Do you think visually or verbally?

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That sounds familiar. I could not answer this poll, beacuse both options are true. Often I find myself trying to explain something to someone, but cannot find the words. Then I realize that I was thinking something for which my language simply does not have the words.

I think in both ways, sometimes only in words and sometimes in pictures only. I'm far more visual though, so I put that. When I'm in a visual mindset, if I want to remember words then I have to imagine the word itself with its letters. I guess I never considered that when other people read, they don't actually see the things happening in their mind. I can compare reading to be similar to watching a movie, better in many cases when the author describes things well. The special effects are awesome.

I am both but I am 75% image because I can see so well image wise but I have heard it is common in autistics as onl autistics can have a visual memory and learn fromit so it makes sense

I'm not sure which I do....I guess I can "hear" myself thinking (am always having conversations in my head) so probably that means I think verbally, however when I'm trying to explain something to someone I'll normally use gestures/miming to help explain it particulary if I can't think of the right word, which seems to me to be more of a visual thing to do?

Sometimes I have to mime doing something before I can remember the right words.

And also when doing fairly basic stuff, I sometimes have to either really concentrate or I'll lose track of what I was doing, for instance when getting breakfast, I'll take a bowl out of the cupboard and put it on the bench. Then I might have to stop and look at the bowl and think "what was I doing?" and it might take awhile before I look at it and then I either think "cereal" or I get a picture in my head of the bowl filled with cereal.....I can't remember exactly if it's one before the other or whether once I think the word "cereal" then my mind creates a picture to see if it looks right?

I've explained it to people by saying that my mind has a mind of it's own, and sometimes it just wanders off....

Verbally. Well, I can't really say verbally. My skills in writing/spelling etc. have always tested superior and I find it easy to put thoughts in writing so when I think all my thoughts are as if I'm writing or typing to someone. I can't picture anything in my head.

No.


Left brain: words, logic and facts
Right brain: images, sounds and abstractness


How much left and right brain you have is decided by:

* Genetics

* The amount of input you receive until you are about 18 y/o (every unused braincell will die, this is to make the brain more efficient, unused braincells can be used to repair useful braincells)

* Training



Note that consciousness is a constantly changing subset of the brain existing of a conscious and subconscious. This depends also on the same factors as described above.


And consciousness can also be divided in these things:
* Input
* Output
* Internal Loop back (of the left and right brain)


And these things can also be divided but who cares...


If this gets out of ballance the person will receive disadvantages and advantages to his brain.


speech delay is caused by disadvantages with the input and the output. This can be caused by many many many things:

* The person is constantly in deep thought. (could be either left brain or right brain)

* The person has a very big conscienceness, making input and output relatively small. (could be either left brain or right brain)

* The person has a hearing problem (input problem, resulting in dead braincells)

* The person has an eye problem (input problem, resulting in dead braincells)

* The brain never computed that social interaction would be useful (could be either left brain or right brain)

* Input and output can be placed into subconsciousness because the brain decides it's not important at a moment in time (could be either left brain or right brain)

* A very big input can lead to a very small output. (could be either left brain or right brain)

* A very small input can lead to a very big output. (could be either left brain or right brain)

* Output is 7000000 times slower than the Internal Loop Back which means that a person who is very conscious of the internal loop back can get the feeling that if he talks for one minute he loses 7000000 minutes of his live which creates an emotional effect. (could be either left brain or right brain)

* A person who's only way of thinking is hearing themselves say words in their head has a brain that functions 7000000 times slower (causing a delay)

* There may be a problem with the speech area of the left brain.

* There may be a problem with the sound area of the right brain.

* The person is constantly repeating (any type of) pattern in the brain because by doing this the brain creates mind altering substances that make this person feel better. And the person wants to finish the current repetition in his head before speaking.

* The person may be thinking a lot in abstract concepts for which there are no words.









the answer is no because there are many reasons for this., good question though

See, I knew her theory was bunk.

I'm a visual thinker.
My mum had no idea it existed too. I told her the other day because we were watching a quiz show and one contestant who normally doesn't do well with verbal questions mastered all the questions about street signs.

I'm a visual thinker. Up until a few months ago I thought everybody thinks in pictures I can't even imagine how thinking in words "looks" like.

Verbally. Almost exclusively so.

Gross lateralisation of brain function ("left-brain" / "right brain") is at best a very crude approximation.

Thinking is seeing topic

I visualize so much and so often tht I stutter when I speak if I do not have the accompanying video in my thoughts.

I am a mixed thinker....visual/abstract/and I 'hear" with my mind..but I don't know if that is concidered verbal...i am a very musical thinker.

Um...My visual thinking is heavily linked to the way my memory works and is very good for visualizing art projects(they occur as visual impulses) and knowing where things are. I can visualize where a book is on a shelf or where a certain clothing item or knick knack is..All in all..it is pretty flawed..parts of my memory really stink...

and there is sorta a verbalness to it....if there weren't, I wouldn't be able to talk or write, I imagine

(hard to describe)

I am right-brained btw...

Both, but mostly visual.

My thinking is in words. Either spoken, sung or written words.

As for picturing a duck, it's not that I just think of lots of words, but I can't picture a duck. I can picture different parts of a duck (the beak, the feet, the feathers), but can't put them together to make a whole duck. I think I remember reading something about this, maybe in a book I have about the mind and brain. I will try and look it up again. It makes it difficult to draw from memory, because to draw something well I need to start with the basic shape normally, and I can't see that - just the details which are sometimes too difficult for me to draw.
I can however, picture a rubber duck much better, because it's much simpler.

I've always thought it pictures.

Yea, that was so weird for me when I found out some people think verbally. I also have a lot of sounds bouncing around my mind (normally a song I can't get out my head or repitition of what someone else has said). Though, 90% of my thoughts are visual.