Thread: Does anyone else do this?

It's not voluntary, Liz, and does not require remembering.

That's the way numbers have always appeared to me upon imagining them.

[Edit] This sounds like a topic that's geared more towards generating serious discussion. Unsuitable for Senseless.

This sounds a lot like synesthesia.

Synesthesia is a neurological condition when your senses are linked, or one sense will stimulate another. That's to put it as simply as possible. For example: projecting color onto letters, seeing color for songs, tasting words, etc.

Maybe this is mathematic mnemonic device used consciously or unconsciously by math scholars?

I have never done this.

I asked various people including my relatives about it in past, and all of them said that they do associate colors with letters and numbers. So it's a normal thing I'm sure. There are differences in colors that come up if you start comparing, but everybody has such associations.

I associate emotions with certain numbers. For example, I cannot explain why but I get an almost uncomfortable vibe from 4, or an impatient feeling from 7, or a frantic feeling from 9, or a calm feeling from 5.

Mine don't have to do with the amount of the number or multiples or anything, but the shape of it rather.

... it's weird

I wrote a short bit explaining my ideas about harmony/personality within numbers.

Don't feel like pasting the whole thing:

http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1568964

There are my ideas.