Think of a cat. Now picture a cat.

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The way sentences come to me is in colors, random colors, and then I verbalize these colors into pictures.

Think of cat cat: get an image of a very blurry cat-shaped creature moving in a cat-like way. I sometimes meow involuntarily, (as if I read, 'act like a cat')
Picture a cat: get a less blurry still image, that moves a split second later.

When I think of a cat, it will include all the qualities i see in a cat. It will be a concept. More like "cats" than "a specific cat". This is cats to me. Its a physical behavioural-concept. If you tell me to picture a cat, I will pick one - most likely many - that I have knows or just seen during my life.

Meow!

I can think both in words and in pictures (5 brain tests say i'm a whole brained).
I'm born as visual thinker, and i forced myself to think in words because i could not speak fluently. Now i switch from words to pictures, it depends from contests.
But usually for pictures i use words 'imagine' or 'see', So if you ask to me to think to a picture of a cat, i most likely 'see' a picture of a cat in my mind.
I've read somewere that 60% of humans 'think' in pictures, and humans that can switch from words to pictures like me are very rare. I asked to my parents and my brother (all NT)
My mom thinks mainly by sense (if i say 'pie' she thinks to the taste or to the smell of a pie)
My dad is a visual thinker
My brother, despite his natural talent in drawing thinks mainly in words.

When I think of a cat, I imagine a feline silhouette along with the feeling of cat fur brushing against my hand, along with the purring and gentle head butting. When asked to picture it, many different types flash through my mind, from the common orange tabby, to the Fancy Feast's Persian cat, to a Siamese cat to the Cheshire cat (Who's now unraveling itself as I type.).

I don't understand how it's not possible to picture a cat when you say "think of a cat". Considering that roughly 80% of human perception is based around vision, the first thing that loads into my mind is what a cat looks like, then I can think about other things about cat, such as what they smell and sound like. Unless you are blind, I don't think it's possible to think of a cat without seeing one.

I mostly think in words, but if you ask me to think of a cat, I will visualize a cat. For me, "picture a cat" is exactly the same thing.

I can think of a cat and picture a cat...I get a pretty blue eyed white fluffy kitten playing with a ball of wool and purring whilst he has his ear tickled lol. I think both in words and pictures and have a strong visual imagination.

I've been thinking quite a bit about thinking!
I'd never really paid good attention to my own way of thinking before. But I have figured out that (for example) if someone says "cat" , my first thought is a picture of a cat. But I also think in words, which if I mull them over, can appear to me in 3-D, and I can go around each letter as though I were polishing it.
I have learned SOOOOO much about how many ways of thinking there are since I've been a member, here!!
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