Revisiting an old thread

Since I was a small child I have always seen days of the week in colours and thought everyone else did,too. Not the case, apparently. Some, but not all, numbers have colours for me,too. I like your year, NanKate, though I don’t have that one. There are a lot of artists in our family, maybe there’s a connection ? Just a thought.
Oh, my jewellery gets knotted,too- even though I hang it on stands.

Of course the days of the week have colours:-) but they may not match yours
Monday blue, Tuesday red, Wednesday green, Thursday brown. friday light green, saturday light yellow, sunday strong yellow

Oooh, that sounds lovely. Are any of you very arty? Crafty?

My week is very black and white. Some months might have colours but very straightforward one. January - White, September - Orange. But that is about as interesting as it gets.

No idea about the jewellery, Kate but, to add to my black and whiteness, why do I always wear the same necklace despite having loads of them?

I see the year and indeed all time related concepts as linear.

I keep my good jewellery in its boxes but the costume jewellery together in one box. I unpick any knots with 2 pins but with my glasses on!!

I am not at all arty or crafty,my days of the week are all coloured,Monday pink,tuesday blue wednesday dark red,thursday light blue,friday dark green,saturday light green ,sunday bright red.

I see the months as different colours,numbers have colours and so do names.

I also have I believe is called anosmia,which is a smell associated with different people that no one else can smell except me.

I am not given to flights of fancy,and as my name suggests, very down to earth.

Monday pale blue, Tuesday orange yellow, Wednesday green, Thursday cherry red, Friday scarlet, Saturday daffodil yellow, Sunday very dark maroon-red. Colours vary, don’t have colours for all except 6 definitely yellow, five dark red, two blue, 7 red brown - that’s it for colours. I think white for 1 but pretty colourless almost transparent. Weird, they keep the same colours forever.

I see the days of the week in an oval lying sideways.
Monday (blue) starts on the left, followed by Tuesday ( yellow) Wednesday ( Orange) Thursday ( deep red) Friday ( blue/grey) Saturday ( green) Sunday (Black)

Months of the year are in a circle starting with January at the bottom right hand side and they too have different colours.

I too thought everyone else saw them like me, until I mentioned it to a friend who looked at me as if I was mad!

I am quite arty but I don’t see days in colour I don’t see them in shapes they are just names !

My jewellery which is not expensive (I don’t own anything expensive) pendants and bracelets etc hang on small cup hooks on my bedroom wall No chance of tangles and earrings go in ice cube trays in my bedside drawer ( I have 72 pairs at the moment )

I wonder if it’s anything to do with books we read as children which showed these colours? Reading nanna8 ‘s description of the colours of the days of the week are very similar to mine

I have never ever thought of days in colours…🤷‍♀️

Anosmia means complete inability to smell anything!

That's a funny coincidence, - I've just spent half an hour untangling an earring from a silver pendant necklace.
I really must keep them separate from now on.

Th first thing I think every morning when I wake is to sort out in my head what day of the week it is. I don't see any colours though, sadly. I'd like that.

For me the months of the year are in a straight line but gradually dip down till a flat July and August then begin to climb again to the high point which is Christmas. Autumn months are glowing reds and browns. Spring is pale but bright green. Summer is flat washed out white. Winter is also white but with brown streaks.

I do read a lot,and have done since a small child,its intersting butmost of the colours I see are primary colours.
The shape of the year is square,the same with day of the week.
Thinking about it words have different colours eg.hospital is green,wedding is white,school is blue,dinner is brown.
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Jewellery chains get less knotted if you fasten each into a circle before putting it away. The loose ends easily tangle.

How do you view the year? The week goes from left to right in a straight line.

It goes from leftwards, from this moment it would go along flat then rise very gently from September towards Christmas, up over the cold hills of December and January then gently downwards towards the green valleys of summer.
Weird? Possibly. 😁

I used to hang my chains on a mug tree until DD filched borrowed it. DH is a good untangler of chains and yarn.

Sorry, for clarity, the year goes leftwards, from right to left.

Re colours - has anyone read The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder by Sarah Harris?

It's about a boy with synesthesia—a condition that causes him to see colours when he hears sounds.

We’re a weird mob, as they say ! I didn’t think about years but I do know Christmas gets here more and more quickly each year. So do birthdays, unfortunately. Can you believe it is more than 23 years since the millennium?

nanna8

We’re a weird mob, as they say ! I didn’t think about years but I do know Christmas gets here more and more quickly each year. So do birthdays, unfortunately. Can you believe it is more than 23 years since the millennium?

We seem to count years in events - someone's wedding, a child or grandchild born (you wait for years then they come along like buses 😀), the year we had a memorable holiday, the year MIL died rather than the Millennium etc.

I never imagined the days of the week in colour, nor the year in any other way except a straight line, left to right. If I really thought about the year I would think of it as seasonal, Winter, Spring, Summer Autumn. I have been a vociferous reader all my life but not particularly into arts & crafts.

There are online tests for synesthesia, I thought I had it as I see the days as colours, however, I do not and think maybe it comes from school as Bakingmad0203 suggests.

Even though I have been retired from teaching for many years, for me the year still starts in September. The choirs I sing with close over the summer and restart in September. Then things peak just before Christmas with lots of concerts and carol services. Same again at Easter. Then there’s our summer concerts, followed by a long stretch of free time. So time goes in cycles, with peaks and troughs.
Colours don’t come into it, for me.

Callistemon and The exwife has touched on it - people who see objects /people as colours are demonstrating synaethesia .
Being shy and introverted at school I kept quiet about my seeing days of the week , months, names people ... as colours .

I recall having to arrange my coloured pencils and later all my art materials in particular colours.
Aged 70 - my pencils , pastels, acrylics /oils amd watercolours are still arranged in the same way .

Apparently, this is common /normal in children , but persists into adulthood particularly in artistic people :

Monday is blue
Tuesday red or pink
Wednesday green
Thursday black
Friday yellow
Saturday blue
And Sunday yellow again .

I think that the obvious seasons are reflected in the following :

January white
June lemon
July bright yellow
October burnt orange
December red and white .

Interestingly , my daughter a highly accomplished portrait artist doesn't exhibit synaethesia , but I do as a landscape , still life and abstract painter .