How to you "visualise" a year?

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I was talking to dh about how I picture a year in my mind, and he doesn't do this. His year is just one month after another in a straight line.
Mine is a circle (I'll try and attach a picture)

The whole bottom edge is the summer holidays and the top Christmas. It's completely disproportionate to the timescale! I've always viewed my years in my minds eye like this.

Anyone else?

temperature curve like this. So hump not circle.

Another that sees it similar to you but other way round like a clock.

Mine is like a clock face, so in a circle . December is at 12 o clock. Then the rest of the months go clockwise, January at 1 o'clock and so on.

Thanks all for those responses! What a mixture we are. And for whoever asked further unthread if I posted this same question this time last year - not that I remember

Mine is an oval - winter and summer being the "short ends". Months are segments and colour coded (e.g. April - green, May - blue, June - yellow); interestingly March and November have the same colour (grey-brown) and December is black whereas January is white.
It's also interactive so I can spin it if I want to look at a month more closely.
I find it super handy to judge length in time and plan ahead!

I always visualise the year as a vertical line with a little flick at the end. January at the beginning, and December at the flick at the end.

When I was little, I didn't associate January following December, as there is such a big gap from the bottom of the flick to the top of the vertical line.

It's funny when I think back to how I used to think. But I do still think of the year as a vertical line with a flick.

Exactly like a clock face. December at 12 o'clock, March at 3 o'clock, June at 6 and September at 9.

I also have a mind picture for the days of the week, and I also have a number line.

It's a form of synaesthesia.

@bibbidybobbidyboo

I visualise it like yours OP! Apparently it's a thing that some people do, google "synesthesia months of the year". This image is one of the top results and it's almost exactly how mine looks!

That's really interesting. I have always visualised numbers in a strange way since I was a child so googled number synesthesia and there was an image with the exact same pattern I see them but my vision is upside down and flipped. So my 0 would be in the bottom right corner and my 40 in the top left corner.

Like a skewed clockface with December at the top (12) but May and June clumped together around 5 and July at 6. Everything else more or less in place.

I don't. I don't have a minds eye. I cannot visualise anything in my head at all. For example I could close my eyes and try to imagine what my husband looks like, I could describe him very accurately, but there's no image, I see nothing.

Left to right in a grid pattern.

I see lots of things in patterns or shapes and like a pp have also got synaethesia. It's interesting that some people see the year as a clock though.

Exactly the same as yours, OP!

As a clock face, with September at 3.

HarrietSchulenberg

Like a skewed clockface with December at the top (12) but May and June clumped together around 5 and July at 6. Everything else more or less in place.

Mine is similar but it's August at 6 o'clock. May is at 3 and October at 9. Each month radiates out like rays of the sun, with the first of the month towards the centre of the oval.

Exactly like yours! I also visualise numbers to 1000 in a specific way but it's complicated to explain

Horizontal straight line, which sort of rises during the summer.

I visualise it exactly like yours OP !

Mine is the shape bibbidybobbidyboo pic shows but I don’t have a mind visual (for anything) so I can just feel where it is around me - it has different textures

Similar, but mine is based on the academic year (teacher)- kind of triangular with Christmas and Easter as the bottom corners, but with the last bit of July and all of August along the top so actually a trapezium, but with curved corners!

It's a bit like the picture @bibbidybobbidyboo posted, but it doesn't come around me - it's out in front of me on a horizontal plane, with Easter being the furthest from me.

You're all mad!

(NB I have aphantasia and visualise nothing!)

Straight line for me!

In a similarish vein - does anyone else think of Monday, Wednesday and Friday as the ‘odd’ days of the week and Tuesday/Thursday as the ‘even’ ... not sure where I stand on Sunday.

Mine is an oval. It's completely fascinating when you realise not everybody sees the world like you do. I don't know how people can see the year in a line. Ugh!

OP — I’m just like you! I’ve earnestly tried, and failed, to explain this to people over the years... don’t get me started on how I visualise decades, centuries and millennia

I see the week in an oval too with Saturday and Sunday longer and Wednesday kind of opposite the join between the two weekend days.

Interesting yours is anti-clockwise I was expecting clockwise. Your year seems to go backwards ???
Mine is a straight line but it’s not level.
My high points are start and finish with low point at Easter another slight dip July august and then a steady rise to December.