The year's a circle, roughly. December is at 12 o'clock, March is at 9 o'clock, and I move around it in a counter-clockwise direction. September through December are a little more squished together than the other months. May through August are a little more spread out.
I thought everyone experienced that, until a thread on Reddit about 4 years ago (and I still don't think that it's as rare as the title implies).
Mine is the same as yours: a circle with months going clockwise, Jan/Dec at 6 o'clock.
It occurred to me a couple years ago that thinking of the calendar like this might not be something everyone does. I asked my friend how he thought of it and he said he saw it as a LINE.
I see the months in a year as a sort of sine wave, with december at the bottoms and july at the tops. I guess it's like a combination of the linear and circular view.
Same here! But when thinking about weekdays, it's just a circle with Sunday at the bottom. Days themselves fill up vertically...I never realized how much of a hodge-podge collection of visualizations I've been using.
When I was growing up, my parents drew up a circular calendar with the months of the year (so my sister and I could learn them) and put it on the fridge with magnets. December and January were at 6 o'clock, like you mentioned.
I recently bought a watch with a circular month dial, then realized January and December were at noon. It always throws me off; I can't unsee the way I visualize the year.
Mine works the same way, though the months don't always "fit together" right; my visualized locations for July-November tend to overlap each other, while the 10-o'clock segment of the dial is a void between May and June.
Mine is more of a rectangle, with the first six months on top, and the last six months on the bottom. December is in the lower left, January is above it; with the months going chronologically clockwise around the shape. The months January through April are compressed somewhat (except when I am in them, when they are stretched). June through August are bigger, November and December are smaller. They're also colored differently, and the months at the end of the year are darker.
I would be surprised to find this is rare. I certainly don't think it is synesthesia.
Yeah mine is a lot like that. I have a separate view for weeks that's like an infinite film strip. But I'm a bit shocked that the year view is so common within the small set of people who do it.
I thought everyone experienced that, until a thread on Reddit about 4 years ago (and I still don't think that it's as rare as the title implies).