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?

@Sandydune

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 . . .

As soon as I saw this I immediately ran through the alphabet attaching genders. M is clearly feminine and N masculine! R and T masculine but S feminine.

@Whenasuitcasejustwontdo

Three rows, Jan to April, May to August then Sept to Dec. Like a calendar!

Same as this.

I see it like a clock face , but currently it's on 6 o'clock ( Jan) so I move up round the clock ( feb is seven etc)
Bit weird I know.

@zippygeorgebungle

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.

Have you been looking in my head? I have always struggled to describe this but I see similar.

I'm one of those people that don't have pictures in their head so I don't view the months of the year, I only know them as individual words.

Linear, with even increments.

I know I'm going to sound insane, but I always picture this line along a hedgerow in my childhood garden. It's just the image that comes into my head, every time.

Circular but also like a sun chart, the light being short and the dark long at the winter solstice, the opposite at the summer. I divide up time more from midwinter to early spring (Feb) to equinox, to early summer (May), to midsummer and so on than I do by months. The months are there underneath but less important.

I see the year as a sort of squashed circle/oval/ ellipse (?) with December at about 6pm and moving anti clockwise.
No particular colours.

I see a clock face. Jan is 1 O’clock. But strangely I don’t see June at 6! I see July and August along the bottom of the clock.

Days of the week are a horizontal list.

@Sandydune just reading back and your clock is the same as mine. With July and August along the bottom rather than June. As I was typing it it had never occurred to me to wonder why June wasn’t at the bottom. How strange!

Like a clock with the months filled inside the circle as pieces of a pie. But I view it from within the clock. So right now I'm at the top of the clock inside it looking forwards and down to the bottom where the summer is!

Mine is sort of a circle but not exactly it’s half way between a circle and a triangle. And we go around and around it.

I didn’t decide to visualise it this way, but I think it makes it easier to plan ahead this way tbh!

Just realised my clock runs anti clockwise. So Jan is 11 O clock. Dec 12, Nov kind of 1/2 o clock. Oct 3.
But June is more around 8 and then July and August all along the bottom.

Oh yeah and I also have June July and August at the bottom, I think because I see the summer as a big nice even chunk of time

December is one “point” (but they’re not exactly points, Easter another and the school summer holidays are the third.

So the top is May, June and July, and December is at the bottom (which is the right way around )

A kind of ellipse shape. January at the bottom, moving anti-clickwise towards the summer, all the months are the same size except July and August stretch across the top centre, so approx one third of the ellipse is Jan-June, one third July and August, and one third Sept-Dec.
I know it makes no sense, I don't know why I think like this. And I can't fathom why anti clockwise either!

And yes of course we go anti clockwise, anything else would be mad!

@Delatron

Just realised my clock runs anti clockwise. So Jan is 11 O clock. Dec 12, Nov kind of 1/2 o clock. Oct 3. But June is more around 8 and then July and August all along the bottom.

Ohh, very similar to me. Except I have January at the bottom, like between 6 and 5.

Lots of us see it anti clockwise! I wonder why. It’s fascinating.

@astoundedgoat

List, but a horizontal one, not vertical.

Same here.

My days of the week are within my year, but I can zoom in on them. They are lines going around the year (they sort of snake backwards and forwards but each week is a straight line). The days of the week have colours, although week days are all on a pink/ peach spectrum, with Saturday green and Sunday white. The colours are bolder within the school holidays (because I had this in my head from school age). This gives the head “circle/ triangle” it’s colour.

Numbers however are a straight line 1- 20 and then become as sort of snake shape til the get to 100, where they start going straight again

Where someone has drawn a diagram with the year going clockwise has totally blown my mind

Those who have a C shape or semi circle, how do you get from one year to the next?

Oh - that’s my shape!

Three rows - Jan - March, April - August and Sept to Dec. I think it must correspond to school terms from when I was little. Numbers are 1- 10 vertical up, 11- 20 horizontal and 21- 110 up etc etc!