Is it Thursday?

Exactly what I feel, nellie. Very few films conform to the book and if it's a book I've loved, that spoils it for me. One of the very few exceptions was 'A Room with a View.'

* merlot* I will not watch a film of a book I have read whenever I have I have been sooo disappointed the film dosent match my characters in my head.....prefer books anyway...x

specki that smile is how I see days of the week, Wednesday is the lowest bit!

I always feel disappointed when I see a TV adaptation of a book where my imaginary view of the main characters is nothing like the actors portraying them. I always feel mine are much better.

I had a similar conversation with my DH recently - but about time. He can never understand how I can pinpoint the exact year something happened - he says time just runs together in his mind and he can't differentiate between one year and another. I see time in decades which are shaped like a smile - the 5th year is at the lowest point of the smile rising up again to the 9th and with the 10th on the highest point before starting the next smile. Somehow, I attach events and memories to a specific point on that shape and can therefore work out the year. Funny innit?

Glad im not the only one! I have been so mixed up in the days this week! ...I may have to soon start writing a little note to myself telling me what day it is when I wake up! like my friend does...(she has dementia)!!!! (confused)

ana I do that also,each has their own appearance,and voice...how do you see me in your mind.....careful how you answer that..lol

Last week the meeting I usually attend on a Thursday was held on Friday AND I hadn't had the GC I usually have on a Wednesday because they were on holiday. So I've been completely thrown off the line. As a consequence I thought today was Saturday but it wasn't

I'm the same as nellie and jeni, and in fact I 'see' the faces of all the posters on GN and am rather put out when I see their photos (if they've posted one) because it doesn't usually tally with my imaginary view of them!

I can see faces-ish but voices would make for your own, private play or performance. At least I don't think I hear but haven't really considered it. No, fairly sure that if I did, I'd know. I feel cheated

I do the same!

Yes...and see their faces...but isn't that a vivid imagination.?...

No - it's silent in my head when I read. If you read a novel do you hear different voices for different characters?

alie I hear the written word it is though I am reading aloud in my head....dosent every one?..

Not on a clock face for me either, but a sort of list which goes from right to left - same for the days of the week.

So we all think we perceive things in a similar way - but we really don't. We may speak, or write, about what we think are shared experiences but my Monday just has a feeling, no colour, I don't hear Monday when I read it, liver and onions is only kind of brown for me, and the months of the year, not only don't have a colour, but are not on a clock face although it makes real sense that they are. Amazing to me these revelations

When I read printed words I can hear them as well. I only realised this last year.
Is this also synaesthesia?

My days of the week are Monday red, Tuesday blue, Wednesday green, Thursday pink, Friday olive green, Saturday pale yellow, Sunday darker yellow. The months of the year are on a clock face with July and August on the bottom. It has been like that ever since I can remember.

Wow - how much more interesting it must be if foods, names, music, days etc have colours and this is just a natural thing. Although if you are born with it I suppose it wouldn't seem unusual.

grrranny .....marshmallow (including the pink ones) taste white. Toast is a sort of orange colour. Anything bitter or sour generally tastes green. Spicy food is gold or red. The actual colour of the food doesn't relate to the taste colour.

Yes, you just don't think about it when you're a child - it's normal for you! And as nellie says, you assume everyone does it. (Oh yes, numbers too, nellie!)

my son has always seen days I n colours, he only told me recently, we never knew when he was a child

Have just googled synaeathsia ...and yep thats me...also hear music in colour,and numbers.....just thought every one did.....

lucid taste in colour as well - I feel miffed that I don't have this colour related sense. So are certain foods connected to a colour more than just their actual colour?