This page contains all the readers’ comments on the “Number form” article, received between 2022 and 2025.
Comment by: Anonymous. June 26, 2022 at 4:44 PM
Re: Sarah, Terra Nomad photo above. Similar to mine and I
remember forming mine around three years of age. Note, we are first taught
numbers 1-10, then 11-20, then 21-100. Note the turns at each new lesson. I
remember these lessons and how I responded to them. I was excited to learn and
one to ten was wonderful! But the next day at school, I learned there were
more! My 1-10 extended straight up and away from me, so I just continued the
11-20 on up. But! The next day! Even more! 21-100! I had to make a sharp right
turn, as there were just sooo many numbers! So 21-100 went right. As you might
imagine, there were more to learn. At 100, I made another right turn up to
1000. At that point, the numbers became more nebulous and I allowed them to
continue on into infinity. I have many of these spacial forms, but number and
letter are the only ones I remember forming in my mind at an early age.
Comment by: Anonymous. April 16, 2024 at 9:52 AM
This is the same way mine appeared too. I was introduced to
numbers at 5 years old and started mapping them
Comment by: Anonymous. August 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Myself I don't see patterns, I can just glance at a number
and have perfect recall on it, even 40+ years later. Never paid attention to
it, I was just able to do it. Freaky to learn at 58 years old that it is not
normal. I also hear every sound in a crowded room with no way to tune things
out to the point I have to get out of the area. Sensory overload.
Comment by: Anonymous. July 25, 2022 at 10:41 AM
My number form is very similar to the picture at the very
top of this site. 1 ist at 3 o'clock and the numbers go clockwise until 12 at
11 o'clock, then it goes on diagonally to the top left until infinity, with a
few slight kinks at 100, 1000... negative numbers go diagonally in the other
direction. I always thought everyone sees numbers that way, because its so
similar to a clock. Today I learned its synaesthesia...
Comment by: Anonymous. November 7, 2022 at 11:35 PM
I didn’t realize this was out of the ordinary until this
year, and I’m 56. I got a puzzled look when I asked how somebody saw numbers in
their head.
I also didn’t know there was a term for it until today. I
see whole numbers climbing up like steps, angling a bit for each group of ten.
I see years and decades, starting this year going down to the left and then
turning to the left a little bit more to the left each decade then right and
down at about 1970.
Comment by: Anonymous. June 6, 2024 at 8:46 PM
That's how I see calendars and maps of numbers. Calendars
are a visual line like a ribbon that I can move back and forth at will to
either think about a time period or calculate the time between two dates. I can
also use it to tell anyone within a few seconds the day of the week they were
born if they tell me their date of birth. I thought this was how the world saw
numbers, until I too mentioned it to someone and got a look from them like I
was crazy. Nice to see we are not alone with this skill!
Comment by: Anonymous. November 16, 2022 at 9:18 AM
Mine are similar to some of these - somewhat like a
clockface for one to 12, then off to the left for 13-20. But then the twenties,
thirties etc are also similar clock face like. And if I zoom out, the whole lot
1-100 are on a semi circular path, as is 100-1000. But I know mine are not 2D -
20 is higher than 12, 100 higher than 20. And mine include negative numbers,
and there is a space for irrational numbers (eg square root of -1), not that I
can see them, just a space for them
Comment by: Anonymous. March 25, 2023 at 7:48 PM
Since I was about 12 Ive noticed that I can see the numbers
years months days of the week all around me but I thought everyone visualized
these things like me. Additionally I can recall my life year by year. I asked
one day a friend of mine if she can see the all the numbers at once. I find it
to be a gift.
Comment by: Anonymous. April 4, 2023 at 1:56 PM
Only just stumbled across this. I'm 56 and never realised
there was a term for this and honestly thought everyone saw numbers and days of
the week/months as a 'diagram' for want of a better word. I'm mind blown. Like
others, my 1-12 are like a clockface and then the numbers go up to twenty, then
dip steeply to 25 and then start to rise again to 30. The pattern is repeated
up to 100 and the clock face starts again at 101 and then repeats as before
after 12. The light around the numbers between 15 and about 30 appears darker
for some reason. Like from sunlight to cloud. Months go from top to bottom and
each new year it jumps up to the top to start again. .For days of the week, the
weekends are high and then from Monday the days drop with Wednesday at the lowest
point. They then climb again to the weekend. I can see over the top of weeks -
its like a series of curves. Thanks for this
Comment by: Anonymous. April 20, 2024 at 12:10 AM
My younger years I had no problem with math.. in my mind I
see a number and it’s associated with the density of weight…. Once I reached
algebra .. I would fail.. because I would come to the correct answer but the
work I would do to get there would not be what they were looking for so it
would be wrong and I would fail that test….. I always had trouble figuring out
the correct formula… But I usually can find the correct result just in formulas
that don’t make sense anybody else… Which is usually longer and harder and more
complicated… I still see numbers as a form of density but yet have not ever met
another person who has the same thing… My search continues
Comment by: Anonymous. May 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
So I am similar in many of those charts and it was so
amazing to see I wasn't the only one. However, it's been suggested that people
can do math much easier, but I find it VERY difficult to do math. I have
struggled with it my whole life and frankly I wish I could find a way to
OVERCOME it.
Comment by: Anonymous. December 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It's so nice to see that there are others like me. I was so
surprised when I asked my husband if he sees numbers, months, years, and days
of the week floating in space, and he said no. I thought everyone saw them that
way.
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