h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Excellent article, a truly fascinating subject.

Thank *you* kind sir!

I must concur. This is an excellent Entry! I had never heard of Synaesthesia before today. It is fascinating. I've always had a weird association with numbers -- each one to me has a unique personality. Not Synaesthesia, but there you go.

I must reconcur, intesting and infomative article.

Rama

Associating personalities with numbers or letters is indeed a synaesthetic trait ... lots of syns do this. Some syns see letters or numbers as having gender too.

Well what do you know! Though its more than single digits that have personalities to me. As to a numbers gender, thats easy, all even numbers are female to me, and the odds are male. Six is very bossy, and poor 7 is often subservient to her. Also numbers are happiest when they are combined to make the number 12, which is why 5 and 7 get along so well. Maybe I'm a syn afterall.

You certainly sound like a syn to me. You should join Sean Day's synesthesia list - it is fascinating to read the postings by all the syn members ... you discover that so many people share your little idiosyncrasies that you never knew were syn things.
Do cities have personalities or colours for you? How does dial tone look? What about a busy signal? Do you get sensory overload from too bright ligts or too loud noises or that woman in front of you at the movies who saw fit to marinade herself in perfume? Do you feel sorry for that old sweater with the buttons missing - its feelings will be hurt if you chuck it in the garbage? Do you get deja vu or precog? Or any other little oddities that you don't like to tell people about?
Very likely you are not the only one, many of your fellow-syns know all about it!