Do you think in words or images?

Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:41 am

I think in both.
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Gavin boyce
 
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:46 am

One of my friends says she can remember things from school by seeing the textbook exactly in her mind, I can't do that but I'm good at memorising things word for word.

Yes, that's how I think. I take "snapshots" or brief moving segments like film reels and store the information that way. Words, I remember as images or patterns on a page - it's why I'm great at proof-reading: wrong words make the wrong shape.

I do take in words and sounds too - of course - but it's a lot more limited and inefficient in my mind than the visual information. It's why, though I read, I much prefer films and television. When I read I first have to "translate" the words into imagined images in order to process the information. When I read text on a forum, I "hear" it before I can think it, like reading aloud to myself in my head. Of course this is all split-second stuff, but those translation processes have to occur.

I would have thought that this was strange, considering how much writing I do as a hobby - but then I realised that because I do all this translating, it makes me better at it because I can describe things more easily than most people.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:01 pm

Depends on what i'm thinking about ;)

Also i think in both english and finnish. In english when i think about what i'm wiritng just now, and in finnish otherwise. I'm truly bi-lingual (if that is even a word) :lmao:
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:11 pm

Depends on what i'm thinking about ;)

Also i think in both english and finnish. In english when i think about what i'm wiritng just now, and in finnish otherwise. I'm truly bi-lingual (if that is even a word) :lmao:

Yes, bilingual is a word, and it is exactly as you described: fluency in two languages. Someone who speaks multiple languages is called a polyglot.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:51 am

Images, still or moving. (I remember dance routines by running over the "film" of class in my head). How do you think in words? Even if I hear words in my mind there is some sort of image to go with them, e.g. the image of the actual words (as if you were to read a book). As for synesthesia, I connect music with movement and sometimes colour (so some pieces for me look like the beginning of Fantasia) but I don't know if I have synesthesia. I also see some numbers or words as "pretty" or "ugly" (visually and not by sound). Funnily enough, pretty is quite a pretty word and ugly is an ugly word.. :unsure2: 3 is ugly and 7 is nice, as a numerical example.

I mostly dream in colour but sometimes I dream in shades of blue (kinda like how a lot of night-time paintings are painted.. hard to explain).
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:45 pm

I think in images mostly, but also sound. Like someone is talking in my head, especially when I'm reading something. That's probably why I don't read as fast as others as I'm reading at the speed of normal speech. I vividly remember my dreams. I do dream in color if that's relevant. I hear some people don't which I find odd.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:12 am

I think in images mostly, but also sound. Like someone is talking in my head, especially when I'm reading something. That's probably why I don't read as fast as others as I'm reading at the speed of normal speech.


I do this too, plus stories run like a film in my head :)
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:00 pm

I'm sure I technically use both in many circumstances.

But if I am writing, say, an original fictional story, what I see inside my head is like a movie, and what I'm then doing is writing down what I see.
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:25 pm

Yes, that's how I think. I take "snapshots" or brief moving segments like film reels and store the information that way. Words, I remember as images or patterns on a page - it's why I'm great at proof-reading: wrong words make the wrong shape.
I do this with numbers. The shape is the number, so to add another number -> changes the shape = new number

I do take in words and sounds too - of course - but it's a lot more limited and inefficient in my mind than the visual information. It's why, though I read, I much prefer films and television. When I read I first have to "translate" the words into imagined images in order to process the information. When I read text on a forum, I "hear" it before I can think it, like reading aloud to myself in my head. Of course this is all split-second stuff, but those translation processes have to occur.
So do I :)
Btw, your text is always voiced by Betty Boop :hehe:

I would have thought that this was strange, considering how much writing I do as a hobby - but then I realised that because I do all this translating, it makes me better at it because I can describe things more easily than most people.
..still sounding like Betty Boop in my head though. :unsure:
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