You may be reading too much into my label. For most of those they don’t feel like anything to me.
The main thing I feel when it comes to times is, as I said, times throughout a year feeling like they have a spatial location or direction. So e.g. August feels like it is up-and-to-the-left in front of me. (Holidays and seasons and other events like friend’s birthdays also have this directional spatial feel to them, i.e. I locate where approximately they are on the disk without thinking about it.) This isn’t some memory palace technique I came up with to help me remember dates; it’s just something I realize I always imagine unconsciously after I learned about synesthesias that not everyone does. (In describing it to others I have found that some other people who have basically this same representation of time throughout the year. IIRC one person I talked to once said they visualize a spiral with the months in different years at different levels.)
When I think of different years I do visualize them on a number line streching back a few centuries to the left. This is easier to explain by saying that time is often depicted on a number line timeline.
You may be reading too much into my label. For most of those they don’t feel like anything to me.
The main thing I feel when it comes to times is, as I said, times throughout a year feeling like they have a spatial location or direction. So e.g. August feels like it is up-and-to-the-left in front of me. (Holidays and seasons and other events like friend’s birthdays also have this directional spatial feel to them, i.e. I locate where approximately they are on the disk without thinking about it.) This isn’t some memory palace technique I came up with to help me remember dates; it’s just something I realize I always imagine unconsciously after I learned about synesthesias that not everyone does. (In describing it to others I have found that some other people who have basically this same representation of time throughout the year. IIRC one person I talked to once said they visualize a spiral with the months in different years at different levels.)
When I think of different years I do visualize them on a number line streching back a few centuries to the left. This is easier to explain by saying that time is often depicted on a number line timeline.