In what way do you visualize a calendar year?

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Although it’s a zombie thread, I think it’s interesting enough to add my experience:

I’m a 3-d visualizer. I see the calendar as an ellipse in 3 dimensional space. As time goes by, I travel counterclockwise around the ellipse. For unknown reasons I’m always facing into the center of the ellipse so the future is to my right and the past is to my left. I don’t see the sun there, like someone else said. However, I see the days of the week laid out in linear form.

Someone in 2007 asked if we really see the calendar this way or are just describing it that way. I actually see it like this. But if you ask me to draw a calendar, I’ll draw the typical grid. Until they invent 3d paper, I can’t draw the calendar that I see in my head.

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The past 48 years of my life have been shaped in some way by the academic year, so in my mind, the new year is in September. Christmas and 1 January and all that is just mid-way through the year, to me.

The start of the week is Monday; my 12 -month calendars and my weekly planners all start with Monday at the head of the week. I get thrown off by calendars that start the week on Sunday, because that first block, in my mind, is Monday.

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I’ve always visualized time as a tight, downward spiral with each year representing a complete coil.

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I’ve been teaching so long that I envision time in semester cycles.

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Heh. Me too. Between being Jewish and a long time prof, the year begins in September.