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 timeline

Those who see the months in colour...

Hello fellow synethetes!

@MaryAndGerryLivingInDerry

Mine is weird.

Jan feb mar April may June July
Aug
Septemberoctobernovemdecem

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!! AprilMayJuneJuly Do this for me! I was wondering how to explain it. All the rest are very distinct months. If you asked me what month I did X in last year I would know unless it was the Aprilmayjunejuly that all runs into one. I couldn't tell you one thing I did in June last year. Literally no idea.

@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?!

Same here, I don't see anything at all.

Just like a clock as well. It’s bizarre now I come to think about it.
But even more strangely, July and August are either side of the bottom, so the months aren’t actually evenly spaced, though I don’t notice that in my head.
The days of the week are definitely in a line though.

Does anyone else attach genders to the letters of the alphabet?
I first noticed I did this as a child.
This may be more controversial these days though . . .

I can’t explain so I’ve drawn it. The months are like chunky off white Lego buttons, and they’re written in full in grey writing. At September I call it the wrong side of the year. I don’t know why. Then December kind of joins on to January again.

This thread is amazing.

Circular, like a clock, but I must have first thought of it this way at school, so my year in my head is an academic one, so two-thirds of the circle is taken up with January to September. October to December are bigger chunks.

It makes sense in my head anyway!

People thinking of it as a list is blowing my freaking mind

@MotherOfBeardedDragons

Yes, I do 😂

I’m not sure why, but in my head January is 7, because the winter months seem to be at the bottom of my clock 🤷🏻‍♀️

This! Circular, anti clockwise. New Year is about 8 actually, end of Feb is 6 so spring is moving up the face towards end July which is 12. Which I just realise means more months on the right hand side than the left! I never analysed it before.

Days of the week, however, loop along in fortnights so I always know whether I'm in an 'odd' or 'even' week. Very occasionally it's suddenly switched and I get very confused.

Like a wall calendar page, little squares for each date, all lined up. The month we are in or I'm thinking about is orange, or occasionally green, the rest are greyed out.

Days of the week I read from right to left in a list form and I can see repeating days towards the end of the week

Like an egg shaped clock.
Is it weird I'm so happy that other people see the months of the year too?
Like think December and I see it tucked up top left 11 o clock area of the egg ready to tick into January at 12 o clock. BUT....September is at the 6 o clock position........
So it's not evenly distributed

A circle/wheel anticlockwise, December (white) at the top and August (red) at the bottom it's in colour, with cool colours on winter and hot colours in summer. I feel like I could zoom in to see more detail like festivals and equinoxes (Easter, Halloween etc) but I usually just think of the big picture. The days and weeks would be little tabs just inside the inner-wheel i think and just sort of spiral away when the wheel turns?

I'm definitely not a linear thinker! This has been so interesting to read!

There's nothing visual in my brain relating to the months of the year. Nothing at all!

December is 12.00 position, January 11.00, February 10.00 etc

Are other people here generally visual?
I have a very visual way of thinking.
Like if dd has a math problem
'Johnny goes into a shop and buys 2 bars if chocolate for 20c each, how much change from €1 does he get?'
I 'see' Johnny going in to a shop and buying..paying..getting the change etc.

Is it just imagination? My dh sees nothing in these scenarios (although he just surprised me by saying he sees months in clock formation although his December is at 12 which to me seems weird

Bell curve, sort of. With April to about September in the middle. Hate winter.

I will join the list of posters who can't imagine how anyone can 'see' the months of the year (or days of the week). I am sitting here with my jaw on the floor reading all these amazing responses.

I can see things in my head, but only actual images, like what my DC look like asleep in their beds right now, or a sunset on a beach. But not random concepts! Mind. Blown.

How utterly amazing the human mind is!

Like this

Like a clock but anti-clockwise!

I also see numbers as going in weird lines that I have once tried to draw on paper but it doesn't match what is in my head.

Loving this thread, though with young children I am wondering how/worrying about how my explanation or depiction of these things will affect how they see months or weeks and whether it is important not to get it wrong somehow!

For numbers I see 0 to 20 as a large clockwise loop then 20 to 30 as another loop, then each subsequent 10 in another loop up to 100 when the loops begin again on a line underneath.

An anti-clockwise clock with December at 12 and August at 6. It looks a bit like a board game in my head.

It’s called calendar synaesthesia. I can see mine in an anti clockwise loop, oval shaped, and can read it backwards and forwards. I see days of the week in a clockwise oval, a bit D shaped, with the weekend on the left side. I see centuries climb a sort of low grade hill, that loop back every 100 years. Or thousand, for that matter. I don’t know how you’d remember a particular date without these time ribbons!