Analogue or digital clock?

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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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