Synaesthesia in names

[LadyCressida]

Perfectly prepared for most people to think I'm loopy, but it's not just a pregnancy thing - i've always associated letters, numbers and names with certain colours. Does anyone else think they have synaesthesia?

I'd really like to know what names people consider to be red!

I think me and DH both have a red name and I want DC to have one too...

I know it sounds bonkers but there you go... there is a chance that someone else synaesthetic might understand!

Is Cressida your name? I would say it's yellow rather than red.

Red names to me are

Benji
Rhianna
Dave
Mark
Ian
Jennifer
Jack
Amy etc...

Yellow names (if your red equals my yellow iyswim)

Elizabeth
Eloise
Sebastian
Lianne
Hollie
Cadence
Oliver
Billy

Hmm I definitely think A is a red letter, buut I would put Ann as blue aswell so maybe I'm not led by the first letter. I can't really see a pattern in it...

My dd has this. I thought she was making it up until quite recently. She also sees colours when doing sums at school and sees patterns of colour when listening to music. Do you get that as well ?

Cuppateajanice - Yeah Cressida is my name - guess my red might equal your yellow as I defo see Eloise, Elizabeth and Sebastian as red!!

Kneazle I don't get the music one - but there are a lot of different types of synaesthesia- I was googling it today - check out the wikipedia article on it.

I think mine is more visual, and I also get the personification type, esp of things like numbers and I even see mathematical functions like Sin, Cos and Tan as different people, was trying to explain this over tea tonight - my DH thinks I'm batty

Synaesthetic people are generally quite good with numbers, and especially at memorising things like phone numbers, because I guess we have an extra angle to remember them by...

very interesting I will look that up. Dd is very good with numbers. She sees music mathematically (so she describes it) and that is where she says the colours come in. Fascinating to hear there are others like her. I will do some research.

I had never noticed names being different colours but the days of the week definately have different colours - for me sunday is black, monday red, tuesday yellow, wednesday a greeny-yellow, thursday red, friday dark blue and saturday white. I also see patterns of colour when listening to music - I found it very strange that others didn't!

My dd says Cressida is yellow like daffodils and smells like them as well

Cressida is definitely a light, delicate yellow for me too, Kneazle (and Cressida).

Yes, Cressida's a yellow name.

For me,numbers have personalities rather than colours, but then this leads to problems as some numbers for me have similar personalities, so I mix them up (particularly 4 and 7. All the time).

Oh my God. I have found my people.

Bessie is the reddest name of all.
Agree that Helen is yellow.
Iris is grey.

Numbers are also in colour for me.

By the way, what colour names did you give your DCs? I have a pale blue and a forest green.

I have synaesthesia too, but with days of the week - Monday=royal blue, Tuesday=turquoise, Wednesday=fawn, Thursday=dark green, Friday=grey, Saturday=white, Sunday=red.

Numbers are either friendly (1,2,5,10) or unfriendly (4,6,8).

I don't have it with names though - that's just weird

I don't see names in colours but I associate them with items. Not sure if there is a name for this or not or if anyone else does it...

For example:
Richard = coffee chocolate
Lindsay = lemon cake
Helen = a head with a bump on it
Peter = potato
Dave = gravy
Simon = a potted beef sandwich
Sarah = butter

hmmm most of my examples are the foodie ones. I must be hungry...

"Simon = a potted beef sandwich"

Angel, that is the funniest thing I've read in ages. The Helen one especially!

I can't help being weird

Yellow is my favourite colour

I still see my name as red though.

So pleased there are other people who think like me and i'm not just weird! (Well okay maybe it's still a little weird)

Alexandra is red, and we didnt choose Eleanor because it is blue (dont tell DH thats why!), Elizabeth is also blue while Harriet is brown.

My ds has a blue name. I just couldn't have called him a yellow or brown name.

Jacob, Toby, Benjamin and David seem like red names to me

I see most boy names as orange and blue with the occasional green

I think I am strange. Girl names I see in lots of different colours. Interestingly, ladycressida, I am really good with numbers and can also remember very long numbers with ease hormones- I also have friendly numbers and unfriendly numbers but angel, I don't see potted beef sandwiches !

You are all barking...especially angel

Angels post made me laugh out loud...lots

Angel must be white......

You've got me at it now!!

We should have a club, maybe a treehouse somewhere...

I also remember everyone's phone number, even numbers from years and years ago, and friendly and unfriendly numbers.

My DCs' names/ mn's are white/wedgewood blue, red/red, white/red, white/fuchsia, white/wedgewood blue

Names beginning with R and Z are all likely to be red for me. As I recall, there isn't any 'general' association of particular letters to particular colours -- each synaesthete (is that a word) will have their own set of associations.

Cressida is definitely yellow for me too, since C is yellow, but it has tinges of bright green, since S is green and there are 2 Ss. In fact, it reminds me of daffodils too Kneazie - because of these colours.

DS1 has a dark blue name, and this baby if a girl, will have a British Racing Green name. If it is a boy the name is very much undecided.