Gransnet forums

Chat

Is it Thursday?

(34 Posts)
grrrranny Sun 12-Aug-12 09:21:20

When I worked Monday - Friday, I always knew what day it was and each day came with a different 'feel' to it. Now I work sometimes, and with no pattern to the days I work. DH works for an agency so sometimes works and sometimes doesn't - again no pattern. So my days get muddled yet the minute I work out what day it is, the feeling comes back. Monday - oh no - Saturday -relax, Sunday a bit gloomy and so on. But there is no reason for me to have those feelings now. Does anyone else have feelings for particular days?

Annobel Tue 14-Aug-12 11:05:08

Exactly what I feel, nellie. Very few films conform to the book and if it's a book I've loved, that spoils it for me. One of the very few exceptions was 'A Room with a View.'

Littlenellie Tue 14-Aug-12 10:12:49

* merlot* I will not watch a film of a book I have read whenever I have I have been sooo disappointed the film dosent match my characters in my head.....prefer books anyway...x

Ella46 Tue 14-Aug-12 09:48:38

specki that smile is how I see days of the week, Wednesday is the lowest bit! smile

merlotgran Mon 13-Aug-12 22:45:21

I always feel disappointed when I see a TV adaptation of a book where my imaginary view of the main characters is nothing like the actors portraying them. I always feel mine are much better.

specki4eyes Mon 13-Aug-12 22:07:42

I had a similar conversation with my DH recently - but about time. He can never understand how I can pinpoint the exact year something happened - he says time just runs together in his mind and he can't differentiate between one year and another. I see time in decades which are shaped like a smile - the 5th year is at the lowest point of the smile rising up again to the 9th and with the 10th on the highest point before starting the next smile. Somehow, I attach events and memories to a specific point on that shape and can therefore work out the year. Funny innit?

bikergran Sun 12-Aug-12 22:10:42

Glad im not the only one! I have been so mixed up in the days this week! shock ...I may have to soon start writing a little note to myself telling me what day it is when I wake up! like my friend does...(she has dementia)!!!! (confused)

Littlenellie Sun 12-Aug-12 22:08:09

ana I do that also,each has their own appearance,and voice...how do you see me in your mind.....careful how you answer that..lol grin

goldengirl Sun 12-Aug-12 21:52:35

Last week the meeting I usually attend on a Thursday was held on Friday AND I hadn't had the GC I usually have on a Wednesday because they were on holiday. So I've been completely thrown off the line. As a consequence I thought today was Saturday but it wasn't sad

Anagram Sun 12-Aug-12 21:06:08

I'm the same as nellie and jeni, and in fact I 'see' the faces of all the posters on GN and am rather put out when I see their photos (if they've posted one) because it doesn't usually tally with my imaginary view of them!

grrrranny Sun 12-Aug-12 20:53:44

I can see faces-ish but voices would make for your own, private play or performance. At least I don't think I hear but haven't really considered it. No, fairly sure that if I did, I'd know. I feel cheated sad envy

jeni Sun 12-Aug-12 20:52:23

I do the same!

Littlenellie Sun 12-Aug-12 20:41:01

Yes...and see their faces...but isn't that a vivid imagination.?...

grrrranny Sun 12-Aug-12 20:36:24

No - it's silent in my head when I read. If you read a novel do you hear different voices for different characters?

Littlenellie Sun 12-Aug-12 20:33:17

alie I hear the written word it is though I am reading aloud in my head....dosent every one?..hmm

Anagram Sun 12-Aug-12 19:59:19

Not on a clock face for me either, but a sort of list which goes from right to left - same for the days of the week.

grrrranny Sun 12-Aug-12 19:56:55

So we all think we perceive things in a similar way - but we really don't. We may speak, or write, about what we think are shared experiences but my Monday just has a feeling, no colour, I don't hear Monday when I read it, liver and onions is only kind of brown for me, and the months of the year, not only don't have a colour, but are not on a clock face although it makes real sense that they are. Amazing to me these revelations envy

AlieOxon Sun 12-Aug-12 19:17:13

When I read printed words I can hear them as well. I only realised this last year.
Is this also synaesthesia?

Mamie Sun 12-Aug-12 16:45:17

My days of the week are Monday red, Tuesday blue, Wednesday green, Thursday pink, Friday olive green, Saturday pale yellow, Sunday darker yellow. The months of the year are on a clock face with July and August on the bottom. It has been like that ever since I can remember.

Ella46 Sun 12-Aug-12 16:31:54

envy

grrrranny Sun 12-Aug-12 15:29:18

Wow - how much more interesting it must be if foods, names, music, days etc have colours and this is just a natural thing. Although if you are born with it I suppose it wouldn't seem unusual.

lucid Sun 12-Aug-12 15:17:10

grrranny .....marshmallow (including the pink ones) taste white. Toast is a sort of orange colour. Anything bitter or sour generally tastes green. Spicy food is gold or red. The actual colour of the food doesn't relate to the taste colour.

Anagram Sun 12-Aug-12 15:10:01

Yes, you just don't think about it when you're a child - it's normal for you! And as nellie says, you assume everyone does it. (Oh yes, numbers too, nellie!)

GoldenGran Sun 12-Aug-12 15:06:22

my son has always seen days I n colours, he only told me recently, we never knew when he was a child

Littlenellie Sun 12-Aug-12 15:01:01

Have just googled synaeathsia ...and yep thats me...also hear music in colour,and numbers.....just thought every one did.....grin

grrrranny Sun 12-Aug-12 14:53:36

lucid taste in colour as well - I feel miffed that I don't have this colour related sense. So are certain foods connected to a colour more than just their actual colour?