How do you think?

How do you think?

  • Words/Talking in your head

    Votes: 7 18.4%

  • Pictures/Movies

    Votes: 2 5.3%

  • Feeling

    Votes: 1 2.6%

  • A combination of the above

    Votes: 24 63.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 4 10.5%
  • Total voters
    38
In picture and words mostly. Sometimes in music and songs, music can provoke this type of thinking.
My question, little off topic:)....little babies, how they do think? Because they can't talk. Only in picture???
 
For me it is like talking to my imaginary friend. I ask a question and he answers. The problem is that sometimes my crazy complex thoughts can turn into vocalized speech and the people around me start to think that I am a crazy ass freak.
 
I always thought my thinking process was weird. Whenever I refer to my past or construct things that might or I want to happen in the future, I'd always be talking to someone in my head, usually a dear friend to me. The same applies when I feel very down and want to talk to someone, but could not due to given circumstances. Haha, that is probably why my parents find me weird, thinking I'm always talking to myself... Often, I find myself creating narratives in my head, usually far-fetched fiction. Also, images which I feel strongly about pop in my head every now and then. I'd even create songs in my head which I'd completely forget after the thought goes away.
 
Everything is stored in a tornado that raises hell in between my ears. Whenever I come across a piece of stimuli that can be referenced within said tornado, the hook gets fired into the tornado to snag anything of reference to drag it out for me to mull it over in accordance to the new data. Still shots, written words, spoken words, "movie clips", smells, recollection of physical feelings, even the old wonderful emotional baggage. For fun I build temporary rooms for the tornado to destroy later, I use them to experiment with different cause and effect interactions until they are no longer useful...I then allow the storm to eat while I sip on a drink with an umbrella-in my head of course.
 
There's usually a dialogue going through my head. It's very useful when I can't decide something. I have a debate with myself, each side discuses the pros and cons, analyses the information and I can come to an acceptable conclusion.

I've only told two people this and both looked at me as if I was about to on a killing spree.
 
Jacobi said:
There's usually a dialogue going through my head. It's very useful when I can't decide something. I have a debate with myself, each side discuses the pros and cons, analyses the information and I can come to an acceptable conclusion.

I've only told two people this and both looked at me as if I was about to on a killing spree.
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:lol: I can relate to this.

That's pretty much what I do as well. I take multiple points of view until I either reach a solution/concept/idea - or there is a stalemate and I let it go till the next time. All sorts of images will pop in - memories will swirl through - attachments are scrutinized as to severity - emotions are acknowledged - and so on. It's a mixed bag....
 
Fascinating responses. I myself typically use a combination of pictures and words. I will also argue verbally, 2 different points of view on a given topic. When reading or listening to books on tape, or even sometimes while watching movies, I will play movies in my head. However, there seems to be times that either I'm somehow thinking in feeling or spatially. It is difficult to describe. There are concepts that simply are. They are not words or images, but exist nonetheless. I say spatially because it seems like they have a place, but the image is blank, but the understanding is still there.

Interestingly, I asked an Economist professor how he thinks, and he said he thinks in words or math formulas!
 
I usually think in pictures and memories for most things. Like when I am remembering how to get somewhere, I'll try to think of the look and feeling of the place

But sometimes I think in words; that feels more like I'm just talking to myself.
 
Jacobi said:
There's usually a dialogue going through my head. It's very useful when I can't decide something. I have a debate with myself, each side discuses the pros and cons, analyses the information and I can come to an acceptable conclusion.

I've only told two people this and both looked at me as if I was about to on a killing spree.
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I think you are in good company. All three of you. Lol.

Honestly I do the same. But don't we all. What other ways are there. You sound normal to me.
 
My thoughts are almost purely imagery, with occasional dialogue. My thinkspace is in the form of a massive cathedral where thoughts change the content of the many windows and images -- contained inside light rays -- beams through them into a central sentient and slightly vibrating columnar diamond where my impression of Self resides. All the incoming light swirls together into either a slide-show or amalgamation, which is what I try to translate to others. Any dialogue occurs as the center monument speaking to itself from various points of view.
 
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All the above sounds like what goes on in my mind. I carry a humorous book with me that I pretend to read if I'm in the train just incase my thoughts seem like they are going to be extra funny that day. ;D
 
Since I apparently change moods/personalities every day (I don't know how I'll be tomorrow'esque) I interchange them all, or do them all at the same time, or whatever. It's like my brain is saying "shut up, I've got this, you idiot"
 
I said words and thinking, as that would be the main method, but I suppose its really a mix.

I think a lot, pretty constantly actually. I am very similar to other people as I have two or three little voices in my head that I dialogue with....sometimes even argue with, like I think another poster mentioned.
I sometimes think in music or sometimes memories.
 
I'm not really sure, and I guess I never will be, but if I had to describe it I would say it's like a disjointed series of vignettes that have stylish cinematography.
 
I wish everyone had a mindoscope (<---an apparatus that transmits the insides of a persona mind on screen) so I could peek inside. Sounds like mine so far. I have the voices too, film clips, memories, lots of songs, wistful stills and sometimes lectures given by what seem like people I know.
 
I'm starting to think I think in music a bit too. I seem to go from loud metal to classical zen harmonies, to epic symphonies! :D

When the music stops, I am lost again. :S
 
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