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[Puffin]

Yo guys!

I had this thought today, and started discussing it with my mom and my sister. And I was wondering what you think.
Or more; HOW you think.

Picture yourself a year. 12 months. How do you see it? Do you see it at all?

I imagine it as a circle. Just like a clock. December = 12, January = 11, November = 1 etc. My sister, 10 years old, imagined it the same way.
But my mom, she saw it as a snake, as she described it. It curves to the left and right, but all in order. And each month is always on the same wave of the curve, each year. She could describe it perfectly! And one year is one snake. Then another snake starts.

So, what's your opinion? How do you imagine it?


Then I asked them about the week. I see it as a straight line.
It starts on Monday, even though the official calendar starts on Sunday. Somehow I see the weekends are darker   Each day is one part of the line.
My sister saw it the same way. (Coincidence?)

Mom saw it differently. She saw it as a circle. Each day of the week has one spot on the circle. Sunday is on the top of it.


So, what do you guys think? How do you see it?

[Doc Adrian]

I see it as a bunch of little squares in a row...like my computer calendar

[LordHart]

Puffin, on Jun 11 2005, 03:57 AM, said:

I imagine it as a circle. Just like a clock. December = 12, January = 11, November = 1 etc. My sister, 10 years old, imagined it the same way.

So you both believe in time travel... because usually, January is the 1st month and November the 11th. Not the other way around.

[Stroggy]

I see it as a row of csquares, some red coloured because they contain important things (a big test) and some lighter coloured because they symbolize vacation or a light week.

[Romano]

I see it as aback walking! May is in front of me and June is behind my back. In other words: the past is in daylight and the future in pitch darkness!

[Kon-Tiki]

I see a day as two circles, one being from sunrise till sunset, the other one from sunset till sunrise. I usually divide my time so that it falls in a major part of a circle, like 'noon', or 'afternoon'. I guess there's no need to mention I'm not too good with punctuality, although I do let people know if I can't be somewhere in time, if it's necessary to be punctual. I take a bit of liberty on the Scouts for that, to much annoyance of some, but others just have a good laugh 'bout it. Those that get annoyed by it're people I prefer to avoid, as they've got a stick up their arse. Stuff like meeting somebody somewhere at a certain time... I'm usually way too early for that, that being the other end of the non-punctuality

[Tom Henrik]

Wow...

I am boring. I see a year and a day as NOW. I have no images of past or future. To me, there is only the now.

[Puffin]

Interesting!

[Havell]

I see large quantiites of time, such as months or years and a wheel seen side on, so you must spin it too see the other side.  I see days and weeks like on a calender, left to right, starting a new line every week.

[troop18546]

Puffin, on Jun 11 2005, 03:57 AM, said:

Then I asked them about the week. I see it as a straight line.
It starts on Monday, even though the official calendar starts on Sunday.

The week begins on Monday?   Prepostorous...

[PrejudiceSucks]

both interesting and confusing.

A year to me seems like a line that just stops and a new one starts every few months...

it's hard to think about it really.

[Eagle of Fire]

Interesting. I never thought about picturing years, weeks and days before.

For me, years would be like a little gage bar. Each year which pass would be a little bar on the gage adding up.

Months would be like round balls adding up after the bars. When the 12th ball add up then a new bar appear.

Weeks would be "-"'s adding up to a month in the same pattern and days would be dots, too in the same pattern.

[Tulac]

I don't picure years and weeks, I only picture kmonths with something they associate me with, e.g. June, I see it as everything green, I guess it's young summer...

[ThatSino!]

Of Course, this is how I see myself. so dont be frightened if it seems farfetched
In a year, ill still be 15 days away from my day 'o' birth, a vip of reloaded, and maybe creator of a RPG in the works.

[taikara]

I think my ability to visualize this "prettily" is a little inhibited.

I see time as our 4th dimension... I don't view seconds, minutes, days, months, or years any differently than one another.

What I mean by this is that I basically see all units time as part of a graph.

I guess the simplest way to say this is that for me, time is the shortest distance between point A and point B.

But as some may know, it's logically impossible to ever really get from point A to point B (I'll refrain from explaining for now so as not to spoil the fun for others).

So really, time is just an infinite line.