Synesthesia: ANNOYING.

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Specifically, my old monitor (Flatscreen I've used for the past 5-6 years) burned out yesterday, and I temporarily replaced it with an older-but-still-functional CRT I borrowed from my brother-in-law.

However, this is the problem: The forum colors now taste wrong. I mean, it was mildly distracting that the green tasted like Mountain Dew and the blue tasted kind of berryish. But now the blue tastes like a kind of mint-like flavor that clashes with the citrusesque green flavor that is not Mt. Dew.

Now it's really distracting.

There's a site with a synesthesia test that I've never been able to sit all the way through. I tried a few times as far back as 2008

I don't think it's as strong for me as it is for the man in that documentary, although it is fairly present. I always thought it was normal to "associate taste with color" because I've always done so. I tend to focus on specific things - if I'm in a vehicle, I usually read a book or zone out. If I'm going for a walk I tend to focus on things like trees or specific automobiles or houses.

That's sounds pretty overloading.

There are colors that cause tastes that make me feel ill. One I remember from early childhood was this shade of brown that, I guess the best way to describe it would be like a vinyl cupcake. It was only one object that prompted that, and for some reason I kept stumbling across it in the house and car.

Several years later - in middle school - there was a shade of yellow/green that tasted awful and made me feel nauseous every time I saw it.

It can contribute to sensory overload, and is one of the issues I have with video games, although most video game colors are fairly palatable - although the first Diablo game had monsters of the same color that made me ill. I don't think Diablo II reused that color, though. In City of Heroes, I made a fire-based hero with blue fire (I like most shades of blue, flavor-wise), but the blue flavor clashed with the orange glow from her superspeed, leaving an awful taste.

I tend to focus on a few colors when there are too many. It can get a bit strange with a lot of them at once, and not generally very pleasant.

One thing I find interesting is that some colors have flavors I can't easily describe or pin down. I am not sure I've ever eaten anything that tasted like that. There's a different yellowish shade of green that is sort of like really spicy citrus, but not specifically lemon, lime, orange, or grapefruit. And the spicy part is a bit confusing as well.

I cannot compare, but if the color of a screen distracts you because of the taste you get from the colors, it seems rather strong. I can dislike colors of websites for example or an exaggerated use of animated smilies used in a text, because they distract me and I do not understand the coherence of a text anymore, but I have no taste-sensation at all.
It really sounds quite unique.
Do you know any statistics for color-taste synesthesia?

Yes, it is.
I prefer doing my shoppings in the wintertime, because the shops are still open when it is dark outside and the darkness is reducing the amount of visual overload going to a shop, so that I am less overloaded entering a shop.
It happens, that I need to go somewhere or get something and I leave my house and turn back very quickly, because everything is too overloading, especially when it is light outside and many moving objects (cars, people etc.)

The man in the documentary also had an awful taste from blue and orange, as the kitchen was blue, but the curtains orange.
Thank you for your detailled answer, it is very interesting.