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How do you think of the year?

89 replies

pinklillie · 01/01/2023 22:38

Is this just me but how do you think of and visualise a year?

I just had a discussion with MIL, FIL and DH and they have all looked at me like I am a bit daft! They don't visualise anything.

I think of the seasons in blocks and then they sort of form a circle round from January to December.

Anyone else?

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nottheoptics · 01/01/2023 23:14

I don't visualise anything either but I do see number lines in a particular way. I think probably that was the display I spent most of P1 staring at in front of me. Maybe you had a months of the year display like yours in your classroom.

Jifmicroliquid · 01/01/2023 23:15

A list of Jan- June, one on top of the other. July is next to June then July-December has its own list one on top of the other. So basically two lists kind of in two columns but not next to each other.

AnonWeeMouse · 01/01/2023 23:17

I don't visualise.it, this is the first time I've heard of people visualising the year tbh

I look at a calendar now and then but other than that I just take days as they come and eventually the.year passes and the beckoning void is closer.

Overthebow · 01/01/2023 23:19

I see it in a kind of loop, but with a slightly sloping horizontal line until July, vertical downwards to December then January loops onto the end and back up to start again. Weeks are a line.

Those who don’t visualise it, how do you think of the months and weeks? How do you think of a particular date on the year?

Norugratsatall · 01/01/2023 23:19

tootrueblue · 01/01/2023 22:44

I see it as a semi circle - the left side. So it runs from Jan at the top to Dec at the bottom

Yes I do this too, although mine is more than a semi circle, more like an a,most fully closed circle with Jan @ say, where a 2 is on a clock face and Dec @ where a 4 would be,

OneWildNightWithJBJ · 01/01/2023 23:22

I tend to see months in a line, but seasons in a circle, although if I think about it, January is at 1 o’clock. Dec - Feb are blue, March - May are green, June - August are yellow and Sept - Nov are red.

Synesthesia can be colours, tastes, smells, any of the senses can be combined. There’s a ticker tape one, where things are in line. I often see words and numbers pulsing in a line…

Todaynotalways · 01/01/2023 23:28

I think I picture it like an actual calendar.

So a grid per month, running from left to right, with January on the left, and December on the far right.

Although I know it's cyclical, I don't visualise a cycle/circle.

Same with days of the week - I see it as a row of seven boxes, Mon on the left, Sun on the right.

And with days in a month - each comprises 4.5 rows of seven boxes.

UsingChangeofName · 01/01/2023 23:30

Like a clockface. September starting between the 6 and 7.
I work in Education so see the year starting in September.

It has to be circular though as whenever you feel the year starting (January, April, September) , once it gets to the end of the year, it starts again, with the same months being the next year.

Tree1077 · 01/01/2023 23:32

Two columns, Jan to June then July to December

BedTaker · 01/01/2023 23:34

Every month is a colour (days of the week are colours as well), and I also kind of see it in rows like the poster upthread.

I remember telling some people about the colour thing when I was younger and they just thought it was really weird, but I just thought everyone did it!

BuzzBeeEmoticon · 01/01/2023 23:35

Overthebow · 01/01/2023 23:19

I see it in a kind of loop, but with a slightly sloping horizontal line until July, vertical downwards to December then January loops onto the end and back up to start again. Weeks are a line.

Those who don’t visualise it, how do you think of the months and weeks? How do you think of a particular date on the year?

I don’t visualise and can’t understand what any of this means. I don’t think about the weeks and the months, or any particular days. I might think so and so date is my sisters birthday etc but there’s nothing more to it than that?

DramaAlpaca · 01/01/2023 23:36

A vertical line with January at the top and December at the bottom.

Each month is written in black on a white rectangle, like a label.

Vitriolinsanity · 01/01/2023 23:37

Like a isosceles triangle tipped on its side. The narrowest part is jan, then the year builds in space and volume. My favourite parts of the year are spring to autumn, but the most full on part is late nov to dec.

AnonWeeMouse · 01/01/2023 23:38

Overthebow · 01/01/2023 23:19

I see it in a kind of loop, but with a slightly sloping horizontal line until July, vertical downwards to December then January loops onto the end and back up to start again. Weeks are a line.

Those who don’t visualise it, how do you think of the months and weeks? How do you think of a particular date on the year?

I don't get your question tbh

If someone says September 3rd or April 9th
I think of September 3rd or April 9th. They don't have any visual representation in my mind.
Same as weeks and months, there isn't images etc, just their names.

AlwaysGinPlease · 01/01/2023 23:38

Horizontal. Stretched with colours for months. I'm so glad to read so many other people " see " it. I also see a week.

Izzy24 · 01/01/2023 23:39

In a line running from right to left.
January is at the bottom of the page then February and March follow on gradually increasing in height until June July and August are at the top of the page. Then it swoops down again from September to December when it all starts again….

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DipmeinChoc · 01/01/2023 23:39

A column, Jan to Dec. We've just gone from the bottom of the column back up to the top. We fall down through the months as the year goes on.

When it feels like time has speeded up and we've zoomed though months it's like the arrow has stopped on Sept or Oct for me when it's actually Nov or Dec.

Overthebow · 01/01/2023 23:43

AnonWeeMouse · 01/01/2023 23:38

I don't get your question tbh

If someone says September 3rd or April 9th
I think of September 3rd or April 9th. They don't have any visual representation in my mind.
Same as weeks and months, there isn't images etc, just their names.

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So you don’t see an image when you think of the months or weeks? Do you picture other things in your head like objects and people?

Cherrysherbet · 01/01/2023 23:44

An oval shape. December has a bit more space than the other months. I can’t imagine not visualising it!

year3k · 01/01/2023 23:45

roselune · 01/01/2023 22:53

A circle definitely, a bit like a clock face.

This but January is at 10 o'clock and im looking at it from the 9 o clock perspective kind of at an awkward angle. Wow that's hard to explain HmmBlush

LillyLeaf · 01/01/2023 23:45

I see it as a linear line from left to right but in chunks of 3 months, weirdly starting with Sept/Oct/Nov and so on. I used to work in fashion and these are the seasons we would work in. I think starting with September because Autumn/Winter was my favourite season so was kind of the start of the fashion year for me. Interesting to see how other people visualise it.

GreenManalishi · 01/01/2023 23:48

A loop made up of coloured rectangular months, which I "move round" as the year progresses and I can see all the other months from where I am.

I tried to explain it to my mum once but she was so incredulous I never mentioned it again and I presumed I was the only one!

Bumply · 01/01/2023 23:48

I don't really visualise months/days, although now I'm trying to think what I do feel the end of this year seems physically a long way away.
Also when I'm calculating how many days to a future event I count it semi visually with Monday to Wednesday going up steps and Thursday/Friday back down and Saturday/Sunday being a step lower, and they're maybe not steps but music notes going up and down.

123woop · 01/01/2023 23:48

beccahamlet · 01/01/2023 22:53

It's like a carpet stretching out in front of me. The days,weeks and months are gently delineated. The carpet curls upwards a bit at the end of the year. The seasons are subtlety shaded.

Oh my god this is me too!!! I've never known anyone see it that way!!!!

It's like a long rug in front of me, like a hall runner 🤣

crossstitchingnana · 01/01/2023 23:49

I picture nothing. More a sense of months ahead, like blocks. But "see", nothing.

I can't picture faces of loved ones either and places I know are always fragmented.

I'm obviously broken.