[jamesbkel]

I view time in a similar way. Whenever I remember something from awhile back, I quite literally visualize "rotating" the year in question like a dial until I'm on the correct day/month.

I also view numbers in general in a similar fashion. For example, I see 0-10 as points on a line that is about a 45 degree angle. 11-100 are the same but they are at a 135 degree angle. 101-1000 goes back to 45 degrees. This keeps going in a sort of logarithmic fashion... each turn between 45 and 135 is smaller/"zoomed out" as the numbers get larger. When I think of a number, it's almost like pointing to it (except all in my mind). Kind of hard to describe, but maybe this makeshift diagram will help.

10,000

  \

   \

    \ 

     1000

     /

    /

   /

100

\

  \

   \ 

    10

    /

   /

  /

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[DanI-S]

That's amazing - I had never considered the way I think about numbers, but I picture them visually too. Mine go off in a straight bar, away from me (and slightly to the right). Every 10 numbers, the height of the bar increases slightly.

I wonder how many other things vary between people but never get noticed because we consider them so fundamental?