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?

A horizontal line

Sort of seasonal pictures e.g. of the weather/nature with the name of the month like subtitles

Mine would go round a bit like a slide show, with the circular canister so I see a few months at a time

@astoundedgoat

List, but a horizontal one, not vertical.

Same

Loving this thread. Finally it's not only me!!
I see the year as a slightly misshapen circle with 'corners' roundabout Christmas and March/Easter and a straight side through late July/August. Based on the school year after years of conditioning!! I see it from the point of view of the month we're in.
Like others who have replied here it helps HUGELY with remembering dates and times of the year when things happened.
I also picture all kinds of times like this, hours (like a clock obviously - what do the digital generation do?!!) as well as days of the week and years.
All numbers have some sort of shape pattern in how they're laid out. Straight numberlines (which the kids used at school) did my head in!!
It's a form of synaesthesia - not half as 'exciting' as tasting colours or whatever but very useful I find!

I find this thread fascinating. I don’t see the months of the year as images in my head at all.

I know some people can’t form imaginary images at all (i.e. they can’t even “summon up” the face of a loved one in their mind) and I don’t have that, but this sort of creation of 2D or structures to capture abstract notions like time or number… naaah, I got nothing.

Like a clock, but where January is at 5 o clock and the whole thing runs anticlockwise

I’ve always viewed it as a jigsaw I used to have as a small child.

Like a clock for me too

Interesting. I don't see anything. I associate smells, colours and emotions with each month. Some have numbers, like October is 10, though it should be 8.

Having said that, I always struggle to contextualise dates, particularly the summer part of the year. If you asked me which month was July, I would have to recite the list and count on my fingers. Maybe I should try a clock face visual.

A circle. Which goes anti-clockwise. Where I'm standing now, end of December is pretty much 6pm, with January at 5pm and spring is "visually across from me" at 1pm-ish.

But say that it's May I would feel like I'm actually on a different part of the wheel and at 2pm and November looks like heading round to 9pm-ish kind of aspect to it. I genuinely feel I'm on a different bit of the circle according to what month I'm in, and what's "across" from me.

Weeks, however, are linear.

A timeline that goes horizontally from right to left. December is right in front of me at the moment, with January on my left, and November on my right.

It’s like points of a compass for me.

21December is due North then going clockwise 21 March is east, 21 June due south and 21 September west. The other months fit in the gaps

@CheeseMmmm

How different people's brains work is something I find fascinating! Thank you OP!

I found out on one of these about 5 years ago I have aphantasia!
I had naturally assumed for 43 years that was normal was real WTF... People can see stuff?!

I mean this stuff being talked about more is brilliant!

@CheeseMmmm what happens when you dream, do you never dream where you can remember what you saw? What are your dreams like if you don't 'see' things or experience things in a dream that seem real to you at the time?

Two horizontal lines - oddly it's January to July on the top line and August to December on the bottom. I don't know why they're not split evenly, it's always been like that.

Like the hands on a clock.

feb-october - smile
nov-jan - bleak

Like a list, but horizontal, not vertical. Like reading them in a book.

@clolo and @Awrite same here except I’m sort of in the middle of an oval which runs around me. I move around it according to the current month . It starts with January (dark cerise) at the top left.
As I have synaethesia I see the names of the months in colour.

January on the left, then a sort of 45° slope to the right going up to August. Then September down to December cuts down at a right angle to August. If that makes sense....

Oh, and it runs anticlockwise

Circle, but then I'm pagan and we tend to refer to the wheel of the year, so it makes sense to picture it that way.

As a circular, slightly oblong arrangement. It runs anti clockwise though. January and February have a sense of darkness about them. The summer months are lighter. A sense of faint colour, but cant put my finger on them

Thinking about it, just picturing it as linear makes me kind of sad. December seems so final and definite that way, picturing it as a wheel feels more reassuring. Means I can more easily think of December as transforming into January and one step closer to Spring.

Mine is a horizontal list.

Oh, and as a pp, I'm physically in the location on the oval, according to which month I'm in