What does time look like in our heads? Welcome to “Good Mythical More.” We are about to embark on an interesting journey into the minds of each other and some select crew members as we all sketch out how we think about and visualize a year, a year of time. Because as some tiktoks that are floating around there demonstrate a lot of different people have a lot of different ways that they think about time when they have to draw it. So before we bring in five crew members, we are going to attempt to draw our own idea of a year. Okay. And I’ve thought a little bit about it. Like, I mean, like, a minute ago I thought about it for a minute. Yep, so I’m kind of going with just the, yeah, the first thing that kind of popped into my mind. Oh yeah, okay, I know what I’m gonna do. I did this backwards, yes. Yes, here we go. Oh, crap, I did this wrong. Okay, I’m figuring out how I visualize time. It’s gonna take me a little second. Hmm. Hmm, I don’t really know how to capture… sort of like… Oh, should have stopped the clock, but that’s okay. Probably two minutes. Okay, you done? I’m done. Okay. All right. So do you want to see? I think you should go first. Okay, I’m gonna go first, this is how I visualize time. It’s like a school year. I think about the school year. So like right here, school starts, you take your first day of school picture, and then you do all of your school until you get to your Christmas break. And then after Christmas break, you keep doing school until summer break. And then in May you’re really happy, or maybe it’s June, maybe this is September, I don’t know exactly. But then you got the summertime. I guess I’m still a student at heart. So interestingly, I also visualize a timeline. Mine’s a little bit different. Oh. Wait, what are all those dots? So the, I think in terms of four quarters, probably because- You’re a businessman. I’m a businessman. And I’m the boy. Businessman- The boy still thinks like he’s in school. Businessman and the boy. Businessman thinks in quarters. And the these dots I try to represent, like, there’s like a thick, like a darkness and thickness to winter, you know what I’m saying? Because like, the days are short, and like, they tend to be like, you’re like busier because of school and because of all this stuff that happens on the holidays. And then like summertime, it’s like the days are long, we don’t work as much and that kind of thing. So it feels a little bit free and easy around. Our energies are the same, we’re very- In the middle. Summer energy guys. Yeah, and timeline as well. ’cause I think some people might think time is a circle and that kind of thing, but we think time is a line. You can never go back. You can’t go back. All right, let’s bring in Lauren. Lauren, what did you think? I think time is a circle, so. Oh, you do? Oh, okay, well let’s see your circle, let’s go. Okay, so. Hold on, what is this? Is this? I made it in Canva. Okay, well, I didn’t know Canva was an option. I didn’t know Canva, what? Isn’t it pretty? That’s what my brain looks like. Okay, so let try to make sense of this. What do you call this chart? Brain. But is it, it’s not a bar chart. It is a concentric. There was a name for it, and I tried to find a thing online where I could fill in this kind of weird chart, but no one would let me do it for free. So then I put it in Canva, but then I had to export it into a different software to color it in, and so it took a long time. You should have stuck with a whiteboard. No, I couldn’t. Okay, but time is circle that starts with January at the top and goes around to December. Why, Nick, you wanted her way back there? I can barely see her back there. I was thinking the same thing, like- Is that okay, Nick? We have a, we have a distance- It’s fine, we set the mark for the tallest. Yeah, come on, come on up. Okay, okay, okay. Come on up. Yeah. Lauren, you can get on the desk. So what are the bands in the different months? So I see it like a clock, though I do feel like the year starts in like, August, September with school, like my brain will always think that. Okay. Like whenever I see, like, so there’s a clock that’s the whole year, but whenever I think about a month, like as it’s spread out in front of me, like each of those, like, pies has like 30 days, and each of the highlighted ones, it’s like holidays, or anniversaries or birthdays. And like, I always see this, like, glowing section of the month where I’m, like, looking forward to the next. You wanna get to that- Big event, yeah. So you go from the center of the circle out every month? No, the top is the first day of the month and then it gets- So you go towards the middle and then you reset back out to the crust and you go back in. Yeah. That makes sense. Thank you. And you knew this before you did it? And you were like, “Oh yeah, this is it for me.” It, I was like, I half knew it. Like, honestly, the more I thought about it, the more it was like hard to describe and create. But this is, I feel strong about this. And why is it a circle for you? Well, ’cause it’s like a clock and clocks are circles usually. And every year is the same? I like my clocks to be just a line. That’s unhinged. Well, this is- A lot. This is more advanced than I was expecting. This is a lot. We’ll see if anyone else does anything like this. Sorry, Lauren, that one was incorrect. What? