To ask how you view the months of the year in your head?

[thesailsaflow]

When I think about the months of the year in my head I view it as a clock, like january js 1, June is 6 etc. I view it in my head like that, however, upon speaking to a couple of my friends about this tonight, they said they just think about it like a list. Wondering if anyone else thinks of it like I do?

The months and a year - vertical list Jan at top, Dec at bottom have to jump back to top at new year. When I recall things I go back up the list.

A week and the days - horizontal list starting Monday. I can view one week or blocks of weeks when for example planning something for a weekend

Like a clock, BUT it runs anti-clockwise and the months aren't evenly spaced. December is at 12, and January is at 11, but April is massive and covers 5, 6, and 7. June is at 3 then the remainder are scrunched up.

Horizontal list, like a timeline.

Yes! I was wondering if anyone else did this! I picture it as a circle but the months aren't quite spread out equally. So December is at 6, September is at 2, feb/March is 8, and may is 10 with all the others in between.

In a line rising from left to right. Jan - March - quite a steep rise. April - August a very gradual rise and then steep again until the end of the year.

January February
March April May
June July August
Sept October Nov
Dec

Aaarrghh. Changed it when posted. The December goes under the November

I see them as three dimensional oblongs stretching into the future with space in them that I can fill with stuff.

Like a clock, but at the moment January is at number 7. June is at number 12, and December is at number 6. Then it will change in the new year, January will be at number 12, because April needs to be at number 9 and September needs to be at number 2. I don't like December being at number 5 which is why it has to change. My head is complicated for other people to understand.

I view them like a scattergram, literally all over the place, with little distinction between each. It is the same with the weeks of the month and the days of the week. Alternatively, it is just a blur, an amorphous blob, where the calendar tells me what day, month and year we are in.

I can thank lockdowns, working from home and living in a part of the country where it is always cold, grey and dismal for this.

@Iamanicepersonreally

I don't understand how people can view things in their head. I think in words, I can't see how else it's possible to think

This thread is wild. I don't see anything in my head at all. My thoughts are ideas or concepts or maybe words but I don't read them I think them. I thought this was normal 😬

Agh! See nothing! Maybe that’s why I find it impossible to plan?!

Like a horizontal list. I still picture the months of the year as a train. Each month is another carriage. This is only because of an artwork display on the wall in my class at infants school! 😊

When I was 6, our class teacher made a caterpillar on the wall, right at the top where the wall met the ceiling, with a round piece of paper for each segment, one for each month. Everyone's birthday in the class was written in a segment. And that's how I've always pictured a year! January was slightly nearer the middle of the classroom, so in my head, the line stretches away slightly into the distance up to December!

This is really interestung. I wonder what forms these images - some have said childhood images?

I see a vertical timeline for the year 3d with the month we are in closest. Can move it forward and backwards in my mind. Events booked in ( like weddings/ Easter etc) appear on the line.

Years are a sort of diagonal timeline going backwards to the 90s years ( can't remember much further back than that). The years before that would be blurred.

I don't have any visualisation of the days of the week

I see the year as a round shape, with December at the bottom and the school summer holidays at the top. Once we get to September the circle starts going round to December again at the bottom, and Easter is halfway up the other side. So it's probably not a perfectly round or evenly spaced circle.

Weeks are similar - Saturday and Sunday are flat along the bottom of the round shape, with the other days in an arch above them.

Just thought about it and realised I see weeks as going anticlockwise and years as going clockwise. No idea where I got all this from!

I'm intrigued by these. I see them as individual calendar photo images but if I had to see them all in one glance it would definitely be a pie chart with Jan at 1 o;clock and December at 12, with the photographic images just outside the chart on sort of postage stamp images and colours in the wedges corresponding to seasonal colours - pale ice blue in Jan, gold in December etc.

I'm intrigued by all the back-to-front C and rugby ball shaped images.

Circle makes sense to match the movement of the planet and with 4 seasons.

We must be very scientifically minded 😉

This is only because of an artwork display on the wall in my class at infants school!
That's why I see the alphabet as two rows A -N and O - Z underneath!

Horizontal columns, defined by seasons and colours. January white, February red, March and April yellow. May, June, July light Green, August Blue, September, October and November orange and Dec is multicoloured lights lol

Split into seasons with no definable or consistent shape.

It’s like a big wheel which I am on - I can “feel” the months behind me, and see the ones in front of me. There are large markers at January and September- because that’s when the academic year starts I think!

That’s interesting @CheeseFace - I move round my wheel anti-clockwise too!

My year is circular shaped too, but it starts towards the end of autumn rather than in January and it doesn't rotate, I move through it. I see each month and block of seasons in different colours, sounds, weather (heat, light, rain), important dates etc...kind of like an almanac.

My weeks run linear and horizontal.

I see them as a backward S-shape with January at the top and December at the tail. June is in the middle where the S-shape switches back on itself.

I think mine is based on a fabric wall hanging we had at home with a red background, I still picture the red behind the months.