I tend to see both too. I find that the clock face gives me a representation that seems more like "real" time. So if I'm figuring out time left of something or thinking about quarter hours or half hours, that's the old fashioned clock is what comes to my mind.
Interesting question. I pretty much use digital clocks these days but my first thought was actually of the old fashioned variety. I could see the time on a clock with hands.
My son is learning how to tell time in school right now. I'll let you know how it goes since they are learning about the hand postions on the clock.
The old fashioned analog is usually my first thought too. In some ways even when I'm looking at a digital clock.
Here's an example. When I hit the snooze button in the mornings, I'll make a mental note of how many times I can allow myself to do that. When I'm doing that, I'm mentally dividing up chunks of time for the next hour or so and I do it by mentally picturing a clock and ten minute or fifteen minute increments as represented on that clock face.
my favorite watch is a Joe Boxer watch that i had originally bought for my husband and decided to keep for myself.
it has a yellow face, red hands, and the "seconds hand" is actually the numbers, so unless you really know how to tell time, the watch makes you dizzy. i would occassionally test my children on it, to see if they could tell time by hand placement.
I HATE digital watches - I am an analog girl because I like the spatial sense of where you are in the day, in the hour, how far you are from an event, that comes with an analog watch. But I DO have a digital clock radio.
and I don't really know WHAT I 'see' -- though I must see something, visual something. Hmmm. thinky now.
Also, this post reminds me how I learned to tell analog time! When I was 4 or 5 I Wanted To Know. So Mom and Dad bought me this album. The back of the album cover was a big clock face (with smily FACE included). It had bright colours - pink and green I think - in four quadrants. And moveable big hand and little hand. And all the times, of course. And the album had songs and spoken words which used the prop of the clock to teach kids to tell time. It was SO. Cool.
i dont see it if i just ask and get a time, but mostly my head turns it from something with all numbers to quarter past, quarter of, half past. if i t hink about it on purpose though i see a clock fast. that is probly not sprising since i think of times in turns of quarters huh? xoxoxo from boo
To be honest, I'm not sure. My preference is for an ordinary clock with big, bold, plain numbers on it and a lovely second hand. I currently have a digital watch, though, and that's fine, too. I'm not sure which comes more readily to mind. I think I can easily tell time with either and switch back and forth easily between the two images.
I'm going to go with both...but it depends on which is more suggested to me, which I've seen more recently, or that sort of thing.
I'm also a highly visual person, which isn't to say that I learn best from pictures so much as I prefer the written word (i.e. on a stove, I want it to say "left rear" and not have a little picture of the four burners telling me which one the control belongs to), but also tend to need pictures like maps and drawings to help me see things clearly. Also, when I read books, I see images, and often can't remember later if I read a book or saw a movie. I remember the story. *g*
I marked "other". I didn't learn to read an analog clock until I was an adult, so I generally tend to think in digital terms. However, when faced with your question, I tend to think about the general concept of "2:10". But then I'm stuck with wondering if it's am or pm because I'm a 24 hour time kind of girl.
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Date: 2006-10-19 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-10-19 02:03 pm (UTC)My son is learning how to tell time in school right now. I'll let you know how it goes since they are learning about the hand postions on the clock.
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Date: 2006-10-19 02:30 pm (UTC)Here's an example. When I hit the snooze button in the mornings, I'll make a mental note of how many times I can allow myself to do that. When I'm doing that, I'm mentally dividing up chunks of time for the next hour or so and I do it by mentally picturing a clock and ten minute or fifteen minute increments as represented on that clock face.
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Date: 2006-10-19 03:48 pm (UTC)mildly off topic
Date: 2006-10-19 03:41 pm (UTC)it has a yellow face, red hands, and the "seconds hand" is actually the numbers, so unless you really know how to tell time, the watch makes you dizzy. i would occassionally test my children on it, to see if they could tell time by hand placement.
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Date: 2006-10-19 05:51 pm (UTC)and I don't really know WHAT I 'see' -- though I must see something, visual something. Hmmm. thinky now.
Also, this post reminds me how I learned to tell analog time! When I was 4 or 5 I Wanted To Know. So Mom and Dad bought me this album. The back of the album cover was a big clock face (with smily FACE included). It had bright colours - pink and green I think - in four quadrants. And moveable big hand and little hand. And all the times, of course. And the album had songs and spoken words which used the prop of the clock to teach kids to tell time. It was SO. Cool.
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Date: 2006-10-19 07:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-20 01:08 am (UTC)I'm going to go with both...but it depends on which is more suggested to me, which I've seen more recently, or that sort of thing.
I'm also a highly visual person, which isn't to say that I learn best from pictures so much as I prefer the written word (i.e. on a stove, I want it to say "left rear" and not have a little picture of the four burners telling me which one the control belongs to), but also tend to need pictures like maps and drawings to help me see things clearly. Also, when I read books, I see images, and often can't remember later if I read a book or saw a movie. I remember the story. *g*
So...uh... hehe ??? I don't know.
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Date: 2006-10-20 03:37 am (UTC)