What is a pretty looking name or word to you? Also, what are the colors of the numbers to you? Some synesthetes have really awesome colors while I feel like mine are pretty lame most of the time xD so many black and white and green and red letters. So few yellows and blues and pinks and purples. It's tragic lol.

Haha yeah, I wouldn't be able to tell you as of now! The closest I get to tell you what it looks like when strokes that stand for different things merge together is with the letter Æ. A is red, E is a pale yellow so Æ is orange, but on a gradient from brown to bright orange. Very pretty letter and very dominant in words.

We also have the letters Ø and Å in my language which stand for "oe" for Ø and "aa" for Å. These are different, though, as their designs don't really show the combination of the letters like it does with Æ. O for me is white, sometimes with a light creamy yellow tint to it. E is, as I said, a pale yellow but Ø is the color of darker amber. A is red, but Å is a dusty blue and light pink, like a morning sky.

So if I learned Chinese, I'm sure the colors of their characters would be very intricate and probably take a different shape too as I'm used to seeing words in horizontal color codes similar to this:

But I suspect that because Chinese words are built more like in boxes, the color combinations would imitate their shapes too and that would be kinda cool to experience, I think. It would still be a largely useless ability, if you can even call it that, because I rarely use my synesthesia for anything other than remembering spellings and such.

Aw man. I have always wanted music based synesthesia. I knew someone who saw colors when she listened to music too and she tried to paint a few different songs at one point. It was so interesting.

I'm a bit jelly of you xD it must be friggin awesome to see colors when listening to music.

In that sense there is a logic to synesthesia. It's often sensory inputs experienced in childhood that gets mixed up and associated with one another so the fact that the thunderbirds have affected your number colors makes complete sense to me!

I'm pretty sure that A is red and B is blue to me because vocals are usually marked with red and consonants are marked with blue so the fact that the first two letters of the alphabet adheres to that rule makes sense to me. But I couldn't tell you why C is a pastel yellow, D is a blackish purple or why E is pale, almost white yellow etc.

In my case it does nothing for my understanding of math. I am pretty bad at math so my synesthesia would only benefit me with numbers if I was good at calculating things in my head. Then I would probably see the color of the number before getting the facit.

With words it can be helpful with spellings. If I or someone else misspell a word I see it immediately because the color is wrong. This is also how I remember people's names. I tend to ask people how their names are spelled so I see their colors correctly. To me, that's part of knowing someone. If I haven't seen someone's name written in front of me, they won't have a color and I then tend to forget their names, which is super awkward sometimes.

With some words that can be spelled in different ways, I prefer some spellings over others because the color is prettier or more appropriate.

For example with gray and grey I prefer grey because the color of that word is light grey and a very light yellow. Gray is a dark, denatured brown and red. I don't like it as much.

But yeah, when it comes to math, it does almost nothing for me because I'm not mathematically gifted at all.