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[umpachki]

Why do I taste metal when I feel fear?

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[flamingjune07]

blood/iron?

[umpachki]

This taste presents itself at the moment of being startled and then leaves in less than a second.

It is never present otherwise.

[flamingjune07]

I didn't mean it so much in a literal, physical sense -- but that it would make sense (to me at least) for there to be some kind of primitive, instinctual association going on that identifies fear with blood, and it's not a far leap from there to get to a metallic taste...

[jessieknits]

bite down unconsciously, making gums bleed just enough to taste it if you have any gingivitis.

[umpachki]

This isn't that case.

[jessieknits]

unconscious association then? what's your memory tell you?

[unseleigh]

Maybe adrenaline?

[pinkerdot]

Perhaps a case of synesthesia? You strike me as a fellow synesthete.