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Select your thinking format and verbal communication ability
I think in images only and have trouble with verbal communication 24%  24%  [ 7 ]
I think in images only and dont have much trouble with verbal communication 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
I think in words only and have trouble with verbal comunication 10%  10%  [ 3 ]
I think in words only and dont have much trouble with verbal comunication 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
I think in a hybrid of both and have trouble with verbal comunication 48%  48%  [ 14 ]
I think in a hybrid of both and dont have much trouble with verbal comunication 10%  10%  [ 3 ]
Total votes : 29

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18 Jul 2011, 11:54 am

I don't think in words, although I think of words in that I look for them to communicate, and I remember certain strings of words and can recall the words alone....but that's not the same as thinking, that's remembering. If there was no thought that came before the word than remembering the word-strings is like remembering the melody of a song--it has no specific meaning.

I think in images, but I also have thoughts that aren't images or words. They're like feelings, or completely formless patterns or wonderings (wonderings=kind of like something between curiosity and a question....it's hard for me to figure out the words to make questions for my wonderings.)

I don't think I can translate my thoughts into words unless those thoughts are image-based....and it's hard to do for a lot of things.



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19 Jul 2011, 2:14 pm

Tuttle wrote:
jojobean wrote:
Tuttle wrote:
Your options are not complete. None of them are true for me.

I don't think in either words or pictures at all, I think entirely in concepts and ideas. A conversation includes me actively translating concepts to words, and often struggling with this.

At the same time, I not only don't think in pictures, I'm actually unable to convert the concepts to pictures unless its a very specific thing that I've seen before, and even then its conversions.


I am sorry for not representing you...I did not know that people even thought in concepts. What are your thought processes when you think in concepts?? I cant even imagine that no matter how hard I try.
can you describe it to me??


I'm not sure how to describe it, there are neither words not pictures associated with my thoughts, its all in vague concepts, that then get converted into either words or pictures. Someone has asked me what type of dog I pictured when they said "dog", I said that I didn't picture a dog, they asked if I thought of the "word" dog, I said no, there is the general concept of "dog" that is what "dog" means to me.

Generic concepts get connections between them, including items that are subsets of those concepts. When it comes to answering a specific problem, then I check for the connections, and then try to convert it into words, struggling at times and finding it easy at times.


I too think in concepts for the most part, unless it's a recall or rehearsal of a conversation(verbal) or a particular image of something( though If I think of a "Whole" I can't fill in the details, and if I try to imagine the details, I have a hard time connecting them in my head to make a "whole", if that makes any sense).
That dog example was a very good example. I think I process things and their relations as these sort of abstract models that are very hard to translate into a verbal expression. Make me wish a lot of times I could transfer it telepathically to others.


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