is it just me or do other people think numbers and letters have different colours, eg 5 is light brown?

Answer 1

Have no idea what your on about,sorry

Answer 2

There's that famous bloke (subject of channel 4 documentary: The boy with the amazing mind... or something like that). He was on Richard and Judy the other week. He sees all numbers as shapes and colours, the same for days of the week etc. What was interesting was that he would draw a shape for a number, leave a bit of a space, then draw another shape for another number. The shape that jigsawed into the space he'd left between the 2 shapes was a graphical representation of the 2 original numbers multiplied together.

Answer 3

Yes, it is a condition called synithsesia (or something) and it has varying levels of complexity depending on each person. Letters, numbers, days of the week, months and shapes all have different colours to me. I also see a year as a shape.

Most people have a very mild form of this that is almost unnoticeable. Others will actually see colours and shapes when they hear sounds!

Answer 4

I'm a professional musician, and I see/hear different musical keys in different colours, e.g C-minor is dark blue, E-flat major is a nice yellow, A-major is scarlet, G-major is darkish green. It's not for every possible key, though, and it's only when I'm actually playing the music rather than listening to it.

I believe the composer Stravinsky was known for having a certain degree of synesthesia related to sound, and I suspect that Debussy did as well.

Answer 5

There's more information on synesthesia on Wikipedia (see link below). It's a neurological phenomenon in which two or more bodily 'senses' become interconnected, which can indeed mean that come people inherently feel that letters, numbers etc. are coloured. Other may 'visualise' music and it is believed many famous artists, writer and painters were synesthetes, and that it helped them express themselves.

Answer 6

Numbers, letters, days of the week, months, and years.
They all have different colors and they flow in different directions.

For example, Wednesday is dark blue, and so is September. The days flow from west to east, the future is to the north, and the past is to the south.

Nice to know someone "sees" this, too!

.... 15 minutes later...
OK, this is so cool! I asked my kids what they thought, and they all see things in color, too, though without directions.

Turns out my 9-year-old had actually made a chart in Excel (who knows how loge ago?) mapping his perceptions of numbers vs his sister's.

And I found this site: http://www.mixsig.net/index.php

Answer 7

No it's not just you! lots of people have that phenomenon. Scientists are studying it. I don't have it. but apparently it can have advantages. Some people also see the numbers and letter in 3D as well as colour apparently.

Answer 8

Oh my god i never thought of it like that.
I know what you mean but i never thought of it in numbers and letters. Now i have a new obsession to be getting on with.
This is gonna drive my brain nuts!!!!!!! And my boyfriend who has to listen to all the craziness!

Ok just looked that word up they're using. check this out
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=14204

Answer 9

its not just you, there is an actuall word for it, some people see them as kind of places on a diagram, its amazing listening to people describing what 1 - 10 on a diagram looks like!

Answer 10

Yes! Since I was small, numbers, days of the week, months, letters, you name it.

Answer 11

I don't understand it, but I believe that people who are very creative or artistic, see things that we commoners don't. I think that is where much of their 'work' comes from. But no, not me. I have no creativity and am not artistically talented.