Time and Space Synaesthesia

John Topp
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According to a study at the University of California, a small portion of the population has a form of synaesthesia that results in a spatial perception of time.

"In general, these individuals perceive months of the year in circular shapes, usually just as an image inside their mind's eye," says David Brang of the department of psychology at the University of California, San Diego.

"These calendars occur in almost any possible shape, and many of the synaesthetes actually experience the calendar projected out into the real world."

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interesting

Submitted by John X on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 19:00.
I had always thought my mental perception of the year as a circle of months was totally normal, until I started asking around and no one seemed to understand what I was talking about (except for my father who had a similar mental image). Never thought of it as a kind of synthaesthesia. Even though mine is mild (no mental projection into world), I wonder how much it affects my outlook on time, or the outlook of those with a more extreme version. For myself, I feel like the cyclical nature of the year and seasons is just a more familiar and comfortable way of thinking about time passing.

April Fools

Submitted by droplet on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 01:29.
I thought this article came out for april fools 

April Fools

Submitted by Jennifer Palmer on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 07:06.

Hi Droplet,

 

There was a humorous take on this research done by another webzine on 4/1, but the actual research appears to be real.

 

Peace,

 

jp

Mr. T

Submitted by John Topp on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 09:26.
I ain't no fool!

We once saw footage provided

Submitted by stevemartyn on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 04:43.
We once saw footage provided by HP0-S20 'Sightings', produced by "Fonzi" from "Happy Days", that showed lights floating over a field and an instantaneous development of 'circles'. And after HP0-J22 that: nothing. That, alone, is odd.Information appears and disappears on the internet. But some of us have memory that includes sources more lasting: people. HP0-J15 And some of them wont talk in this 'medium'. Why? Too liable to extraneous editing. To liable to being made into a lie. I'm not even sure what I write here will be con.HP0-D04