Synesthesia - Numberphile

Talking about Grapheme to Colour Synesthesia with Alex from Bite Sci-Zed. Do you see numbers as colours? Leave a comment.
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[meadowgreene]

It's so weird reading other peoples' colors. I keep thinking "No! 1 is not that color!"

[NitrC]

I can´t imagine living without synesthesia. I was always used to my thoughts spouting with colours.

[BarknoorZ]

But for me even if a number has double digits, like 12, I still see each digit in it's own separate color, I don't see 12 as a whole.

[wesbarnes]

1-yellow (slightly washed-out)
2-deep blue
3-yellow
4-purple
5-very intense red
6-orange
7-blue-green
8-purple (deeper than 4)
9-yellow (same shade as 3)

Many of these also have consistent feelings associated with them, but these are hard to explain.

I also associate months, the alphabet, and names with colors.

[funubergames]

"0 is gray, 1 is a different shade of gray, 2 is an off gray, 3 is also gray": says my dog

[spidaminida]

It would be interesting to see where people's synesthesia interacts, and how one ends up with an Irishman winning the lottery next to a river giving you the square root of 13...

[JennWanderer]

I completely forgot that when I was a child I saw every number as a face with a specific emotion up until she said "numbers have personalities!". I even drew numbers in my books as the faces I saw in my mind. Numbers with more than one digit were groups of "characters" having conversations and arguments. It really clicked in when she said 9 was angry, because of how true it was. I always thought the same. It makes me sad that I forgot for so long, so thank you for reminding me, Brady and Alex!

[flitzPrinze]

0 is black, 1 is black, 2 is black, 3 is black, 4 is also black, 5 is... black... I feel like the odd one out in the comments section.

[emilowski]

i get this with the numbers with colours and personalities but i also get it with months and letters does anyone else?

[BarknoorZ]

OH OH and also my numbers have genders, personalities and stories. That's normal, right? XD

[UnorthodoxSoundwave.]

And then I'm the opposite.
I have Aphantasia, and therefore none of the numbers exist in my mind.
Nor does anything else.
It's very empty.
Help.

[TehLolMaker]

I do this with letters, too. It particularly helps when recalling someone's name, since names are usually associated with the color of its first letter. For example I may not remember a name, but I will remember that their name had a bright yellow color, so I'll start thinking of all kinds of names with a bright yellow first letter: A, S, T, W, Y and after while I can remember it.

[windowslove]

I have synesthesia too. Yeah, that's right that each digit from 0 to 9 has its own color. 0 is white, 1 is yellow, 2 is pink, 3 is orange, 4 is sky blue, 5 is red, 6 is maroon, 7 is green, 8 is dark blue and 9 is violet. And each synesthete understands/sees numbers in a very own and special way. Anyway having synesthesia is really

[ThePrisma]

I've always experienced 0-9 as having colors, but then the colors repeat with powers of ten; so Three is green, and so is thirty. Numbers also have weird, abstract personality traits associated with them; for example, nine is an evil plotting villain.

[Blizzhobbs]

Wow, I've always thought of 4 as a "blue" number and 2 as a "green" number. Though I can't quite say that I actually see the numbers in those colors when looking at them; I suppose it's more subtle than in her instance.

[heyo_xx]

1- sky blue
2-yellow
3-orange
4-green
5-dark blue
6-red
7-black
8-purple
9-white

And they also have a personality.

1-nice
2-happy
3-immature
4-funny
5-lucky
6-friendly
7-jealous
8-mean
9-mature

[SadeMetsavirta]

I also feel certain emotions and colors with numbers! :D it's so interesting to know this is a real thing

[rubycubez]

I can't believe I found this. For yrs, I was explaining this to random ppl but they think I'm odd. My fav number is 4. She's a crimson shade. Mature. Sophisticated. Fun loving gal.

[_CE]

In my head, numbers are things I use to count with.
For example, if I have a single walnut.
I would say, "I have ONE walnut."

If I had a second walnut.
I would say, "I have TWO walnuts."

[firstnamelastname]

holy shit I thought I was the only one! 
Here's how I see the digits 

0 - nothing/transparent(?)
1 - blue 
2 - yellow
3 - red 
4 - white
5 - green
6 - yellow
7 - brown
8 - black 
9 - black 

No idea why yellow and black pops up twice though