How to you "visualise" a year?

[desperatetostaypositive]

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?

My year is a circle with December at the bottom, but the months go widdershins. So January is at 5 o'clock, February at 4 etc. Its not quite circular, more of a squashed circle so May and June are quite close together then July and August are at the top.

With days of the week, they are an oval going widdershins, with the weekend at the bottom. MWF are definitely odd days.

I've occasionally tried to explain this to DH but he has no idea what I'm on about.

Jan Feb March
April. May June
July. August sept
Oct. Nov. Dec

All in their own boxes.

Weekdays

Mon
Tues. Sun
Weds. Sat
Thursday
Friday

Different colours too.

@desperatetostaypositive

Exactly same here! But mine also has a colour fade like a Ph scale.

@PixellatedPixie

Mine are:
Monday sand/ light brown
Tuesday- bright red (like M&Ms)
Wednesday- olive green
Thursday- orange
Friday - bright blue (again like the M&Ms)
Saturday- white
Sunday- lush green

:)

This is so confusing, I always thought I did have a minds eye but now I’m not sure? I didn’t realise people could literally see things in their head? I can think about things so it feels like I’m seeing them but there’s nothing there, and I’m lost now 😂

Interesting - I kind of split years into school terms these days I think! But still linear basically.

I can only visualise max 4 months at a time, the rest blur into oblivion.

I don't visualise the year at all.

When these threads come up and I actually force myself to try it just seems like I'm basing it on what other people have said.

An oval - similar to you!

But with Summer at the top and Christmas as the bottom. It makes me slightly uncomfortable that one side of the oval (Jan to June/July) has more months than the other, but I can't picture it any other way!

@HeronLanyon

As a kid I once came home on a train (about 11 stops) and started to say x station is definitely blue. My mum and I then wrote down the line (we knew it well) station by station with out colours. There was only one we saw as a different colour ! Inheritance makes sense to me but didn’t know it might be a thing. I agree with pp in that m w and f are spikey and tues and Thursday in softer focus. I am fixed by all of this anti clockwise stuff. Is this for an upcoming year ? The future year is any clockwise ??

Really no idea why it goes anti-clockwise. It's so fascinating, it's just something that is, no planning it out or anything like that. It's just like that because!!

Colours don't come much into any of visuals

I visualise it in seasonal blocks.

Very boring here as I visualise it just like I’m looking at a calendar. Could someone who ‘sees’ it visually please explain how or why the months can have different sizes rather than being all regular?

What circumstances do you all start visualising the year in anyway? How does it come up?

@youlittlecharmer

Mine is like yours but the other way around - summer is at the top and winter at the bottom. Like a clock face!

This is mine too.

My New Year begins 1st September. New years eve and day ( 31st Dec and 1st Jan) have never meant a thing to me, I just dont get it.
My year is in a line but in groups of 3, so Sept, Oct, Nov - new beginnings, organising, sorting, starting afresh
Dec Jan Feb - rest and hibernation
March April May - active, busy, working hard, energetic
June July August - slow down, play, soak up nature
I've wondered if it's due to having an allotment, but I felt the same when young.

@EmmaGrundyForPM I just had to Google widdershins. What a cool word, I hadn’t heard it before.

If I am just thinking about the year ahead I think of the seasons and I might kind of imagine an outdoor scene of what the different seasons look like.

Why does anyone need to see a kind of icon or symbol of the year? I don't really understand how this comes up.

@ToManderleyAgain

Very boring here as I visualise it just like I’m looking at a calendar. Could someone who ‘sees’ it visually please explain how or why the months can have different sizes rather than being all regular?

Absolutely no reason. It's not a planned thing. It's just how it appears in your mind. Though I think for me there's obviously been a big emphasis and importance on the school summer holidays then the autumn term has more space because as a family we are full of birthdays and lovely things in the autumn. But as I say, it's all subconscious, I don't purposely make it like that.

@desperatetostaypositive

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?

Like yours OP but jan is where Sept is and goes round anticlockwise. A week written down would be monday over there >>>> then going this way

What circumstances do you all start visualising the year in anyway? How does it come up?

It's just there, always has been, and I see it when dates are discussed. I also have a visual number system that again is just there, whenever numbers are involved. I see Covid deaths mapped onto the relevant point on my number map!

DH says he can create a number line if he wants (a boring straight one), but mine are not consciously created, they have just been there from as far back as I can remember.

@WunWun

If I am just thinking about the year ahead I think of the seasons and I might kind of imagine an outdoor scene of what the different seasons look like.

Why does anyone need to see a kind of icon or symbol of the year? I don't really understand how this comes up.

Completely automatic response. It's not a conscious decision to think of a year like that, it just happens in your mind. So for instance, my friend is hopefully getting married in June and when it is mentioned my first thought is a little mark in the June section of my circle. Then we get into visualising clothes, food, whatever else is being discussed.

Agreed. It's just there. Whenever I think about something in the future, the relevant point lights up on my interactive, oval, anti-clockwise spinning wheel
It's the same with lots of things though like mental arithmetic as well, it's numbers melting together but that's much harder to describe.

Well whenever anything comes up eg - ‘shall we go out to eat on Thursday’ or have we got tickets to that thing in February’ (pre
Covid Life) I see the whole year in my minds eye then kind of swoop down into the day or week we are talking about and it gets more focussed as I pan in. I always have quite a bit of the whole year still in my peripheral minds eye when focussing in eg Thursday or February.

If I was thinking about memorising a date I might think about my actual wall calendar, but that's about as close as I've ever got to this.

Horizontal tiles left to right. They get bigger towards the summer months then smaller again down to Christmas.
Days of the week are the same but Saturday and Sunday are the bigger tiles.
Weird.