A piece of my synesthesia

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The shades are not very accurate. Numbers 1 and 3 are two of very few things that are close to pure red. Number 8 is exactly the same shade of blue as letter "M".

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[prorsus.livejournal.com]

Ah, grapheme color synesthesia.

[aliki.livejournal.com]

This was interesting to see!

Not sure of the concept

[devifemme.livejournal.com]

Um, about the letter "M"...

[itsjustc.livejournal.com]

So do you physically see them or is it a sense? Because I know it can be either.

And what colour would 28 be?

I see numbers as patterns in relation to each other. I live at 144 which I like as I see it as 12 squared rather than 144 and I used to live at 48 which again I always saw as 12x4 rather than 48.

By remembering the patterns and shapes a number makes on a phone keypad, I can relay back quite long numbers.

But my most interesting superpower (lol!) is that all my life I have had a strange "tingle" in my body whenever I see (or write my own) prime number! I'm 51 now and for most of my life I haven't been able to prove this fact and even more recently most prime number calculators don't go above 8 or 9 digits but I've recently find one that can tell me if any number I've come up with is a prime number - I think the biggest I have tried writing is a 19 digit number. :)

I'm very slightly better at writing them than seeing them but if someone say the numbers to me I can't get any right so it seems as if it's a visual thing.

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Wow. Thank you for this, this is super interesting. 28 is light blue. Let me come back to the rest when I am not on the run.