Language thinkers vs. sensory thinkers

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So I am curious. Can anyone describe what language based thinking is?

I understand the sensory/picture thinking because that is how I think. But I have never had anyone describe what language based thinking is or what it is like.

I've wondered that too. I'm just posting to bump the thread and make it easier for me to find again.

Im language thinker. When im planning for something or repairung things im having monologue inside my head about things i see and things i need to do. example if i see bird or something and i start to wonder where its going i will "speak" to my self about the probabilites where its going. Its really hard to explain how i think.

im a mix of language & picture thinker. In my head, there is this endless monologue that starts when i wake up, and stops when i fall asleep. And even then it doesnt really stop, in the rare event i remember my dreams it goes on there too. Everything i see, everything that happens, my head has something to say about it. I truly wish that it would shut up for some time but i doesnt. But i also think in pictures, memorys, imagination ahead, it all works in pictures. They just flash up before me. My 2 oldest memorys date back to when i was a baby and couldnt even speak, so its only the picture of it. Im also pretty good at visualising things. Like walking/driving paths of people/cars, it s abit like these rearview parking monitors, but in my head. Or how technical things look inside...

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TK

Does this picture thinking concept also include sound, touch, smell, ET see? Or do people primarily think visually and not in other senses if they are sensory thinkers?

I have my internal monologue. I can also imagine what people might say in certain situations, hearing it in their voice, not mine. In memory, I sometimes recall their voices saying things. I think of how things feel in my hand, sometimes of smells and tastes.

I think the picture thinking also includes sounds, smells and such. I often recall pictures with how the memory felt, smelt or how loud. I also have vivid memories of when I was very young (a baby) and people looking over the edge of the crib at me, so that is obviously a visual memory.

I suppose I also do the internal monologue. Especially when I am doing something difficult I will talk myself through it, either in my head or aloud. I also tend to wake up with a song stuck in my head. Doesn't always have to be a song I heard recently, something in my dreams must trigger it.

Thanks guys! I have a much better understanding now. There is always such a plethora of information for visual based thinking but not as much about NT thinking.

I have that monologue too, but it turns off regularly. When it's off I usually just have a song playing in my head while I think in images.