How Do You Think?

[pastafreak]

Are your thoughts pictures and written words that you "see", or do you "hear" or have silent, verbal conversations?
I know which I am...what are you? And did you know there was another way of thinking? Fascinating stuff.


https://nypost.com/2020/02/05/scientists-explain-the-viral-internal-narrative-phenomenon/

[AuntPollyGrey]

Vagus, very interesting. Do you see dates as linear. If you think of say 1990 do you see it in a line up fading away into a distance just in font of 1989 and behind 1991?
Months are colours too.

[Apc2604]

//does anybody do the thing where they have a whole thought process in their heads and then just say the last bit out loud and the people around you go "what?????" //

Woofy yes I do. See my post above. So much so that it causes problems with my husband getting so cross when he doesn't know what on earth I am talking about most of the time. My Mum and Aunt did much of the time.

[Vagus]

No I don’t, I see years as floating away in a very still, long pond, just gently bobbing away.
Months don’t really have definite colours for me, they’re in oblongs with black writing, although some are a bit colourful and change each time I think of them.
What about you, how do you see things?

[Vagus]

Hmmm, just having read pastas link, I do both.

[pastafreak]

Wow, this is truly eye opening. There is so much variety in just a small number of ABers. I remember reading a novel many years ago where the main character had synesthesia, and I almost wished I could experience it.

[The Builder]

I didn't realise that synesthesia was so common.

I've always seen days of the week, months, and numbers in colour. The colours never change either.

Now I think about it, it applies even to thinking of Roman Numerals ;o)
Countries as well.

[woofgang]

Apc, my husband was used to it but it used to nark people at work

[Old_Geezer]

Most conscious thinking is in the form of a conversation with self.

Yes I was aware that some claim it's not the same for them. I find it hard to imagine how one can think deeply without use of language, as pictures are isolated snaps rather than analysis, but each to their own.

[rowanwitch]

After years of practising creative visualisation I generally have the internal commentary as a soundtrack... Strangely combined with music never as word s except where the idea needs to be seen on a printed page, as a memory of something read in the past.

[jourdain2]

I think in different ways. If I'm writing a short story, or anything creative, I sort of see a picture or 2. If I'm working hard on, say, proofreading a job app. for my daughter then I'm very clear-cut, logical and a 'straight-liner'. Mostly I think like a skein of wool that a kitten's been at and OH looks at me in bafflement. He thinks in straight lines. I can almost guarantee that if there is a small task to be done I'll do it the obvious way and he'll do it the obvious way.... they are never the same way and baffled glares ensue. The past is a huge, rippling pool interlinked as one unit and developing and moving into shallows, up rivulets etc.. Is that what you were asking about?

[gness]

Hi, Pasta.....pictures and words for me and I'm another synaesthete..... The world in my head is very colourful and when I close my eyes I rarely see black. I see colours and quite often scenes containing people. I find these fascinating but a little annoying. Fast moving pictures in a square. Rather like watching a foreign film with no subtitles.
A friend tells me I am seeing the dead who are trying to communicate with me and I should start speaking to them...... I'm going to give that one a miss..... :-)