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?

Yes, as believe this is a form of synaesthesia. Many years ago, I was a participant in synaesthesia research and I remember drawing a diagram of how I see the months (like a horseshoe on its side, with the ends facing left).

Each month has a colour, but some are much clearer in my mind than others. For me, January is green and February is purple. October is a mish-mash of brown, white and green which is difficult to pin down.

For me, December is at 9 on the clock face. January is at 11, March is around 1, June is at 3, September at 5 and all the other months are dispersed equally between the rest. That's been my visual representation of the months in my head since I was a child.

It’s a type of synesthaesia - google spatial or number line synesthaesia and you’ll see articles as well as drawings people have done of their number lines.

I see time spatially, in my head, in a 3D shape. It’s hard to describe but I could draw it, at a push, or make it in some 3D model.

Time moves left to right but not in a straight line. Some days and months are bigger than others, some step up or down from each other, and some turn corners like a zigzag. Wednesday is big, so are Saturday and Sunday. Tuesday is the smallest day.

I see it for years, months, weeks and days. I am always looking at it from the same angle so the past is on my left and the future on my right.

DH thinks I am proper weird but I’ve always seen it in this way since I was young.

I view it as a spiral, with the months looping around in a circle on one level and then the next January goes up a rung if that makes sense?

A nice little diagram to help demonstrate

A roller thing. The best way I can describe it is like those machines you wind the handle to get bingo balls from. But it has months of the year going round it. I also associate colours. January is red, Feb is green, March is blue, April is yellow

This is fascinating.
I have to go to bed but I'm going to read all the posts tomorrow.
I learnt about aphantasia through a Mumsnet thread a while ago and it's blown my mind finding out that people actually see things in their head. I don't understand how people don't get lost in their heads if they're looking at things all the time.

@JustATurkeySingeinIntheRange

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

My colours blur too! June-august are all yellow, September and October and kinda a burnt orange colour!

I can’t picture all the months at the same time. One Month at a time for whichever month I’m thinking about.

As a series of images in colour. So September is an orchard of apples, October is a park with the leaves turning gold, November is a bare branches, frosty landscape, December is a dark night in a village full of twinkly lights, January is a Scandi scrubbed wooden table set with coffee cups, white flowers and new notebooks, February is grey and rain, March is daffodils, April is Easter eggs in a basket, May is cherry blossom and a bright blue sky, June is a bright green lawn, July is a table set for al fresco dinner. August is a sandcastle and rippling waves on a beach.
All a bit unimaginative and Pinterest-ish but very vivid.

@BellaChagall

I view it visually. It's hard to describe it, but it's a bit like a C backwards. So starting with Jan at the end of the top part of the C, moving round to Dec at the other end.

This is how it is for me. Like a circle with a gap on the left-hand side.

I was reading this thread feeling the 'list' people were odd - but thinking about it that's how I see the days of the week, and there's no reason they shouldn't be a circle too.

@Whenasuitcasejustwontdo

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

I see it like a calendar too except mine is 4 rows. Jan - Mar Apr - Jun Jul - Sep Oct - Dec

Like a clock. Dec at 12, June at 6 etc

Giant circle, Dec is at 12 then the months go round clockwise with June at 6.

I had a book when I was a kid and it had all the months as animal pictures. I’m nearly 50 and I still see May as a worm.

@MsAgnesDiPesto - ha ha we may both be weird but maybe not in a bad way

I once spoke to my son when he was complaining about it being a Monday & a school day the next day - & I said but Monday is a lovely vertical navy blue day, He looked at me and said What ? I said well you know how Tuesday is horizontal and yellow , Wednesday is vertical and green , Thursday is horizonatal and red and Friday is vertical and white . What? he said . I said well it's just like all odd numbers are vertical and even numbers are horizontal.

He may have backed off carefully at that point

I got a book about the neurology of synaesthesia for Christmas yesterday (because I'm that cool) and there's a whole section on how some synaesthetes 'view' time.

Here's a picture of one of the pages on months of the year, as drawn by one person who 'sees' them in space.

There are some amazing descriptions of the way numbers and the alphabet have spatial expressions for certain types of synaesthetes, too.

I see them as a horizontal line and in different colours- for example the winter months are darker.

Shaped like a rugby ball, or a lemon, with January at the lower far right.

@PermanentTemporary

A series of blocks in a line, Jan to dec. But at an angle - going from top left at a shallow angle down to bottom right. As I 'look' at Dec in my mind I watch the line turning round so that Jan starts again on the left.

This is the most similar that I've read to what I do.

Jan-June diagonal line from top left to bottom right, July and August are bigger, Sept to Dec the diagonal starts again at a shallower angle. Then I visually whizz back to the top for the next year. Certain parts of my year are bigger. I also ha e the current week to view if I zoom in.

What about the alphabet, how do you view that in your head?

@Whenasuitcasejustwontdo

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

This exactly!

The table in my head comes from handkerchiefs I had when I was 3-5years old. I can still see the seasonal picture for them.

I hadn't really thought of it before, but I would put them I to 2 groups, but I think I are the year as more 2 seasons rather than 4, not seasons exactly, but more going towards warm and warm as one. Then going towards cold and cold as the other.

@thesailsaflow

What about the alphabet, how do you view that in your head?

The alphabet is in four lines A-G H-N O-T U-Z

I break them into seasonal groups, and see each one separately.

Circular for me too going anti-clockwise. It’s flat like a polo mint and I sort of view it like I’m standing on in and my perspective changes with the months, like I’m waking around it. I imagine it suspended in space.