Poll How Do You Think?

[ihateusernames]

I think in images or words depending on the subject matter, probably images most frequently, and sometimes something else- like an abstraction. It's not really a sensation, but a feeling that I don't have words or imagery for. I have no idea if that makes any sense or not.

 

[Ronin]

Images, moves, music, mini movies. Or more like short clips. Depending what it is. I noticed lately suicidality and regret tend to get long sagas where flashbacks are their usual hit-and-run, waiting for the fun that provokes. Most of my coping mechanisms got to be in comics (we're replacing bad self talk with a good one and c'mon, this situation isn't so bad, it would be hilarious on panel).

From that on, converting it to words. And/or movements. And moves don't translate to words. Not even about other people. All the reasons I'm not a writer. Dissociation is such fun. Working on it.

 

[Changing4Best]

I said words and pictures and other, but I also have concepts that have no image or words to them. My idea of God, for instance, does not fit into any words or pictures, He does not fit neatly into any such package.

 

[-lemurlibs91-]

I tend to see things in images, especially since I had epileptic seizures. Because I frequently struggle to find the word I want, and I'll have such a clear sentence/idea in my head but simply cannot get it out in a coherent concise sentence...it ends up a long-winded pointless babble. In terms of trauma (wow it's still taking time to accept that word), it's images and sensations or a very clear lack of any sensation. But this links to me being able to view a word or hear it in my head but then struggle to transfer it verbally....because it automatically comes as an image, not a word. If that makes sense (perfect case in point.... lots of dots/"ellipsis" are my friend when writing because it's not a train of thought, it's lots of separate strands that form a long endless sentence!

 

[Sandstone]

Interior monologue - but it's me talking to someone else, not them to me . It's as though nothing is real until it has been reported. But I remember with pictures, both life and ideas

 

[SabrinaB]

It never even occurred to me that there are various modes of thinking! Funny how we assume we're all alike. Thank you for opening my mind!!

 

[Lionheart]

I have always seen images/pictures when I think. I am very visually wired for some reason. A lot of my current anxiety concerns car accidents; I tend to see them in gory detail when riding as a passenger, making it difficult to control my anxiety. They are like intrusive thoughts.

One time someone was describing a room and I asked if it had a fireplace and they said yes and then I asked other questions for which they kept asking how I could know...

I told them I simply saw the room when they began to describe it. It works like that for me a lot and one person commented that I was a visionary.... I don't know about all of that but I do tend to think in images.