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We’ll give you a- All right, Kaylin. Hello. Let’s see what you did. Hey, was this, did you already know the answer to this or did you have to develop it as you? Like, when I thought about it, I already had like a visualization sort of. Okay, all right, oh. Yeah, so like, for me, the year always moves up. So it’s always starts with January, moves up through the year. You stack. And then, yeah, there’s no, like, connection between December of one year and the January of the next year. There’s like a gap there, we just move to the bottom of the next year. I relate to that. And then kind of similar to what you were saying, like the winter months are like more constricted, so time moves a little bit faster. Oh yeah, so you got those long months. And then it slows down in summer and then it re-crunches towards the winter. Oh. But yeah, like only moves up and I like visualize as this being like a certain height. So right now we’re pretty high up in the year. And that also, like, helps me with my memory too. So like, I’m thinking like, “Oh yeah, 2023.” Interesting. This was like kind of low in the year, I think. So it’s probably somewhere around March. It helps me like find memories. This is wild. Wow. I mean, it’s a memory column. Yeah. I do like how whatever happens, forms a foundation for whatever happens next, like it or not. But then at the end of the year- You push all the blocks over and start again. Yeah, like, it just shifts to a new year. Like, I don’t know why December and January won’t connect. That’s a nice thought, but it’s, again, that’s wrong. How is it wrong? I agree with that, but I do. It is a nice thought. I know, I agree with it because I think of like, January is definitely the start of the year. I think I kind of buy into the reset mentality. Like this is a new year. It just starts. I’m like separating myself from the past year. Yeah. Like I can’t, I understand the idea of starting with school, but like, I haven’t been in a school in a long time, so I- Me neither. Right. Yeah, so you start at January and you move up. You know what I mean? I just like to save the summer as the grand finale. No. But you’re changing my mind. It’s a beautiful- The memory column is a, is a fascinating concept. Okay. Yeah, kind of like how you find your photos in your photo album. Like, you have to like- Oh, that’s true. Yeah. You like find it in a line. Yeah, I think a lot of the interfaces that we interact with probably influence how we think about this. Yeah, so years like this, it goes top, I mean bottom to top. And then a week goes left to right and then a day goes top to bottom. A week goes left or right? You’re all over the place. Yeah. A day goes top to bottom. Well, that’s like calendar stuff, left to right, top to bottom. Yeah, right. Top to bottom. I almost drew calendars, that was my fallback. All right, thanks for sharing. Thanks y’all. It is really fascinating. This is like a, this is quite a psychological exercise. Yes, Tally works in sound, and so we are expecting- Waves. A giant ear. Or particles. A giant ear. I mean it’s a waves kind of. Whoa! Yeah, kind of a wave in a weird way. It is a spiral, you have a spiral. Yeah, yep, it’s a spiral. Time is a spiral. Yeah, so like, it’s like DNA spirals. So you’re constantly moving from right to left, so you’re always moving forward. The boxes- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you just said moving right to left. Yeah. But down there. But you might be taking some steps back in there. No, no, no, you go from the right side to the left side, that’s right to left. Oh, right to left. Yes, right to left. But you do loop back on yourself. No, no, no, no, no, it’s a spiral, so you’re always, you’re not overlapping, I can’t draw a spiral, ’cause it’s a three dimensional- Why are you going right to left? Design. Design? So, ’cause you’re thinking of the past left to right, which is how you read. That’s how I’ve come to realize it. What? You’re thinking of the past being to your left? And what does it sound like? Well, being behind me, actually. What does it sound like? Technically it’s behind me. Oh, we’re, I don’t- Hold on, hold on, don’t, hold on. I don’t even- Gosh, that’s a good question. I can’t make fun of her until I understand what you’re saying. Are, you saying that the top picture is a different, is looking down the spiral? Yes. Yeah, yeah. But I still don’t understand right to left on the bottom picture. On the bottom picture, correct. You’re starting on the right and then you’re going all the way across. That’s the left, you just did the left. Not for the viewer though. Oh, for the, I’m so sorry. It’s complicated. I don’t get it. I know. Yeah, you usually don’t see us, you just listen. