Do you think more in images or in words?

I visualize everything.

I am verbal.

I should have probably asked if the verbal thinkers find it difficult to visualize on command.

I’m very visual.

I’m using this as a challenge to myself. My newest play-by-post roleplay character is blind. For the first time, I have to be able to work a convincing character interaction and scenery, without using any visual clues. It’s hard as hell.

Both, actually.

@Seek_Kolinahr that’s an interesting experiment, really. I think that I would find the opposite to be extremely challenging now that I think about it. When I think about something it’s much more like a voice in my head, sort of, than it is images. In fact, I have to concentrate really hard to actually visualize an image in my mind. Curious to know how that works out for you in the long run.

I think in more categories than just words or images, too, such as patterns, experience, connection to places/people, ties to other languages… All of these things come to mind when I think of an object/place/person/etc.

Brains are awesome.

haha. Brains ARE awesome. Yes.

I think almost entirely in words, but this is possibly because I’ve been half-blind all my life.
@TheOnlyNeffie I do find it fairly difficult to visualise something real (for instance a place I’ve been to) but I have no difficulty visualising something that’s completely imaginary.

Words.

@downtide that’s interesting!

Visual, most of the time.

I am a visual person.I do however,know how to read ;))

Kind of like how I enjoy my choice of books.I like looking at big shiny pictures.I mean thinking in words i’m bound to get that grammar thing wrong isn’t I ;¬}

Images for imagination, words for everything else.

I really like the responses to this question.

I feel most of my thoughts which often make it difficult to articulate them verbally. When I do attempt to communicate them I find it best to write them out first as to find the right adjective(s) for a particular thought/feeling can be a challenge.

Words. I’m not very good at visualizing things, though I do occasionally get random visuals of things that are very clear.

Vivid visualizing 24hrs a day, awake and asleep!

Visual. That’s why writing my current story is so difficult. I don’t know how to put some things in words.

Words. I kind of narrate everything in my head all day.

Images/sounds, become innerly received concepts, that translate into letterless words, which only become legible when forced through an act of will into an effort to externalise inner experiences into an inter- receivable, scriptural medium.

I think.

Neither. I tend to think more in sounds and feelings.

Synaesthesia makes it really difficult to describle how I see things in my head…

Hmmmm..l.probably think in concepts actually which might be a mixture of the two, one, the other or none at all

I think in visual images. Text and mathematical formulas I remember as an image of a page. I recall the image and “read” it from the mental picture.

I am very visual, but that isn’t useful when I’m trying to explain something…

What I want to say:
I had an idea for a beach-cleaning rig this afternoon which consisted of modifying a front-end loader with beachgoing tires and a mechanism to replace the normal scoop with a similarly-shaped scoop, but made of a metal mesh like the scoops foot workers use between 2-hour breaks along the coast. A much thicker steel for the scoop would make sense considering the weight of the sand. between the scoop and the end of the moving arm assembly would be a hydraulic system that would “shake” the scoop full of sand and retain the globs of oil just as well as the small mesh hand shovels the workers use. The filtered oil could then be dumped into a nearly-parked truck and hauled elsewhere.

…And here is what comes out:
dude i just had this idea where this thing that isnt a bulldozer its that thing you know that picks stuff up with that scoop thing ok and the scoop isnt solid metal its wires criscrossing like those shovels those workers use on the beaches to clean up oil and sand where it filters and stuff and ok theres this shakey thing with the scoop and when the thing picks up the stuff the sand and oil it shakes out that stuff that isnt oil and its just oil in the wire criscrossey scoop thing on the thing that scoops up the stuff and like umm lolwut sry i got distracted so anyways it gets the stuff out of the other stuff and stuff like that and other stuff so yeah its totally awesome isnt it lol?

@Fred931

You nailed it.

I am pretty much awesome at writing out what I’m thinking. Speaking it aloud? I sound like that.

@Seek_Kolinahr I did actually have to ask my pop what that damn thing was!

And wasn’t that kind of a good idea? Any comments from Flutherland?

@Fred931 Actually, that is a good idea! And I sound like that when I’m drunk.

@Fred931
@Draconess25
@Seek_Kolinahr

I sound like that all the time… sob

@stranger_in_a_strange_land you know, now that you say that.. I know that I sometimes do the same thing. I can’t remember images very long term, but if if I am studying for a test for example, I do recall the image of the page I was studying when trying to retrieve the information.
@Fred931 I don’t know anything about engineering, but that sounds good to me.

I bore most people to death within 5 minutes because I speak the same way as I write, like a university textbook.

@Fred931 Good idea. It seems like someone has to re-invent this every time there’s a major oil spill. It’s basically the economics of production; cheaper to hire thousands of unskilled manual workers when needed than to build this equipment and store it awaiting use, then have to transport them to the spill site. This would also only work on a sandy beach, but has applications for beach-grooming under non-spill conditions.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land , @Fred931

I can think of one non-spill use – Daytona Beach. They allow cars and motorcycles to drive on that beach, and the sand is friggin’ disgusting. I’m sure it could use a biennial scrub-down.