Revisiting an old thread

nanna8 the time speed up thingummy bob.

I sort of worked out it out the older you get, the more years accumulate, the smaller and quicker any time segment gets like "from now to Christmas".

Hence when you are age 6, 6 weeks summer holiday is a greater segment of time relative to your time lived and feels "forever".

I've not put this very well I hope people get it but apparently "time speed up" is a psychologically recognised function many of us feel.

NanKate

Here I will add another dimension to this thread Revisiting inanimate objects which seem to have a life of their own.

I’m quoting from another Gransnetters who said she could never leave a baked bean in a tin whilst putting them in a saucepan, as she thought he/she/it would be lonely 😩

I sometimes think of inanimate objects having a life of their own. I know the men in white coats will be collecting me soon. 😳

Me too.

I talk to the doorstop (well he is an owl) and other inanimate objects.

Wyllow3

nanna8 the time speed up thingummy bob.

I sort of worked out it out the older you get, the more years accumulate, the smaller and quicker any time segment gets like "from now to Christmas".

Hence when you are age 6, 6 weeks summer holiday is a greater segment of time relative to your time lived and feels "forever".

I've not put this very well I hope people get it but apparently "time speed up" is a psychologically recognised function many of us feel.

Yes!

Great thinking, that would explain it.

I love school as a child, so the year began in September, and I visualized it as sloping gently down like a hill to a valley where my November birthday, Christmas and the New Year lay shining brightly. January to April a dark, dreary slog uphill.

May to September moderately interesting, but by the time the Scottish school holidays had wound their way from around June 21st to August, and there still was a whole month to get through, I was very bored indeed.

I’ve never thought of days of the week as colors. For me more of a crescendo, but not musical.

If I attached colors to my days, here’s how:
• Monday - light green, soft start to the week
• Tuesday - yellow, proceed with social
• Wednesday - orange, keep going, you’re on a roll
• Thursday - blue, a rest day if needed
• Friday - purple, best day, “date” night, social, friends
• Saturday - red, last chance to tie up the week - whatever you feel like!
• Sunday - grey, NEVER on Sunday

Thank you for making me think of my retirement days. This was fun!
USA Gundy

Jess20 How weird - I'm a bit like that. I can differentiate between things that happened very recently and things that happened a long time ago but really have no concept of when. I know if it happened at the same time as something else but years and dates really have no meaning. I can remember dates like birthdays no problem.

We often joke that if I ever needed an alibi for the police I would need MrA to remind me of what was happening at about that time so I could work it out.

I love your description grandetante 👍

In this house its the naughty fairy who tangles chains and my lovely GD who sits patiently with two pins untangling them .They are then put back in their boxes and into a drawer and most wont see the light o day until the fairy has done her work when Miss K will get out the pins and do it all again .

I have a lot of jewellery for my online shops. Each necklace is kept (fastened) in a separate poly bag so there are no others for it to tangle up with. Thats how I ship them. So they should arrive at the customer with no tangles.

I don't see the year as you do but like others here, I've always seen the days of the week as different colours, most months have a colour too. I've recently discovered (at age 60) that I'm on the autistic spectrum and apparently this is quite a usual trait for autistics to have. It's called synesthesia and has many forms. I also experience ASMR and this, along with the synesthesia, always made me feel like the odd one out growing up (no one else I knew experienced these). It's still nice to know I'm not alone in my oddness! Lol!