Please describe your perception of time.

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That's definitely synesthesia. Nothing but synesthesia works that way.

For me, the days of the week are striped, a color and yellow. That's the easiest way to describe it anyway, although there's some dimension to the stripes that is hard to explain.

Sunday is yellow. Monday is red. Tuesday is blue. Wednesday is blue. Thursday is an orangish red. Friday is yellow. Saturday is red. That's combined with the white stripes in between. Some of them are thicker than others. And the shades of color in Tuesday and Wednesday are slightly different. Numbers (and therefore years) have color as well. So do letters. And many of my senses are crossed as well (the most prominent are sounds becoming tactile and sounds becoming visual. But sights can be tactile, tactile can be visual, etc. It's sometimes hard to track how many different things are crossed at once.) I also get a very atypical kind of synesthesia under sensory overload, where things will bleed into other senses depending on how overloaded I am (typical synesthesia always stays the same). But any given person can only have one sort of synesthesia, or tons of different kinds, so you don't have to have every type of synesthesia to have it. Also the colors (if it's visual) are sometimes inside people's heads, and sometimes outside, depending on the person. There are different brain regions that account for the inside colors vs. the outside colors.

Anyway, I don't attribute my synesthetic time stuff to my weird time perceptions. I think the synesthetic time stuff happens for me when I'm trying to understand time the usual way. It doesn't intrude on my normal lack of time perception, or what happens when time ties in knots, etc. It's just completely absent in that kind of perception of time. It comes up when I'm trying to deal in hard-facts kinds of so-called "objective" time, time as an idea rather than time as an experience. And it is somewhat visual, I just experience it as more spatial than visual. Like I can "feel" it in space without seeing it sometimes. (Spatial often goes away from visual for me, and becomes kinesthetic or tactile or something like that.)

Wrong diagnosis likes to call it "time units to color synesthesia." Pretty classic, really.

Just to add on, I often compare time like I compare distance. one of my special interests has always been the dimensions and the idea that time is one is almost undeniable. So I suppose people normally would view time as linear, perhaps slightly wavy for times they feel that time itself has travelled fast or slowly.
Whereas I see it much as if you could walk through it, fine I don't have that much control, but from being young I learnt I could change its pace by being bored or anxious or speed it up by concentrating or zoning out.

In the ens time means little for me, although I feel as though it would be wrong to waste away what time I do have. So yeah, thinking seems to somewhat twist your perception of time out of shape somewhat

Since time can have any imaginable speed, I like to slow it down by being aware

I have no noticeable relationship with the clock though, exept when I have to reach something.

It just dont change nothing for me if the clock shows 2, 4, 6, etc. when I dont have to reach anything.

My NT boyfriend is the opposite. When we got out of bed today, he said: "Its 11, its late". And its sunday, so I really wander why its late.

Tell me what time it is, and I will answer ahaaaa!! !

How I preserve time? Well I'm 35 in stuck in a 14 year old body, and it's still 1990s, and I'll never die..... never never die :_( never get old. I've already conqured the world at least 8 times over (well for blood donations anyways). I've even influenced the lives of people far far far far far away from me. And will continue to do so through out my extremely long life span..... God kill me already? haven't I earned it what with all my Mormon temple rituals, with over 55 donations, including one rare bone marrow match? haven't I laboured enough on this cold cold planet? To make it worse, New Agers say I'm some sort of old soul. I've been recycled over and over and over and over and over and over again. You can only watch the movie, over and over before it gets tiresome mind numbing ly tiresom....

How I conceive of time and how I perceive asnd relate to time are very different. I have no real time sense - I can talk to you three hours and think it was about 20 minutes, I can wait ten minutes and feel it as an hour.

Time to me is generally an enemy - I always feel a deadline racing toward me, no time to do what I need to.

If I am feeling impatient or anxious, a minutes can seem like five minutes and five minutes can seem like fifteen. But if I am having fun or just doing my own normal things, time flies and I may not realize time has flown by and four hours can seem like an hour ago. That's what clocks are for.

Odd. I have a completely different idea of time. All time exists, and is real, to me, even the future that I cannot know. The present just happens to be the portion of time I am trapped in at any given moment.