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I wonder if that can even be called synesthesia. Sounds more like how visual-oriented people would think of time. For me, it's kind of an ellipse in front. The
by Artlav 10y ago
I wonder if that can even be called synesthesia. Sounds more like how visual-oriented people would think of time.
For me, it's kind of an ellipse in front. The spring is on the right, the fall is on the left, the summer is on the top, and winter below. When i think of a date, i look at where that date is located. And vice-versa, the events are located somewhere, and looking at them gives me the date.
Kind of like this http://i.imgur.com/7PJMf9O.png http://i.imgur.com/7PJMf9O.png
I later worked out a way to tell the day of the week by a date based on this.
Every month is marked depending on the offset of it's first day from january's (assuming january starts on thursday, which is 0). For me it's | - -/ --| kind of symbol marks, on one side or the other of the ellipse, which denotes the 0, 1, 2 and 3 days off.
Next is an image like that that you need to memorize: http://i.imgur.com/dpfn2lX.png http://i.imgur.com/dpfn2lX.png - a month on a calendar page, monday thru sunday, with thursday in the center. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 are the centreline of thursdays.
2016 starts on friday, the offset of the year is +1, and it's a leap year, so every month after feburary gets another +1.
Today is June 12th, 2016.
June is -3 (look at the year ellipse).
12th is -3 (look at the image #2 ).
2016 is +1 and leap year is +1 (have to keep in mind).
Sum it up, you get -3-3+1+1 = -4, ring it 7 is +3. Add to thursday, and it's sunday.
Another example: September 13th, 2014.
September is -2.
13th is -2.
2014 is -1.
Add up to -5, ring it 7 to get +2, which is saturday.
It may sound hard, but a few hours of practice would make it automatic, especially if you are a visual type.
- fnayr 10y agoThat's really neat. I'm tracking with how you are getting everything but the year offset. Could you explain where that's from? (E.g. why is 2016 +1 and 2014 -1?) Is it just determined by anchoring at Thursday Jan 1st for 2015, and every year before/after moves the day back/forward one (adjusting for leap years)?
- Artlav 10y agoDon't have a good way to figure it out for an arbitrary year. The year's offset is 0 when jan 1st is a thursday (since the whole system is based on determining the day's offset wrt a thursday), i.e. 1998, 2004, 2009, 2015, and increase every year by 1 and every mod 4=0 year by another 1. If you remember the offsets for a few years, then it's quite straightforward to get the offset for a nearby one. But i can't quickly determine the offset of an arbitrary distant year.
- dri_ft 10y agoMy mental image of a year is a vertically-reflected version of yours.
- enraged_camel 10y agoYeah, same. Summer months form the bottom edge of the square, and winter months the top.
- _98fj 10y agoSo weird. Mine is a circle. I too have summer on top, but spring is on the left and fall on the right, so it goes clockwise. And it's kinda tilted in the third dimension depending on which date it is.
- Artlav 10y agoI wonder what determines it. I can remember first thinking about it (around the same age i figured out how to move my eyes) as a ribbon of days going around in a spiral. Eventually it settled into the ellipse/rectangle thing i described. I often felt that the summer is something you climb up to (end of school, exam season in university, etc), and then after some smooth relaxed sailing you drop down towards the winter again (no more free time, got to do school and so on). However, i can't quite say if that determined the orientation, or the metaphor came from the orientation.
- amagumori 10y agoInteresting. I've visualized the numbers 1-100 as a specific path of tiles, sort of like a hopscotch grid, since i was like 3 or 4. 1-20 is a straight path rising in elevation, descending back to the ground from 10-20. At 20 the path turns right until 40, at which point it turns left and goes up from 40-100. At the boundary between 100 and 101 there's a "gate", sort of like a skylight. 100-200 takes a totally different path than 1-100. Pretty weird, i have no idea why my mind does this.
- NicoJuicy 10y agoAnother way of memorizing the day of the week is the doomsday Algorithm : http://www.timeanddate.com/date/doomsday-weekday.html http://www.timeanddate.com/date/doomsday-weekday.html ( yes, you can do it to :p )
- miguelrochefort 10y agoMine has autumn at the top, winter at the left, spring at the bottom, summer at the right.