Synesthesia

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My son (6) has started showing some signs of synesthesia (like his dad)! DS says most numbers have colours, and explained them all to me...all very interesting. Anyone else have anything like this?

No, Mondays are obviously are dark, sludgy shade of green. Wednesdays and Fridays are yellow. Thursdays are a dark pink. Saturdays are black/grey and a bit shiny. Sundays are brown. So there!

Sparklyboots is obviously not a Rolling Stones fan :o

The number 7 is dark bluey-purple. (Indigo?)
I do the days of the week, months, numbers in colour. My numberline extends from behind my shoulder out in front of me. I imagine the year as a huge calendar that I stand on at the appropriate point (but I don't think that counts as synesthesia?)
A pupil once told me that a number (I forget which, it could have been 3) tastes of strawberries. Now that is synesthesia!

7 is green!

Yes, 7 is definitely green. And 1 is white.

1 is greyish.....

The number is 4 is yellow.
2 is red.
9 is green.

4 is a dark reddish brown. 2 is yellow. 9 is nearly black.

Sparkly, I also thought everyone saw colours with music until I heard a radio documentary about synaesthesia. And that was halfway through my music degree!
Oliver Sacks book 'Musicophilia' has a good chapter on synaesthesia.

The article about the mirror touch synaesthesia freaked me out - and prompted DP's mum to admit that she gets a pain in her legs every time she hears about or sees someone being hurt.

...and he also talks about all babies probably having synasthesia. Charles Fernyhough discusses this in The Baby In The Mirror too, it blows my mind q bit to think of them experiencing things like that - tasting a shape, feeling music etc.

Ooh Slug I see numbers and years in a 3 dimensional space with me placed on it and I can look back and forward. I thought thats how most people thought....[wonders off wandering what else I do like this....]