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 list. They all have colours and little pictures around each one that link to the season e.g snowmen in February and daffodils in April.

A pie chart but constantly moving like the earth. So maybe more a sphere.

My visual is a bit weird. I see the months from January to April going across horizontally left to right, then from April till September they drop down on a vertical line, then go across horizontally left to right from September to December. I've always seen the year like that. I work in education so maybe that's why I tend to see the year split into three terms.

In a list but a horizontal one disappearing off at a slight angle into the distance, like when you try and draw a road using perspective, in capital letters

Interesting that most people start with Jan. If I had a starting point I would go for April, but clearly all the months roll on to each other. And groupings would be seasons, so Jan is not a starting point for me.

It's like a wide teardrop shape with January at the top then anti clockwise but July isn't at the bottom, it's still on the left. The majority of months are on the left and then September, October, November and December are wider and begin at the bottom and work their way back up to the top.
Days of the week are straight and read from left to right beginning with Monday which technically isn't the first day of week, it's Sunday.
Decades are a semi circle beginning on the left, the years evenly placed

Like a road ahead of me. Things to look forward to, birthdays, sunshine, school holidays...

@clolo

Mine is an oval on its side, January at the top left and then it goes anti clockwise. For some reason August is bottom middle

I have an anti-clockwise oval too. Today is on the right short side and at New Year we reach the 'corner' and start moving along the top long edge. It's dark and cold up there and that long side lasts for aaagggges before the next short side starts in September.

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

It’s an oval for me, a bit like your basic Scalectrix track. Months are like points on a clock but are not equally spaced. We are currently between 12-1. It’s not a solid.

An oval shaped clock but jan starts where 5 would be going anti clockwise to 12which is June going on through to 6 being December!

The seasons look light and dark in shade or like a light around then, brighter for summer darker in shorter winter days, never thought much about this til now

Like pictures.

So, January grey bleakness with bare trees.

June fresh sunshine and birdsong

Brilliant thread! I have always wondered if people ‘view’ the calendar the same way as me and from reading these posts the answer is no!!

For me it is a horizontal line but different to others it goes right to left. The dates of each month are in a vertical list under each respective month.

I will ‘view’ from different points throughout the year.
So for Jan/Feb/March it’s as if I am ‘standing’ at February
For April and May I will be ‘standing’ at May
For June to September I will ‘stand’ at June
For October and November I will ‘stand’ at September
And finally for December I will be ‘standing’ in November

I will view the weekdays in a horizontal but this time left to right and from a Wednesday viewpoint for the weekdays and from Friday for the weekend

I don't view anything in my head. I think in words, not pictures.

@WithRosesAroundTheDoor

I think that this has been discussed here before and most people saw a list or didn't have a visual. For me, it's a big wheel, viewed side on. The current month is closest and the previous and next are at the sides, they continue into darkness. I can spin the wheel to see the other months and it makes a clicking sound. It's a bit like the wheel of fortune

This is exactly how I see it too!

Good grief. I don't view them at all. I don't need to, I know what they are and the conventions around them.

It must be very different, being neurotypical.

Don’t understand that @ImmutableSexQueen.

People just think of things in different ways 🤷🏻‍♀️

@immutablesexqueen I dont know, I'm neurotypical and I've also never given two seconds of thought to how I 'see' the calendar. I see it as a calendar of months like how it is? I don't think it's a thing.

I see a horseshoe shape too but on its side (back to front ‘C’ ) So Jan starts on the left, the months then progress to the right, then curve downwards (the curve is summer /september) then the winter months move back round the horseshoe to the left until december.

As a rhyme. I was taught the knuckles trick for how many days are in each calendar month as a young teen, so when I think of the months I do the same song in my head all these years later lol

Like a clock face, although slightly unevenly spaced December is at 6, Easter at 3, August at 12, October half term at 9. The summer holidays stretch from somewhere between 2-1 and 11.

Yes like a click here but going the opposite way around but like you are the handle facing the direction of the next month

*clock

It seems shocking to me because normally, I think in pictures first, words later. But no image of the months of the year at all.

@Frizzyhairhelp

A circle too but Christmas at 6pm with my summer birthday at the top

I almost do this, summer at the top. Also summer birthday. Only not so much circular as oval, with the narrowest parts at the top and bottom. So the peak of the oval is the end of July/ start of August.