Words mainly, but I sometimes use pictures. If you have read "American Psycho", you know what my mind is like.

In images, unless someone starts talking to me, or I hear distractions. Then I see colors, and in case of verbal exchange, words. Sometimes I have to mentally rewind, or confirm what they just said, to make sure I understand it correctly. It's very aggravating to visualize something, and be distracted by conversation unrelated to the task at hand. This is also applicable to movies and tv, I get a mental CC script.


I dream in vivid color, with all five senses functioning.

I learn things in words (so like I'll learn the structure of a molecule by just remembering the text), but I think and remember in pictures. So I remember dreams in pictures (like I can remember and see the place, the people etc), and I tend to daydream visually too.

I'm kinda confused to the question as well. Like, if I sit here and think about typing a response, I hear myself saying what I'm typing in my head as I type it, really, though it's not like I picture the words themselves. Similarly, if I'm hearing a story explained to me, I am imagining the story as a picture, building a cognitive map of it, though I don't hear a narrator.

As for the dream thing, it's like a mix. I can read off details that I "perceived" in the dream, but when I picture the stuff it's actually commonly devoid of the features. One time I dreamt about my ex-boyfriend; I definitely knew it was him. When I had awoken, though, to remember the dream visually, I realized that the figure I saw was actually more of a hazy grey figure with no definite features to it other than me "knowing" it was my ex-boyfriend. :shrug:

I think in folders. For example, if you say a keyword, a lot of things that have to do with that keyword will come up, both in images and words.

How about 3D spinning block letters? :mellow:

I've read in a couple of books that quite a few people don't really have the ability to picture things visually in their mind's eye. E.g. they can't just bring up a kind of image of a dog, look at its fur and tell you how long it is and what color it is, etc. I think also not everyone has the ability to e.g. imagine a 3D object like a Tetris piece and rotate it around in their mind to see how it would look from other angles. Just one of those quirks of the imagination, which is so strange if you think about it. I mean where is that imaginary dog? It is kind of level with my eyes but not really either in front of them or behind them...

As for dreams, I get every sense at times, though touch and smell are not common, and sometimes I get amazingly vivid and beautiful colors e.g. in landscapes or sunsets. But generally it is all quite vague, and usually not all the detail of the scene is "filled in".

I think in both pictures and words. Words, when I'm talking with people and whatnot, pictures almost everyother time.

Words, with some useless images attached. I might be able to say, "I learned this fact on the lower-lefthand corner of my history text book, in an orange sidebar" if I just read it a few days ago. When I remember things that happened in the past, I remember it all in words / ideas, but with really inaccurate images attached. A lot of the time, if I'm trying to remember an image, I'll remember its parts more than what it actually was. So, say, I'll remember that it had these shapes, arranged this way, with these colors in these places, and lighting coming from this direction, but I won't usually summon up useful real images.

edit: For the dream bit, I usually recall dreams in feelings, more than anything else. I can usually also remember some details and fractured images, but when I think back on a dream I feel it. Its kinda weird, because I normally have a really hard time recalling physical sensations (I usually just remember what I felt, in words)

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Putting ideas together, designing, etc. is usually something graphic. A few words with arrows pointing to some more words.

Quite often I have an image in my head, that needs to be described to others or drawn out.

Also, when telling stories, I "see" what's happening then describe it.

Both.

I tend to associate numbers with colors. 1 - 20 is grey, 20 - 30 is a pale red, the 100's are orange..and so on. So if you say the number 32, i'll see it in a horizontal row with 31,32,33 and see a more redish color behind it. Almost like a calendar.

I tend to think visually. If i'm reading or if someone is telling me something i'll explain it.

I'm not sure how the whole dream thing got involved with this thread, but I always know what my dreams visually look like. They're in full colour and full audio and I almost have another community going on in there.

If I was to tell you something that happened in my dream, it would be no different than telling you about something that happened when I'm awake because i'm very synced with them.

Images I can remember almost all the way back to when I was 3 just by picturing the places I've visited, I don't tend to think in words unless you mean having a conversation with myself inside my own head, if so then I do this a lot.

Imagines when daydreaming or trying to picture something, understand something, come up with ideas etc.
Words mostly when arguing and answering to questions. Posting on forums too

Leaning towards images, I believe.

That would be awesome (I assume you don't actually think in binary lol)

You probably already know, but that is classic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia. I wish I had it actually, as I have spent a few years studying philosophy of consciousness and it's a central topic there.

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I actually didn't know it was actually called something. I just figured it was my brain's way of managing numbers.

Is there any reason why its particularly fascinating? You've got me all interested..

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Whatever the situation calls for, I will think in that form. Math calls for numbers, phrasing calls for words, six calls for images, etc.

Neither.

er I can't explain the way I think, I guess i think in vague amalgamations of concepts, images, words and all my memories mashed together. :shrug:

Images. Even things I do not see I think in images. Like songs.

Consciousness is all about interactions between different "modalities", that is ways of representing measured information. These have different internal logics that can be interrelated to good effect in understanding what is happening around you and what is going to happen. One of the big ones is language, but numbers are another one that is kind of similar if you take it abstractly. With synesthesia you have some connections that most people don't have (unless maybe they are on LSD I guess). You have different ways of hooking up modalities that give you an unusual way of seeing the world. This can be very useful in organizing information or understanding complex phenomena.

I do both at the same time, if that makes any sense. Makes me giggle at the oddest time, too.