ABSTRACT
Clocks and calendars, in particular, began as useful metaphors of the motions of the sun and moon, while the term "period" comes from the Greek word for circular path. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson express the view that: The spatial metaphor for time seems to be an automatic part of our cognitive conscious that structures not only the way people conceptualize the relationship between events and time but the very way people experience time. Although the process of thinking of time in terms of space is nearly universal, people spatial skills and particular spatial perceptions of time appear idiosyncratic. Richard Feynman used a verbal sense and "heard" the numbers being called, whereas Tukey counted time by "watching" a second-hand on an imagined mental clock. People are motivated by similar concerns when people make maps or timelines from memory. Without reference to any outside source, try to draw a map of the United States.
