I am a visual-spatial processor (I do not believe the word think fits it is to slow) and I am of the belief that those that are, all use their hands.
Hands are tactile, they feel and sense. The blind use their hands to 'see' what the ones with sight can see.
They do not use their mouths to see.
We also to a lesser degree use our ears/hearing
Auditory-sequential thinkers use their mouths and words
They do not need to use sight or see anything.
Just their mouths (and ears/hearing).
The process speed of images is anywhere from 8 times or more, faster then the thinking speed of words
A picture is worth a thousand words and at times I do not have enough words to say what I see. So I get long 'winded" it frustrates me, as much as the reader - maybe more so.
Having to translate words, can be frustrating and slow. But unfortunately if the two types are to communicate, we have to be the ones.
It takes way to many years for a auditory-sequential thinker to learn to properly be visual.
I see things as a Whole then I see the parts, if need be. I look at words. I do not scan a word left to right.
I use my hands to help me 'turn/adjust and view my images better, to move in all directions of my viewing (picture Google maps, multi directions, zoom in and out). I 'pluck' a part of an images and can view it closer.
Picture grapes on the vine in a vinyard, for me that is the 'whole of grapes'. That would be my image of a verbals word for grapes. I can pluck 'a grape' and veiw it closer.
All these involve my hands.
devark wrote:
I talk with my hands because it helps me guide my attention and keep on track about what I want to say. Like I'm always, in a sense "seeing" what I'm talking about, so moving my hands around relative to what I'm seeing in my mind helps keep me focused. I also become very clumsy when I do this, so its not uncommon for me to walk into, trip, or knock something over when I really get talking (I'm great at parties!).
People that look at pictures and images can feel the same thing. Some get dizzy.
I know if my images are going extremely fast and the 'video' is zooming from one space/place to another
I feel it.
Completely 'sane, non-suicidal' individuals have jumped/fallen from places.
Did they get an instant thought (fleeting thoughts?) to kill themselves? Or did vertigo over take them?
This is an interesting 'look' at it
http://trewisms.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/vertigo/ I wonder if that is what would happen to auditory-sequential thinkers if they instantly 'saw' what visual-spatial processors see.
Quote:
What is vertigo? Fear of falling? [...] No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. (‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’, Faber 1995 p. 56)
http://www.giftedservices.com.au/visualthinking.html