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What narrative mode(s) do you use when thinking?
Poll ended at 25 Jul 2010, 8:03 am
First Person 20%  20%  [ 9 ]
Second Person 7%  7%  [ 3 ]
Third Person 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
First and Second Person 26%  26%  [ 12 ]
First and Third Person 11%  11%  [ 5 ]
Second and Third Person 7%  7%  [ 3 ]
First, Second and Third Person 11%  11%  [ 5 ]
Something Else (please elaborate!) 17%  17%  [ 8 ]
Just gimme the results, ma'am. 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 46

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26 Jun 2010, 1:48 am

I feel detached form my body when I think. People have told me they can see me thinking. They wait for me to come back from inside my mind with the answers to the problem or question I was given. I don't have a person sense to myself inside my mind, I exist only as thought. I do rehearse words sometimes, and definitely do replays. I hear myself thinking in my mind, but I don't have a sense of speaker or listener.
I live inside my head and my mind is my world. I visit the outside world (the real one) by paying attention to my eyes and ears. People get upset when I turn off my eyes and ears. I don't like the shock of getting yelled at or other surprises like strong smells or pain.
Fighting and other sports are fun because they are the opposite of thinking. I free my mind to react to my senses with little regard to consequence. At the same time I am aware of the strategy images in my mind trying to influence my actions.


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26 Jun 2010, 3:59 am

Exclavius wrote:
When I think... It's more like my conscious brain observing my subconscious brain hash things out. There are no he's she's we's I's you's etc. It's abstract. Patterns as someone said in an earlier post, but not quite.
This is the ZONE OUT state, as most people call it. Pure introversion at it's extreme. And it's the only time I think this way.


If it's abstract then it's definitely not the sort of thing I described in my post as patterns. The patterns I perceive are about as concrete as it gets. Words, including I, she, you, on the other hand, all words are abstract, and pronouns extremely so.


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26 Jun 2010, 5:00 am

Callista wrote:
I don't use words to think. They're too slow. I think in concepts.


Agreed. Although I use words when I need to group something into a logical, systematic format. Or when it needs to be explained to someone who doesn't understand those concepts. Like a translator.



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26 Jun 2010, 10:26 am

Callista wrote:
I don't use words to think. They're too slow. I think in concepts.


I wish I could think purely in concepts - my brain seems obstinately keen to render everything it can into mental speech. :?

Thanks everyone for your replies - this sort of thing always leaves me with the impression that the extent to which different people think in different ways is greatly underestimated, and that being able to convey meaning through language is a more complex feat than it would first appear! Like when someone asks about sight "how do I know that the green I see is the same as the green you see?", only scaled up to apply to every concept we can (literally) imagine. :)


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26 Jun 2010, 11:10 am

I don't think in words. I think in pictures.


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