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Analogue or digital clock?

Stuart333

Which do you prefer?

I can use either, but I much prefer analogue. I look at the position of the hands and instinctively know the time without using numbers and without much effort. It is optical pattern recognition.

Digital requires mental processing and of a different kind. I bet a brain scan would show different parts are active.

It is the same for other gauges and instruments.

I think a lot of my processing is visual, I convert things into images. It might be why some abstract things like poetry don't work.

It might also be why going somewhere new without a picture of what it looks like is a problem. You need to imagine it which you can't if you have nothing to go on, or a similar example.

It explains some of my holiday experiences and why I always visualised it.

  • Has to be a clock-face for me. I know the time visually, I look at the clock and know what time it is, I do not translate the visual into words. This is difficult if I'm asked the time in the street, because I then have to process it into words and sometimes I cannot. Most often I just show my watch to my interlocutor and let them work it out.

  • Stuart333 said:
    I think a lot of my processing is visual, I convert things into images

    This is how my stepdaughter leant to read, she couldn’t do phonics at all but could easily remember the shape of the words. Clever if you think about it how people can adapt in unexpected ways. 

  • I like both clocks really. I do have a Nintendo alarmo clock which is digital which I am loving! But I also have an analog watch too. 

  • I don't have problems with any clock, unless they tick.

  • Analogue, every time, I have to have a really good look at digital clocks, all digital numbers are variants on the number 8 with different strokes being removed to make the other numbers, I have problems due to dyslexia and an astigmatism, so I find reading things like this difficult. Then when you add in the glow and my being able to see the basic 8 shape in the background it's difficult.

    I'm a very visual person and I have huge problems with maths too. I also have a problem that every clock in our house tells a different time, so all time involves a bit of guess work, even the supposedly self correcting digital clocks on pooters and things tell different times, no two of them are the same.

  • In my surroundings I prefer analogue clock displays (I can get creeped-out by catching sight in my peripheral vision as a digital digital changes, or there is a slight shimmer in the intensity of the rendering of the digits of a large digital display, and I cannot abide flashing unset digital displays on equipment such as an oven ...set it, somebody, set it right now!).

    However, for my personal timekeeping devices, wrist watches, smartphone screen; I prefer digital time display (but it absolutely must be set to display in the 24 hours format).

  • Digital is easier if I’m just glancing at a clock, I mainly use the digital clock on my phone, I own a couple of watches but never wear them. I actually prefer clocks with Roman numerals, it may just be an interest in The Romans.

    My youngest son is 23 and can’t use analogue or the 24 hour clock, he does have ADHD, I don’t know if that is linked to it.

  • in reply to Expecto_Patronum

    Interesting.

    Maybe this is why I find maths harder than I think it should be.

  • Interesting because I prefer digital because analogue takes a lot more mental processing for me. I can tell the time with an analogue clock, there is no issue there but for some reason it takes a while for the information I'm seeing to be translated in my brain. I think perhaps I am the opposite of you, I'm not a very visual thinker at all. If I look at a digital clock it just tells me exactly what the time is, I don't have to think about it.