If someone told me to visualize a year on a circle, I’d probably go with the default watch format, but the thing is, I don’t see the year as anything. Lots of interesting responses from people who see it as a circle, oval, flattened or on a mountainside, I just don’t see “a year” at all. I’m a person with vivid 3D imagination and good spatial reasoning, but I haven’t developed a spatial model of a year at all.
For me, when comparing or estimating timescales, months are numbers in a range, and I mean numbers, not points on a line. When deciding whether to do something in February or June or October, there are significant memories, colors, smells and pictures associated with each, but again, no spatial model.
Maybe you live closer to the equator than the Norwegians in that post? The farther north you live the more the year will become a thing on it's own, because the months feel very different due to the length of the days changing.
I am not saying that this necessarily must lead to geometric metaphors, but if you are somewhere where "a day" looks more or less the same independent of the season it makes more sense to tie to your own experience
I can imagine the year as a circle, since we’ve had circles like that in school.
But there’s not generally any figure that pops into my head when I think about it.
I can relate to the complicated pictures some have though. It feels like different parts of the year have different sizes and angles to them, so could probably draw a shape that feels right to me
Same here, I think? Months to me are just numbers. Even remembering the order of them was hard. I think I'm just barely starting to get the hang of it now
For me, when comparing or estimating timescales, months are numbers in a range, and I mean numbers, not points on a line. When deciding whether to do something in February or June or October, there are significant memories, colors, smells and pictures associated with each, but again, no spatial model.