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27 Nov 2018, 11:41 pm

Do you think in words? In images? In sensations?

I think in images, sensations and emotions. It makes translating to English complicated at times because finding just the right word to fit my thoughts can be difficult. That's why I go non-verbal although it doesn't happen too often and I find I can still manage to type at least rudimentarily even if I can't verbalize.

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28 Nov 2018, 12:33 am

Generally I think in words. But when I dream, I dream in words, or static photographs or moving pictures or a combination of these. I do not think in terms of feeling emotions.

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28 Nov 2018, 5:02 am

I think in words, images and emotions.

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28 Nov 2018, 4:56 pm

I think in words.

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28 Nov 2018, 4:57 pm

Mostly images.

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28 Nov 2018, 5:07 pm

mostly visual. Not entirely, but mostly.

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28 Nov 2018, 5:12 pm

One big visually synaesthetic mess.

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28 Nov 2018, 5:15 pm

Erratically.

Pictures, words, exploded views, webs, trails, tangents and black holes.

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28 Nov 2018, 5:57 pm

Words

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28 Nov 2018, 6:13 pm

I think entirely in words. I see no mental images (in fact I have no conception even of what "mental images" are), and so all my thinking is done by conducting a silent mental dialogue with myself.

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28 Nov 2018, 6:43 pm

mainly visual

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28 Nov 2018, 6:45 pm

strings wrote:

I think entirely in words. I see no mental images (in fact I have no conception even of what "mental images" are), and so all my thinking is done by conducting a silent mental dialogue with myself.

how do you decipher words without the visuals? this is very interesting.

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28 Nov 2018, 7:03 pm

Gallia wrote:

how do you decipher words without the visuals? this is very interesting.

What visuals? I'm not sure really what you mean by that.

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28 Nov 2018, 7:13 pm

strings wrote:

Gallia wrote:

how do you decipher words without the visuals? this is very interesting.

What visuals? I'm not sure really what you mean by that.

i meant the mental images

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28 Nov 2018, 7:29 pm

strings wrote:

I think entirely in words. I see no mental images (in fact I have no conception even of what "mental images" are), and so all my thinking is done by conducting a silent mental dialogue with myself.

Same here. I was born with a rare low vision disorder & on top of that I also have that disorder that involves face blindness

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28 Nov 2018, 7:46 pm

I tend to think in all modalities.

I can imagine making love with a woman.

I can imagine the SENSATION of making love with a woman.

But I also think in words, too.

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