How do you think of the year?

[pinklillie]

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?

I don't 'visualise' anything time related.

I form pictures from abstract thoughts all the time, and I also have an internal monologue, but I've never felt any need to visualise a calendar in my head. If someone mentions a date, all I'll do is quickly calculate how far ahead in the future that is and file it away as a mental note. I don't have any need to mentally 'picture' time-related things at all.

Like a runaway train. Not cyclical at all but days, weeks, months like trackside poles passing at speed towards some unknown destination.

An elaborate wheel of the year, broken down into Pagan festivals and months.

Sort of a slightly curved line going up from Jan ~2 to Christmas, then around "the other side" an "outside of time" period covering Christmas to New Year. I often describe it as an old hair tie, you know how they get a bit where the elastic has broken and there's a long stretched-out bit.

Always get weird looks when I ask this too!

@meow1989 I really feel like I'm missing out on this thread.

I love your description!

I see the year as a line divided into grids. The new year is just of the line.

"the start of the line" that should have said.

As a wheel. And it starts in Spring, not 1 January. Christmas/New Year/January is the arse end of the year, if you think about it, not a time for new beginnings or resolutions.

The only thing I will do is join the decluttering thread when I come back from my mini break at the weekend, in an attempt to have three months to sort it before spring begins, and a new year starts for me then, with a new season.

I don't see charts. But I see the weather / nature when I think of the seasons.

Dec/jan/feb - snow, ice, bare trees

March/april/may - new green leaves, sunny days, spring flowers

June/july/august - sun, beach, parks, picnics

Sept-oct-nov - leaves, conkers, crisp sunny cold days 🍁

Sort of like a misshapen ‘S’ formed from the bottom, although in the one I typed there the start point would be November and it ends roughly end of Jan 14 months later. I’ve pictured it like this since I was a child - always with the same months being curved up, down or flattish.
If I picture consecutive years they sort of squiggle to the right like a leaning totem pole of S’s.

No. So if I pick a random month, say May. I wouldn’t automatically get any picture in my mind of it. If you asked me to think about it I would start thinking about how there are 3 bank holidays on May this year and what we might do on them. And that it might be warm. But those are concepts of how the month might be. I can't visualise it as such.

I do understand what other people are doing though. I do it with other things but I can't think right now what I do don't with.

It’s really interesting to find that some people visualise and some don’t.

And for me, it’s not at all that I ‘need’ to do this - it’s just always popped into my mind this way without consciously thinking about it at all.

Jan, Feb and March run left to right on the horizontal, then April and may start tilting downwards. June progresses in tbe direction of 4.0’clock then the summer months are vertical.
September through to December then curve back round and the year finishes at about 8.0’clock.
I don’t know what fills in the gap between 8 and 12. It’s black nothingness.
I visualise the numbers 0-30 in a different but odd pattern, with things moving at different angles.

I love how many different, complex and unique ways we all visualise our year and months.

Such a good thread as I find it fascinating.

I think my husbands family are the same as some posters that just see a blackness or a date that is just in the future.

Really glad I asked the question now!