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From a conversation with Claude:
Q:When I'm thinking about a year as a unit of time, I noticed I tend to visualize it as a wave - New Year as a peak, then sloping down to summer and ascending through fall and to another winter. is there a name for this
A:This type of mental visualization is called "circular time perception" or "calendar form synesthesia" - a type of time-space synesthesia where people consistently see calendar units (days, weeks, years) as having specific spatial arrangements. Your wave-like visualization is a common variant. Some people see the year as a circle, oval, or other shapes arranged in space.
LLMs really do make searching for this kind of thing easier. My following google search exposed me to people with some truly outlandish perceptions. How does it work for you?
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