Anyone else see facial expressions in letters & numbers?

[chacoguy]

@Malleus_Incus_Stapes

By the way, are we allowed to recommend other boards? There’s a forum for synesthetes that I belong to, where people discuss this sort of thing all the time.

Tell your board to buy an ad here.

[elfkin477]

Numbers and letters no. But cars totally have faces.

[MsChilePepper]

My letters, numbers, and colors have genders. I also hear sounds in my head in relation to certain words, although not very many of them. The word stone, for example, makes me hear a sort of kettle drum sound in my head.

[Hypnagogic_Jerk]

Two-digit numbers have facial expressions (and emotions) to me. But they’re kind of fuzzy; I couldn’t tell you a different set of characteristics for every one of these numbers, but increasing from 10 to 99 I can make out a story. It’s not synesthesia, I think it’s based on the shape of the numbers.

[tdn]

@umop_ap_sdn

So for those who see colors in the letters, are the letters themselves tinted when you look at them?

Not at all.

[newcomer]

@umop_ap_sdn

I always have, ever since I was a little kid. It’s as if each letter and number has a face, and is looking in a specific direction, with a specific mood. For example, upper case A looks friendly and enthusiastic while upper case T is so stern and stoic. Lower case a is looking back at the previous letter to see what it has. Etcetera, etcetera. I seem to remember asking my mother about it when I was very young, and she thought it was completely ridiculous.

Anyone else experience this?

I had a similar situation but with cars. As a kid, I’d be looking at front of the car, with its lights, grille and fenders and I’d see people, or more like some generic people types - funny, gooffy, crazy, mad etc.

Then, they made Cars.

[umop_ap_sdn]

Cars have two faces - one in the front and one in the back. I think for me it’s just the combination of the head/tail lights and the grille or license plate though.

However, all trucks are male and all passenger cars are female.

[newcomer]

@umop_ap_sdn

Cars have two faces - one in the front and one in the back.

Agreed.

But (pun intended), upon further elaboration re: car back “face”, one would certainly end up in J.G Ballard teritory

[Lily_Milliner]

Sorry to continue the hijack, but it’s so funny to find this thread right now–my almost-three-year-old son asks me nearly every time we’re in the car why all the cars are sad or angry. Apparently none of the car-faces he sees are smiling.