When I was quite young I formed the impression that the first few numbers were associated with particular colours.
Thus
- One is white
- Two is red
- Three is yellow
- Four is green
- Five is yellow
- Six is red
After that the feeling becomes vague. I think there were once more, but only these few remain vivid to me. There are some other coloured numbers; for instance
e = 2.718281828...
is
yellow, no doubt of it.
Later I learned a little music, and found that keys had colours. C Major is red, A Minor green, F Major blue, D Minor an inderterminate colour, B flat Major green etc. I don't literally see the colours, but to me E Major is irrevocably yellow.
Do other people have similar experiences? Do they think of letters of the alphabet as coloured, for example?
