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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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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