Musical Keys & Colors

I had a friend who could see colors and identify keys as such. I was amazed. I would play random notes on the guitar and he would nail them 100% of the time. He would also associate different people's personalities with different keys. He saw himself as an F# minor and me too. He had a detailed description and mood or 'feel' for each person, color and key. I thought maybe he was a rare case but it sounds like many people have this to some degree.

I don't think I have true synethesia, even though I wish soooo much that I did, but I do associate these keys with colors:

C Major: White

c minor: Orange

c# minor: Grey

D Major: Green

d minor: Dark Green

Db Major: Light Green

e minor: Dark Purple

Eb Major: Orange

F Major: Its a color I can't identify, but its a happy color.

f# minor: Dark Red & Black (simultaneously)

G Major: Pale Blueish-Whitish (another unidentifiable color)

g minor: Navy Blue

Gb Major: Light Purple

A Major: Brilliant Yellow

a minor: White

Ab Major: Mellow Light Yellow

ab minor: Yellow-Green

B Major: Light Blue

b minor: A different Navy blue than g minor

Bb Major: Blue

bb minor: Blue-Black

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What's worse? Necromancy or repetitive threads?

I maintain my previous position on synaesthesia (i'm lazy tonight).

I wish I had synesthesia...I guess that's how things work sometimes. For those of you WITH synesthesia, You find yourselves in extraordinary company. One of my greatest influences was a synesthesiac... Claude Debussy. I, on the other hand, suffer from manic/depressive, and compose on bipolar creativity. I more associate motifs with thoughts and images. The keys, however, do come into play. Whenever I hear the Key of F Major, for instance, there's a certain deep warmth there, and I visualize light/the sun... or when I hear a stepwise melody in the B-dorian mode, I get choked up... But I don't usually associate a specific colour to specific notes.

Edit: famous composers with manic/depression include but are not limited to:

Beethoven

Berlin

Holst

Schoenberg

Stravinsky (speculated, not proven)