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If so, all the time, or some of the time? Do you go even further? My son (who is no end of 'Sound Man') recently asked me whether I indulged in whole imaginary scenarios, dealing with how I should react, if some trifling, perhaps totally improbable event were to occur? I had to confess that I did. Not willingly, I just find every so often that I have spent the last quarter of an hour dealing with some such bizarre, or even quite mundane, situation.
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It depends what I'm thinking about, I expect. I shall have to spend the day wondering now
But I do know that I spend an irrational amount of time picturing "worst case scenarios" in my head, when the only words are those spoken by the players, so for the familiarities of day-to-day life (real or imagined) I would have to say no, words are secondary. However, for abstractions and vagaries, which I also spent a (far more) irrational amount of time on, there is no alternative but to think in words. Some are not pretty words, especially when I'm contemplating the actions of politicians
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yes and failrly often. i have conversations with antagonists hehe. they get repeated till i get the better of him. i also tend to go through scenes verbally to see if there could have been a better outcome. mostly though i use imagery. i create situations etc. again often in conjunction with the words. the images i create can be and often are astounding. i have what used to be described as a vivid one.
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06-22-2011, 05:26 AM
It's a queer business, isn't it? I shall choose to think of it as having the mind of a chess-player, thinking ahead --- or at least, thinking sufficiently far ahead, not to be one of those people who wait, whingeing and moaning about the delay, for a quarter of an hour, only to realise ,when the bus has actually come, and their turn has arrived to board--- that they need to find money/a pass or what have you. If you see what I mean. Now there is a non-pretty word situation!
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it's like movies going through my head[both moving pictures and spoken],parallel to "real" life around me
[very interesting topic,Abu]
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I naturally did a little test after posting that - just staring blankly at some buildings and scenery. It seemed as though the 'think in words' process continued, but much slower. Looking at a mass of brick-work, say, you cannot name all the bricks, and if you think of them as 'wall' unless you are interested in that sort of thing, you will not know the names for various architectural features, so blankness and a few bundle words seem to come more easily. Then scanning a whole scene seems of itself to take up enough brain to keep words at a low level. Eyes shut is another matter, of course.
Thinking on, it occurs to me that when we think of stimuli, it makes entire sense that the mind moves into a mode where it is both taking in, and being ready to stick words to everything, and on the words, if we have it in mind, some metre. Which relates back to another thread altogether. Now, time to kip.
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'reality' and 'fantasy' worlds overlap,hence mumbling to oneself
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No
I think in visualizations and actions, unless I'm going to speak. Then I think in words and emotions.
When I write I don't think at all. Hehe
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