Muddle up the senses

Thinking on the lines of the professor’s example, I remember that some time back, a word used to bring a taste in my mouth. The word was “mud,” and the taste was of course, “muddy.” I don’t know why only mud and not others, but I believe it was due to a condition called pica in which a person feels an urge to eat mud due to the iron deficiency in his body. And I was pretty low on iron.

Or, maybe because the ‘word’ and ‘taste’ areas are lying next to each other in the brain, as per the professor, and people just muddle up their senses.