Ever since I was young, I've associated certain colors with numbers. I wonder if the little fridge magnets when I was a kid happened to be uniformly allocated, number to color. Nonetheless, when I think about certain colors, their numeric value is part of my "mental meta data" for it.
Mine are:
- White = 1
- Yellow = 2
- Orange = 3
- Red = 5
- Green = 7
- Purple = 8
- Black = 10
I asked Heidi if she did the same thing, and she confessed, but her colors were different. What was so amusing about the discussion was the profound hubris we each had about our pairings. "
Brown isn't two! How could you even think that?" It simply wasn't up for debate which color
was which number. It just
was.
I find that my associations of yellow=2,orange=3, and red=5 to be particularly strong. The others I might entertain suggestions, but just for the sake of fairness. 2, 3 and 5, though, are strictly not up for discussion.
Do you have your own associations?
