I suspect that synaesthesia isn't all that exotic, and most people experience mild forms of it. I for one remember associating letters with colours when I was younger, though the colours were different (A,E and M were red, B was green, C and G were orange-yellow, and H was either red or blue). Some years later, I developed the theory that the mapping came from a set of alphabet blocks I played with when I was an infant.
Yes, I had blocks. But I also had these <a href="http://www.trcabc.com/jumbomagneticletters.html">magnetic letters</a>. I don't really associate letters with colors. But I DO associate music with colors. And sometimes smells. Oh, and tastes. I never realized I was doing this until my boyfriend pointed it out.
Here's another good synesthesia page:
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~noam/synesthes.html
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Mon Oct 21 07:16:30 2002
Synaesthesia is very case-specific. If you're interested, you might like to have a read: http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/synesthesia.html http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-10-cytowic.html