Color Association

[plumtreeblossom]

I am nothing so much as a patchwork quilt of idiosyncrasies, one of the odder ones being that I tend to associate people I know (in person) with a color or color pattern. The association forms unconsciously; instantly with some people, later on with others if it takes longer to get a feel for their color.

I also do this with numbers, letters of the alphabet, and months of the year. Today is February (pink) 19, (white + deep purple) 2005 (yellow+white+white+blue).
With people, there’s a wider variety. Many overlap or double. As an example, I’ll use people on my LJ friendlist. If I you don’t see yourself here, it only means I’ve never met you in person or I haven’t (yet!) hung out with you enough for a color to form. These colors are:

alfie1981 -- White
androidqueen -- Midnight Blue
audioboy -- Chrome
bacall -- Seriously Bright Yellow
beana_1977 -- Magenta and Turquoise
bex77 -- Baby Pink
chanaleh -- Deep Orange
cometsong -- Green (all shades, depending on mood)
derspatchel -- Manila or Off-white
desultor -- Glittery Red
dpolicar -- Navy
earthling177 -- Sky Blue
epilimnion -- Spring Green
espressojim -- Black
gilana -- Olive
gringoddess -- White and Green, sort of gingham
guxx -- Oxford Blue
heliopsis -- Goldenrod
infinitehotel -- Forest Green
jason237 -- Silver
jimmystagger -- Black and White check (racing flag pattern)
jmspencer -- Yellow/Black tartan (it’s that shirt…)
kalisti23 -- Leafy Green
lillibet -- Burgundy
lordfeepness -- Orange
mafaldarose -- Rose
majes -- Red!
minkrose -- Darker Red, ribboned with Black
miss_chance -- Chocolate
muffyjo -- Baby Blue
petra_quince -- Peach
pheromone -- sometimes Sand, sometimes Purple
quilla -- Saffron
scholargipsy -- previously Blue, now Cherry Blossom (Nihon=pink, to me)
shayr22 -- Baby Blue
tcb -- Desert Golds and Oranges
wellstar -- Oxford Gray

I have to wonder if anyone else does this in their heads.

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

It's just a sense, really. Yours are the desert tones because when I think of you I think of BurningMan. People's colors are nothing I can see, just some thing I feel or have felt coming from them in one way or another.

I've known 2 people who claim to see auras. One of them I believed, because her body language reflected very genuine responses when my aura was, presumably, a color indicating something bad. It was someone I worked at MITP with briefly, and she was an accountant rather than a "professional" psychic or anything. So I do believe some people can see auras, even though I can't.