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weird associations
Posted: Mon March 16, 2026 7:21 pm
by BurtReynolds
math is blue
reading/writing is red
science is green
history is yellow
1 is white
2 is red
3 is green
4 is blue
5 is orange
6 is brown
7 is yellow
8 is purple
9 is black
all dogs are male
all cats are female
Re: weird associations
Posted: Mon March 16, 2026 7:53 pm
by LoathedVermin72
I do not have the color association thing I hear people talk about
Re: weird associations
Posted: Mon March 16, 2026 8:19 pm
by epilogue
Yeah, that's not actually something I've ever heard of before.
Interesting
Re: weird associations
Posted: Mon March 16, 2026 8:37 pm
by BurtReynolds
I'm a grapheme–color synesthete!
Pretty sure I saw colored numbers in kindergarten and the association stuck forever.
Re: weird associations
Posted: Mon March 16, 2026 9:00 pm
by washing machine
I have these associations too. It helped my reading and sometimes messed with my math in school.
Letters/colors/numbers all have "personalities". Red is kind of a smart aleck. The number 5 is a bore. 2 is blue and stealthy.
The word "tree" works especially well because of how green T is.
Re: weird associations
Posted: Mon March 16, 2026 9:00 pm
by washing machine
I have these associations too. It helped my reading and sometimes messed with my math in school.
Letters/colors/numbers all have "personalities". Red is kind of a smart aleck. The number 5 is a bore. 2 is blue and stealthy.
The word "tree" works especially well because of how green T is.
Re: weird associations
Posted: Mon March 16, 2026 11:31 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
Can't relate to the colors as numbers at all. Not sure i've even heard of it.
All cats as females for sure though.
Re: weird associations
Posted: Tue March 17, 2026 12:53 am
by BurtReynolds
washing machine wrote:I have these associations too. It helped my reading and sometimes messed with my math in school.
Letters/colors/numbers all have "personalities". Red is kind of a smart aleck. The number 5 is a bore. 2 is blue and stealthy.
The word "tree" works especially well because of how green T is.
6 is boring.
5 is evil.
4 is a good guy.
Re: weird associations
Posted: Tue March 17, 2026 12:59 am
by Jorge
7 ate 9
Re: weird associations
Posted: Tue March 17, 2026 1:57 am
by E.H. Ruddock
Burt started a thread based on trivial pursuit topic colors
Re: weird associations
Posted: Tue March 17, 2026 2:54 am
by BurtReynolds
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Burt started a thread based on trivial pursuit topic colors
The makers of that game knew what's up
Re: weird associations
Posted: Tue March 17, 2026 3:01 am
by spike
I used to have some color association stuff happening in my mind, but less so now as my brain slowly turns to mush.
Re: weird associations
Posted: Tue March 17, 2026 9:36 am
by Ello Sailor
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Burt started a thread based on trivial pursuit topic colors
The most bored mfer of all time.
Re: weird associations
Posted: Tue March 17, 2026 1:23 pm
by washing machine
Ninja Turtles head and arm bands nailed their respective color personalities.
Or maybe the influenced how I see them? 1987-1988 Would have been about the time I started learning to read and count.