Thinking in concepts

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I do have a lot of internal dialogue, but a lot of it doesn't make much sense when I write it down. It only makes sense to me inside my head. I also think about stuff that language can't explain. I often understand stuff in other languages, but can't translate it back into English. Does anyone else think like this?

For a couple months now, since I've basically thrown my whole year into studying, I've been dreaming (and occasionally hallucinating) in code and algorithms. Of course, I'm not always contextually able to understand everything I see, so at times it juxtaposes itself on settings, events and even people, either indefinitely or until I can learn enough to resolve what I'm pondering onto a screen or existing mechanism in reality. It's quite fascinating and alienating all at once, I've had to place a myopic focus on maintaining my sleep schedule and melatonin production/dependence, which is actually the only reason I'm awake right now.

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You both have intriguing brains.

I can tell you that I think primarily in concepts which I attach in my head to "patterns" which sort of look like what you'd see in a supercollider readout. The result is that I "know" certain things but find it hard to translate my ideas into words. I want to use words like up, down, big, expand, contract, invert, etc. but if I did no one would have a clue what I'd mean. Writing papers and explaining myself was always difficult for me for that reason. It's like translating.

So, yes, there are others who think in concepts.

Yep. I "see" thoughts in my mind - sort of like a movie with no dialogue, just emotions and music. I will come up with phrases in German or French that sound better in that language, because the English translation just doesn't quite fit. When I run statistical analyses, I can see what the code means (see what I'm looking for w/r/t predicted group outcomes).

Most of the things I care about that are very important is in emotion and concepts that words do not describe. If I can put part of it into language, the word seems empty.

Much of these perceptions may stem from the transition the parallel processing of our brains has to make to the serial format of communication.

Me too. I can sometimes explain those concepts through music.

It's definitely true about some of my concepts about the nature of time itself. I can imagine a realm of what I call "timespace", non-linear time, but I fail to adequately describe it because of the serial format of language.