Revisiting an old thread

I don't have pictures in my head at all. I can't visualise anything. It's just blank. Boring. I am a crafty person, always have something on the go but I can't see how a project will turn out. Curious how different people's brains work. hugs

I have always very strongly visualised the months of the year and days of the week in colours. I thought for years that everyone did this but apparently they don’t, and there is a name for it (will have to look it up again). Right now it is Tuesday which is pinky red, of course, and July (golden yellow)!

Ditto Kitty. My husband gave me a gold chain necklace many years ago and I wear it all the time never removing it. I have plenty of others like you.
I have different feelings for the days of the week and the seasons. I think that Thursday is my favourite day.
I also associate different smells with the seasons.
Hope that you are all having the best day possible. Thinking of others who are troubled or in pain.
My best wishes. CaroleAnne

Hearing things in colour is called synaesthesia.

Callistemon21

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.

I read it some time ago. An excellent book that I really enjoyed.

NanKate

A few years back I started one or two new threads which brought up some very interesting comments. As many of the contributors are no longer on GN I thought I would see what the present Gransnetters have to say. So here goes.

How does my jewellery get knotted up when I place it in one of my jewellery boxes ?🤔

I have a very visual memory and I view the year in the shape of an egg lying down/elipse shape. Starting from bottom right I see September, moving up and round we move through Autumn and at the top in the middle is December, moving down now and round the egg shape we come to Spring and so on. Have I lost you yet with my odd description ? How do you view the year? The week goes from left to right in a straight line.

I'm exactly the same regarding visual memory. A friend once asked if I had a photographic memory and, up until that point, I thought everyone remembered/visualised things the same way I did.
My months of year start in January and progress in an anti-clockwise circle. I visualise Nov, say, facing May on the clockface. Years themselves progress like a winding trail left to right, not perfectly straight.
Anyone else ?

Not for me… despite having five sons only one has children. Two girls and the youngest is ten this year!

Oreo

Really interesting.
I see the week ahead as a straight flat line going forwards, and the same for the months of the year too.No colours at all.

Me too. I'm now quite jealous that other peoples' lives are so full of colour. I've never heard of this before.

As Elegran says, if you do up all your necklaces then they seem to stay untangled.
Heavier necklaces I hang on a jewellery tree.Earrings sorted in pairs in boxes.

Really interesting.
I see the week ahead as a straight flat line going forwards, and the same for the months of the year too.No colours at all.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

Jewellery chains get less knotted if you fasten each into a circle before putting it away. The loose ends easily tangle.

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.
🤔🤪

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.

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.

Anosmia means complete inability to smell anything!

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