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?

Horizontal line

Circle. January at the top then going anti clockwise.

I feel time sort of speeds up in the early summer ( the downward part of the circle). August at the bottom is longer and then September is the start of the rise back up (hard work to get back up to the New Year and January.

@Mummadeze

This thread has blown my mind! I don’t think like any of you. I just know what they are subconsciously but don’t ‘see’ anything. Is there something wrong with me?!

The same. I have been really trying to picture things to work out if I ‘see’ something fit the calendar but I have realised I just don’t, thinking about them is just a subconscious knowing but there’s nothing visual there.

@JustATurkeySingeinIntheRange

In colours blurring into each other along a line For example December is red August is sunshine yellow October is orange

@just a turkey - do you have synasthesia?

Oval shaped (like an egg on its side), with the months going anti clockwise, December at the far right end.
But I don’t view it like that would look if drawn out on paper, I’m more “in” the oval, at the relevant month, sort of as if I’m on a running track but it’s more like a ribbon. But the weeks coming up are wider (like the “track” I’m on is wider), split into weeks/days, then the rest of the year is thinner, with just months, no extra details.

I don’t know why I view it like this, because a circle with months going clockwise is clearly the logical way to do it.

Rectangles with the month names inside next to each other going round in a circle but there's a gap between December and january

Mine is a moebius strip and I 'stand' on the current month looking ahead or behind me. I can see the year cycle starting again going forward on the strip. It helps that it is a gradient colour too going from dark rich colours in autumn/winter through to warm light colours in the summer.

I am currently standing on dark blue ready to look into the next month getting steadily lighter blue.

Like a boring version of the posters you buy primary school kids, to stick on the wall.

Mine starts with September...I really can't view it starting with any other month! In four horizontal blocks, like this (and they are unevenly spaced too 🤷‍♀️):

Sept-Oct-Nov-Dec

Jan-Feb-March

April-May-June

July-Aug

Circular - this is so interesting!!

@IAmMeThisIsI

I don't really see anything. I just see the word of the month. Maybe my brain is broken.

This is what I see too. A flash of the word

I also see a circle, going clockwise but following the academic year, so September at the top in the 12:00 position.

A list / or in seasons so quarters. Never like a clock

@SickAndTiredAgain

Oval shaped (like an egg on its side), with the months going anti clockwise, December at the far right end. But I don’t view it like that would look if drawn out on paper, I’m more “in” the oval, at the relevant month, sort of as if I’m on a running track but it’s more like a ribbon. But the weeks coming up are wider (like the “track” I’m on is wider), split into weeks/days, then the rest of the year is thinner, with just months, no extra details.

I don’t know why I view it like this, because a circle with months going clockwise is clearly the logical way to do it.

I was trying to work out how to explain exactly this. I view it the same although there is a gap between December and the crossover to the new year and I'm standing waiting to go in to the new year.

So fascinating

Hurdles.

Like steps, with January the top step and December the bottom. Strangely May-September are all the same level (but not the same step!) I have no idea why I visualise them this way! maybe I’m weird?!!

I see them almost as a bar graph, colder months have low bar graphs and warmer months have higher if that makes sense. Almost like you would plot a temperature average on a bar graph at school

Linear with jan at left and dec at right. Cant see jan next to dec, that's a new line!

Circular, but with June at 5 o'clock (Dec is still 12) - the summer takes up more visual space than other seasons.

Mostly like a ribbon reflected in a lake. With elephants by the shore line. One elephant has a longer trunk with the end ripped off by a tiger. This to me signifies a leap year. Next to the elephants are some flamingos, some 70 yards away, far enough to gauge a charge and to be able to fly out the way. But they are different shades of fire colours - from yellow to deep red and pink in between. These are the summer months, except for the yellow flamingo which is April. Along their bodies I see flight feathers 1-30 mostly and these represent the days of the month. Those months with 31 days, the flamingos' heads are upside down as they feed on the shrimp-like krill. It signifies to me a potent moving chronograph of nature and time, with spaces between to fragment, break and reflect.

As a vertical list, but all the months have different colours. January is dark red, Feb is bright pink, March is dark green, April is sky blue, May is peachy orange, June is light green, July is red, August is brown, September is whitish grey, October is black, November is deep red, and December is grey-blue.

@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

Same here, I'm sat here thinking am I weird as I see nothing! I also find it hard though when someone says "picture in your head xyz" I find it hard to picture anything, I can think it but don't "see" anything.

I had this discussion with DH just last night. It was amazing to me that he viewed it linear! I assumed everyone viewed it as a clock. YANBU

Horizontal list

I view it as a circle, like a pie chart with 4 sections for each quarter and then visualise each quarter as a season… Q1 winter, Q2 spring, Q3 summer Q4 autumn and Christmas!!