Are you a visual or a verbal/auditiry thinker?

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To be honest, I haven't really paid attention. I think I mix visual and auditory. It depends, I think, on the subject matter.

(Question: Does "subject matter" sound pedantic?)

I think I'm rather visual.
I have diagrams and vague images come to mind in the process of both understanding and developing ideas - and I do seem to have most of the traits of the stereotypical "visual thinker".

Errrgh.

Some people are visual-verbal thinkers, too (as in, seeing printed text in their minds). And other visual thinkers who are not spatial thinkers, and auditory thinkers who are not verbal thinkers, and spatial thinkers who are not visual thinkers, as well as lots of other ways to think.

Extremely visual - if I cant see it or visualise it then it doesn't exist. Absolutely useless auditorily unless acompanied by visual then very powerful. Both together helps link concepts that I can't do otherwise.

I don't think visual and spacial thinking are necessarily synonymous. Some spacial people might not be that visual. Although you could say they are related spacial is more about spacial awareness, shapes, volumes, vectors, movement/dynamics, what the Chinese call 'muscle memory', etc.

I think kurts mentioned about being good spatial but less visual.

I think I am more visual. I wish there was a little test thing I could take to be sure.

Really? I can't even get a blurry image. I haven't found too many people who can't visualize if they have to. Most of the people who have less good visualization skill that I talked to admitted taking drugs at one point.

Do you sometimes wish you could visualize? Do you have trouble with getting lost, or remembering something until it is in front of you?

Visual. My verbal is a bit unorganized.

I suppose I learn and think in movies.Does that make sense? It's nearly exactly like watching TV or something. But for example I never see a text like a text. That's why typing can be very difficult for me unless I turn regular combination into visual and movement sequences. It can be very overwhelming when there's a lot of input so I have to limit my senses very much and am constantly over focused and tuned out. The sequences matter a lot too, like if I see things, people and places from a different angle I might not recognize them.

Same here. I often have trouble "translating" complex thoughts in my head into long strings of grammatically correct sentences, causing me to stutter and stammer (um, well, um...) a lot.

I've never taken drugs, I'm just not very good at spatial stuff. (I'm better at it than one woman I know, though, who can't visualize at all, not even with blurry images.) I sometimes wish I could visualize, but most of the time I don't think about it. I do have trouble finding my way around - if I'm driving somewhere, I have to memorize a particular path to take, and if I've only gone that way a couple of times before, I need written directions - but I don't think I have trouble remembering things. I'll remember the information about it, but more in concept form than picture form (sorry, I know that doesn't make much sense). And I can get an okay image of things I'm very familiar with.

I'm a visual thinker. I think in pictures.

I'm quite strong visual thinker yet also think language through sounds and images. Still, I have a constantly active internal voice(s). This is a subject I've actually been rambling through alot, but don't have the inspiration (inside my mind, this word creates a mainly purple image) to write a longer reply.

Both visual and verbal thinking. When I read or someone tells me concrete things, I see it like a slideshow or a short video. Or when I read about places, I see the maps of there. When I read or listen about abstract concepts, I see them like puzzle or lego pieces that combine it to form a new shape.

I'm a verbal thinker--but my memories are primarily visual.

so visual that when I read this post I saw the word visual as sight, seeing something. and then the words both ways brought an image of two pathes in my mind.