Have you ever heard of calendar synesthesia?
Hey guys!
How do you see your calendar? Here’s how I see mine…
Calendar Synesthesia
Basically, this means that I visualize time as a sequence in space. I don’t see the calendar how it looks on a planner or in my phone. Instead, it’s a track like the pic above. The months move counter-clockwise, with the summer months seeming much faster in my mind and the winter months longer.
Weird right? I’ve always seen the calendar this way! NEVER the boxes like what my Google calendar looks like.
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Do you see your calendar this way?
I’ve only ever met one other human who sees their calendar NOT like how it looks on their phone or planner. Apparently calendar synesthesia affects 1% of the population so I’m making this vid to try to find my peeps! Where you at!? Why does this happen!? Was there some unique experience we’ve all had? Is it our personality? Is it our genetics!? And also WHY. Scientists still don’t know so I’m coming direct to the humans.
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I have always seen my calendar as a loop/circle as well. Since always being in some type of school, let it be grade school, high school, college, and then now teaching, I have alway seen my calendar as in a traditional school calendar. School always started in the fall and ended close to summer. My current month (Feb.) is right in front of me and the others finish the circle/loop/etc, fall months are to my lower left and spring months curving up and to the right to join up with summer months in the top left. This ‘viewpoint’ of this loop changes throughout the year, where my current month is where my body is and the other months, past and future, form the rest of the circle year. I’ve asked others this question, too!
I have this too! Different from your diagram, for me March is on the bottom and summer months are on the right. No idea why – I always assumed that because there’s not much special about March, my brain took March as the “default” month and then adjusted from there. That’s just a theory though. I also thought maybe I’d been exposed to the year as a circle in school? But I actually don’t remember specifically seeing it ever the way I see it in my head. I think there are other synesthias too, like with seeing numbers in color and stuff, but this it the only one I have!
OMG! I totally see the calendar this way but mine goes clockwise! I have never known anyone else that pictures it this way but as soon as I saw your graphic, I was like, YES!
Can’t wait to see how many others respond the same. 😊
I see my calendar as a track like yours, except in reverse order. Each month is also shaded in a different tone–for instance May, June, July, are all bright and sunny, but January and February are more subdued and grey, to reflect the colors I associate with those seasons. I also see individual weeks arranged as a track.
This is exactly how I see mine! Shading and all! I think of it like a clock starting with December as 12 and then going to January clockwise. I also visualize my weeks like that too and monday is always on the inside of the circle. So if it’s March Monday will be on the left and if it’s September Monday will be on the right.