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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
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Subject: Re: Re: Visualization of `time'
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Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 21:29:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 15 21:29:59 1986
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> > The recent postings about the perception of numbers remind me
> > of a realization I had a few years ago regarding the way I (and others)
> > perceive `time'. 
> > For example, I visualize the seasons as lying on a circle (actually a flat
> > torus) which is almost level but tilted a bit upwards. Winter
> > is on top, fall and spring to the left and right and summer at the bottom.
> > When I look at it I sit at about the end of summer and beginning of fall.
> 
> That's funny; that's how I see it too (more or less).  I think the end
> of summer has become a natural orientation point because that is where
> every school year begins; and when, as children, we were most conscious
> that a new year was beginning, having come full circle once more.

	This may seem weird, but I visualize monthly and yearly time as
stretched out on steps of 6 months each, sort of like:

				 Feb
				 Jan (1986)
	Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec
	Jun
	May
	Apr
	Mar
	Feb
	Jan (1985)
   Nov  Dec

	And I have NO visualization of seasons - just years and months.

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