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Who’s there. Are those Post-it notes, the little squares? Yes. No, sorry, it’s written on a post-it note, those are not, the squares are different time periods of time. Most of the time it’s probably a day, but sometimes it can be shorter than a day or longer than a day. They’re not always squares, they can also be circles, or triangles or like other shapes too. Okay, Like if you go to a- It kind of depends on your mood. Like a sound convention. We just keep going back to that. Like a three day sound convention. That’s the only thing. You’re gonna, that’s gonna be one block, three days. Sure. Yeah, yeah. Three blocks. I don’t get it. My brain is exploding. You’re welcome. I’m gonna need some form of medication. Yep. All right, Tally. The doctor said the same thing. Yep. Bye. We hear you, Tally. Kiara. Okay, Kiara. Let’s see how- Bring us back to reality. You visualize time. Okay, this will- Okay, yeah. Yeah. You just screenshotted- I did, I just screenshotted it. That’s. Yep. That’s a calendar. Yep, yep. We’ve got the, my, we got- She’s a professional assistant. Yeah, this is your fault that I think of time this way. Yeah, is this everything that Link has on his calendar? Believe it or not, it’s a combination of both your calendars. Oh. Clean slate for me this year. Okay, well this only shows, so September, October, all of those are just little icons. It’s just more of the same, honestly. It all runs together. Yeah. The more you zoom in, the more, it’s the same it is. Yeah, yeah. This is kind of existential, a little nihilist. Yeah, that’s my vibe, so. Yeah. You know, it makes sense. I’m depressed. It makes sense, I mean it definitely makes sense, more sense than that Tally Spiral. Yeah, what was that? It’s like you try to, you think Mac has done it, all of a sudden, like, iOS 27. Mac might do it. IOS 27 is gonna be, we have now the spiral calendar. And Tally will be super excited. Right? Yeah, we’re clearly in a rigid Windows world here, Kiara. But I understand it. Yeah, good. Yeah, yeah. Oh, we got a “good” from Kiara. Yeah, good job. Well, thank you for sharing screenshots of your calendar with us. You’re welcome. For this application. I try to be helpful, so. It does make sense. Just keep my calendar clear. Okay, will do. Okay, now we’re gonna bring in an artistic person. Who knows what they’re gonna do. Julian. Yeah. Julian. Who knows? Julian. So I actually did have to think about this quite a lot. Okay. Did you cry? Did you weep? I did, I did weep a little bit because I could not for the life of me do a flat image. And so I made this little video to show you how I actually can’t visualize a calendar very well. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right, so. So we had January. So January. October. Okay, this is, it’s almost like a giant thought cloud. Uh huh. July is there, August right next to it. And they’re both there at the same time now. Uh huh. And then they come in. July, August, September, no, April. April, May, those stay up there together. And then September. September’s confusing to you. What is happening? Okay. January. It’s gonna, it restarted. Okay, okay, so help us understand. Yeah, so turns out, me and tally think almost exactly the same way. The past is on the left side and the future is on the right. Also Kaylee, from top to bottom. So January is up here, it’s also blue. October where we’re at is down here and it’s orange for me. Okay. When I think of time, I actually cannot think of them in a straight row. So if you were to say- Them, can’t think of- Right. The multiple months, all all of them. I can’t think of them. If you were to ask me what comes after August, I couldn’t remember. I would have to count out January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September. It’s September. That’s okay. So, you’re right, I actually, I can constantly forget September. Sorry, my BFF, whose birthday is in September. It’s one of the months that I just can’t think of. But there are months that coexist. So June and July, always together. June and July, April, May? April, May! April showers bring May flowers. I’m so, that’s true. I am, should we apologize for doing this to you? I don’t- Wait, I’m sorry to try to box you in. No, I feel like you like- This was like a deep exploration of your psyche. Was it edifying to you to do this? Yeah, it was actually kind of fun, because I realized, again, I like thoughts just pop up, But they’re not, like, consistent. And then they also move, depending on when I’m thinking of them, they’ll move up to down, left to right. What’s the best way to say something positive if we’re totally lost, you know? Well, I was gonna- Good job. Well, when he started talking about the things moving around, I was gonna say it sounds like floaters. Mm. You need to go to the optometrist. I do, I wear glasses for a reason. Look at the sky and you start seeing the floaters, you know? And you’re like- Called clouds. No, the ones that are- September. In your eyeball. Oh, my God. Yeah, in your eyeball. There’s a reason I see ’em when I look at the sky and that’s when I see- They’re called friends. Ha! I don’t know, okay? Don’t change a thing. We’re not ranking these. But especially now that we’re afraid of a few. Yours is the weirdest. Tally’s is the second weirdest. Tally, let’s go, yeah! Kiara’s is the most boring. Yeah, I mean mine is just a straight line, so it’s pretty boring as well. Yeah, mine is very juvenile. But you also have floaters. So we’ve all got our problems. Who did we miss? And Kaylin is definitely the winner. Yay! Yes. Yes, that right there is the winner. The time column, what’d you call it? Time column, “The Column of Time.” It’s a great show on Amazon. All right, “Good Mythical Evening” is blasting off October 23rd at 10:00 PM Eastern, 7:00 PM Pacific. Get your tickets now at goodmythicalevening.com.