Thinking

[maharetr]

I was pondering this one night, remembering a long-ago coffee conversation with [Poll #1055089]

 

Comments

[akire-yta.livejournal.com]

I think in multimedia - sound, pictures, colours, words. My head is like a scrapbook kept by a demented magpie, and memory is as much by association as by direct link. For example, I think of seasons as smells.

[ascetic-hedony.livejournal.com]

Primarily I think in words as sound, sometimes I get pictures, particularly when trying to remember something or tell a story.

[buoy-wonder.livejournal.com]

I think in experiences.

I don't really know how to explain it. Using your example I would experience the conversation, I would "have" the conversation again. Sometimes I latch onto a particular aspect of the conversation such as a feel I had or a smell or sight.

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Wow that sounds so wanky, :-)

[cupidsbow.livejournal.com]

Mostly pictures and dialogue when I was younger, but I've trained myself to translate into words as text, and now I usually get a combination of both.

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

Pictures, but more like a whole bunch of flashing, loosely related images, rather than an orderly array of moving image, with occasional wafts of audio and/or scent.

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

Concepts. Kind of like little cliffs leaping one to another - though there are often many 'next leap' choices.

These little cliffs, these concepts are usually just that... thoughts, but not words or pictures or sounds or smells... but thoughts.

Abstracty/metaphoric maybe is a better way of describing...

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Things that I can't describe in words that have relationships to each other - a sort of spatial arrangement. Sometimes I can track them by how 'high' they are.

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

I'm a mix, really, but I think words as sound is the best description. I don't write stories, but if I'm thinking over a problem or situation it's like I'm talking to myself. Sometimes I add visuals too.

[psycho-tabby.livejournal.com]

Mines a mix of Movie-screen like pictures, and Words as sounds. I find it very very hard to see words as text in my head (probably one part of why I'm such a shit speller). If i'm thinking about something that has no visual components, say reading your meme, I just think/hear the words, if I'm thinking about something for which there is a visual component such as a hockey game or a movie, I see it.

[zippitgood.livejournal.com]

I'm a mix most of the time. Sometimes it's this crystal clear image, others it's characters talking and describing things.