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?

I might just have the question odd in my mind but, each month is a block with cubes of things beginning,middle and end of that one block. Like if someone says May it's almost a grid that I think "OK May, well top of that is Nans anniversary so bring flowers to her grave, mid way check about booking the early June trip to DB for his birthday and order present, end I think there's a wedding on the calendar then". If that makes sense? There's some things that stay the same/around every year so I see them highlighted/blocked off when I 'see' a month?

@Obsidiansphere

I don’t think about it at all…I must be weird 🙈🤣

Me neither, I can’t relate to any of these. I see the seasons as a visual stretching away from me, I seen to be very focused on spring

Like a clock cut into quarters.

The year is a wheel at an angle, going clockwise with my birthday (December) and Christmas closest to me... very similar to lots of other posters... my week however is linear, like a train track with multiple week segments. Days of the week are different colours. Interesting others see time in a similar fashion.

I don’t see it either - didn’t realise until today people did! I say them in my head - there is no image. I can’t remember things well though - my working memory is very very poor (although apparently I’m intelligent; I can work things out but I can’t remeber things).

I’m struggling to visualise what people are saying so I’m eg trying to think of it as a circle, but it doesn’t come naturally.

I’m in awe of those who can almost see their diary - I have lists and diaries to make life work - EVERYTHING goes in or it won’t happen

OP haven't seen that post but I can't 'see' anything at all. Just blank/nothing.

My post a couple before yours has tried to describe what I get, I'm sure it's different for the poster who said that.

Ohh it's so interesting how different brains work. A horizontal list for me too, like a timeline.

roadrunner look up Aphantasia!

We're 1 in 20! In minority but still loads of us!

A clock.

January is at 7, February at 8, December at 6.

Mine is like a grid divided by season.

I imagine the 12 disciples of Jesus and allocate each one a month.

itscoldinhere
Yes, mine is much more like that, but more seasons than months. Like a breath moving illustration on the drains stretching away from me

Vertical list and colour coded. Eg Jan is blue, March yellow etc

@celestebellman

I view it like a timeline with the months marching forward, and the weeks, each bookended by a weekend. I also visualise roughly where the holidays are. This allows me to see in my head what I am doing over a period of a few weeks and know what's happening - it drives me mad that my dp does not appear able to keep similar information in his brain and insists that everything gets put into his google calendar or he will not remember.

This is pretty much how I see the year too. It's interesting reading all the alternatives.

Definitely as a wheel. I was brought up Pagan though, so perhaps that's why, the seasons are viewed as a never ending cycle, the Wheel of the Year. Already signs of spring are out there: right now, in the depths of midwinter, buds are forming.

I've just realised that I view weeks in the same way, horizontally from left to right. Not sure if that was the case before my working life revolved around an Outlook calendar.

Four rows of three and each month is a square within the rows. I had a calendar laid out like this as a child!

Great question I always wonder about this! For me it's circular too like a clock with Jan at 12, June at 6 etc ...

a circle/clock.. December is at 3, March is 12 June is 9 September is 6.

So interesting to read all the different ways! I’m going to ask people in real life now. I wonder what other things add similar to this? (Commonly thought about but imagined differently)

I see it like a clock but anti-clockwise - so January is 11, February is 10, March is 9 etc. Days of the week work anti-clockwise but starting from the bottom - so Monday is 5, Tuesday is 3, Wednesday is 12 etc.

It’s like a pie chart for me. Split into quarters. Dec, Jan, Feb at the top (winter), Mar, Apr, May to the right (spring), Jun, Jul, Aug at the bottom (summer) and Sep, Oct, Nov to the left (autumn). I thought everyone saw it like that.

Horizontal from l-r but they are blocks, kind of like a bar chart?
The bars for the summer are the lowest and then they climb up to Dec, then start to go back down again
Weeks look the same with the weekends the high bars

@astoundedgoat

List, but a horizontal one, not vertical.

Same. I also sometimes think of Jason Donovan since learning July to December JASOND

And I have to say them in my head in a chanting sing-song voice like I learned them.