Associating colors to numbers and letters.

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Does anyone else have an habit of "translating" values in their head to another type of value?

For example, when I was a young child, I strongly associated blue, four and "r" together. Red, two and "b" were another part of this mindset.

I think I might have some of this. It's called synesthesia.

When I've been learning Japanese, there seem to be some Japanese words and phrases that produce a coloring experience (where a certain color seems to fill a part of my head).

I do this too. When someone mentions a letter I instantly think of the colour I associate with it. This does not happen when I am reading, only verbal mentions of a letter trigger the respone. I tend to associate "N" with the number one and the shade grey.

I believe, that letter-color, number-color and weekdays-color are the most common synaesthetic connections. Others can be sound-color, smell-color, tactile-color, sound-tactile, sound-smell....the possibilities are endless.

I see the alphabet along a color spectrum in my head, as well as numbers. Months and days of the week are colored as well, though I guess "shaded" is a better word for it.

I do something like that, too. But most of my associated values have some obvious logic to them. For example I give a number to each train station with Perth being zero because it's the central point. I do the same with many things.

Each train line has an associated color in my head, which doesn't match Transperth's color system. Each day of the week has a color, too. Also 1=red, 2=blue, 3=yellow etc. Male=odd number, female=even number.

I think there was a thread before where people talked about what color each day of the week felt like.

It's called [Synaesthesia] as the 2nd person in this thread said. It affects 1 in 23 people, some articles below...
http://www.harding.edu/gclayton/color/t ... hesia.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Having this ability makes number and letter sequences easier for people to remember, and people with Synaesthesia tend to be more creative.

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