Describing stuff with color

Everytime I think of the capital letter R or the number 2 I think of the color red, particularly bright red. Who else associates things and concepts with color?

Synesthesia? That would be pretty cool to have, actually.

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Only people who are born with synesthesia do that.

Derp, please tell, me, does the number 2 only make you think of the color red? Whenever you see 2, do you literally see red, or do you only think of it? Also, what if a capital R is already colored blue? Would you perceive it at purple, or still just red?

edited 8th Jan '11 9:53:49 PM by Grain

Anime geemu wo shinasai!

"2" is light green, you cretin!

It sounds like you are One of Us, perhaps. The key is consistency- if the colors have always been there, and they've never switched around (i.e. threes are blue today, yellow tomorrow), then you've probably got it.

Worth noting that there are other manifestations of synesthesia, too- I remember being jealous as a kid because I only had the boring variety everyone knows about. Then I read about a dude who, when he inhaled a certain vapor, felt unseen geometric shapes pressing into his skin. TRIPPY, MAN...

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You're both wrong. 2 is yellow.

I was rather disappointed when I discovered that there wasn't a universal synesthete number/letter-to-color conversion metric.

People with synesthesia don't agree on what connects to what but people who don't have it do. People who have synesthesia may see 2 as yellow or blue or whatever but people without only have the idea that some shapes are more aggressive or masculine or simple and then the idea that some colours are aggressive or gendered or so on.

Though in synesthesia some things commonly occur anyway. [shrug]

edited 9th Jan '11 2:36:10 PM by SomeSortOfTroper

I have felt similar with concepts but it's not enough to count as synthesia

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Well, I think of the months in colour, and some certain numbers. Like.. the twenties are all blue, the thirties all yellow, forties all red, fifties all dull, sixties all green, seventies all darker-green, eighties all navy blue, nineties all red. The hundreds are similar, but.. duller in colour.

Oh yeah. The single-digits usually correspond to the list above, but 1 never has a colour. It tends to be white.

...I hope this is what you meant. I mean.. I don't instantly see the colours; I just subconsciously picture it. I can't prevent it, or change it, and it has no effect on my day-to-day life.

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This more or less sounds like it- perhaps the first digit in a two-digit numeral is washing out the second digit's color? I don't know if it can work like that, though- my letters and numbers don't bleed. (For example, in the ad on this page, "29" is distinctly light-green/red. I mean, I know it's really written in blue, that's obvious- but the green/red is sort of overlaid on top of it in my mind. That's just the color it is.)

@jeweleddragon- Wouldn't it be kinda cool if we all had the same letter a/o number-to-color conversion? We'd all have our own little code... I actually have written down bank PI Ns and such by the first letter of the color they are; "1234567890" would be "SGYVBPEORW", or "sable green yellow violet blue pink emerald orange red white". (Yeah, I had to do some stretching to prevent letters from overlapping. And it doesn't help that those letters all have their individual colors.  ^*

But, the system works.)

Mind you, maybe the government would then send us all subliminal messages via color- that pretty rainbow at the top of the news reel would really be telling us to "VOTE JOE SCHMOE" or something. ^_*

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20's are always red for me, 30's are cyan, 40's are yellow. 5 is purple, 6 is orange, 8 is very dark blue. Most of the other digits either drift or are explicitly colorless.

But, that's when I think of them, not see them, so, probably not so far as to be synthesia.

edited 9th Jan '11 3:44:21 PM by Tangent128

Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?

I would personally love to hear about what colour is what number and letter! and if it bleeds through and just general info i have a weird fascination with Synaesthesia.

Oh, I see that too but only with letters that begin the words of colors. Like "R" is red, "B" is almost always a dark blue, "G" is green, "Y" is yellow, etc. I don't literally see it, but if I'm just talking about it, I imagine it.

I'm pretty sure the concept of Law having limits was a translation error. -Wanderlustwarrior

Has anyone here ever had to do that test where they give you words like so:

GREEN BLUE PURPLE

and so on, covering a page?

First you have to read off the words: "green blue purple . . ."

Then you have to read off the colors: "red green yellow . . ."

I did a lot better at the former than the latter, though I've been told I did decent on both.

edited 25th Jul '11 5:01:20 PM by feotakahari

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For me it's mostly with when I hear music. That explains why I hate the Love Lockdown video. It should have been in dimly lit (red or yellow light) rooms, not all white! And the Tron Legacy soundtracks: Perfect.

As for letters and numbers, 1 is almost always like against a black chalkboard.

edited 25th Jul '11 5:10:27 PM by ShadowBender

Sanity? Why would I need a useless thing like that? Now posting as Motor-Runner.