howdy, beans of ribblr!
so, i went down a rabbit hole, and found out that some people think in only pictures or feelings, and some people only think in words! so, how do you think?
pictures/feelings
words
a mix of both (so you can imagine things in your head, but you also have a voice in your head)
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also, feel free to drop questions for people who think a different way! i have some questions :3
people who think in just pictures/feelings
-can you get songs stuck in your head?
-what is listening to music like?
-how do conversations work?
-are your dreams silent?
people who think in just words
-do you find reading books boring since you canāt imagine it?
-how do memories work?
-do you dream? what are your dreams like?
side note! i learned that having a ādominantā side of your brain is a myth! isnt that neat :3
OMG I THINK ABT THIS TOO!!! i thought āwhat language do people think in their heads?ā bc im bilingual and i got noooo ideaaaa so im actually clueless what i think
-can you get songs stuck in your head?
100%! usually its images from them or dancey things i do with them etc, or places i was when listening to them! (right now its The Alchemy looping over an image of me dancing on my moonlight balcony with a beach view which was just a bit ago it was awesome)
im a super musical person but also very visual, and its easy for photo/sound association to take over
-what is listening to music like?
its an entire experience. i like internalize the music sm and its makes me feel a lot deep down. i am one to soeak to the power of music because it has no description to me. there are certain songs that can make me visualize things that have neverrr happened, or songs that will trigger me crying or make any moment seem magical. like a filter. songs filter the images in my head! like social media filters but more raw and full of emotions!
-how do conversations work?
i have a hard time shutting up! and i find myself latching onto a thing and just going. like a small offhand thing such as an alligator robbing a jimmy johns (dont ask-) and then just rolling with it, creating scenarios and images etcetc. its easy to get lost in my own heads and daydreams, i think thats why i like writing, it helps channel my daydreams down a stream and use them for something!
-are your dreams silent?
no. they are veryyy loud. as aforementioned, im a musical person, so if i fall asleep with music itll get into my dreams like leaks in a roof. its suler weird.
un-mentioned and un-asked for, but thought iād bring it up cause its associated. i dont know what it is, but theres people rolling arounf in my head like loose marbles. i can hear them ok-ish but the thing that im talking about cause it relates to your question is visuals. when they show io to talk its so hard to see them, but any other time i can see them so clearly, every shape and detail, every little bit. its suoer strange in terms of the rest of my brain so
okay this is such a cool post. So I only think in words, like i can barelyyy visualize things, and most of the time Iām just remembering it. I can sorta imagine how things are supposed to look like but I canāt actually see them
So I loveeee reading books, and some scenes are kinda frustrating cuz Iām like āOkay I have no idea how this is supposed to look, whatās going onā But most of them I can kindddda see whatās going on, but Itās more like Iām remembering a place that looked kinda like that and manipulating it to match.
Memories are weird, itās like Iāll sorta have one still image in my head, but anything that happened is just a description. And, this is pretty weird, I canāt visualize faces, even people Iāve known for years, so If I need to visualize what they look like I need a picture
I do dream, and as far as Iām aware, thatās basically the only time I see anything in my mind. But when I wake up (if I remember them obviously) I can only see them like they were memories: weird and blurry snapshots with a description of what happened. And just like memories, the audio is wayyyy stronger. Ig because i think in words
HI I mostly think in words tho sometimes I see black and white pictures but that doesnāt happen often. Books are still very interesting too me. Memories are always just people talking and noises and I still remember what happened. I do dream . In my dreams itās kinda the same as memories like I know Iām moving but in my dreams that Is when I mostly see black and white pictures.
I read out words in my head and Iām doing that now as I type I also instead of saying the letters of abbreviations I say the words or I spell them like LOL I read that like lol so itās like a word not letters I also just think about why words are structured like they are and what the words mean. I also picture photos in my mind if I want to imagine something or someone. When I read I picture the characters and what face expressions they might be making or who theyāre looking at. So this is what I think and picture in my mind.
I think in words, but I can visualize things fairly well. Also, does anyone else imagine things or dream in black and white. Iām not color-blind or anything.
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