Psychology of Time

What do you think of clocks, weekdays, months, years, seasons, moons?\

Or, more precisely, how do you think of time?

time space synaesthesia

Examples of time-space synaesthesia

Time-space synaesthesia describes a visual mental image people have of the year. I’ve long considered synaesthesia to be a product of how our imagination works to interrelate our knowledge. The more knowledge you develop, the more it informs our mental image of the world, and time.

Here’s the time-space image I’ve had in my head since I was a wee child:

theAbysmal Calendar as time-space synaesthesia
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