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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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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