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Do you think it's possible those were just the colors of fridge-magnet letters that were around when you were a baby, or is it somehow deeper?
It's possible, I don't know. Supposedly, a lot of people have some letter-color association, and the vast majority of people associate A with red and B with blue and G with green and so on. A lot of those children's books which teach you the letters have A for apple, so that could explain why A is red. The others are obvious because the word blue starts with B and the word green starts with G.
Sometimes, I try to explain this to people, and they just give me the strangest look and they have no idea what I'm talking about. Others can draw an association, but they've never thought about it before.
If you have a strong association like that, you're still considered a synesthete. You're an "associator" synesthete.
I'll give you one very strong example from music. I explained how timbres have colors (giving a literal meaning to the term "tone color"). In my head, a guitar playing with a chorus effect is always blue. it's one of the strongest associations I have with timbres. A chorus effect adds a blue hue to almost any sound. That's its job in my head, to make sounds bluer.
That may be one reason why I like eighties music so much, because it has a lot of bright blue colors from the chorusy guitars.
Reverb adds a silvery shimmering shine to things.
Metal distortion sounds like black mud.
Some music has a strong tactile association too. For me Autechre is the most tactile artist out there. I can almost feel Autechre's music on my fingertips.
Sounds also have shapes. A thick drum machine snare is very square-shaped.
I love synthesizers because synthesizers are the most colorful instrument out there. You can produce any kind of colors and shapes with synthesizers.
There's some songs with such strong visuals in my head, I could draw you a picture of what it looks like.
Usually drums are on the bottom of the image moving across as time passes. It's like the base upon which everything else is built, but some drum sounds can hover around the image. Melodic lines are literally like lines or ribbons that kinda wave in and out depending on the sound and the melody. The cumulative effect of the full mix of a song can just have it's own textures. It's hard to explain.
The closest thing I've ever seen to what it looks like is this: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21ehg_boards-of-canada-june-9th_music
