It’s funny that you ask this. Since I’ve been a child I’ve always been attracted to odd numbers. As a child I always had to “get my number.”. That could mean counting something, how many times I’d touch something, steps I’d take, etc. The numbers I usually prefered were 3, 5, 9, 19, 21 and 23. It could go higher but I’d usually have to increase the number by 4. I’m not quite that bad now but I still catch myself counting letters and numbers on license plates and bumper stickers when stopped at a red light, trying to make them come up odd.
I know, what a nut. What can I say? I think most creative types are a bit OCD.
I love odd numbers, personally I think even numbers are too… symmetric. I mean how can I divide something and have the something that I divide have something in the center if that something doesn’t divide so I can have that something in the center but, instead, equal on all sides…
/shivers
/vomits
/fear
/wrist.
@AC: I am EXACTLY like that. I have to increase things by 2. Or when I’m reading, I’ll count the words in 3s in my head. I always have to “get my number” too. Mine are 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, 17, 19, 21, etc…
@alfreda I didn’t think I had a “numbers” thing…but now that you mention the floral arranging I do it then….and in flower planting/gardening (3,5,7, etc).
Funny you should ask this, as I was thinking the other day about the combination of a lock I own. One of the numbers is 34, which feels to me to be ‘female’, yet one of the other numbers is 16, and that seems ‘male’ to me. I’m not sure why, but that’s how they feel to me. I think that is pretty odd, don’t you?
I’m an even-steven kind of girl. When I was a kid, I counted everything, always in patterns of 4. I still do that when I’m doing deep breathing (count to 4 on inhale, hold for 4, exhale to 4, hold for 4, repeat). I also had to chew evenly on both sides of my mouth. Psst…sometimes I still do this.