A calendar is a printed table that shows all the days, months, and weeks of the year. This simple yet precise definition of the calendar is known to everyone by now. But do you know that there is a difference in the process by which everyone visualises the calendar? Yes, that is right. As per reports, people visualise the months of the calendar in different ways in their minds. Some start envisioning the calendar from top to bottom and others might see it in right-to-left format. Your method may be different from the ones mentioned here. There has been a debate regarding this question on social media, when it cropped up in a TikTok video. Users came up with their opinions regarding how people envision different months of the calendar in their brains. People couldn’t reach a specific conclusion regarding this answer. Even scientists were not able to derive a specific solution to this question. As per reports, none of the methods to conjure the image of the calendar in the mind can be termed wrong.
The user who posed this question in the TikTok video said that he looks at the calendar in a straight line. This implies that he looks at the calendar months in a top-to-bottom format. This means that January is at the top and then the subsequent or the remaining months appear at the bottom. The user who revealed this also said that in his family, people witness the months of the calendar in different ways. His mother looks at the months in a right-to-left manner.
Many users shared their experiences of envisioning the calendar in their minds in different ways. Some of them said that they could visualise a rotating wheel in their minds that projects the calendar months differently. On the other hand, others see the months of the calendar in a pyramid or spiral style.
In the research done on this issue, scientists say that one percent of people have a condition called calendar synesthesia. Calendar Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon where individuals experience the visualisation of time. This associates months or days with colours, shapes, or spatial layouts. A study was published in the journal Neurocase: Behavior, Cognition, and Neuroscience in 2016 regarding this term. The study said that people with Calendar Synesthesia see the calendar in a special manner. The experiments conducted in the study show that people who have Calendar Synesthesia have more clear information about the calendar.
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