i see the season/months loop, too. like right now we're on the right side near the top, about to start looping back towards the left for summer months (most of june/july/august) and then september starts looping back downwards again.
For me, we're down towards the bottom right, getting ready to enter the loop for summer, back around to the left, which then goes upwards from September on.
Primarily with music. I was a music major first. I play four instruments and sing.
I've heard that the most gifted musicians often have some form of chromesthesia, just like the most gifted mathematicians often have the spacial form of synesthesia. Do the colors help you memorize the music?
This obviously explains why I spent every recess in 3rd grade reciting my multiplication tables in front of my teacher.
And I got in trouble in Kindergarten for yelling at Big Bird when he tried to teach me a number.
When I see numbers it's all black. Like death. I need this rainbow in my life.
Primarily with music. I was a music major first. I play four instruments and sing.
I've heard that the most gifted musicians often have some form of chromesthesia, just like the most gifted mathematicians often have the spacial form of synesthesia. Do the colors help you memorize the music?
i didn't know this was a thing. the calendar, in my mind, makes a sort of three-dimensional oval. we're in the bottom left quadrant right now. actually, anything in time. years, the week, time of day. it all exists in a certain plane relative to other like-oriented things (i.e., i feel each year to be in a certain place, but don't feel the months of the year within each of those years). and it's more of a feeling thing than a seeing thing for me, since i can walk "through" the year in my mind.
anyway, i did a lithograph of how i experience the calendar in college (in a printmaking class) because it was "easy" and fun and it tripped out EVERYONE in my class. full of visual type people. i just figured they'd all done more drugs than me.
So turn that sideways into an oval, and that's how I see the year. Like a long oval-ish rectangle. ETA: My order is a bit different, though. My Jan-May is squished tightly together and there is a lot of space in the summer, and then Sept-Dec are squished together.
What's odd for me, though, is when someone references the "beginning of the year", I automatically think of September in my loop, b/c that's the start of the semester.
I've never met anyone else who does this - though the picture in my head varies from yours (the fall/winter months are more squished and the summer ones are extended and the circle goes the other direction).
I have nothing as interesting but I really dislike odd numbers. They all seem evil to me. So much so that I will avoid doing anything of importance on an dd numbered day. I'm not superstitious, its just an issue with odd numbers.
If a Calendar has the months written in different colors, do you see the color its written in , or the color you always picture it in your head as?
um, lucy, january is TOTALLY in the wrong place on your oval. fix that. bottom right, towards the middle. also, it's physically closer than february.
so your months stay put? you don't move through the timeline? i'm constantly moving along as the year goes around. i can zoom in to a part of the year we're not in if i'm trying to remember a birthdate, or plan an event for that time of year, but i zoom back out and go back to the current place on the map in my head.
fyi, january is on the bottom in the middle for me. not dead center, but splitting center with december.
i also move through my week timeline/loop, and the daily hours are within that week loop.
eta: this is why i'm great at remember birthdays. because i literally see little reminders on the loop when i look at it as a whole. fuck ical. lol.
I do the same thing, almost as if it's a board game map or something in my head.
No really, I'm fascinated. This is very interesting.
So, do you actually *see* the colors when you read the word? Like, if you read the word "two" do you see the color green? Same thing with months. Or is it just the picture you automatically have in your head?
I've heard that the most gifted musicians often have some form of chromesthesia, just like the most gifted mathematicians often have the spacial form of synesthesia. Do the colors help you memorize the music?
I see them in a looped position in my head. Same with months (although I don't see those in color).
I think, for me, part of it is that I work at a college, so my life revolves around the academic semester set up. I see a calendar year as Sept - Dec and then January to May. The summer kind of floats in between.
i see the season/months loop, too. like right now we're on the right side near the top, about to start looping back towards the left for summer months (most of june/july/august) and then september starts looping back downwards again.
I have visualized the calendar year like this my whole life! January 1st is at the very bottom of the loop.
My comp isn't working well, but I was going to PIP it. :-)
I was actually trying to find the "Fry's Greatest Hits" album cover where he's lying naked on the bed with the holophoner, but the Grumpy Snail will have to do
um, lucy, january is TOTALLY in the wrong place on your oval. fix that. bottom right, towards the middle. also, it's physically closer than february.
so your months stay put? you don't move through the timeline? i'm constantly moving along as the year goes around. i can zoom in to a part of the year we're not in if i'm trying to remember a birthdate, or plan an event for that time of year, but i zoom back out and go back to the current place on the map in my head.
fyi, january is on the bottom in the middle for me. not dead center, but splitting center with december.
i also move through my week timeline/loop, and the daily hours are within that week loop.
they stay put, i move.
it's like labyrinth or something (there's some movie i saw where they were walking through a sunny misty forest with dead trees and i was like "wow, it's the calendar!"). they're all misty and rocky (at the same time) and are located in certain places and i "go" there when i'm thinking about what ever time that is. like, it's may now so we're bottom left towards the middle, and when i think about going on vacation with my parents in august i swoop around to get there. like a ferris wheel. except i move up and back and not just around and around.
ETA: and i don't "see" the months in words or anything. i just feel where they are. and early v. later parts of the month are in different places.
No really, I'm fascinated. This is very interesting.
So, do you actually *see* the colors when you read the word? Like, if you read the word "two" do you see the color green? Same thing with months. Or is it just the picture you automatically have in your head?
If I think about a word like "two" then I see blue-brown-white. The number two is just blue. My mom is different - she sees the whole word as the same color as the first letter. So "cat" is orange-red-brown to me, but to her, the whole word would be orange.
DS does. It's pretty common among those on spectrum. DS is another who didn't realize not all perceive letters/numbers in color. Daniel Tammet, who has autism, titled his book "Born on a Blue Day".
And I've never experienced this ... but I get that ASMR thing (the scalp tingles) that comes from hearing certain sounds.
I just googled this I think I have it too, but.... my butt tingles when I see something gross. I'm so not even lying. It's completely involuntary, but if it's gross enough I'm guaranteed a butt tingle. :-#
And I've never experienced this ... but I get that ASMR thing (the scalp tingles) that comes from hearing certain sounds.
woah, what?
I actually first heard about it a few months ago on this board! Someone linked to a video of a guy ironing a shirt, which suggested that you put in headphones and listen to the noise. It was really relaxing and I Googled the "ASMR" abbreviation on the video title. Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, which means that you feel little scalp tingles from certain sounds, smells, etc.
One of the popular examples I found on Google was the old Bob Ross painting show, which really made it *click* for me that AsMR was a thing. I used to LOVE watching it when I was younger because his voice was so soothing and the brushes against the canvas made such great sounds. Another thing I loved as a kid, as silly as it sounds, was when the nurse came to the classroom and used chopstick-like things to do the head lice inspection ... she used a really light touch and it felt nice. I remember liking that as far back as first grade.
There are a lot of interesting videos on YouTube if you search for ASMR. Not all of them trigger a reaction from me, but I have a few favorites that I watch at night when I'm getting ready to go to sleep, or that I'll listen to at work when I'm stressed out.
Are you the one that posted the link? I had no idea that other people didn't get this until someone said it was a thing. Man, in class they always used these old VCRs and they all had this tiny, shushy type static sound. It gave me tingles and then BAM, straight to sleep. And I'm not someone that can fall asleep in public (not even on a plane), but in high school, without fail, twice a day (once in my regular class, then I was also a TA for the same class, different period) if we had a movie day.
I wasn't the one who initially posted it (I think it was the ironing guy, and the same YouTube user also has a video of a guy shining shoes), but I may have re-posted it afterward BECAUSE IT IS AWESOME.