrger if I read a word, not hear it (auditory).

At the bottom of the page are some links to sites on synesthesia in general, and a few on auditory-gustatory synesthesia.

I'll be posting a list of words, with their corresponding tastes, here. I hope to have every word in the dictionary that I taste included here. (Which will take a while...)

I don't taste every single word. Roughly 80% of words have tastes for me. House and scissors, for instance.

I taste proper nouns, like names. If you want me to post your first name on the site, with its corresponding taste, email me! :)

Links:

Synesthesia in General

Colored-Grapheme Synesthesia

More Colored-Grapheme Synesthesia

Auditory-Visual Synesthesia

Auditory-Gustatory Synesthesia
  

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