General Chat

Was telling someone the other day that when I think of months of the year I see them in a horseshoe shape with summer at the top. And supposedly because we had a two week timetable at school I see days of the weeks in an oblong shape with the weekends one each end and the two lots of weekdays down the long sides of the oblong.

They thought I was completely weird
Should I just start taking the tablets do you think!?

Whoops, just as I thought - too weird to talk to!!

Interesting...............




I can see your logic though!!


maggie

Jenny
I would certainly start taking the tablets...........months of the year are Jan Feb through to Dec and Summer doesn't come into it .
Hee hee
Joan

Hmm That's interesting.
I've never thought of them like that but I can see how you come to that reasoning.

We have had interesting threads on here in the past about people seeing names of things as a particular colour.....there's a posh name for it which evades me just now.
....so I guess shapes are just another branch of that type of thinking.?


Gwyn

Joan - SNIFF and walks off with nose in air - I was just testing on the summer thing of course!

Gwyn - nice to know theres a posh name for it!
I also have a shape for numbers but wouldn't know how to describe it. Letters of the alphabet are in a straight line.
I used to think it was quite normal but nobody has ever told me that they do it as well

Sorry Jenny
I wasn't being pedantic; but reading your message confused me and I wondered why I couldn't understand it.
Just been in lectures reading 12 lead ECGs.
Brain fuddled
Joan x

Hi Jenny

I'm disappointed my daughters don't see weird shapes for months and numbers. My year is kind of a clock shape, working clockwise from 1 with January - it was quite a while before I realised that I have SEVEN months between 1 and 5 o'clock, August stretching out as a long flat line of summer holidays before climbing up the autumn term with Dec 25 as the high point!

Its Ok Joan didn't really take offence (I've just put your name in my little black book to be watched out for!!!!)


Only joking

I dont think you should have stopped taking the tablets..lol

Oh my goodness it's March o'clock - I'd better get off to collect daughter.
Have a good day all
Joan x

Wow Ivy - brilliant - a fellow weirdo!
Can understand your thinking on the clock - wonder why you lump all those months together. I think your summer months and Dec 25th are the same principle as my weekends being at the end of the oblong - because they stand out.

Joan and Little lost - tut tut you shouldn't mock the afflicted.

I see the year as a sort of band, like a watchstrap. It bends over at the top (Jan), but there is a definite 'start line' around mid-March - I guess I see the start of the year as the zodiacal start (Aries). I also see days of the week as colours!

LoL Joan March o'clock - absolutely!

Jenny, I did try talking to others about this years ago, but shut up quick when I got strange looks....

- it's nice to find a comrade.

All the best

Well thats three of us then.
Have just been looking up "synaesthia" and it is part of that syndrome. As many as one in 23 people have it and its usually genetic. Well you live and learn, theres obviously quite a few people on here who are keeping quiet!!!

I think they are quiet because after reading this intellectual thread; they don't know what day of the week it is !
Joan x
I will be quiet now and just read. Very interesting x

I do know Joan - its Monday and its just at the top of the oblong!!!

It's synaesthesia, I have it as well but for me it's mainly colours.

Gwynne

Hi, I need to pick up kids now too - found this site that suggests it ought to be up to 40% of us! (Sadly I don't see colours - and I dream in black and white)

http://www.syn.sussex.ac.uk/